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Infographics blog covering infographics, data visualization and visual thinking. Charts and graphs communicate data, infographics turn data into information.

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects.

This link from the National Education Association provides a lists of ways that teachers can use technology to effectively communicate with their students' parents.

I chose this website because it is applicable to almost every classroom. It is used for classroom organization and communication. It's similar to blackboard.edu and brightspace.edu that we have here at OSU. It's a place to collaborate with your teacher and fellow students. It is compatible with all devices and works really well with BYOD.I also chose the link because the sight is described and recommended by an edtech teacher website.

This source gives a guide and video on how people all over the world are one big community online, and how everyone can and should act responsible online.

This is a great Teacher to Parent communication tool. Parents are able to directly engage with students' work.

Explores how Project Based Learning is a dynamic classroom approach in which students explore real world problems through hands-on, engaging activities. This website provides evidence of PBL through videos. The video portion of this website is very helpful and connects to this chapter because it shows different activities that teacher's can use to engage their students. Not only are there videos, but there is also topics that organize the different types of lessons and activities making it organized and efficient to use. Lastly there is a blog where teachers can communicate with each other, exploring new ideas and topics.

I chose this because we haven't explored Google+ yet, but I think it would be interesting to take into consideration.

An article discussing the way members of the LGBT community come to have children as well as the affects of being raised by LGBT parents.

Reading Rockets is a reliable, applicable resource for teachers to use in their classroom and lesson planning. We have found that this website also contains valuable information pertaining to the many benefits of parents being involved and a part of the classroom community. It shows the positive effect a relationship and communication with a teacher has on the parents, the student, and the teacher. This website will add a lot of important information to our lesson and the people we are trying to reach.

A great list of hashtags that teachers can use to collaborate and communicate over Twitter.