Kansas Educators

"Many teachers have yet to fully embrace the potential for the Internet to transform the social studies curriculum. Whether your class is named History, Government, Civics, Economics or Psychology, there is a great wealth of material available online that will engage your students. We've assembled just a smattering of the best of it here."

"Flat Stanley is ready to begin his trip around the world! Before leaving he took a tour of the city of Somersworth, NH. Check out our video Flat Stanley in Somersworth to learn a little bit about what life is like here in Somersworth. The first country he will be visiting is France. Bon Voyage!!"

Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more. BOHWS has been recommended by The Chronicle of Higher Education, The National Council for the Social Studies, The British Library Net, The New York Public Library, the BBC, Princeton University, -- and many others.

One of the great things about Twitter is the wealth of useful links that get shared between users. My conservative estimate is that 25% of the resources that I've bookmarked over the last few years have come from Twitter users. The one thing that I wish Twitter had was an option for bookmarking those links without having to open them outside of Twitter. Packrati.us was built to do just that, bookmark links without leaving Twitter. To get started using Packrati.us authorize the service to access your Twitter account and your Delicious account. Once you've authorized Packrati.us it bookmarks in Delicious all of the links you Tweet or reTweet. If you're a frequent user of services like Four Square or Gowalla you can tell Packrati.us to ignore links from those sources. Packrati.us also allows you to specify hashtags to ignore or to add to your links.

"Alan November talks about the importance of making students contributors to their own learning. I have been following his work for years (seen him present in person a couple of times too). I have been especially paying attention to his thoughts about how, over the years, it seems that we have taken away the reason/relevance for learning of our children."

"The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education - 2009"

"Teach Kids not Subjects"

"Seth Godin Discusses His Book Linchpin and Implications for Education, Live May 5th I'll be interviewing Seth Godin live in Elluminate next week about his newest book, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?, and the implications for education. "

THis is amazing

Fantastic collection of lesson plans and educational resources for educators.  Time to explore!

Each one of ISTE's NETS are listed along with tools that support them for classroom integration. 

This page contains links to tools that educators can use as they infuse 21st century learning experiences into the classroom. For assistance using these technologies, please contact your Model Schools Coordinator.

"iPads have been purchased and have arrived for this 2011/2012 school year. It is always our intention of providing the necessary professional development for new and innovative technologies. This wiki is the plan for just that. Ideally we would buy an iPad for every student. Well, unfortunately that is not financially possible at this time. Therefore, we've ordered just a few here and there. Our goal this year is to form a research and development group that is willing to learn all about the iPads and how they can be effectively used in the classrooms. This group will research apps that match the Common Core Standards, try the apps out with their students, then record their reflections. The research of this group will be available online via a Google Presentation similar to the one linked here. "

Great example of a teacher's website via Google Sites.

List of recommendationded podcasts for educators to listen to by TCEA.

Very well designed infographic illustrating statistics on digital education

"EDM 310 Class Blog College of Education University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama USA Dr. John H Strange, Lead Professor "I don't know. Lets find out" "Bring your brain. And turn it on!" "Questions Are More Important Than 'Answers' ""