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

Free, quick, simple video conferencing.

I think this resource could definitely be used efficiently in my own future classroom because it is a way for my students to keep in touch with those from other school all around the world. I believe the resource is for both students and teacher use, because the teachers need to be able to get on it to make sure it is safe for the students, and the students can get on to interact with other students from other classrooms all around the world. This is almost like Skype! I really liked this resource.

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 blog is strictly about literacy. Teaching literacy, learning about literacy, and learning ways in order to incorporate literacy lessons in your teaching. Check out this blog for more literacy help!

This is an educational resource that will help with technology and help you learn a little bit more about it in order to use it in the classroom

This site examines the use of Wikis in Education

This is a website that discusses different web 2.0 tools that are effective in the classroom of k-12

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

Links to blogs, videos, ideas, and articles that will help grow your PLN

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.

This website lists books and their word count. This site is great if your school participates in Accelerated Reader.

This site gives activities for the Common Core math standards. Activities encourage the understanding of learning new skills through games. This could be used in small group settings in the classroom. 

Allows you to enter information so the website can generate a MLA citation for a website, book, newspaper, journal, or database. Will also create a works cited page for you.

Flocabulary is educational hip-hop!  A fun way to review current events from the week, or to hone in on specific topics.  Some materials are free, others are for purchase.  Check it out! 

A nice alternative to your standard search engine.  Fascinating look at how a topic is searched and uncovered.

Any Pinterest users out there.  Here is a list of the top 20 Pinterest boards for educational technology.  

I stumbled upon this post a couple of days ago. There is some great information on these boards! Again, another way to keep everything organized and "bookmarked" in a central location. Nice find.

Collaborize Classroom is an online Web2.0 tool that allows teachers to facilitate and create distributed learning communities for their classes.  This is a forum for students to blog on questions from class and extend their learning beyond the classroom.

Hmmm, have never heard of this before, but I like the look of it! I think it's great that a site like this can offer a UDL twist to online work for students, while also cutting down on grading time for the teacher. As a TA this semester, I have finally seen firsthand the incredible amount of time that goes into grading! I never understood why teachers hated it so much, but...I do now! I'm sure most web 2.0 classroom discussion tools have this sort of tracking feature for grading purposes (like ELearning here at UNI, for example). I love that this is a free tool! I do wonder how successfully students would utilize threaded discussion or other online learning environments such as this one in K-6 environments. I think it would be fun to experiment with and perhaps do some serious research and publishing on the results of such an experiment. All about being a teacher-researcher, and this is certainly something I could see myself trying to bring into my own classroom, especially if I was ever teaching in a flipped classroom environment...

I like the setup of Collaborize Classroom and definitely see the advantages of using it in the classroom. Unfortunately, I think our students are overwhelmed with new LMS systems, web 2.0 tools, and websites that they would probably not be very receptive to this site. If CC was easily integrated into a LMS interface, then I would consider using it, but at this point I will keep it on my radar for future use.

This resource helps teachers find images that they can use in the classroom. This links teachers to many web 2.0 tools. 

This website includes web resources, lesson plans, and units in a "user-friendly" way. Easy to figure out and search though, this site is clear and to the point with a lot of helpful resources.

What a great resource! Sometimes I rely on googling too much and therefore tend to miss some of the best content available; such as this website. Thank you for sharing!