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The 20 Features Teachers Should Know about The 21st Century Classroom 21st century teaching skills,inforgraphic Med kharbach We have been talking a lot about the 21st century skills teacher need to have but what about the 21st century classroom ? Do we know how it looks like ?

Oh KITTY KITTY!!! Look at what I found! For all of you that are reluctant, this wonderful educator did tutorials for you. In his words, "This site is for teachers and educators of all grade levels and subject areas. It hosts short tutorial videos on many of the best digital tools to use with students. Its also a growing community of ideas submitted by teachers for classroom use."

You might have heard me mention Google Forms at a Technology Shoot Out but did you know Google Docs does templates, too? Check out this link with some pretty sweet pre-made Google Forms you can use to gather information in a meaningful way.

This is a guest post from Tucker, a recently-graduated high school student. He wrote this for his senior year Comp class.] Hearing the phrase "Get out your textbooks" from a high school teacher makes me want to throw up, and it is something I have heard for the last four years in almost every class from almost every teacher.

Different utility tools available through this link.  one is the magic 8 ball.  You enter in the student's names on the spreadsheet and then the "8 Ball" picks students for you at random.

Teacher video of Teentribune.  :)

This is the new way to facilitate and help teachers create common assessments.  Everyone has access at all times, and the products can be altered from home or the classroom.. actually anywhere.  :)

Complement classroom instruction and encourage students to use online tools with Collaborize Classroom. FREE online discussion tool WITH Teacher Resources including how-tos and Dos and Don'ts of online discussion.

FREE, secure, safe, ad free social learning network for teachers, students and schools. Create classes, discussion groups, assessments. Share ideas, content, collaborate. Build your PLN. All online (in the cloud). User interface is very similar to other Social Media sites familiar to students.

SDIRC has their own Edmodo Domain - indianriverschools.edmodo.com. Contanct Ravi Annam X3210 or me (danielle.vogel@indianriverschools.org) or Tiffany McKenzie for the Group Code!

Just learned that all schools have different codes. Please contact Ravi Annam or Tiffany McKenzie for school codes. :) http://indianriverschools.edmodo.com

Create free online surveys. I have used Survey Monkey with the English department @VBHS to get feedback about the summer reading requirements. Results allowed the department to make decisions about what assignments and books would be part of this requirement. The district has also used Survey Monkey to research professional development opportunities you'd like to see offered. Survey Monkey can also be used with students to get an idea of what they know and/or what choices they might like to have in an assignment. Results are presented graphically which is a great use for a Statistics class or to use when teaching percentages.

I know Concetta Hall (8th Grade History Teacher at SGMS) uses Survey Monkey each month for our "Citizens of the Month." This makes it super easy for her to compile the results and determine the winner.

I used SurveyMonkey to get feedback about our sustained silent reading program from the entire upper school student body at St. Ed's. It really helped us understand the effect (or lack thereof) that the program was having on students' reading habits. We emailed the survey link to the students, and they completed it during homeroom at the prompting of their teacher. Very easy to set up and, I agree, extremely easy to compile the results!

Great site for ideas for technology integration. Tammy offers a Technology Tip of the Week & access to her training handouts.

Free, safe, easy text messaging service for parents and students. Not sure what the district policy will be on these types of services (have an inservice on Aug 14 - will post an update after that).

This is the link directly to Ms. Vogel's website.  If you need any help or ideas on how to implement the tools we are showing you, feel free to look and steal away.

Very fun way to turn a lesson into a DIGITAL POSTER. Student Side- Have them posterize an important events, a book, a main character...etc. Teacher side- Use it for a lesson that incorporates different videos, graphics, and ideas for organizational purposes.

Ideas for interactive and engaging lesson activities in a range of curriculum areas. Contributed by teachers from all around the world.