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I think this is a very under-utilized resource in schools today, for both teachers and students. There is so much available on this website. The possibilities that these resources provide teachers are endless. One of my personal favorites that is on this site is Atomic Learning. This provides training resource videos in almost any technology tool you can think of. I have used this multiple times to help me out of a jam when using anything from Movie Maker, to to Excel, to Skype to iPads. The videos are chunked into short, searchable segments that are very useful when you are trying to learn anything about computers and what to do with them. This is a great resource to use in the classroom, both for personal (as a professional) use or for student use. Students are able to search videos independently and use them for assistance, contributing to self-reliance and independence in implementing classroom technology. I am not aware of any similar resources with a database this large, in one location. Although most websites or programs have instructions, sometimes even instructional videos, available to help new users understand the technology, Atomic Learning has them all in one place with easy to use videos that do a great job of demonstrating how to use the particular programs. apps, or instructional technology with your students.

I agree with Tamra and Maria that this is an under-utilized resources. I have introduced and stressed the importance of these databases to students, teachers and other staff for several years. It is too easy to just 'Google It.' I used Atomic Learning when teaching middle school technology explore. One of our 8th grade skills was an understanding of Word, and I let students pick their own topics to study further through Atomic Learning. I just used Gale for peer-reviewed journals. I am also using SIRS to find articles for our Digital Citizenship (Protect It) curriculum. I am not aware of any other collections for education as robust as Iowa AEA Online.

I love AEA Online. Being a former AEA employee, I've become very familiar with it over the years. Like the other ladies who commented before me, it is very underused. I'm not sure whether it's because people are not well enough familiarized with what they have to offer, or because it presents another opportunity for information overload. Regardless, it is a wonderful resource for students and teachers. I used Atomic Learning to help a teacher develop her own skills. I've also recommended it as a resource to our Special Education teachers as a resource to learn when students need reinforcement of new concepts.

Digital Citizenship lessons for students and teachers

Thanks, Mekca! We spend very little time teaching Digital Citzenship. I think it needs to be embedded in every teacher's curriculum. There are so many "teachable" moments that present themselves that could be linked to proper social media usage. This is going to be an excellent resource for me to share with my fellow educators.

This is an excellent source for me to use in my Teen Insights classroom. We started with a unit on bullying... then cyberbullying... I think we're missing the point- students just need to learn to be good digital citizens! I will use this source to build my curriculum. I appreciate that the curriculum is geared towards students but that it gives teachers and parents good background as well. Parents are a huge part of cyberbullying problems. Much of the conflict we have in school has to do with something students do online at home and then carry those hard feelings with them to school. I do not have resources similar to these. The video that my curriculum used to show warned students to avoid chat rooms and to only choose names that gave no indication of their age, gender, or location. It's good for students to stay safe, but the world has become much more familiar and personal with technology. Our curriculum needs to adapt to keep up.

Multimedia poster/collage - could be used by student or teacher to present /share info

An alternative to the standard poster or other presentation tools. This is a highly interactive and customized digital poster board. Teachers are able to set up student accounts that are linked to their teacher account for FREE!

An alternative to the standard poster or other presentation tools. This is a highly interactive and customized digital poster board. Teachers are able to set up student accounts that are linked to their teacher account for FREE!

This will be helpful to read for my PLN to consider instructional technology.

Great blog to get technology lessons for teachers

This is an easy places to check up on either monthly or weekly for new ideas and resources. Free is always good!

This wikispace is full of different elementary wiki pages. It allows other elementary teachers the chance to look at other teachers pages for ideas for different content areas.

Amanda, this looks like a great resource for elementary teachers. Have you had a chance to play around with this site more yet? I'd like to find more "chat" sites to communicate and connect with other elementary teachers. Wiki's are a great place to find free resources.

Looks like a good resource for teachers - lessons plans, puzzles, interactive games - all separated by grade level and subject.

Shmoop offers teachers a place where they can collaborate with fellow teachers online as well as find educational support services for students, teachers, parents, and districts.

This site is set up like Facebook where teachers can create classroom pages to communicate with students in a variety of ways.

Classroom management system, collaborating on assignments, discovering

I like the teacher control I can have and the collaborative environment. The security and control that makes it good is also it's limitation in exposure to the outside world.

This lists the 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools.  It gives a brief summary of each and a link to them. 

Edudemic is a great place to find more resources on web 2.0 tools to use in classrooms with students and teachers.

Edudemic is a great place to find more resources on web 2.0 tools to use in classrooms with students and teachers.

QR code generator. Has some options other than plain B/W. Pretty cool!

I like QR Stuff so much I have even paid for its use. I like that they keep track of your history in a paid subscription. I've used QR Stuff to create vocabulary scavenger hunts, to make a poster of sites to share with other teachers and post a video of the scavenger hunt to share. I've even made my own audio book recordings through QR Stuff. I see this resource as one to be used by students and teachers. The site has so many options for teachers to create codes for their classrooms. Students can link documents to digital portfolios, QR Creators are popular, but I haven't found another one that offers as many choices in codes and personalization features as QR Stuff. Ben you should look into Aurasma, an augmented reality app that adds a 3D component. And Socrative can be used for formative assessments.

