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

Animoto is a creative way to share videos, music, photos, and presentations and turn them into videos.

Ashley, Animato is a great way to make and share a video in a short period of time. I have used Animato with students and they love the ease of program. I used this with HS students, but I know that our grade school teachers have used it as young as fourth grade. Great program - Thanks

This is a good source on how to cite a blog in MLA and APA formats.very helpful information for students

This is a blog with various educational resources including resources relating to technology and how to use it in a classroom setting.

Blogs about integrating technology into the classroom.

Great Source for Schools weighing on computers in the classrooms

This is a blog for educators with many resources relating to technology by Richard Byrne.

Really interesting study from Pepperdine on the effectiveness of iPads in a school setting.  There are some awesome nuggets of information to pull out here for everyone involved with the 1:1 movement.

A great study that actually looked at the realistic results of putting iPads in a college setting. This was a scientific study that yielded some interesting results.

This amazing new tool (new to me at least) allows you to create a short story and set it to music using the Google Docs interface. When you are done it creates a short link to share out to all your family and friends. This has amazing implications in education and technology for use as a quick check for understanding, overview video, formative assignment, or quick creative writing assignments.

This looks like exactly what I would like to try with my students to get them doing some collaborative story writing! I would use this for creative story writing, research, and as a planning tool in 3rd grade.

This would be a cool idea in the classroom for sure!!!! Perhaps, they can collaborate and create their story before making a video or presentation - which could also be created collaboratively.

This social networking blog by Pam Dyer has some really great infographics (think like graphics that actually provide relevant information in an educational way) that lend themselves to starting awesome classroom conversations. Talk to your students about social networking, the benefits and pitfalls of Facebook, why Instagram is taking over, and how to avoid being a terrible Twitter user. She does a fantastic job providing relevant and important information to the average consumer, but it impacts educators even more. Check it out for a good read!

This is great assessment tool for evaluating iPad Apps, its not just for librarians thought.

Kerpoof is a site where students can create drawings, videos, t-shirts, mugs, etc. Teachers can ask students to demonstrate their understanding using Kerpoof as a tool for creation. The site is owned by Disney.

Thinking of Teaching is a teacher blog that is full of ideas that can be used in the classroom as well as freebies

EdTech Teacher Resource starts with the learning goals, provides tool suggestions, descriptions, examples, usefulness ratings, and ease of use ratings. This website is an excellent resource for any teacher integrating technology in the classroom.

I really like this resource. I especially like how it asks you your goals and has solutions that could help with your lessons. Great for integration!

Wow! Great find. Like Andi, I like how it asks you your goals and then takes you straight there and then has ratings. I can see this being a great easy way for teachers to learn some new ways to introduce technology into lesson plans.

This is "The Tech Savvy Educator's" blog in which I follow. He includes a lot of everyday and current topics in which I find useful for a lot of my Ed. Tech classes. 

Very interesting reading on timely topics for classroom teachers! After reading through several of his posts, I subscribed to his RSS feed. The posts provided food for thought about using technology in the classroom. The posts that immediately caught my attention, that I could put to use in my classroom, were about creating an instant online photo gallery and creating a low budget green screen. However, the most interesting post was "Learning + Video Games ≠ Gamification" that included a video of James Paul Gee and his thoughts on using gaming in education and as assessments.

This blog is very interesting! I particularly like seeing how different content areas have their own tab - very neat and organized for specialized content teachers. This blog could be used efficiently in my future classroom because of its informative resources and ideas. This blog is probably more for teacher use since it is all about integrating technology into classrooms. I am not familiar with any other blog that has such informative resources and ideas that help educators to facilitate technology more in their lessons.

This is an excellent resource for teachers that are using, or want to use, blogging with students in the classroom. This wiki provides the basics of blogging with ideas of how to use blogging with students. This wiki suggests blogs to explore, blogging tools to try, blogging tutorials, along with ideas for assessment with rubrics.

This is Lucy Gray's blog in which gives ideas and resources for future and current educators. She incorporates a lot of technology resources and which I find very interesting 

This is a blog for current and pre-service teachers that gives advice, lesson plans, and what to expect with technology in the classroom

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 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. :)

Great tool for educators to see how to use wikis within the classroom.

This website is a great resource for whiteboard activities for Language Arts. I would use this in my classroom if I had a Promethean board or any other type of interactive whiteboard in order to engage my students in a new way.

Thank you for sharing this resource. I am getting a Mimio in our classroom next month and this will really help me find some things that could work for us. Great find! Thanks.