Jeffco Teachers

This looks like a great resource for social studies teachers.

A social network for teachers of gifted and talented students

This is an interesting site about the human body.

A list of links to support the use of Web 2.0 tools for teaching and learning in the K-12 environment. (There are many items here, so be sure to visit the additional pages or choose to see 100 items from the bottom of the page.)

Just because you build a wiki, doesn't mean they will come. This has been my and other faculty members' experiences in using wikis in the classroom. We all know the feeling . . . the excitement of seeing and then using a type of software that should be just perfect to engage students and to enable community-building. We work during our break time to incorporate this learning technology in our course only to find out that students aren't that excited about it. I think one of the reasons for the lackluster student enthusiasm toward any type of new technology tool is that they need to learn it. I'm not saying that students are lazy . . . it's just that the internal question, "what's in it for me?" probably needs to be answered.

October 23rd

An incredible collection of personal learning environment diagrams - web 2.0 style listing web 2.0 tools

Blog post which includes review of 21 Classes

This Commerce City teacher's blog post presents a VoiceThread with five questions about blogging with students.

Turn existing PowerPoint presentations into web-based presentations.