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Answers common questions about teachers using resources such as; What can educators use? How can they use it? Has some engaging videos to help teachers and students understand the subject

In K-12 education, it's a challenge to navigate the copyright and fair use waters. What can educators use? How can they use it? VideoAmy has collected some fun, engaging videos to help teachers and students understand the confusing subject. This website talks about copyright and fair use when you are using someone elses work.

In K-12 education, it's a challenge to navigate the copyright and fair use waters. What can educators use? How can they use it? VideoAmy has collected some fun, engaging videos to help teachers and students understand the confusing subject. This website talks about copyright and fair use when you are using someone elses work.

Digital collection of primary sources. You can create your own collection.

primary source collection of historic newspapers from 1836

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.)

TeachWithMovies.org offers a collection of lesson plans and curriculum materials using movies to inspire, inform and motivate your students. There are subject-specific sections for English, Social Studies, Sciences, and Other Subjects (which include Math, Health, Music, and numerous other subjects). These subject areas are often broken down into sub-categories (for example, Social Sciences is broke down into US History, World History, and Civics).

This helps students and teachers to develop information literacy skills so they can become competent finders, evaluators, and users if information mastering the art of curating.

This article goes a little more into detail as to why we as teachers should know how to properly collect and save resources.

Pearson gives great detail as to why teachers should use virtual field trips which falls into the category of educational websites or resources used in the classroom. Not only does this help the teacher collect their resources but it also helps him or her save the sources and share with others in a creative fashion.

Google Custom Search twitter account is a great way to discover how the search engine functions. It is also a could source to collect ideas on different ways to use the search engine in general or even in the classroom. The twitter account's default reads: "News, tips and updates from the Custom Search team."

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

This research toolkit provides a collection of sources, tools, and information that you can use to produce a research study.

This article contains various Apps to use as resources in the classroom. I thought this was another engaging way to integrate technology into a lesson or instruction. The link has links to the different apps and provides descriptions of them.

Jeez, there are sure a ton of ways to find images on the Web, as well as many places where you can find lengthy link lists to image collections. I'd lay odds that most people, including myself, jus...

Check out Edutopia's collection of articles, videos, and other resources on internet safety, cyberbullying, digital responsibility, and media and digital literacy.

This site does a good job using both text and a video component of describing and simplifying some aspects of digital citizenship. It has also gathered more resources and provided a link to those on this topic.

This site does a good job using both text and a video component of describing and simplifying some aspects of digital citizenship. It has also gathered more resources and provided a link to those on this topic.

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!

Students use Internet search engines and Web analysis checklists to evaluate online resources then write annotations that explain how and why the resources will be valuable to the class.

Readwritethink gives an additional lesson plan and ideas on how to teach students to evaluate the internet resources they may want to use.

This website is a lesson plan that I can use in my future classroom on how to teach my students how to evaluate websites.

LiveText Inc. is a team of education professionals dedicated to using technology to improve learning for individuals and organizations. This is where you will post your work for your portfolio.

LiveText offers the most comprehensive and easy-to-use learning outcomes assessment solution with the most robust data collection and analytics features.

As instructors, we are all information curators. How do you collect and share currently relevant content with your students? How do your students research and share information that they find with the rest of class? What tools do you use to manage or facilitate presentation of resources? Is it public?

A great collection of assessments that function within the bounds of formative and summative in order to measure students in a differentiated classroom. Testing to discover learning style as well as appropriate technological aid is incredible important and beneficial within a classroom that is working towards 21st century standards.