Issues and Trends

This is an education web resource about tropical storms. It tells you how a tropical storm forms and also tells the scale of a tropical storm. This is how they tell how bad a storm is going to be.

Paige - This site comes in handy as we are getting ready to start studying tropical storms next week. This is a site I would you to help illustrate information regarding tropical storms or let students research information.

Great website to provide scientifically accurate information regarding drug education to teens.

Providing medically accurate information surrounding comprehensive sexuality health education.

Awesome website that provides students interactive information surrounding the human body and health.

Super website designed for teens that help them explore mental health issues.

This shows the different steps and trimesters of the babies growth. This could be used in a health class or sex ed. class.  

Check out the blog of UNI's very own, Dr. Leigh Zeitz, better known at Dr. Z! His blog talks about the perks of educational technology.

Great site for finding awesome classroom ideas and articles!

A great resource for articles, strategies, blogs, videos, etc. to enhance your classroom.

A great resource for articles, strategies, blogs, videos, etc. to enhance your classroom.

Picasa is a great application by Google, it allows you to upload and edit photos. A great web 2.0 tool that could be implemented into an activity. I love using Picasa, since photography is one of my many hobbies!

I love using Picasa! Every since I learned about it I use it for personal editing and professional editing! It's so easy to manipulate and very fun! I think that both students would love using this as an interactive tool in a class! I also think that it's fun and great for teachers to use as well!

I've used Picasa before and it seemed simple enough to use. I think the upper elementary grades would definitely be capable of using this but I would maybe wonder if something like iPhoto would be a little easier for them to use? I've had a little better experience with that. If you were trying to get teachers to use the software I also think iPhoto might make them a little nervous about using photo editing programs. People tend to have good thoughts more often than not when they think of Apple.

Check out this wiki created by CMS itWeekly. This wiki provides weekly podcasts relating to questions regarding education and technologies!

Check out this blog by the "Educational Technology Guy". It provides lots of posts about educational resources!

Check out this blog created by Burlington Public Schools. Dennis Villano posts regularly about educational technology!

I think it´s great how regularly he posts and stays current on the most up to date technology uses in the classroom. This blog would be really useful for not only teachers, but students and parents too because he has a lot of great tips and ideas. Thanks for sharing.

This can be used to put a website into the QR code generator and made into one.When the QR code is scanned the website that was generated into it will display all of the information on the website. It can be used my teachers and students to use to manipulate for information. Multiple QR codes can be put around the classroom and students can do a scavenger hunt to find, which one is pertaining the information they need.

I have never thought about using QR codes in this fashion and it seems like a great idea. One such way that I can see this being a huge helper is during presentations. If a student wants to link to more information but doesn't want to type out the huge URL that is associated with the site they can simply make a QR code that links to the URL and insert it as a picture. Then the other students can snap the QR and go to the website and read up on more that the presenter had to say. This would be used primarily by the students because it would be the teacher integrating it for the most part. I haven't heard of any other types of technology such as this.

What a cool idea. Thanks for posting this Megan. The scavenger hunt idea is a great one to facilitate meaningful instruction.

This wiki is for teachers, students, and administrators to help teach about Digital Citizenship and how to maintain a healthy Digital Identity. I think this can be used to teach students how to have a healthy and effective relationship with others on the internet.

Megan - Thanks for sharing this website I think it could be a very valuable site for parents, teachers and students to teach good digital citizenship. Here is link to a blog post from The Innovative Educator with many different links pertaining to Cyber Safety and Digital Citizenship information http://goo.gl/dxI85y

This website is from the History channel and contains content about different events in past and present current events. The feature that I particularly like on this website is the This Day in History, where it tells about all the events that have happened on that current day in history. This can be utilized in history lessons for students to interact and research upon.

Wide variety of engaging topics relating to history. Great as a teacher resource for supplemental lesson material or for students research.