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D-Day Overview: It is hard to conceive the epic scope of this decisive battle that foreshadowed the end of Hitlers dream of Nazi domination. Overlord was the largest air, land, and sea operation undertaken before or since June 6, 1944. The landing included over 5,000 ships, 11,000 airplanes, and over 150,000 service men.

This is a good site for connecting education and technology. It has options for you to choose rather you are a teacher or a student; they also have a teachers guide column.

Awesome way to explain what a tweet is and how teachers can use it for education!

This is a good site to learn how to use twitter for educational purposes. It explains how social networking and microblogging platform works.

This is another great way to learn how to make twitter into an educational learning program. It breaks it down into steps and shows you what everything means and what it is used for.

This is a direct link to create a custom search engine through Google.

A site that teachers can use to make custom search engines for their classrooms.  These search engines can be as broad or specific as the teacher chooses. The tutorial video is very helpful to get you started!

Tracking progress of their entire class, this website ables teachers to create and assign formative assessments . Students study at their own pace to navigate learning while getting immediate feedback and personalized support.

Wiggio lets students, teachers, and coaches, communicate by managing their meetings, practices, deadlines, and more. It is applicable for anyone in a club, academic group, sports team, or all other kinds of groups to simply connect with each other.

With this website teachers and administrators can create their own website for free. You can design your page and share as many pages to interact with teachers and students.

Blogger is a website where you can create your own blog. It is a great way for teachers to create their own teacher blog

Blogging website built specifically for teachers. Teachers can create newsletters for parents and blogs for students specifically!

Edublogs is a free blogging network that lets students view posts by their teachers. It gives access to email, media, and other posts for the classroom availability to expand beyond school hours.

Edublogs.org is not only a platform for teachers to create blogs that invite participation from students and parents, but is also an environment for teachers to learn from other teachers through blogging.

This is a great resource because it provides examples of digital storytelling in each content area.

We chose this website because it gives information about how to create digital stories to show to your class. We thought it was a different way to teach material that many teachers may not think to do. We thought that because it is not very common that when digital stories are shown to the class, they will be more interested in the material that is being taught.

Gives great ideas and examples for digital storytelling.

This article talks about how there can be technology in an art class room. Her students made portfolios of her art projects. This article shows how students can integrate art through that an applications like Photoshop, and InDesign as well for older students at least.

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.

Diigo is a great place for students and teachers to share and keep track of information they find.

Integration of dance technologies in the classroom, there are a lot of different technologies that go into dance classrooms. From projectors, to microphones, to lighting, it has become a very important aspect of this classroom.

Integrating new technologies into the music classroom can be difficult because students usually do not have desks, just seats and music. But there are many different apps that can be used to create a greater learning environment.

Tineye is a free tool that helps you conduct reverse image searches. In a reverse image search you're searching for the places where an image has been posted online. Conducting a reverse can be a good way for students to discover information about an object or location featured in a picture. As demonstrated above, when the image is located through Tineye students can click through to the source to see how the image was used and what was written about the image. Performing a reverse image search can provide students with a good lesson on digital footprints. Have them conduct a reverse image search for images they have posted online and then count the number of places where that image has appeared.

TodaysMeet is a tool that allows teachers to create an online classroom discussion.

EdTech Week 5 PTT Integrating technology to reach the standard: Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments