INSTTECH 4131/5131 Technology in Education (Fall 2011)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is a wonderful resource for the classroom and student projects. It helps to organize main ideas or organize ideas into one place.

The National Security Archive is a great resource for the classroom. This has documents from the CIA which were originally classified and have now been released. It would be great to use for a lesson that you want the students to explore moer into a topic or a big event such as the Watergate scandal. I also think it would be great to use on some topics to show what the government was thinking at the time. This way students can understand that what may be seen now as a bad choice may have been the best choice at the time.

Great tools for fun activities

Wiki created by teacher to share information about different subjects.

Site with full of link about apps and free application. Most of them are games.

This blog is about technology. it is always helpful to be inform about technology updates.

This site is full listening activities for ESL and EFL. It has different levels and it has pre - while and pot listening activites.

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.

This a place where you can find TONS of blogs about technology. This can be taken advantage of by a lot of people just not students/teachers. It gives ideas/advice/every day thought on technology. It is very interesting to look at!

I like this kind of blogs. This blogs is not only focus in education, but also in other interesting topics. I think it is a very good resources to use in class with students to develop a project or a research.

A guide for helping teachers choose Web 2.0 resources to fit their needs. The site is searchable through subject and grade level to find teh perfect free tools necessary for your lesson.

I love this one! it is very friendly to use. Also, the categories are very good for searching content. Not only it can be used by teacher, but also for students to find additional information about any subject.

Tools teachers can use in their classroom - a very nice collection of applications and/or software for teachers. Although some of the applications are older Web2.0 tools, they still prove to be highly useful and effective in the classroom. Really cool aggregate resource site for tools you might need someday!

I think this is good app collection. I believe it is very useful because the site explain a little bit how to use the apps

Here we can find some tools to increase productivity in schools

Blog about educational Topics

"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.

A well known positive consequence of using a wiki, is the abundance of data that accumulates about a particular topic. This journal also suggests that wikis are useful for participatory and sociological reasons. Studies show that while wikis serve to benefit qualitative research, they also encourage rich interaction between users.

This is one of a series of articles discussing the current and future structure of our educational systems. Many believe that those with a special interest in technology and/or entrepreneurship will play an important part in reforming this system. Blogs are specifically mentioned as presenting an exciting opportunity to explore and share ideas; this could be shared and used in the classroom.

An overview of web 2.0 in the classroom. This article shares examples of various educators who have used web 2.0 as a way to engage their students. The examples include both instances of success and failure. This is valuable for educators who are unsure whether or not to implement web 2.0 tools, such as blogs, into their curriculum. It can be used as a preventative measure or as a guide for instructors attempting to explore web 2.0.