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This article is helpful to us as future teachers. This teacher states that she was always the student falling asleep during her boring lectures. Now that she teaches she has thought of fun and exciting ways to integrate technology into her classroom presentations to keep students engaged! She loves using polls and encourages using social media also!

I think this article is helpful for me because as a future history teacher, lectures and presentations are going to be inevitable. Therefore, its important to think of the students and how they can be actively involved and engaged and enjoying the lesson!

This article provides very useful tips for students in regards to education. Google Chrome provides multiple applications which often go untapped because people are unaware of the options they have. Another convenient factor about this article is that all of the options they've listed are affordable if not free. This article contributes to its readers by delivering lists of apps to cover every aspect of a student's needs.

I thought that this article would be very useful. There are so many new apps coming out each day it can be hard to know what is the best. I really like when I can go to one spot and see which app has the best reviews for a students different learning needs.

Google Calendar is exactly what the title states; a calendar. The calendar is like any other google extension in that it is accessable anywhere and the teacher has control. This would allow teachers to post and edit assignments from anywhere and allow students to access it at anytime. This is especially useful for those students who are constantly losing things. 

This is similar to mine. However I believe this is the future of of most teaching. The ease of online use and grading makes teaching much more effective and accessible.

The ability to customize Google Chrome to suit one's needs can be overwhelming due to the amount of extensions available. This article makes the job a little easier by listing ten free extensions that add functionality to a student or teacher's browser.

This had a lot of good resources for teachers. The grammarly site would be useful to me in particular as a student and teacher.

Report Comments Bank is a Google extension app for educators. The app helps teachers shorten the amount of time to write progress reports and it allows teachers to create, save and edit reports throughout the year. Being able to save the reports throughout the year also saves teachers hours from creating end of the year reports. The app is quick and easy to learn and saves teachers a lot of time from writing report cards. This app would be helpful for us because it would help future educators complete reports on time and also have more time to create lesson plans. Reviewers rate this app with five stars for how convenient and how easy it is to use.

This looks like a great extension. Teachers time seems to always be stretched very thin. By helping teachers save more time they can put more time into classroom lessons and activities. I agree that this is a beneficial extension for any teacher.

Wow, that's extremely useful in many ways! Of course any way to save time for a teacher is key. But this also gives the teacher an easy way to track progress of individual students, and really see what areas they shine or need an extra push in. I could also see this as a great way to pass a student off to the next grade level. Upon the new school year, it would be great to give a comprehensive report of the students prior year to each teacher they are starting with. This way, if the student is experiencing the same struggles, there might be a different solution the new teacher can use, or if something worked in the past they could try that method again!

Students in 600 districts nationwide will have their very own Apple iPad. A lot of schools have scratch textbooks and moved to using ebooks on the iPad. There are so many different lectures, videos, and textbooks on the Apple's ITunes U Store for students to use. 

I found this article most interesting because I had never looked at failure in this way before. I never would have thought to make a google classroom with students who had taken the class before in order to receive help beyond the teacher. To be able to look at failure and to grow from it is a skill that I believe that everyone should have.

I found this article that relates to our class. It relates to our class because it talks about how todays students are starting their schools years using more technology then ever before. Instead of having students writing, they are swiping screens. This article labels the skills that technology can help improve in students today.

This article highlights the importance a personal learning network can have on the success of a teacher. Like Mrs.Wendt this article stresses a PLN as a vital tool to help learn from others and become a better teacher to your students, which we all are striving to be in the future. The article gives 5 reasons why educators should network. They are, learn with others, serve your students, access a dynamic resource, extend your learning base and to stay engaged in education.

This is a very great article, I think that networking with other teachers is how you truly become a great teacher. If teachers did not network and talk to each other they would only know what they were taught in college and not have any hands on experience from other teachers who may have been there for a long time. I also believe in staying in touch with others through social media, it is a great resource.

This article is very enlightening and describes how important it is to network with other teachers. Now that you connect virtually connect with anyone in the world at anytime, its makes it much easier to gain insight from other teachers no matter where they are located.

This constructive article written by Nicole Krueger stresses the importance of developing student's abilities to tell their stories through the use of many technological mediums, focusing primarily on video. In today's digital age, sharing our stories or work with the world is an integral part of making learning meaningful and positioning oneself to take place in digital society. While many teachers are still hesitant to integrate video projects into their curriculum, "creating a video can provide an authentic learning experience that brings together critical skills, such as analytical thinking, problem solving and collaboration." Therefore, I think this article is very helpful to our class and other educators alike as it promotes the use of technology in a very creative, innovative, and opportunistic way for students to think beyond the classroom, develop essential abilities, and strive for excellence. The progression of utilizing video projects in the classroom can only implicate stronger motivation for students to exercise technological tools as a major pathway of transferring their learned knowledge and skills to real world application.