QR codes are great for students, teachers and community members. I would guess many students and adults are familiar with them and if they don't know how to use them, know someone who is. Renee and Ben, I know some teachers use QR codes as a link to their Aurasma pages. I like this site because it offers more than the first-generation QR code generators. I can see many uses - I'd love to try one of the t-shirt or visual AR codes. I'm a fan of Tagxedo, which reminds of of the visual AR codes shown on the website.

Wiki that has videos made by students concerning different math topics.

Wow. This is great! I'm going to try this out this fall! I can use this right away.

I really like the fact these videos were made by students. Maybe if I am ambitious enough, I could have my students make videos to post on here!

Technology-based blog with numerous resources, tutorials and advice!

I had no idea you could do this with videos! I think this would be a very useful tool in the classroom. I have often times gone through a video and picked out specific spots I want to show my students, so I ended up having to write down those exact times so that I would know where to skip to. This tool would be very helpful with that. I think this resource would be mostly used by teachers to share videos with students. I have not seen anything like this for videos. I recently heard of a site that you can copy the youtube URL in and it takes it to a place where you don't get all of the advertisements on the side. Which is nice because those aren't always the most appropriate for school.

This would be great for a flipped or blended classroom. Teachers could use this to edit videos and incorporate them into lessons as well. Students could also do this if they are presenting information and want to use a piece of a video. EdPuzzle is a similar resource that can do the same kind of thing.

This wiki provides educational tutorials and web 2.0 tools for me as an educator to use in my classroom and with my students.

Ben - I also agree that this is a great site for educators to use with their students. I have looked through this site for different ideas of tools. I have found it to be most helpful in my search for things. I can see it being useful for both students and educators. I haven't found any other site that has different web 2.0 tools broken down into different categories.

Holy cow this tool is awesome! There are so many tools listed that I have never herad of. Thank you so much for sharing this. This will be extremely useful when looking for new and engaging ways to enhance student learning. This tool could be used for teachers mainly, but if students are looking for a new way to present something, they could use it as a resource. I have seen similar "lists" of tools to use in the classroom, but none to this extent. Thanks for sharing! Do agree or disagree that the resource can be used efficiently in your own future classroom? Explain why or why not. Do you believe the resource is mostly for teacher use, student use, or both? Explain your perceptions constructively. Are you aware of any similar resources that should be considered? If so, what are those resources.

Free science resources for teachers. This wiki contains links for materials, content, websites, etc. Science teachers will find many useful links and ideas here.

An interactive way to assess students through ipads, iphones, androids and more!

This looks like a great tool to use in my classroom. It would be a quick way to assess students on a topic before moving on. This tool is clearly geared towards teachers. It can help them to quickly grade quizzes that are easy but tedious to correct such as true/false and multiple choice. I would like to play around with this a bit more and see if there are discussion opportunities with it. My students use Poll Everywhere to have discussions or answer polls, but the results are posted for everyone to see. I like that the tools grades the quizzes and posts the results to a spreadsheet format. That would be such an efficient way to grade. This is much more user friendly than other automatically graded quizzes like Flubaroo. Thanks for sharing!

A few teachers in my building use secretive and have shared it in professional development sessions. It looks very easy to use and seems like something students would be very easily engaged with. Great resource for teachers to use with students. It would be just as easy for students to design questions and present as a quiz or dipstick check for understanding after a presentation or some other in class assignment. My school uses Promethean boards so we have this same capability built into that technology with the Active Votes or Active Expressions. I can also see this being something you could do with the poll feature on Edmodo. I think there are more and more resources out there in this style. I agree with Kayla that this is MUCH easier to use than Flubaroo, even though that is a very useful tool as well.

Vimeo offers teachers another video resource website other than Youtube. Teachers can find many educational videos on here for free.

I've heard a lot about vimeo and think it would be a great resource for the classroom! This of course would be great for students to use to capture student attention, but I could see older children making their own. Especially if you assigned a topic to them where they had to teach the class the topic. I think this seems a bit more student-appropriate since Youtube can be full of craziness. Do you agree? Have you ever had students make one?

Middle school (grades 4-8) teachers, this is a site for you. Not only are there blogs with the middle school focus, but there are units and other resources too.

Middle school (grades 4-8) teachers, this is a site for you. Not only are there blogs with the middle school focus, but there are units and other resources too.

Easily simulate your 3D projects in Augmented Reality. Impress your teachers and get a top grade. Express your creativity and get rid of prototyping cost and time barriers.

Rob, I've intrigued by augmented reality since I first learned about it at an EdCamp last winter. Since then I've played around with AR flashcards, Chromville and Aurasma. I can see this application used both by teachers and students. It is my hope to generate some Aurasma's next year that students can demonstrate to the public. This will work to connect student learning to the public and showcase our 1:1 ipad initiative! @travislappe is someone you should follow on Twitter - he's a tech integrationist in South Dakota that has been very active with augmented reality.

I have been intrigued by augmented reality since beginning the VREP program at my school. This resource looks like a user friendly way to introduce the concept of AR into the classroom. I have actually used Poly Fauna for a collaborative project with West Central's chorus. It was a great way to tell a story and adapt a virtual storyboard to music. It definitely expanded the lesson plans I had previously implemented with our peer groups.

Blog by David Andrade with resources available to all teachers. He also explains how to use some of those resources for the newbie techies.

FACS (Family and Consumer Sciences) of Life has great links and resources from someone who teachers similar courses as myself.

FACS (Family and Consumer Sciences) of Life has great links and resources from someone who teachers similar courses as myself.