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

Engrade is free and easy to use. It unifies all of the people, tools, data, and curriculum in your schools on one user-friendly platform.

Discovery Education offers a broad range of free classroom resources.

Teacher to Teacher blogs from Scholastic.

This website gives teachers ideas on how they can use Twitter in the classroom. The site gives suggestions for lessons, assessments, discussions, and more.

This website gives teachers a strategy for how to teach students spelling. The strategy is effective in teaching students how to break down words to help them understand their spelling.

This website is dedicated to educating students about the Holocaust. The website includes 3D tours, videos, and artwork made by survivors. Teachers can use this site to give students a better understanding of the Holocaust.

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.

This website helps to quickly create rubrics for classroom assessments. Teachers can decide if they'd like to use categories already created on the site or may create their own categories. This site is great for teacher assessment or student self-assessment.

This website is a marketplace for educators. It is a resource to get materials of various kinds to be used in the classroom. This can range from classroom management, labels, lesson plans, paperwork used in the classroom, forms, etc. Some items are free and some must be bought. These materials can be printed and used or be used as framework for a teacher who is looking to create their own materials but doesn't know where to begin and can use these as a template.

I have been to this site and there are some great things on here, but I have a little bit of a problem with teachers selling their lessons. If this is what you want to do then create something that can be sold commercially. I am not really sure why this strikes me as wrong but it just doesn't sit right somehow. I would gladly share my ideas with others, but if I want to make money off my ideas I would go to the work to present it in a manner that those purchasing would have some assurance that what they are purchasing has some educational value, meets goals and standards and has been tested and refined. Personal opinion, like I said at the beginning there is great free stuff on here too, check it out and see what there is to offer.

Excellent source for gaining an understanding of Copyright and Fair Use

Great resource for teacher to keep up to date regarding copyright and fair use. This reminded me of the video by Eric Faden of Bucknell University, "A Fair(y) Use Tale," I use with students when we begin talking about copyright and fair use. After looking through this site I shared the bookmark to this video with the group. Thanks for the great resource!

This is a great handbook created by the State Department of Victoria (Australia) Department of Education regarding 1:1 implementation.  Many great ideas for how to successfully implement a 1:1 program from start to finish.  A good resource for teachers and administration alike, especially schools in the early stages of 1:1.

Teachers need structure, kids need structure, everyone needs a virtual egg timer!  This is a simple timer that works great with an interactive white board.  Type in any amount of time in the box and click 'start.'  Kids can easily look up and see how much time they have left and/or wait for the buzzer.  Works great for playing games like charades, etc.  Also worked well with high school students and timing speeches.

Online dice roller! Simple, but fun!  You never know when you need to roll a dice.  Works well with Smart Boards.

This blog is a combination of article for teachers and students alike.  Under the Teachers - Research link, there are many interesting article about technology, including technology and language learning.

This is a great blog that combines world language learning and technology.  A good resource for any teacher, however.  Interesting international perspectives.

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.

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

Pintrest is something I use to a lot for free time leisure. I have recently come across a board which include Web 2.0 tools.

Fun Brain is a website that I have seen used within my level 1 course work. It is targeted at lower level education classes. It is a great interactive learning website.

This is Dr. Z's Blog in which I use for a lot of online resources. He is such a great educator and includes a lot of useful tips and tricks for education.