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CNN.com delivers the latest breaking news and information on the latest top stories from stories around the world! It is great to use when discussing current events in Social Studies classes. It is geared towards students to help them stay engaged in today's top stories!

Teaching history with technology can be a great way to engage students while also building bridges between the history classroom and the technology department at your school. One good place to start is by exploring some of the technologies available to you in the classroom.

This website consist of different activities in the subjects of language arts, Social Studies, Science and Math, and Learning games and teaching tools. It has videos, games, scrapbooks, etc.

Here's our list of the must have apps for Kindergarten. Educational games that will keep your kindergarten aged child challenged and engaged as well as fun reading apps to help them learn without even trying.

This is a good resource because it provides basic rules for making digital presentations more effective.

Our topic for the week focuses on the presentation of the material you present to the classroom. This website contained information on how to create an engaging and interesting way to present the material in a classroom.

Tools and tutorials for editing videos, pictures, multimedia in the classroom. 

You don't need expensive software to produce engaging course content for use inside and outside your classroom. Check out the following options -- many are free and work inside your web browser (no downloading necessary!)-- to enhance the quality and effectiveness of your presentations.

Professional Learning Networks Engaging in Professional Growth, Networking and Leadership Think about this for a moment: Where do you find time for learning with with your colleagues? Does it happen while rushing down a hallway to the next class or in a scheduled professional development event?

The two essential components of project-based learning are an engaging and motivating question and video shows how the product is what meaningfully addresses that question.

'My experience with PBL has been that kids love the projects and are fully engaged. But I wish I'd had more guidance available starting out, so that my first projects would have run a bit more smoothly." This video showed hands on projects and ideas for teaching project-based learning.

This website gives steps to incorporate project based learning.

For all ages easily to use and not very complicated

You can find a lot of fun interactive resources here!

A resource for engaging classroom lessons and professional development.

According to the textbook, this is a great source to use to "bundle" all of one lessor, or a whole course into one, easy to use site. By using My Big Campus, you are using Web-Based Learning Management Systems (LMS) to incorporate student management tools into your daily learning.

A Learning Management Systems is a wonderful tool that gives you access to class information at your fingertips! The features include: syllabi, teaching materials, quizzes, tests, survey, email, discussion forums, automatic grade book and drop box, just to name a few. Most school districts provide an LMS but if not, My Big Campus is a good resource.

My Big Campus is a Learning Management System that extends the classroom to a safe and engaging online environment, balancing educational use of Web technologies with network and student safety.

" The cooperative learning process of debate, discussion, and reflection that students engage in as they work together to storyboard, shoot, and edit their digital stories is critical to the learning process. "EXAMPLES

Many schools and educational centers all around the globe are including learning method in their curriculums and the results are really promising : more of students engagement and a bigger degree of motivation.

We decided to include this resource because it tied in with the idea of collaboration tools presented in this weeks reading. This is a tool for using Skype in the classroom developed by teachers. Two classrooms Skype in with each other and attempt to figure out where the other class is from. It involves collaboration with teachers from across the nation and across the world. It has cross-curriculum aspects as well and can help engage students in multiple subject areas

This is a good resource because it has ideas for video production and even has instructions for which websites to use for video production

In my mind, the first and most basic obligation of a teacher is to see the beauty that exists within every student. Every child is infinitely precious. Period. When we start from this vantage point, classroom management -- and its flip side, student engagement -- comes more easily.

10 Reasons to Use Multimedia in the Classroom By: Barbara Schroeder By incorporating multimedia in their instruction, teachers can capture attention, engage learners, explain difficult concepts, inspire creativity, and have fun. However, there are many tools available and many ways to use those tools.