INSTTECH 4131/5131 Technology in Education (Fall 2011)

Interesting and safe blogs for kids. Kids from around the world add stories, pictures, and videos of experiences from around the world. Good site to allow children to look through freely.

Blog rules are clearly posted. Sub blogs, like DogEared (about books), Green Scene (about taking care of the planet), and You Are Here (searching for landmarks) are cool for kids to post pictures of themselves and find out about cultures, animals, and trends around the world. This would be good for kids!

This is for those that would like to see more gaming in education. This tool allows you to create your own levels. These levels could be designed to fit a lesson in your class, or even have students create them. There does seem to be some cost in the store.

Tips from an educator on how to use web 2.0 tools in the classroom to help meet the needs of students..

This is a great resource for educators learning how technology is being integrated into the classroom. The author of this blog is a high school teacher who integrates Google Apps and cloud-based applications in their classroom. The site is updated every so often providing tips, resources, and tools that are working well in the class.

This free app allows you to convert and view PowerPoint files on the iPad without losing any original formatting, animations, or transitions.

I really like this tool, it ipadifys PPT files exceptionally well. It is an easy upload process and convert too. Thanks for sharing.

This is something I really can use in my classroom. I think its convenient. It's a great way for our students to get involved to. I really like this.

"Best site for building rubric templates." It allows you to pick from a list of projects, (say a Newspaper Article) then it gives you options for categories for the rubric. (grammar, overall design, content, collaboration, illustration, sources etc...) For each category it fills in descriptions of point values, and allows you to add or change whatever you want.

Rubistar allows users to easily create an effective form of evaluation for their projects. You may search existing rubrics created by other teachers to inspire your creativity, or to guide your assessment as you examine the criteria. If you are struggling to find the right words to express the various levels of achievement for your criteria, Rubistar offers rubric templates to assist you in your efforts.

Educational Technology listings for topic and category based searches.

Great resource if your looking for something new on a familiar topic.

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/

Online resource for MLA, APA, and all citation and paper creation needs. Regularly updated and easy to use resource for writing projects.

Great Educational resource that was not mentioned. I been a little more successful in my writing since finding this great resource.

This is a great visual that shows iPad applications at the various levels of the revised Bloom's Taxonomy.

Skype's education portal, which connects teachers to classrooms all over the world using Skype for students to interact.

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.

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.

Google+ is a social networking application that is relatively new and is gaining popularity. A major feature is circles. With circles Google+ allows the user to set friends into circles that have the same grouping such as Work & Teachers.

I am not sure if I would use this in a higher education environment. Students at that level use a lot of social networking already and I'm not sure this would be a benefit in the classroom.

Blog from a female PhD Computer Science student experiences in college and as a teaching assistant.

Prezi is a great educational resource for students and teachers alike. Prezi gives a fun new spin on the traditional powerpoint. It also allows you to save your presentation online so you can log on and use it from any internet enabled computer.

A listing by disciplines of quality blogs written by educators to help share knowledge, ideas and experiences.

Audio Boo is a web 2.0 tool that allows you to record, attach pictures and location, then post to the web. This would be a good tool for group projects, partners could record ideas and thoughts where ever they are and then post for their entire group or instructor to listen.

Free audio recording tool you can use from the computer or your mobile phone.

This sounds very interesting. My first time hearing of this. I think this would be a good tool to use. I just have to learn more about it.

This blog focuses on digital writing, along with digital teaching. It shows how to integrate ideas and thoughts about digital writing into digital teaching.

I think it is a very good resources to help teachers and students. I think it will be very useful to introduce reading and writing in digital settings.

Digital Kindergarten is a blog that is about the use of technology with young children (kindergarten). She also blogs about her life as a teacher and a new mother.

Symbaloo is your personal online desktop. Create links to all of your favorite websites, blogs, news, and other Web 2.0 applications on a single page. This can be used to create and centralize your professional learning network or personal learning environment.

This is a cool idea, its simple and clean. This would be a great tool to use to make your PLN. I have done a PLN with google but I did not like it and have not used but I could see my self and students using Symbaloo. I also see this as a tool for student with special needs. If a student who has problem with fine motor skills typing or a mouse would be hard but if they had a touch screen tablet or computer they could set this up and have their favorite sits at the touch of their fingers.

This site shows you how to create podcasts for your classroom. Some suggestions this site gives for using podcasts are: weekly classroom news broadcast, document a field trip and, record a class discusson.

I think resource has great potential for use in a classroom. I would probably use it myself, as a teacher, to learn how to record my English class discussions, or to do posts on different authors or other topics and send them out to my students. It could also be a great tool to use for students, helping them consider taking a different angle on the typical project or presentation. Apple gives another great how-to on creating and using podcasts here: http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html. We should consider multiple forms of expression, not just text, when using digital technology with students; listening can be so useful!

Podcasts are great ways to record classroom lectures in college. I would think it would be useful for staff and students. However, I have never listened to a podcast myself, so I don't know how well they meet the needs of a student. I'm also wondering if because of more availability of video recordings of classrooms that podcasts are diminishing.

Blog about technolgy, first blog deals exclusively with our author, Cuban.

I thought the blog you posted here was full of well intentioned, relevant posts. It is great to have a resource from a teacher's perspective that is out and dealing with technology. The growing pains of others can be the building blocks for the rest of us. Thanks for sharing.

I agree that this blog is a useful resource that can be used efficiently in my own future classroom because it contains relevant blog posts about using technology in the classroom. I feel that this resource is geared towards teacher use because the blog is about using technology in the classroom, which is generally, up to the teacher to decide and when how to do that. Great technology resource! Thanks for sharing.

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.