INSTTECH 4131/5131 Technology in Education (Fall 2011)

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.

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.

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.

This is a site that is great to use in a classroom. A teacher can pose a question on a board and students can comment on it and express their thoughts. When messages are added, they pop up on the screen like a post-it note. Good for class discussions when the students aren't all together!

A list of resources for integrating iPads into the classroom.

This is the collection of online tools and applications. It's convenient to find the tools that you need by looking at the sidebar distribution list. Highly recommend!

There are alot great sites with 2.0 tools out there. This is one of them. These sites are really helpful.

This is a great place to visit! Here is a list of online tools and applications that we can use. There are so many pages to look at. I never realized how many Web 2.0 tools there are out there! My mind has been blown!

This educational wiki involves using Wikis in the classroom and it provides examples of those ways.

A great website with alot of links to different tools.

This site has endless possibilities. I like all of the possible resources you can get from it.

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.

This blog is by a teacher who simply blogs about experiences in her classroom. This is neat because someday the situations might happen to me and I am able to recall and use her advice.

This website can be used as a online encyclopedia. The information on this site is not 100% accurate since anyone can get on and change information. I would use this in my classroom as a source for students when working on finding information for a specific topic.

This is a easy way to group friends so that you can have online chats with them. I would use this to group parents or teachers so that we could communicate throughout the week.

This is a teacher's version of youtube. I could use this site to find videos to incorporate into my lessons. Teacher Tube is monitored so there are no explicit videos

This is a popular blogging service that teachers can use to share educational information. I would use this blogging service to share my thoughts and ideas on teaching, and also for learning other peoples thoughts and ideas on teaching.

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.

This is a graphic organizer similar to inspiration. It allows to outline content showing relationships between topics. Easy way to go over the main ideas and expand on them while not just presenting a lot of text.

I really like that you posted this, because I have been looking for an alternative to Inspiration for a long time! It is even better that it is online and can be used from anywhere. I think that both teachers and students could use this resource: teachers for outlining concepts when delivering lessons to students, and students when studying or creating presentations to use with the class. It would be extremely useful in an English classroom, so you could outline the themes of a piece of literature, without getting too "wordy." I haven't found anything else like this online, so I will have to keep looking. Great post!

I really like this post. I was actually was just looking at this before I saw this post. I think that this site would be able to be used very effectively in the classroom. Students could start their mind map at school and also be able to access it from home on the internet. I believe that this resource can be used by both students and teachers. Everyone brainstorms and this site allows for you to save what you have been working on in your profile. Another mind mapping resource that I have found is called spicynodes. It is the same concept with a different interface.

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.

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.

vedio resources of educational ideas.

TED is an educational website that promotes "ideas worth spreading" it the site challenges the minds of education and technology.

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.

Vimeo is a video sharing network where you can upload videos for any purpose, education being one of them.

This site was developed by a self-taught computer programmer. He has many short videos to teach about specific computer hardware and programming tasks.

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!

21st Century Learning is a wiki that explores our 21st century skills and how to apply them now in education.