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Iowa Core Curriculum - Home - 1 views

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    This website is sponsored by the Iowa Department of Education. It lists the standards and benchmarks for the differing grade levels and subjects. It is a great resource for teachers to use while planning their lessons.
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    This resource is very beneficial and can be used in the classroom. I think that this resource is mostly for teacher use. This gives you a foundation of standards and benchmarks that can be helpful in making a solid lesson. For teachers that are not going to be teaching in Iowa they can find the standards for the state in which they are teaching in.
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    This is a good resource for mainly teachers. I would use this resource to help create and give the final touches to my lesson plans. I think all teachers would benefit from using this resource. Having this resource bookmarked would save time, which is important for all teachers, while creating and getting ideas for lesson plans.
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    This is a great resource, mostly for teachers or for students who are inspiring to be a teacher. I have used it in many of my classes and it has helped me out with planning lessons. This would be a good resource to have bookmarked on your page.
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    If I were only allowed to have a handful of bookmarks, this would definitely be one that I would choose. Thank you for including this bookmark for our Diigo group.
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    It is a great idea to add this resource. I myself have had to refer to this site so many times. It will be a great resource for now and for when we are in the teaching field. Thank you for adding this so it is in a common place for everyone.
Emily Keitel

100 Free Web Tools for Elementary Teachers - Classroom 2.0 - 2 views

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    This website gives 100 free web tools for Elementary teachers. The list is organized into several different categories: 1) Organization and Collaboration, 2) Search Engines and Directories, 3) Google, 4) Templates and Lesson Plans, 5) Research and Reference, 6) Games, 7) Reading and Writing, 8) Math and Science, 9) Arts, 10) History and Social Studies, 11) Online Libraries, and 12) Activities. This is a great resource for teachers to use for instruction as well as to give to students to use for classroom work and homework.  
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    This looks like a great resource for anyone in education, teaching or learning. It is well organized and provides links to a lot of useful free tools. I wish I had this stuff when I was growing up.
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    This looks like a great resource for elementary teachers, providing so many links in one place. It is like an annotated bibliography, presenting various resources for teachers to use, making it easy for us to navigate. Though I plan to teach in secondary education, some of these categories could still be used with high schoolers in my English classroom, especially Google and the Research & Reference resources. I think that teachers in elementary education will find this resource very useful, and I could even show it so some of my high school students so that they would have different things to explore if they were interested. I found a similar website that compiles resources from around the web, focusing on Language Arts education: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/lang_mid.htm. Here, there are citation guides, research help, online literature links, and many other great activities for the LA classroom.
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    This looks like a great resource to keep on hand for teachers! I feel like it should be used mostly by teachers and they should definitely take advantage of it. Too often do teachers use the same routine every day and use stuff out of books! Why not go on the computer and research things that can spice up your classroom.
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    This is a great resource for teachers to use in their classrooms to enhance learning. It has a WIDE variety of useful tools that can make learning more fun and engaging. I would recommend that the teacher scans through these options prior to opening them up to students. The teacher could select a few good ones and show them to the students to use during class or at home. I do no have any bookmarks similar to this one, but I am sure there are a lot out there that could be just as helpful. Thanks for sharing the great resource!
Emily Keitel

Smithsonian Education - Welcome - 0 views

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    This website is organized into three parts: educators, families, and students. The Educator part gives teachers many great teaching materials, online resources, lesson plans, field trip ideas and professional development resources. The Families part gives tipes and suggestions for families planning on visiting the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. The Students part gives students links to discover the museum as well as various links and resources to explore different subjects from school. The resources include websites, games, and activities. 
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    I liked how you could search for topics by state standards and grade level besides subject. This would be a good resources for both kids and teachers. The separate kids section is also a good exploratory site in that they can discover things on their own.
Mikael Rein

