IT Cohort 2014

turns your Flickr photos into visually stimulating presentations. Choose one of the 10 slideshows templates available and enjoy!

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.

Rubistar creates rubrics for your lessons. You can communicate your expectations with students before, during, and after an assignment has been assigned or completed. 

This site offers tutorials for technology in education. 

This tool helps you communicate and collaborate with other students or teachers. 

This is a site that has books that are turned into videos. It is free to use if you are part of the Iowa AEA system. 

Course Sites is a free Blackboard platform to use with a group of students. 

This is a free site to use if you are in the Iowa AEA system. Contact your building librarian for login information

Social bookmarking tool.

This site allows students to choose artwork from the site and then create a story.

This is a fun way for elementary students to make their own stories online. There are different backgrounds and characters for the students to select. I have used this with my own students and they liked that they were able to share their online book with their parents at home.

Storybird is a tool to create digital stories. 

Share video or view video across all content areas. 

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.

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.

Edpuzzle allows you to take any video, either one you created or found, and customize it.  You can add comments to the video, stop it and ask questions, insert a quiz the students must take before moving on, etc. Great for a flipped classroom!

Interesting article discussing issues parents and administration have around teachers using social media in school with students. A discussion around this topic needs to be held nationwide and in every school district.

Storify allows users to create stories by importing content into a timeline. I've seen Storify used to archive tweet chats, such as #iaedchat. I haven't used it personally can certainly see potential uses, such as archiving a class hashtag follow.

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.

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.

I have to give a shout-out to William Chamberlain for putting this platform out for others to use. I has been a great tool to allow my classes to connect with classes and students across the country and the world safely and well. Super tool.

I agree with Scott on this resource. Kidblog was a great way to introduce blogging to middle school students. It allows students the freedom to maintain their own page but allows teachers to supervise their postings and comments. We, my co-teachers and I, gave students the choice of using this site as one choice of a book project. I would say Kidblog's use is mainly for students, again under the direction of a teacher. I know of no other site that gives teachers the control and a listing for class blogs.

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?