INSTTECH 4131 & 5131: Technology in Education (Fall 2012)

Create charts and diagrams using pictures and graphics.

This website is about finding which web 2.0 tool is best for you and what you could incorporate in your classroom. What to use, and what to let your students use.

This is the pin board on Pinterest for the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). They put up all kinds of educational technology resources for both teachers and students, and it's nice to know these pins/recommendations are from a credible source!

This blog follows the authors journey through learning about instructional technology. You follow him through discovering the variety of tools and applications as well as seeing his thoughts on each one. He ends up touching on any type of educational technology you can think of. This blog would be extremely helpful for teachers because you can search any topic and read his thoughts and research behind it.

WIC is a wiki that provides resources about how to effectively implement technology into the classroom. The wiki also provides guidance about how to teach students to use technology appropriately.

Safe to use! It's free to use and share these resources. The information and lessons come from all around the world, and there are over 50,000 documents all organized by grade level and subject.

This a great wiki organized by subject, grade level or topic---and has good descriptions and images of the apps.  There are also links directly to the apps on itunes---good source for those looking for apps in a new way!

Hi Mel, Great resource. More sites like this need to be out there to help teachers sift through the thousands of programs available and get to the usable ones that have been tested by teachers. I think I may have got this link from you before. I did share it with a few of our principals so they may pass it on to their teachers.

Great resource for common core ELA assessments and printables. K-5

Games for math common core--free to sign up your class, and then you can set the games and levels for individuals. K-5

Awesome compilation of K-6 blogs for teachers!  There are many links to blogs, printables, ideas, and news!  The name says it all!

This is a good way to do intensive planning to integrate technology into your classroom, or to plan technology lessons.  It is a K-12 resource and includes video examples of classrooms.

What a great reference tool for any teacher, not just technology users.

Wow! This is seriously a great planning resource. This should be utilized for this course, as an additional resource to look at how to more effectively integrate some of the technology we are learning about into our own lesson planning. I am bookmarking this onto my own lists, right now. Obviously a tool for teachers more than for students, I will be using this for a unit planning assignment I'm doing in my Human Relations course right now! Thanks for sharing!

Easy way to make your QR reader app on your ipad a tool for learning!

Study Jams is a great site to visit for find fun, informative videos for your kids. I often have the student watch a "study jam" as one of their stations. It is a quick way to reinforce skills were are learning.

wow, this is a great resource! I like how you had the idea of having this as one of your stations. This seems like it may be rather motivating for students.

I use this site when I am exploring books. Sometimes when I am planning a guided reading group, read aloud or just need an anchor text, I wil visit this site. It has some great resources.

This is a nice resource. I am working hard to incorporate the common core into my classroom, and there is a lot of useful info here, including benchmark assessments, charts, and lesson ideas. There is also a good link to social studies online free resources.

I am not entirely sure it is University of San Francisco. But this site has lots of information about integrating the ipad into the classroom. As I am planning staff development, I would use this resource

Great resources for your future classroom! The USGS (United States Geological Survey) is a great resource for science images, maps, videos, and links.

Another presentation on how Google Apps can be utilized in the classroom.  I was looking for presentations to share with my staff, and found this one.  The resources and examples are plentiful.  This could also be used to share with students.  

This is a great presentation on how iPods can be used in the classroom.  They are often forgotten nowadays, but they can still be a very effective tool in the classroom.  iPods, as well as technology, is always motivating for students.  

I just checkout 15 ipods from our library, no one was using them and I really think they could be beneficial to the students. I really like this slideshow and it sparked some new ideas for me.

Another great kindergarten teacher resource . I love the I know an old Lady who Swallowed the .... great activities for these books!

This is a great blog. It is set up so cute and such great ideas. I would definitely use this in my future classroom for planning literacy lessons. Overall, the website is for teachers, but I think parent's could go on it in order to get ideas for building literacy at home.