IT Cohort 2014

A Pinterest board that provides links to tools that can be used in the classroom to enhance communication, collaboration, and technology skills, just to name a few.

A one-stop shop for all things Genius Hour. Links to Daniel Pink, tweet chat, and everything you could ever want to know about Genius Hour.

Edmodo is a free social learning network for teachers, students and schools. With a design similar to Facebook, Edmodo offers teachers and students a safe and easy way to connect and collaborate. Edmodo can be used to share content, access and submit homework, take quizzes, and collaborate with other students. Also offers a parent component that allows parents access to their student's account.

I like the wiki source in the aspect that it explains everything about Edmodo, which would be great to send parents/staff/administrator to if they were curious about what Edmodo is and how you are going to use it in your classroom. I think this provides a "safer and more private" learning environment for students that could be beneficial. I think this is pretty similar to what we are using for our online class with blackboard, but Edmodo provides a more user-friendly area for younger students. Thanks for sharing!

A writer for Education World and an advocate for ELL students. His blog highlights great current issues and trends, including Web. 2.0.

A writer for Education World and an advocate for ELL students. His blog highlights great current issues and trends, including Web. 2.0.

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.

A techtools databased organized by grade level or teacher need.

A techtools databased organized by grade level or teacher need.

Britta, I can't believe that amount of resources available within this site. I especially like 204 products for teacher needs. I visited the few that are listed for grading, attendance and efficiency. I really need a tool that allows me to track attendance. Our policy allows students 2 days to complete missed work for everyday they have beenabsent. I don't do a very good job sticking to that because I don't have a good system to keep track!

This teacher/blogger is funny and honest about the happenings in her classroom. It is a good read for people who love teaching but are having a burnout day.

This teacher/blogger is funny and honest about the happenings in her classroom. It is a good read for people who love teaching but are having a burnout day.

This website has full transcripts to every episode of Good Eats with links to YouTube! Good Eats is an excellent series that highlights a different food ingredient in every episode. Family and Consumer Sciences teachers will find these useful for explaining food sciences aspects.

This website has full transcripts to every episode of Good Eats with links to YouTube! Good Eats is an excellent series that highlights a different food ingredient in every episode. Family and Consumer Sciences teachers will find these useful for explaining food sciences aspects.

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.

An excellent resource for ipad integration in education. They also have resources for augmented reality.

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

This is a study tool for students to learn / memorize information (like vocabulary). Teachers can set up classes and share sets with all students.

This is a study tool for students to learn / memorize information (like vocabulary). Teachers can set up classes and share sets with all students.

This is an easy way to get students to cite their sources appropriately.

This is an easy way to get students to cite their sources appropriately.

Let's be honest, it is also a GREAT resource for us, too! I love this site. I have used it for years and it just keeps getting better. It is something I am also constantly recommending it to my students for research assignments that need citations.

This would be a place for students to collaborate and share resources. The website also says writing workspaces and formative assessment.

This would be a place for students to collaborate and share resources. The website also says writing workspaces and formative assessment.

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 is an e-reader that allows you to pose questions to students and enhance the text with pop-up text, video, images, etc. You can create a class and there are ready-made readings aligned to Core standards.

This is an e-reader that allows you to pose questions to students and enhance the text with pop-up text, video, images, etc. You can create a class and there are ready-made readings aligned to Core standards.

This is an e-reader that allows you to pose questions to students and enhance the text with pop-up text, video, images, etc. You can create a class and there are ready-made readings aligned to Core standards.

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?

This is like Wordle - and you can form the words into shapes. I like that there is a link to "101 Ways to Use Tagxedo" for ideas for teachers (although I would caution teachers to have an educational goal in mind so using the program doesn't become just a "Wow" factor use)

Tagxedo allows you to create word clouds in shapes. It has customizable fonts and a print feature. A nice alternative to Wordle.

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 looks like an awesome way to collect and organize formative assessment data from students. It looks free with the option to purchase more features.