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This website gives great examples of other teachers websites and blogs. You can use these as helpful guides for your own blog or website

5 major points to keep in mind when selecting resources for your classroom.

Provides statistics for why graphic visuals can be useful in a classroom and how the human brain responds to pictures.

A detailed tutorial on how to create an infographic for the classroom. The website also includes ideas for using Piktochart for homework assignments, lessons, comparison charts, etc.

A piktochart on how to create an educational piktochart.

Free Digital Photos and a Guide to Citing Them

This page is an awesome resource for assessing students and creating rubrics.

Here is a useful guide by Kathy Shrock to help with assessment and rubrics.

This article talks about keeping students safe while using online media. The whole "online accountability" is something that should certainly be taken into account and discussed with young people.

This article talks about keeping students safe while using online media. The whole "online accountability" is something that should certainly be taken into account and discussed with young people.

This is the article that students will read if problem-based learning is their favorite teaching. It gives students more of an insight to using problem-based learning and how they can incorporate it into their classroom.

This thoroughly explains what a PBL is and what is designed to do for the students. This is mainly helpful for students who are actually working on a project as this will help guide them to better understand what they will get out of it.

Excellent resource for information literacy!

How-to guide for the Wix blogs. There are multiple videos that will help you if you choose to make a Wix for your class. It's less interactive than Edmodo.

There are several reasons why you, as a teacher and educator, should be using Twitter. First , it is free , easy to use and have a user friendly interface which allows you to keep updated of the latest about whoever you are following.

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

IntroductionEarly in the 17th century, two astronomers competed to describe the nature of our solar system.Galileo built a telescope and found new planets and moons. Francesco Sizi ridiculed Galileo's findings. There must be only seven planets, Sizi said. After all, there are seven windows in the head - two nostrils, two ears, two eyes, and a mouth. There are seven known metals. There are seven days in a week, and they are already named after the seven known planets. If we increase the number of planets, he said, the whole system falls apart.

This website provides tips on the use of wikis and presents the website with examples of other websites, and video tutorials.

This site offers simplified, easy to understand examples/explanations of several digital citizenship elements we are focusing on. It also provides some good resources and graphics regarding the topic for teachers.

This website is filled with links to connecting websites describing how to use iPads in the classroom, what apps to try, student skills with iPads, and a list of educational apps.

Having teaching create their own google search engine is a great way guide your students to the correct web pages. If you have a lesson that could incorporate this, have them post their URL to a Diigo group to share their ideas.

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.