Project ReimaginED is based of of Sarah Winchester's idea for her eighth grade students workshop which allowed students to comment and grade each others works anonymously. This was a great idea and could be a tremendous help to anyone need a technological helper in their creative writing class or if the class is new and not comfortable with each other yet. Project ReImaginED is a contest for teachers to show off their ways of infusing technology into their classrooms in order to win. Winchester's idea allowed the students to express their ideas without having to share their identity so some may be more inclined to say more than the usual, "It was nice. I liked it." When they have to workshop their peers. Project ReimaginED "allows teachers to see what their peers have already or plan to implement in their classrooms and encourages teachers to try technologies in ways they have never imagined." It does not say what the prize is for winning.

I've often wondered how flipped learning works for students without internet access, and this article addresses that issue well. This is useful for INTC because we will be incorporating technology not all of our students will have access to, and we must be prepared with backup plans to handle these situations. Always be prepared!

There are certain aspects when integrating technology and how teachers do not use it correctly. Technology should not be used to take away from the teachers lesson, but to help it. It also should not be used for students during their free time as entertainment. It should not be used as a subject of its own, but should be able to correlate with all subjects. Some teachers use it as a pencil, which is extremely expensive. It definitely should not be used as the answer to getting students involved in the lesson. Teachers need to form the correct habit when using technology.

Google Earth Pro is now free! After reading the comments it was a little confusing. It appears there is a licensing key which is GEPFREE (google earth pro) is my guess for the acronym. A facet acquired by obtaining the Pro version is also being able to record and share journeys which could be very useful for field trips or even if a teacher wanted to show what life looked like in another country to students. The videos Google Earth Pro is able to produce are mindboggling clear and vivid. The image is nearly flawless and all of it can be recorded and uploaded to Youtube if a teacher needed to pull it up quickly to show to the class. In the Pro version, you are also able to find out the voter turnout rate, where there are more Fair Trade farms, and if the population is higher in one city to the next. If you are having students conduct data gatherings, they can also import their results to Google Earth Pro to show them how the findings they obtain can be put to real world use. There is also traffic maps incorporated into this version which is a convenience to anyone I would like to say. If there was a property dispute in an old time non-fiction story, the students could look up to see who was right with the app. You can also look at how states looked thirty or forty years ago. And of course, you can still look at the universe. This was a very informative article written by Matthew Hughes.

4 things you didnt know about google earth pro Go on a tour and show all your friends Find out more about the world Find out how bad the traffic is in your neighborhood Solve property disputes For 11 years, Google Earth has allowed anyone with a fast Internet connection to explore the world from their desk. Without having to step foot on a plane, you can see the dizzying skyscrapers of Manhattan, marvel at the reddish splendor of Uluru, or even take a trip to space, all for free.

The digital age has created an explosion of opportunities for student entrepreneurs like Sean McCulloch, 16, who has created his own brand of clothing that he sells on the website he designed and built himself.

We have indeed become a me and wanting it now generation. This article are quick clean extensions to help make your internet use easier. Some of the extensions if used in a classroom can move along lessons with less down time for students. The Web of Trust extension is great for student users. It allows them to navigate the internet on their own without the fear of them straying to spam sites while you assist others.

There were some fantastic extensions listed in this article. In particular, the StayFocused extension seems like it would be extremely helpful for students. I know I could use it!

Oh My Word! can help students create their own personal dictionary online. It is a chrome extension that lets users select words they find online, and define the words to be saved into a personal dictionary. This could be a great tool for students of any age, and for either short- or long-term projects. Even for personal use, the tool looks like a great way to expand your vocabulary!

Cool. This would be great for students doing research when dealing with unknown or new words that may pop up in their studies more than once. Great way to refer back easily and get a better understanding for the words.

Tired of reading? Select text you want to read and listen to it. SpeakIt converts text into speech so you no longer need to read. SpeakIt is an app that uses Google and iSpeech text-to-speech service. It allows students to select text and it will read it in more than 50 languages. I think this will be a great tool for English learners and special education students because it will offer material in a different way. Some schools do not have translators for English learners and this app is going to facilitate their communication with the teachers as well as their understanding of the material.

This is a really cool extension. I especially love that it is able to read other languages.

Bring up non fiction, informational text news articles in 5 different lexiles. Use for compare and contrast included questions and quizzes. Use the anchor to have students sign in themselves.  You can target questions and email a live specialist.

Bring up non fiction, informational text news articles in 5 different lexiles. Use for compare and contrast included questions and quizzes. Use the anchor to have students sign in themselves.  You can target questions and email a live specialist.

this article is goodIf you've got a vision for how technology can transform the way students learn, you might be an advocate.

this article is goodIf you've got a vision for how technology can transform the way students learn, you might be an advocate.