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

An excellent resource for those in the Special Education field. Provide information on all aspects of having a student or child with special needs.

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

Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a good site to check out initiatives and goals for our future students.  Check out the resources tab or look at different state initiatives.

This website is really a great resource for use in a future classroom, but not really a tool or something that can be immediately applied tomorrow. This is a complicated model that takes time and effort to restructure a curriculum to fit. This resource is mainly for teacher use and feedback because it outlines what the Partnership for the 21st Century Skills are and how they apply to the classroom. There are a few similar resources out there like this one, but overall this one is the best! It outlines specifically, with research attached, what needs to happen and how we can transform education. Interesting ideas and beneficial thoughts, but really hard to implement!

This resource gives you 10 excellent web tools that you can incorporate into your classroom. Some of them are fairly familiar but others may not be. This site describes each of the tools to give you some information about them so you are not completely lost. This list is worth keeping around!

Interesting list of apps, but it was a great beginning list for sure. I don't see the comment from Samir here so it is hard to disagree or agree, but I do personally believe that some of these tools can be used in our classrooms. I can totally see and have had students use Animoto and a few of the other tools in the classroom before. This is mainly a teacher tool because it provides a link to the resource and then provides a description. There are many sites out there that boast a similar idea, but this one comes from a credible source and is well done overall.

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 an awesome Web 2.0 tool, maybe not something that fits that definition really well, but it is still an awesome tool to use with your iOS device.  Check it out!

Amazing tool that everyone from classroom teachers, to trainers, to professionals are using this tool to help project their iOS devices onto their computers. Amazing piece of technology.

If anyone uses the Casper Suite as an MDM then JAMF Nation is the place to check out new ideas, add in new comments, and change posts on how things work.  It is a good look for those of us that use this software on a daily basis.

Whatever you may use to manage iOS and OS X devices, this is a great resource for you to post a question and get some awesome feedback on management. Yes, the group is geared for tech staff and those using their software, but they leave it intentionally wide open. Also note the "jobs board" in the lower right corner is not just for them, but for tech jobs around the globe!

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.

In need of some new web 2.0 tools? Check out this site! Plus, the website has even more than just that--check out the resources they have for administrators, teachers, parents, and students.

I have came across this resource before as well and seemed to really enjoy it. I really enjoyed how it incorporated mobile tools, community tools, as well as presentation tools. I feel this is a very beneficial tool in which I could use in my future classroom. Another thing that I really enjoyed about this resource was the fact that it not only targeted teachers, but also included admins, parents, and students as you mentioned. Great find!

I have explored this site before. It is a good one, in my opinion! It has many great resources for teachers and students. I really like how it has specific links to all Web 2.0 tools. This would be very efficient for busy teachers who need resources about technology and how to incorporate it into lessons. I have not come across any other site that highlights all the major components of Web 2.0 tools.

Great resource to use with students learning about copyright and fair use. This video is a fun way to approach a complex topic and start some great conversations in the classroom!

Do agree or disagree that the resource can be used efficiently in your own future classroom? Explain why or why not. I agree that this would be a great resource for the classroom. This is a very engaging way to teach the concepts and rules of copyright in a way students can relate to. Do you believe the resource is mostly for teacher use, student use, or both? Explain your perceptions constructively. This resource is mostly for student use. It allows students to understand copyright that is on their level and is engaging for students. Are you aware of any simililar resources that should be considered? If so, what are those resources. I have not seen any resources similar to this.

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

This wiki is the next Wikipedia. Created by the co-founder of Wikipedia, Citizendium's goal is to provide encyclopedia entries with high standards of writing, reliability, and comprehensiveness. 

This wiki is for teachers to gain lesson plans, unit plans, videos, and standards. Teachers can search for the concept they're looking for and access lessons created by teachers. 

This is a Wiki/Blog from an educator in New Zealand. She specializes in eLearning and has resources on her webpage.

Art Education based Wiki for teachers and students.

This website allows classes to connect and collaborate with each other.  Students and educators are able to access their homework, share content, and check their grades on this site.  I would use this for all subjects in order to keep in touch with students whenever they need me.

I really enjoyed exploring this website. I really like the fact that it is a secure website. We sometimes find websites in which can lead us to false information or unwanted information so I feel that this one is one that I would feel safe about including in my own classroom. Thank you for sharing.

Edmodo provides teachers and students a secure place to connect and collaborate.