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"Cult of Pedagogy" is a website and a place for teachers to unite and explore ideas together through a blog, podcast, and posts. The main page goes into detail about what Project Based Learning entails. This website uses the analogy "project based learning, the content is baked inside of a long-term project, a real-world problem students need to solve in a creative and authentic way. In the process of solving the problem, students also meet required standards, but this work is integrated into the project, not separate from it". This is a key component in understanding PBL because it is more than just solving a basic math problem. The really cool thing about this website is that it connects the viewer to a podcast called "Cult of Pedagogy". Teacher's can listen to this broadcast to get ideas about teaching and PBL. There is also a tab for teaching materials. The materials included are e-book template, google drive basics, and icebreakers that all educators can utilize when implementing Project Based Learning into their classroom. Overall, this is a great tool created by an educator for all.

This is a great resource to use for history! I like it because it makes history fun!

This website allows students to explore art and it's history. This is good for students to learn more about the arts because it will give them more information than what will be taught in the classroom.

Histography is an impressive interactive timeline spanning today through the beginning of recorded history. The timeline is divided into fifteen categories including war, politics, discoveries, inventions, and art. To explore the timeline select one of the categories listed on the Histography website then adjust the timeline slider to see events from the range of dates that you've selected. After choosing a category and date range you can click on dots in the timeline to see pop-up boxes containing event titles, representative pictures, and a link to a Wikipedia page about the event.

This article explores 15 Students Study Apps which help students enhance their subject understanding. Each of these Students Study Apps specializes in a specific subject, helping student retain long term memory.

There is much more to explore in our calendar. Find other important events in literary history, authors' birthdays, and a variety of holidays, each with related lessons and resources. Looking for age-appropriate book recommendations, author interviews, and fun activity ideas? Check out our podcasts.

Today's students must be prepared to thrive in a constantly evolving technological landscape. Zip codes and borders no longer determine the learning opportunities, skills and careers that students can access. The ISTE Standards for Students are designed to empower student voice and ensure that learning is a student-driven process of exploration, creativity and discovery no matter where they or their teachers are in the thoughtful integration of ed tech.

Virtual Field trips are a fun and inexpensive way to explore a different place of the world! Whether is be going back in time, outer space, or visiting the wonder microscopic world! It provides many of the same benefits as a real life field trip would.

Explore reading and play games with your favorite PBS KIDS characters like Elmo, WordGirl, Super Why and Daniel Tiger!

This virtual field trip website allows students to explore a forest. During the "trip" students can learn about the environment of this forest and specific process that occur to keep it alive. This virtual field trip would be great to do on a SmartBoard where students can feel like they are in the forest themselves.

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.)

Very fun geography game incorporating Google Earth street view! Amazing how so many places look like they could be home!

Helpful resources for teaching and promoting digital citizenship in your classroom

This website is a good resource for websites to try and maybe use in a classroom someday.

This is an application that gets students up and moving. I participated in a practicum last year in a fourth grade room and in between lessons, the teacher would pick a Go Noodle for the kids to dance to. It was a great way for them to get rid of energy before starting the second half of their day.

I thought this was a good recourse because it give a clear over view on what wikis are and provides examples of ones that are being used in classrooms.

This website focuses directly on the use of a Wiki in the classroom. It has focused information that is easy to read and understand. It also has sources cited at the bottom that you can explore.

This website defines and explains wikis in the classroom. It is a great resource for those unfamiliar with wikis and lists their features, where to make one, how to navigate them, how they can be used, and more. It also has a list of example wikis made by teachers.

SweetSearch is A Search Engine for Students. It searches only credible Web sites approved by Internet research experts. This one is neat as it has subject specific searches within Sweet Search. It also has a content area that allows students to explore on their own, ways to safely search the internet.

This would be a good "safe" search engine for students to use

A reliable search engine