INSTTECH 4131/5131 Technology in Education (Fall 2011)

Great resource for lessons and classroom activities for Social StudiesClasses.This one site is connected to many other history themed educational sites. While planning my first lesson ever, this site was my go to. It helped with activity ideas, lecture, and powerpoints. Although I may have not used everything it gave me great ideas to build on.

This is a great site that contains words games, short stories, and interactive fiction.

This is a site that allows users to practice their understanding of fractions, percentages, and decimals. Group the equal amounts together to move on to the next level. 

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.

The Moving Forward Wiki is devoted to Teacher Development. It has pages for lesson plans, twenty-first century skills, links to resources, and a wealth of great links to other educational organizations.

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.

Odds are pretty good that if you're talking about changes to teaching and learning that the new Read/Write Web is bringing about, many of the words you are using start with "C."

This wiki is basically a collection of different technology platforms and applications that are common in education and gives you resources about how you can incorporate them into your classroom.

A free service that reads the content of popular websites to you. You can subscribe to popular sites across twelve different categories. This can be used for special needs learners; particularly those with visual impairments.

Vocalize is an application that reads Web content. This can be one of several tools useful for learners with visual impairments.

This is an article, or link to an article about the effects of laptops in schools

This article highlights the 2001: Space Odyssey "Hal"-like voice controlled super-smart computer assistant features of the iPhone 4s, and what implications it may have for the future of learning. It also sheds light on the dangers of reliance on such technology, specifically that whoever controls the information accessed by this technology will control users' thoughts/perceptions/minds, etc.

Blog that provides informative posts on 21st Century skills, common core, and STEM ideas and practices. Also provides a gateway though links to many other 21st century skill sites and web 2.0 tools.

21st century sills blog - info and ideas on the movement

This is a link to the program for "Flat Classroom teacher certification" (2 credits through UNI).

This link is more about providing information on training that is available for teachers that want to become flat classroom certified rather than direct information that could be used by a teacher in the classroom. This makes the information contained in this resource exclusively for teacher use for possible teacher development. I know that the AEA 267 website http://www.aea267.k12.ia.us/pd/ has listings of teacher development courses but I did not see one anywhere else on flat classrooms. This course is one that I might consider taking in the future.

Teacher and students can design personal flashcards, print these, create tests and quizzes (m/c, matching, t/f, etc.)

This source is a blog by Alexander Russo, who is a former teacher and freelance education writer. His blog is hosted by Scholastic.com and is considered on of the best education blogs. I would use this blog to keep myself updated on issues in education as a way to help me be the best teacher I can be.

This website is a great resource for teachers to use to improve their classroom and teaching. It includes lesson plans, activities, thematic units, bulletin board ideas, printable worksheets, collaboration projects, books, and other resources as well. I would use this to help improve my teaching. I would also have my students look at the bulletin board ideas and help me put together bulletin boards.

This webpage has 17 different Web 2.0 tools and provides links to various resources for each of the 17 tools. I would use this personally for instruction. I would also have my students use various tools listed, such as survey makers, presentation tools and word cloud generators as a classroom tool.

Web 2.0 tools for the classroom - Internet4Classrooms

This wiki is a resource for teachers to use to improve the education of their students. This wiki focuses on Math. I could use this wiki for personal reasons, I am a math minor and love to read up on various techniques used to teach math to elementary students. Also, students can use this wiki as a resource and medium for projects as well.

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. 

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.

This podcast on law and economics focuses on individual liberty and Constitutional and Common Law. This would be an excellent resource in the social studies classroom for added depth and perspective.

This could work in a government or economics class. Definitely for older kids, I think.