BIE: Buck Institute for Education
This website provides a wealth of information, examples, videos, tools, and research regarding project based learning.
Edutopia provides great resources for Project-Based Learning. Resources on this site include PBL examples, research on PBL strategies, step-by step-directions for PBL success, and resources and tools for PBL.
This website is the home base for College Community Digital Learning Professional Development for Train the Trainer Sessions in October 2012. Provides ideas, tools, and examples for integrating technology into content areas in authentic ways.
Audioboo is a free web based resource that allows you to record and share audio recordings. You can also upload a picture with the audio. Audioboo is available for mobile platforms.
ViewPure is a web based service that allows uses to watch YouTube videos in a clean, clutter-free way. Paste a Youtube video URL in the box and click on "purify" to get the cleaner copy. You can also create your own custom URLs and password protect a Youtube video using this tool.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was looking for this site the other day and couldn't remember what it was called and then I found it here. I wanted to put some links for my third graders and this is what I needed!
Very nice table that tells which ELA common core standards are covered in each 3rd grade story in the Houghton Mifflin basal. EXCELLENT resource for those of us just starting to use standards based grading and the core!!!
Very cool table that lays out the curriculum for students, parents and other teachers. I hope the school I end up in has a lay out of the standards that they want ot cover in there school.
Article from EdTech magazine featuring Edina Schools in Minnesota. Discussion is based around their initial 1:1 pilot program and eventual decision to move towards BYOD after that.
Website that gives reading activities based on the concepts of reading. This site has great printable resources for teachers to use in the classroom and quickly assess different reading concepts in a small group setting.
This site uploads newspaper editions from across the country. Students are able to browse newspapers and compare or contrast newspapers that may have similar articles based on their location in the country.
This blog provides education news, analysis and commentary. I enjoy having this resource because some of the bent is more conservative than my own and I enjoy being able to diversify my knowledge base and perspectives.
This web 2.0 tool has multiple possibilities. Here's just a couple I've thought of: 1) your students are doing a research project and 2) you want to connect with your students and/or students' parents. Easy, efficient, and technology based.
Surveymonkey is a flexible, effective tool that can be used in a variety of settings. In addition to using it in the classroom and as a tool to reach out to parents, it could also be used administratively for research and strategic planning purposes.
Surveymonkey is flexible, and easy to use. Although when using it for a kiosk station you need to pay for a subscription fee but worth all the hassle. Another substitution is google forms too.
This is an article discussing a new Ipad App called "Spin" which allows students to hold a online, collaborative discussion while viewing multiple videos at once. This is said to be the new "Skype" allowing communication and interactive discussion to occur throughout the world with one application. Something for teachers to look into for their own classrooms one day! This application seems like it might have a future in our schools.
Wow, what a great collaborative app! In addition to implementing in the classroom, this appears to also have great potential for facilitating distance education. I wonder what the network bandwidth requirements are and how many simultaneous video streams can be supported?
This looks like it could be the future of distance education. A great tool that could be incorporated into a class like our online Ed Tech classes at UNI. I am not sure if I would use this in a regular classroom, it would depend on the lesson, but this appears to be the new and best option for online video discussions.
To The Lesson is a teacher blog that is full of classroom ideas, organizational tips, management tips, etc. that can be helpful to use as ideas for any classroom!
This is a very attractive and organized blog. It's also neat, interesting, and helpful to see what other teachers are doing in other educational approaches. I plan for collaboration and sharing to be a huge part of my teaching and preparation. I feel that the blog author's experience and education will be very useful to any teacher looking for insight.
This blog's simplicity is what I liked best about it. It shows great pictures and is organized in a way that easy to understand. Also, it gives great ideas for early education. I plan on teaching k-2 so this could give me great ideas for fun lessons!
I found the first few posts in this blog to be really interesting, although probably not very useful for me as a future teacher. I don't know much about Montessori teaching or schools. Based on my initial impressions, and the fact that I fully plan on being a "messy classroom" teacher (lots of differentiation, lots of AT (I'm a special education minor in addition to being an ed. tech. minor), I'm not sure how much my classroom philosophy and organizational principals could relate to this teacher's. A very different perspective, to be sure! If I ever have free time (maybe over winter break!?) I'd like to read more about what this Montessori stuff is all about; I'm especially interested in the value of the "Practical Life" work this teacher is doing?? Totally different than anything I've seen in my educational training. Thanks for sharing. :)
This blog lists top documentary films for teachers or students to watch. Teachers can use these documentaries as a means of providing more information to students. The documentaries may not be suitable for all ages.
This site could have great potential, especially for high school science and social studies classes, based on the topics of the movies listed. It is great that you can watch the documentaries immediately and for free. Students might find this a useful resource for another type of research materials for projects. In my subject areas, I wouldn't use most of these, because we usually need to watch things in the target language, but some of the cultural topics might be relevant, such as some French speaking African countries, art, etc. I haven't ever thought to look for free documentaries online, I suppose there are more sites to check out!
Wow, what a great site. This is something that I think can really come in handy. There are often times when I or my fellow teachers are looking for something to help expand understanding or make connections with something they are learning. There is a large variety of categories to pick from and not just science and social studies. I think this definitely is a site for teachers, but I could see students using this site too for school projects. I'm going to be passing this one onto my fellow teachers. Thanks Kelsey for a useful resource.
This is YouTube's free video editing Web 2.0 program. Students and teachers could use this to create and store online media for classes. Many schools have Google accounts for their students that could be used to access the YouTube video editor as long as administrator provided the proper permissions. This could also be a free alternative to programs districts must pay for like iMovie or WeVideo.
I know someone else already posted this, but it was such a great find (and I did not know it existed!!) that I had to bookmark it for myself. I am posting this for totally selfish reasons, and not for use with my students exclusively. Although, I am sure I could use this editor to enhance instructional videos, or my students could use it to enhance videos they may create as projects. Currently, I'm excited to use it for myself, for current class projects. =X