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

This is an excellent wiki to help teachers use blogging with students in the classroom or extend what is already happening with blogging in the classroom. Guides, examples, videos, lesson plans, tools, and rubrics are a few of the resources provided.

This is a really cool website with a lot games for students to practice reading and writing skills.  My level two class used this resource a lot in class. 

This website has links to over 1 million Educational blogs so check it out and see what other teachers are talking about around the world.  

This wiki gives the top 20 resources for web 2.0 in the classroom. So check this website out and get great ideas of how to use technology in the classroom. 

This page provides quite a few different educational wikis that you can research to see how you would like to incorporate one into your own classroom.

This is a pretty cool wiki that gives us teachers a framework of what a good wiki looks like.

Web 2.0 ideas to be used in the classroom.

This website has great ideas for web 2.0's in the classroom.

A web 2.0 tool that allows you to share your screen images or videos and share them.

Jing is a great web 2.0 tool for sharing your screen and recording objects for students when they are absent. There is also screencast, quicktime, or even Camtasia Studio.

Jing is an awesome tool and I have used this tool many times sense I learned of its existence two years ago.

This is an article discussing a new Ipad App called "Spin" which allows students to hold a online, collaborative discussion while viewing multiple videos at once. This is said to be the new "Skype" allowing communication and interactive discussion to occur throughout the world with one application. Something for teachers to look into for their own classrooms one day! This application seems like it might have a future in our schools.

This looks like it has some great potential. I am going to have to check it out further.

This is a really cool App that will be very useful in Problem Based Learning environments because it is a great collaborative tool. Great Post Hannah!

Very nice table that tells which ELA common core standards are covered in each 3rd grade story in the Houghton Mifflin basal.  EXCELLENT resource for those of us just starting to use standards based grading and the core!!!

Very cool table that lays out the curriculum for students, parents and other teachers. I hope the school I end up in has a lay out of the standards that they want ot cover in there school.

May be review information for most of us in this group, but still a way to affirm why using social media can be extremely beneficial. 

As said above, it may be review information for us, but I think it's a great article, especially to those who you may talk to about social media and think it's not worth their time, it's something you should show them. Social media is definitely a great way to progress professional development.

Interesting article on a teacher's decision to end using the flipped classroom model.  Also, the article refers to a student-centered approach, not a teacher-centered approach. 

The flipped classroom is something that I have been interested in doing when I become a teacher so I find this interesting. I saved it to look at more later but from what I read she did love some things about the flipped classroom and says that when she wrote about it in a previous post she doesn't disagree with anything she had written but that she has now decided to end it anyway. Looking at her reasons why she decided to end it, I think it seems it was more of just a personal preference than the fact that it didn't work well or that there were any major problems with it. It's definitely something I will read more carefully later on though!

This website provides a list of free resources for education from A to Z along with a brief description of the resource and what it can be used for in the classroom.

Wow-what a great link! This has a ton of ideas with descriptions for online projects. I will use this often for integrating technology into my curriculum.

This website is awesome! There are so many different resources here that could be used for many many different projects. It has a great variety as well of what the different resources are used for and can do.

If you are 'pinner' this is a great site! It has many topics relating to tech integration, tech topics, and the newest ways to use tech in your classroom.

Amazing pinterest! I spent some time just skimming around and made sure to follow it but I will definitely be going back later when I have the chance to go through and repin some of the things they have! Looks like they had a lot of great ideas to use in the classroom.

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

Great Edtech pinboard. Great links to all things regarding Ed Tech. Easy to use and can be useful for P-12 up through higher education (or just for involved parents). Pinterest has many interesting pinboards to search for topics you care about.

Pinterest site that includes pined sites relevant to edtech. It could be useful for K-12 or higher education. A lot of great resources on one site.

Pinterest Board with all kinds of educational tech ideas and resources

Teacher Blog where ideas can be obtained that can be used in the classroom. Topics in the blog range from specific things such as 100's day, alphabet, specific themes, to bulletin board ideas, classroom management, or general topics such as language arts, math, etc.

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.

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.

Interesting article on how organizations are looking for the Net Generation to fill their jobs of the future.

Edutopia provides great resources for Project-Based Learning. Resources on this site include PBL examples, research on PBL strategies, step-by step-directions for PBL success, and resources and tools for PBL.