Twitter - 2 views

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    Twitter is a social networking site. It can be very beneficial to educators if you follow colleagues and prominent figures in education. Twitter allows you to share articles and resources that are relevant to their interests and education. When you follow people who are in the education you can find lots of new valuable resources that are posted.
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    I currently have a twitter account, but do not use it that often. I think if used for the right reasons, it can be very benefical to educators. Twitter is a great way to share ideas and new resources with other educators. I would highly recommend using twitter with colleagues and not students. Trying to find a way to incorporate twitter with your students could create an unsafe learning environment, and would be hard to monitor all students especially in the younger grades.
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    Dear Twitter Tweethearts! I have a twitter account and I love it! I follow celebrities mostly though just to get in on the good gossip. Just for this reason though, I don't think it should be used for schools. Perhaps at the collegiate level like I have done in some of my classes, but for high school or younger could possibly break out into bullying on the website towards a student and in some cases a teacher.
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    Twitter is a very popular social networking site that many businesses, celebrities, and peers use to interact with each other. I have often been told to use twitter in my classroom. However, I am hesitant about doing this. As Joe mentioned, I do not think I would want my students to get involved in twitter during school hours under my supervision. As with Facebook, I believe twitter has the potential to become more of a distraction than a positive. It could open up a window for cyber-bulling and gossiping. On the other hand, I can see that having a twitter account to keep in contact with parents could be beneficial.
Johnika Bruce

PBS Teachers | Resources For The Classroom - 2 views

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    Resources for the classrooms
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    This is a great resource for teachers to link high quality educational PBS programs to curriculum. Youtube can be a time sucking hole for teachers sifting through the countless videos. I think that this site can help teachers find or develop resources that will actually support learning goals. Students can use this site also to watch videos and programs on subjects they are interested in. http://www.teachertube.com/ also has teacher resources and videos.
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    I agree that this website is a great resource that can be efficiently used in my own classroom. The website breaks down information and resources by grade bands, so that teachers can focus specifically on their grade without having to filter through a lot of other irrelevant information. This site can use used to help teachers link learning objectives, goals, and state standards to activities and lesson plans. Teachers could also give this website to students as a way to help their improve their learning by watching videos that interest them. Another website that has similar resources is: http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/.
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    PBS resources are really great! I have not had a chance to use them in the classroom yet but have explored what the site has to offer. I first found that they were providing resources to teachers here at UNI and at a technology conference. They mentioned how they link the standards to their activities and lesson plans which is great for teachers to quickly find what they need. I would recommend this to the younger elementary grades.
Nelson Rokke

Free Technology for Teachers - 4 views

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    This blog shares information about different resources that teachers can use for free in their classrooms. There are so many free online resources out there and this blog does it's best to bring the best to you.
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    I think that teachers can get a lot of ideas from this site. It not only has "how to" videos for using technology, but it also has lots of ides fro individual subjects. It is constantly updated with new and useful websites. The best part is that all the resources are free, and most of them have been already used in a classroom.
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    I like this blog. It not only provides a bunch of free resources, but also presents ideas of how to use them in classrooms. And the related software are recommended at the end of each post.I think it's easy for teachers to explore the best software that fit into their classroom settings.
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    This is the first time I have seen this blog. This blog is a great way for teacher's to save time when trying to implement technology into their lessons. For a website that is free of charge, it updates often and has a lot of fun and useful videos. I would say this website could not only be used by teachers, but also for students to use with supervision.
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    This is a blog that gives tons of great ideas for teachers to incorporate technology and it's all ideas that are free.
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    The individual blog of Richard Byrne, a high school US History and Civics teacher, who actively submits his educational technological findings to over 36,000 daily subscribers. Byrn's blog has been awarded edublogawards.com's "Best Individual Blog" award the past three consecutive years; the award recognizes those who promote and demonstrate educational values with social media. This site offers many great links to resources pertaining to Web2.0 for educational purposes. 
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    I really enjoy finding sources that combine many ways to use technology. I think this was a great source. I am so glad that you added this link. It will be a great tool to use when I am thinking of ways to integrate technology into the classroom.
anonymous

