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This website details the 10 best social bookmarking resources for teachers, including descriptions for each one. I felt that this would be useful for the class to use after we discuss social bookmarking tools in class.

This website details the 10 best social bookmarking resources for teachers, including descriptions for each one. I felt that this would be useful for the class to use after we discuss social bookmarking tools in class.

I liked this website because it was simple to use, and I felt like it would be a really useful tool for keeping me organized when I am a teacher! I especially liked that you could keep track of where you are using differentiated learning, and keep track of standards.

I chose this resource to go along with Chapter 7- web resources for Teaching and Learning because it gives articles on how to use different tools throughout various educational settings.

Explore the tools in Windows Movie Maker and learn about how to get started making a movie.

Explore the tools in Windows Movie Maker and learn about how to get started making a movie.

By now, more than 70 percent of American homes have broadband access, up from just three percent in 2000, according to the Pew Research Center. Meanwhile, an estimated 40 million American students are still waiting for the expanded access that will let them take full advantage of online content and tools for learning.

By now, more than 70 percent of American homes have broadband access, up from just three percent in 2000, according to the Pew Research Center. Meanwhile, an estimated 40 million American students are still waiting for the expanded access that will let them take full advantage of online content and tools for learning.

Many educators are intrigued by the use of educational technology in their classrooms and with their students. They want to move past the productivity stage to the point of truly enhancing their own teaching and their students' learning through educational tools.

List of different online resources for every type of learning and a description of what they do

List of different online resources for every type of learning and a description of what they do

Great learning/memory tool

This website tool is excellent for students that use cell phone with data service or school's wifi. This is also good for getting feedback from students in your class, and Kahoot.it makes the learning fun too!

The positive influence of 1:1 teaching in the classroom. It is explained how providing this technological tool for all students is the first step to improving the learning and results of learning.

I chose this article to help me understand what PBL actually is and how it contributes to student's learning in the classroom. Project-Based Learning (PBL) shifts classroom activity away from teacher-centered instruction and emphasizes student-centered projects where the teacher can build relationships with students by acting as their coach, facilitator, and co-learner.

Tools for Assessing Student Learning with Instructions and Suggestions including Technology

This link contains information about different kinds of assessments and ideas for using assessments in the classroom

These are good ways to assess learning in the classroom. It also talks about how grading is not assessing.

This resource is great for new teachers who are looking for different types of technology to use in their classroom. This article lists tools that teachers can use for student learning, lesson plans, and general tools like EverNote that help teachers stay organized.

I chose this resource because it talk about six tools that help with teacher-parent communication. Being able to communicate with your students parents is a very important factor and it explains that and how to improve it. It discusses six different apps that are used in different ways and gives alternatives to the one he describes.

Common Sense Education provides a list of various tools that teachers can use to communicate with parents, whether they want to communicate via social media, use remind alerts, or start something like a class website.

Welcome to our professional learning series on building a PLN. This series guides you step by step through the process of setting up your own PLN. The aim of this first step is to: Explain what is a PLN. Help you understand why educators create their own PLN.

Welcome to our professional learning series on building a PLN. This series guides you step by step through the process of setting up your own PLN. It's great for people who still need to delve deeper into what a PLN actually is.

This is a very information-rich site that further introduces the PLN and delves into several different avenues a teacher can take in developing their PLN, with one avenue explored being Twitter. I particularly found the Step 6: Curation page to be intriguing. This page introduces curation, the strategic collection and compilation of knowledge and media found online, and demonstrates how it can be a valuable tool for educators engaged in expanding and sharing their constant learning and teaching journeys (See the video towards the middle of the page where a teacher shows his netvibes and scoopit accounts, and the very complex ways in which teachers can organize and share knowledge from these information collection/filtering tools. VERY valuable for our fast-paced and information-heavy time.)

This tool allows students to become more interactive through simply "learning more." This is a great resource for Chapter 7 because it uses student based learning to allow students to become more interactive on the web.

This website provides excellent resources as it has example projects, information, and other tools to help implement project based learning

This tool is primarily for teachers. The website informs teachers on different projects they can use in the classroom, explains the theory and background knowledge needed to teach project based lessons, and shows them the teaching concepts they can use in order to teach the project based learning lesson.