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This website is a great resource to help support teachers and fellow educators all over the world. Donors are able to choose a cause that inspires them and donate in order to help teachers reach their goals

This article shows a study done with English learning students using multimedia education. It emphasizes the importance of multimedia in the context of learning language.

Students use games, manipulatives, and computers to learn the advantages of using Boolean terms when searching the Web. The site will help you create a lesson to teach your students over boolean logic. With hand-ons and interactive activities, students will be able to understand the concept of Boolean Logic for when they search the internet.

BrainPOP's Digital Citizenship spotlight highlights topics from Blogs and Internet Search to Social Networking and Cyberbullying. Lesson plans for these topics and more are all included in this Digital Citizenship lesson plan collection. Use these lesson plans and help children get the most out of the digital world!

This is an article about how to get parents involved and the importance of it.

We choose this because it has data on the impact of technology on student achievement, and tips to ensure that classroom computing helps, rather than hinders, the learning process.

Great article that gives the pros and cons of one to one computing in the classroom. It basically says that one to one computing is great, but it can also cause a lot of stress and headaches if not used properly.

We decided to include this resource because it tied in with the idea of collaboration tools presented in this weeks reading. This is a tool for using Skype in the classroom developed by teachers. Two classrooms Skype in with each other and attempt to figure out where the other class is from. It involves collaboration with teachers from across the nation and across the world. It has cross-curriculum aspects as well and can help engage students in multiple subject areas

S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource for educators that promises to make a significant contribution to enhancing the teaching of information literacy skills to students in K-16. The project is currently in its final stage of development in which S.O.S. is being expanded for use by high school and college level educators.S.O.S. for Information Literacy will link lesson plans and teaching ideas to related real-world multimedia examples of excellence in teaching, especially focusing on collaborative efforts between classroom teachers and library media specialists in K-12. There are useful lesson plans, powerpoint, handouts, web pages, and activities for your students to learn about information literacy, plagiarism, and digital citizenship.

S.O.S is a site for helping to teach literacy in the classroom.

Although it is always safe to limit use of social media and stay leery of using it too much, especially when involved with a classroom, this website gives an overview of popular platforms that teachers can use to keep in touch with parents.

This site is an Open Education Resource that lets you explore different historical artifacts. You can look up almost any historical artifact to look at or read.

General, Guest Video is creeping into the education world slowly but surely. In fact, 94 percent of teachers have effectively used video in the classroom during the course of one school year, according to a study by Educational Support Systems. Video can be useful in a number of lessons and classroom settings, and is especially beneficial in reading.

This article gives great insight into the benefits and reasons to implement social media sites such as twitter, instagram, and Facebook into the classroom. It discusses the use of hashtags on these sites and how they can be supportive and aid in class-wide study groups.

Do you suffer because you only have a single computer and want to bring more technology into the classroom? Well suffer no more after reading this informative article that will teach you how to make that single computer into a "super computer".

This resource gives examples of different activities for a one computer classroom and how to use them from other qualified teachers.

This website gives tips for teachers on how to incorporate technology in a one computer classroom. A lot of American schools today do not have the resources to finance ipads in the classroom. Therefore, teachers need resources such as this to make their content as effective as possible through technology.

Welcome to the Carnegie Cyber Academy, the most prestigious cyber defense training facility in the world. At the Academy, we train our cadets in online safety so that they can protect themselves and others from the attacks of malicious Cyber Villains. The Internet is a growing part of our daily lives. It is my hope that future generations will be able to continue exploring Cyberspace in a safe and secure way.

This is a great website to find and share lesson plans and other teaching resources for teachers across the world.

Get best practices for these valuable real-world learning opportunities. Project ideas, too!

A great source of information that details what project based learning is all about in simple, and easy to understand terms.

DonorsChoose.org connects teachers in high-need communities with donors who want to help. This shows how easy digital access is, and how easy it is to connect with the world.

Learning specific skills doesnt have as much value in today's world. Learning how to be more creative prepares students for life beyond the classroom!

This article explains why creativity is so important in the classroom and how it helps students even after they graduate. This article provides us with 5 ideas to bring creativity into the classroom.

This article explains why creativity is so important in the classroom and how it helps students even after they graduate. This article provides us with 5 ideas to bring creativity into the classroom.

This is one of the websites from week 7's Blendspace stations.