Skype in the classroom | Skype Education - 1 views

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    Skype's education portal, which connects teachers to classrooms all over the world using Skype for students to interact.
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    Skype's education portal, which connects teachers to classrooms all over the world using Skype for students to interact. A great way for educators who wish to use Skype in their classroom to find out more about the technology! Educators can also share and collaborate their ideas on this site, as well as find other educators who are willing to Skype to their classrooms.
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    This is a great resource for teachers. Having this directory of other teachers that use Skype is really helping us flatten the walls of our classroom. I have use Skype for years now and I did not know that they had this out. The classroom that I am working in now would benefit from this resources because we are doing a unit called "Around the World" we have Skype a few people we know personally but this would allows us to talk a person from every country we go.
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    This is a really good resource for teachers. Skype is a great resource in the classroom. The opportunities that Skype bring to the classroom are endless. I have used Skype for other uses but never in the classroom. Students are able to use this as a way to meet students from across the world.
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    I had never thought about using Skype in the classroom until now. This is a great resource for both students and teachers. You can even collaborate with other classes using this. This reminds me of the flat classroom project but with a lot more potential.
Alison Leytem

Student Interactives - ReadWriteThink - 0 views

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    This is a web resource sponsored by the International Reading Association. Here, you will find classroom resources, searchable by interactive type, learning objective, and theme; professional development resources and tools, and resources for parents. There is also an area for after school activities to use with students to build literacy skills!
Johnika Bruce

Cool Cat Teacher Blog - 2 views

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    Blogs about teaching students with new tools.
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    Vicki Davis, who runs the Cool Cat Teacher blog, is also active on Twitter and posts insightful tweets.
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    This is a great blog, it is also one that is posted daily. This makes it extremely useful and worth my time to check. She has so many resources for any type of technology out there. This is blog is designed for teachers but is useful for students in the college of education.
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    Vicki Davis is a pioneer for using online applications and Web 2.0 with students. She is a superwoman! I agree with Hailey, this blog is extremely useful for teaching candidates, because it provides us with real life examples (Vicki's students and the FCP) of how online education is working! I think this resource would prove more useful to teachers because it discusses many different things that a teacher might face, and she also relates personal stories for examples. It kind of gives us some perspective on what we might expect when using web apps and online learning in the classroom. Angela Maeirs' education blog is a similar type of blog, and both women are incredibly inspiring teachers.
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    I like how there are daily posts to the website. As a teacher candidate i would consider using this site a lot in the future.
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    I have been following this blog for a little over a year now. I feel like this blog is an excellent resource for teachers. This blog shows educators how they can incorporate these new applications or tools into their own teaching. This is one of the best educational blogs that I have ever come across.
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    This is the first time I have seen this blog. I believe this is a great way for educators to learn new ways to incorporate new tools into their classrooms. It seems to update often, and I plan on viewing this resource in the future, because of the interesting topics that are being blogged about.
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    I've been following this blog and I also follow her on twitter. She has some great ideas and I really enjoy reading her posts.
Molly Oleson

Discovery Education: Web 2.0 Tools - 4 views

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    A great website with alot of links to different tools.
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    I like this website. Think it will be a great resource for teachers to use because it breaks down how everything works. I would use this as a resource for my classroom. I believe this site contains a lot of information that our students need to learn about.
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    I love this diigo assignment. One of the most taxing problems as a teacher will be to find resources to use in the classroom. This is a resource of resources for teachers.
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    This site has endless possibilities. I like all of the possible resources you can get from it.
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    This website embraces Web 2.0 and all is has to offer :) It provides examples of tools we can use to help our educational endeavors.
John Hubbard

Education World: Technology - 2 views

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    Provides teachers with articles on thoughts about technology. Technology tips and tools, lesson plans, resources are also given.
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    This site is loaded with stuff. It doesn't take long to find something to use.
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    This educational website priovides teachers with many great resources. There are many articles, video clips, and classroom resources that are available. It also provides links for administrators as well.
Destery Hildenbrand

EduHound.com: Your Educational Technology Resource - 1 views

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    Educational Technology listings for topic and category based searches.
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    Great resource if your looking for something new on a familiar topic.
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    This resource has so many ideas on a multitude of subjects that it would be a great one-stop searching tool for ideas to use in the classroom. This site is geared towards teachers use because it consists of lesson plans and ideas that could be applied to classroom situations. This resource is one of the more extensive and complete ones that I have seen but there are many other ones on the web like: http://creativity.denverartmuseum.org/lesson-plans/early-childhood/
Destery Hildenbrand

