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This article is about 5 steps on how to integrate technology into a classroom that might not have it already.

An interesting article about technology integration in the classroom according to ISTE standards.

An interesting article about technology integration in the classroom according to ISTE standards.

Using video games in the classroom to better integrate technology.

Using video games in the classroom to better integrate technology.

The main reason I chose this site as another resource is I liked how it gave a chart showing the difference between using technology and technology integration. For someone like me who was struggling to still see this difference, it really helped with the concrete idea that they are different.

Complete standards-aligned curriculum for technology and 21st Century skills education that is carefully designed to integrate into all core instruction.

Complete standards-aligned curriculum for technology and 21st Century skills education that is carefully designed to integrate into all core instruction.

Integrating technology into a high school classroom isn't a one-step process. "You can't just slap a netbook [computer] on top of a textbook and say, 'Great, now we have technology," says Bob Wise, former governor of West Virginia and president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, an advocacy organization.

This is a good place to start to get you thinking about what you need to do for integrating technology in a classroom.

I chose this article because it breaks down education: from different schools, down to technology integration in reaching more students. It is an interesting read on how "Distributing Learning" could reach more students and put more in school since technology is integrated into our culture so heavily.

It tells of the experts in teacher say about technology integration and how they understand it.

This video series goes inside the classrooms of educators who use technology tools in their lessons every day. Learn from their challenges, celebrate their successes, and share their resources in every episode.

This video series goes inside the classrooms of educators who use technology tools in their lessons every day. Learn from their challenges, celebrate their successes, and share their resources in every episode.

Great article on how technology is helping the classrooms and why it is important for teachers to integrate their classrooms with technology.

When teachers integrate technology into student activities and projects, they often have a hard time figuring out how to assess it. This website talks about different types of assessments, and also provides rubrics for a variety of topics. In week 5 one of the main questions is "what technologies help make formative and summative assessments more effective and efficient?" This website explains formative and summative assessments, along with ways to create rubrics for what you are wanting to assess.

When teachers integrate technology into student activities and projects, they often have a hard time figuring out how to assess it. This website talks about different types of assessments, and also provides rubrics for a variety of topics. In week 5 one of the main questions is "what technologies help make formative and summative assessments more effective and efficient?" This website explains formative and summative assessments, along with ways to create rubrics for what you are wanting to assess.

Here we can see educators and researchers share their opinions on why technology integration is important for 21st century classrooms.

This is a video that documents the success of integration of technology in a school. It provides examples as well as first hand experiences from students and teachers. It has the use of computers, video cameras, tv screen, and ect.

The reason I chose this as my last resource is that it gave the big ideas for integrating technology in the classroom. It gives the idea of what works best with integrating technology and why it works.

Tells how teachers deal with the new technology in the classroom, and how they should not be afraid of it. Some teachers do not want to use new technology in the classroom because they do not understand it or do not want to learn. This gives encouragement to those teachers who struggle with technology. It also gives helpful suggestions such as have a phone that automatically connects a teacher to a tech agent, so they do not have to wait a half hour for help.

This is a list of ways to help teachers who may not be tech savvy successfully integrate technology into their classroom. 

This neat little site gives you everything from the "latest news to the best new tech." They give links and tutorials, help with standards, blogs from other teachers on tech,and tons of other education technology resources.

This website includes 50 free ways for teachers to integrate technology into the classroom. It includes websites and other tool to help teachers get started. I chose this website because of the great list of resources included on the site

This is a list of 50 different web sites to help you with integrating technology into the class room.

This article has different ideas of what to use in a technology based classroom. Some include flipped learning, student response systems, and teacher/student created media