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Great location for technology professional development and best practices

Great location for technology professional development and best practices

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.

Web 2.0 Guru has a massive list of web 2.0 tools broken down by subject matter.

Web 2.0 Guru has a massive list of web 2.0 tools broken down by subject matter.

A current list of useful technologies, by Dr. Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College (Canada). Since he keeps it up-to-date, this would be a useful source in the classroom for experimenting with and evaluating the latest apps.

A current list of useful technologies, by Dr. Rafael Scapin, Coordinator of Educational Technology at Dawson College (Canada). Since he keeps it up-to-date, this would be a useful source in the classroom for experimenting with and evaluating the latest apps.

A great site for younger kids, to get an idea for the size & characteristics of various marine species. Some of the most detailed visualizations available on the web...and the audio recordings are outstanding. This is a great site to display via a projector in a classroom...be sure to turn the speakers up!

A great site for younger kids, to get an idea for the size & characteristics of various marine species. Some of the most detailed visualizations available on the web...and the audio recordings are outstanding. This is a great site to display via a projector in a classroom...be sure to turn the speakers up!

A very interesting educational wiki from Akita, Japan. Currently maintained, and looks like useful information no matter what country you're from! (Site in English). This site would be useful to a teacher interested in seeing how other people groups address instructional technology issues.

A very interesting educational wiki from Akita, Japan. Currently maintained, and looks like useful information no matter what country you're from! (Site in English). This site would be useful to a teacher interested in seeing how other people groups address instructional technology issues.

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.

Science educator blog. She shares lots of lesson plans on many topics for science teachers. Great ideas to implement engaging lessons in your science class.

Classroom resource for games and management tools. This website provides very easy tools for creating seating charts, random name picker (think digital popsicle sticks) and random group maker. On the game side, easily create games like Jeopardy, Speed Match, and Who wants to be a millionaire. Save the links and use over and over. Highly motivating!

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

Scott McCleod's blog

Vicki Davis offers her technology experience to help incorporate technology into the classroom. This is a great website for me to find new technology ideas to try with my 4th grade students.

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Remind101 is a great text messaging tool to update students and parents on classroom assignments.

Yes I do, my parents love it. I used to do more with a class website, but never had anyone read it. I figured, everyone now a days has cellphones I'd just send them messages that way. It's all anonymous so my personal info is safe. I just send quick messages about what's due or coming up.

I've used this for a year. I have to say that the parents in my room are in love with it. I text out homework daily and misc. announcements.

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!

The official Minecraft wiki is a great source for teachers to give their students who might be interested in using Minecraft for the school work like for presentations. Nearly any question associated with Minecraft can be answered here.

The official Minecraft wiki is a great source for teachers to give their students who might be interested in using Minecraft for the school work like for presentations. Nearly any question associated with Minecraft can be answered here.

Videos that show relations between the real world and STEM.

Videos that show relations between the real world and STEM.

This is an amazing resource for a science teacher like myself! I get the dreaded "why do I have to know this?" question far to often. This seems like a great way of naturally answering that. I am definitely an encourage of questioning so have a bank of resources for how to answer "why must we learn this?" is a huge help!

This will be a good blog to read to hear a proponent of technology and school reform.

This will be a good blog to read to hear a proponent of technology and school reform.

Good find! Is this the author of one of our texts for class? His feedback about educational reform is powerful! This is definitely a teacher resource, and something I will be referring to during the school year when I feel alone in my ideas for change. Misery loves company?