Purdue OWL: APA Formatting and Style Guide - 1 views

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    Online resource for MLA, APA, and all citation and paper creation needs. Regularly updated and easy to use resource for writing projects.
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    Great Educational resource that was not mentioned. I been a little more successful in my writing since finding this great resource.
John Solis

65+ iPad Apps Perfect For Elementary School | Education Technology and Teacher Tools - ... - 4 views

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    I really like this site.Teachers are always looking for suggestions. For teachers who are using iPads in the classroom, this would be a beneficial site to acquire apps that will suit all lesson plans. This site provides more than 65 apps that are categorized into the subjects of Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, and general apps that can be used for all. There are plenty more educational apps out there so it is important to stay up to date.
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    This is a great resource for teachers starting a 1-1 program with iPads. As someone who is interested in using the iPad in the classroom, this might be the best resource I have seen. It's no question that it isn't the iPad itself, rather the apps that are developed that are the big draw for use in education. I really like that the apps featured on this site are divided into the different subjects that they entail, even sign language! This is a resource I will use in the future if I get the chance to use an iPad in my classroom.
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    This is a great resource. All of the apps that are available to teacher to use is a great plus!
aric folden

eduwikius - home - 0 views

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    An education based wiki with over 2000 articles. Allows educators to join. Good resource for most subjects.
Jenna Gerard

TheInnovativeEducator - home - 0 views

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    The Innovative Educator has a plethora of resources for teachers. They have a listing of their favorite blogs, wikis, videos, and much more to help make the learning environment a more exciting and meaningful place.
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    The Innovative Educator has a plethora of resources for teachers. They have a listing of their favorite blogs, wikis, videos, and much more to help make the learning environment a more exciting and meaningful place.
Melanie Abbas

Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences | HEA ICS - 1 views

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    This page is funded by the Higher education Academy to enhance student learning in information and computer science environments. There are a lot of resources, book reviews,etc on this site.
Alex Toft

Thousands of Free Lesson Plans and Educational Resources for Teachers | Verizon Thinkfi... - 2 views

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    A site funded by an educational endowment from Verizon, this website has some good professional development articles about how to adapt news into lessonplans, tips on creative lessons and twenty-first century skills, and a database of lesson plans searchable by subject ans age.
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    I'd never heard of this site before, thanks for sharing! One thing I found to be pretty neat, is the community discussions forum. Many controversial topics are being debated, such as: "Should schools continue to teach cursive writing?" It is important for teachers to keep their students' engaged and interested in their learning, but it is equally important for teachers to stay engaged.
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    Thank you for sharing this site. I went through some of the different lesson plans and I am excited to be able to use them sometime. I wish I would have known about this resource when I was trying to make lessons for my level twos. It had so many different ideas for lessons. I looked at one about the Gettysburg Address and it was a great and thought provoking lesson.
Jacey Sobolik

TED: Ideas worth spreading - 1 views

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    vedio resources of educational ideas.
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    TED is one of the best places to go to hear and see the future of education and technology. The videos featured on TED range in theme, from technology, to social issues. This is a great resource to see what some of the best and brightest have to say about our future.
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    TED talks are insightful and really well presented. They often give unique and interesting perspectives on a range of subjects. I could see myself as a secondary social studies teacher using them to help student understand the idea of looking at issues from a variety of perspectives. They would be good for content knowledge, especially for psychology, economics, or sociology.
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    TED is an educational website that promotes "ideas worth spreading" it the site challenges the minds of education and technology.
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    I have watched a video clip from this site in a college level course. As a college instructor, there would be many technology related videos that I could use in the classroom as a springboard for discussions. It also would be interesting for students.
Melanie Abbas

Computer Science Teachers Association - 0 views

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    Computer Science Teachers Association - the voice for K-12 computer science education and educators. Lots of resources for computer science teaching.
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