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

Excellent Livebinder for finding just the right tool. Web 2.0 resources for photo, video, audio, digital storytelling, broadcasting, visualization, writing, drawing, blogging, polling, avatars and much more.

I love LiveBinder and think this will be a great way to connect to all types of tools. Thank you for posting this resource, Marija.

I love this LiveBinder. I also enjoy finding new tools and this one is great. Thanks for sharing.

A great article with some fantastic information on how and when to have students create their own etextbooks on the iPad.

This is a blog rated as one of the best technological discussion boards on the web at this time. It is a blog used to describe and debate new technologies in the classroom. A teacher could use this to get a well-known professional outlook on new programs and technological theories in education.

This is a resource wiki for history teachers. This wiki has many resources for what ever grade or subject that a teacher needs resources for. Check out how much information is on this one wki. 

This wiki has many great resources if you are planning to be a history teacher. There are links to standards, history information, and much more that could easily be used in the classroom.

This might be of use for a teacher in need of ideas in which to implement more technology into a curriculum. This site lists a ton of technological ideas that could work with other means of instruction to create more depth within a lesson.

This blog suggest multiple ways in which a wiki can effectively be used within the classroom. The author goes in depth about each and really gives you insight on the tool. Teachers can view this blog to gain ideas or spark new ones.

This is a great blog. I am not very familiar with wikis and I often wonder why I would use one in education. This blog lists some great ways to incorporate a school wiki. This is something that I could see myself using with my community college students and instructors.

This web 2.0 tool is for recording your voice. 

Thanks for sharing this resource. It is a very straightforward tool that could easily be used by both teachers and students. I can envision teachers using it to record lectures, assignment explanations, comments on assignments, etc. Students could use it as a component of a lesson.

This can be a great resource for teachers, as well as students, that are looking for new and innovative ideas to try and challenge themselves.

This is a great resource for those teachers who are just going 1:1 with iPads and start to learn the ropes on how to use these devices. Another resource which is similar is TechChef4U.

This website is a helpful resource for teachers with topic such as: using wikis for the first time, using wikis for specific purposes, and how to introduce wikis to students. It is a site that would be perfect to look over to gain more information on the tool before you begin implementing it into the curriculum.

This is a very useful site that can assist developers and teachers with incorporating wikis into courses. Practical and effective suggestions are detailed, with sample wiki projects effectively supplementing the strategies presented.

This is an excellent resource for teachers who are planning to use wikis in their classroom. It has everything from how to use them to preparing students to use them. Great resource and one I would definitely use in the future.

This is a web 2.0 tool helps students be able study in teams, play games, take quizzes and show intellectual prowess. teachers can make flashcards and have students take quizzes. check this awesome tool out

This site has good free videos to use when introducing the many issues with 'digital citizenship'. There are also links to lessons you can use to supplement the videos.

Great resource if you are looking for apps for a specific need in the classroom. Easy to navigate.

This site has a lot of information about how to successfully integrate technology into your classroom.

Interesting article on social media, Tapscott and Shirky, and how intellectual property laws, and generational divides are affecting politics, business, and culture. 

There was a lot of information in this article. Very interesting reading.

Great article with staggering stats that show it can work.

PLN's and resources to expand your community online

ifaketext is a place where you can generate fake iphone text message screenshots and send and share them with your friends!

ooVoo is a video chat and instant messaging app for the desktop, mobile, tablets, Facebook, and web. ooVoo lets you chat 12-way for FREE anytime, anywhere.

This educational website hosts a great deal of information for internet safety in all grade levels. 

Wiggio is a completely free, online toolkit that makes it easy to work in groups. With Wiggio you can: - keep shared calendar (with text message reminders) - poll and so much more.