Issues and Trends

This is a blogging community in which a person can follow groups or people. It can be used for an interactive discussion board between groups/students.

This is a a very cool and can be used for sharing information for projects and collaborative working among students. This can also be used between instructors as well for collaboration among projects, curriculum, and anything else that need be. 

This is an interactive website in which teachers share ideas that can be utilized within classrooms. It's great for first year teachers starting up there first classrooms. It can also be used in the classroom for students to research different content as there are resources on the website.

I love this website. It´s set up kind of like pinterest which I´m a big fan of. The layout is well organized, so it´s easy for teachers and students to navigate through. There are a lot of great ideas on it that I´m sure I could use in my classroom someday. Thank you for sharing.

A presentation tool for creative and artistic students to use in the classroom.

A blog about the use of foldables in the math to be used in my math journals.

A blog about the use of foldables in the math to be used in my math journals.

A way for teachers to send text messages to students/parents without revealing personal cell phone number. This is a great way to send out mass texts!

A way for teachers to send text messages to students/parents without revealing personal cell phone number. This is a great way to send out mass texts!

Students can create book lists to read offline based on their reading level and interests. Then they can come back to the site and take quizzes on the books they have read.

Students can create book lists to read offline based on their reading level and interests. Then they can come back to the site and take quizzes on the books they have read.

A blog and wiki that's intent is to shift educational focus into the 21st century.

A blog and wiki that's intent is to shift educational focus into the 21st century.

This website offers a list of featured sites, safe Web 2.0 resources, blogs, a weekly poll, etc.

This website offers a list of featured sites, safe Web 2.0 resources, blogs, a weekly poll, etc.

A site for students to practice basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. Charts student progress and adjusts their program based on their needs.

A site for students to practice basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. Charts student progress and adjusts their program based on their needs.

Our children and youth are immersed in technologies that give them opportunities no previous generation has enjoyed. How will schools respond?

Good resource for 21st century teachers. Gives information about 21st century learning, and an idea of student outcomes and support systems.

This article gives the necessary framework for 21st century teaching.

This article gives the necessary framework for 21st century teaching.

This is a great website that lists free resources that teachers can use in the classroom.

I LOVE Discovery Education! I had an account for a while and I used it a lot in my class. They have a variety of resources that can be used in the room. I especially like their videos! The footage is high quality and you can be sure that it will address the topic that you are searching for.

I've never have used or heard of Discovery Education, I just checked it out and think that it is great! I think that I could use this resource efficientlly in my own classroom because you can never have too many resources; especially free ones! I see that there is use for both students and teachers, I'm not sure how great it will be for students though.

This site has links to two great instructional resources.

This site has links to two great instructional resources.

Tchat is an excellent place to have a live tweet with other educators about a topic. Here you can ask questions, share websites, share ideas, and interact with other individuals in live time.

Tchat is an excellent place to have a live tweet with other educators about a topic. Here you can ask questions, share websites, share ideas, and interact with other individuals in live time.

Lacie, I also have t chat on one of my lists! I decided not to share it, assuming that you would. It really is a great tool. It makes it so much easier than just trying to follow along on your everyday twitter feed. Tweet chats can get going pretty fast and can get hard to follow, this makes it a little easier by putting it in it's own little world to follow along with.

This is a great website for some interactive whiteboard activities related to literacy.

Richard Byrne is a teacher who blogs about different technology tools that are out there for teachers. His tips are usually quick reads and very easy to follow. He posts approximately once daily. Excellent resource!

This site has great resources that can be used in my classroom. One post from this blog is about "How to share videos through Google drive". At times students have an assignment where they have to create a video and it would be easier for them to submit the video to me through Google drive instead of posting it on a public site. This resource could be equally useful for teachers. Teachers can share videos with students or with colleagues through Google drive. Similar resources could be dropbox and learning management systems such as e-learning, Canvas or Blackboard.

This is an awesome blog for teachers! It seems that most of these tools can easily be used for teachers in the classroom. I would definitely like to use some of this technology anyway. It really is geared towards educators and it is nice that they are quick to read for those teachers who don't have much free time.

A blog centered around the popular TED talks, which can address a variety of topics from web 2.0 tools to technology in education as a broad category.