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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.

This google Doc has over 50 extensions on it, there are some really cool things that I never realized that you could do before. I really liked the extension called Ginger which corrects your spelling and grammar directly in your Gmail.

This is a very informative list of chrome extensions. I like a lot of the extensions that dealt with privacy such as Collusion. It lets you see what sites track your information in the background, and helps you to stop them if you wish.

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.

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.

This extension allows users to spell check and grammar check while typing online.

Excel Learning Modules including Vocabualry, Excel Charts, Excel formulas and functions. School Friendly.

In modern classroom settings, ipads are more and more prevalence, along with the apps that go with them. As lessons and lesson plans change, there is always a constant need to download and peruse new apps for the various lessons a teacher may draw upon. Searching for apps, when added to all of the other preparation requirements can be highly cumbersome. One way this article can assist the app search is by providing a healthy source of sites who give reviews and suggestions on what apps are popular, which apps are useful, and which apps are not. Having a site that sorts and reviews apps can save hours when searching itunes for the next new app to integrate into the lesson plan.

This article is an innovative solution to allowing students to work together and not worry about doing all the work and splitting the credit with other students who did much less. The strategy uses google drive as a way to monitor what gets done what student. In addition, groups are assigned a total number of points, divided evenly between all the students in a group.

It is effective. I agree.

I like the article. I can relate to the struggle of group work.

"What if there was a simpler way to figure out how to use the most popular tech tools in education? That's the idea behind the new Global Education Database (GEDB) - it's still in the very early stages but has an aim to be something akin to the 'Yelp for Education' thanks to the robust and brilliant education crowd around the globe. Each listing in the GEDB features expert reviews, pros, cons, tips on using each product in the classroom, what the product is good for (flipped classrooms, Common Core, etc.), and more."

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. 

This is an excellent post that discusses the pros and cons of digital reading versus paperback reading. You may want to read up and think about how have your students optimize their digital reading if they will be reading off of ipads instead of paperback books.

This short article is a review for those who would like to use the iPad/iPhone app 'Fit Brains Trainer.' It provides activities that allow one to think faster, to improve short and long term memory, to enhance their ability to solve complex problems, and to improve concentration when there are many distractions present.

This is an article that highlights some of the learning tools developed and made available by both NASA and ISTE. A great read for physics and space science teachers.

Tired of repeating old lessons and feeling like a broken record? Create screencasts of lessons from earlier in the year to help students recall the past! This article provides a list of easy to use, and some free, websites to create screencasts.

This article peaked my interest: Within the next ten years, de Blasio is requiring all of the city's public schools to offer computer science for all students.These courses will only be offered as electives. The main concern for this is finding enough teachers that are properly trained and training others. Computer science jobs are among the fastest growing. They are also the some of the highest paying jobs.  Computer sciences are primarily dominated by white or Asian males. With these courses being available to all students in elementary schools, hopefully the number of minorities and girls who will be interested will increase.

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.

We have been waiting for this one! Yeah Google!

This valuable article by Nicole Krueger explores five tips on how to develop a professional learning network amongst fellow educators from all around the world. Michelle has stressed to us in class how so many teachers have "discovered these vibrant learning communities" through means of networking sites such as Pinterest, Twitter, Edmodo, Diigo, Google Classroom, and much more. This assignment, of bookmarking and sharing information, epitomizes the importance of this article as we are enabling one another to grow from each other's ideas.Thus, I think for our class and other educators alike it is important to "dedicate time for networking, joining networks, attending conferences and edcamps, sharing ideas, and asking connected educators for help." The ability of such vast wealths of knowledge to be shared globally between many teachers can only implicate stronger connections and better points of reference for all educators in the future. 

Not every school has the resources necessary to take their students on an airplane . . . or spaceship tour. Having the iPad app can help these students and show them how things are inside and out. Fun app for the students. They have virtual sites for many historic places.

I think bringing ipads into the classroom and giving students a chance to see a virtual version of a famous museum or historical place is an amazing teaching too! Most students may never get to the actual place but that doesn't mean they should not get the chance to experience it, whether it be virtual world or not. It makes the information to students more interactive and they can connect history to the places they see online.