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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.

StudentGuide is filled with several useful resources for new teachers. It gives examples for teachers from grades K-12. We felt this cite was relevant because we are all going to be new teachers and the examples that the cite gives are simple, yet useful and engaging.

The use of personal portfolios for assessment and presentation long has been a component of higher education. In fact, personal portfolios are a graduation requirement at many colleges and universities. Now, electronic portfolios have begun to enter the world of K-12 education as well.-Mary Daniels Brown with Education World. This website builds on our learning and use of digital portfolios for ourselves to show how to use them with our students. We will learn how to do our own, and can then help our students in the future.

This site is a great resource for K-12 teachers to stay updated with the ever-changing realm of technology! Like a newsletter, it is constantly updated to keep YOU updated! Tons fo resources available here.

I love this website because it's like a huge, online how-to guide on how to implement the use of iPads in your classroom. It has ideas for every age level and games that follow Bloom's Taxonomy.

This website contains many things centered around iPad use in the classroom. It has a list of K-12 iPad apps. It also has several ways for teachers to evaluate apps based on different criteria to see if the app is classroom worthy.

This website provides a list of lesson plans you can use in your classroom for grades K-12.

Common Sense Media improves the lives of kids and families by providing independent reviews, age ratings, & other information about all types of media. Useful information for all grade levels regarding digital citizenship

Check out our Scope & Sequence below to find the right resources for your classroom. The grade-differentiated units spiral to address a cross-curricular approach. Teachers can use the units either sequentially by grade or at any grade level within the band.

This Learning Management System is specifically designed for K-12 classrooms. You can do a trial run of the LMS for free!

Internet 4 classrooms has tons of technology integrated lesson ideas for K-12. It also includes ideas on how to get started, and other general resources. I chose this website for the chapter because it has content for all grade levels.

S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource for educators that promises to make a significant contribution to enhancing the teaching of information literacy skills to students in K-16. The project is currently in its final stage of development in which S.O.S. is being expanded for use by high school and college level educators.S.O.S. for Information Literacy will link lesson plans and teaching ideas to related real-world multimedia examples of excellence in teaching, especially focusing on collaborative efforts between classroom teachers and library media specialists in K-12. There are useful lesson plans, powerpoint, handouts, web pages, and activities for your students to learn about information literacy, plagiarism, and digital citizenship.

S.O.S is a site for helping to teach literacy in the classroom.

Here are some great new ideas to use your iPad in your classroom, K-12 and beyond! The iPad, as we all know, is a great tool for education. We are hoping that you can use at least a few of these new and creative ideas.

Math explained in easy language, plus puzzles, games, quizzes, worksheets and a forum. For K-12 kids, teachers and parents. This website can help teachers and parents explain math in a way that students can better understand. This website has games, dictionary, worksheets, etc.

A website tool for teachers to use. Has different articles about many topics. Shared ideas between teachers.

HotChalk's Lesson Plans Page (LPP) allows teachers to search through a database of lesson plans so that teachers can apply them in the classroom. People do not need to register with the site to view the lesson plans. The website simply functions as a way for teachers (pre-K through 12) to find new methods to teach material.

Inform yourself about curriculum strategies and classroom management for students with different learning needs. We have resources on everything you need to know about teaching special needs students effectively.

Using technology in the K-12 classroom has benefits for students and teachers alike. Find out how it engages active learners, facilitates collaboration, and helps teachers succeed.

This article gives 5 good reasons why technology should be used in a classroom, not only by teachers, but also by students. The 5 things are: engages students and creates active learners, encourages individual learning and active growth, facilitates peer evaluation, prepares students for the real world, and creates more engaged and successful teachers.

Think that integrating technology into the classroom will only distract students and marginalize educators? Think again. Since students are already interested and engaged in technology, teachers can harness that attention for educational purposes. Incorporating the internet, laptops, tablets and even smartphones into the curriculum has many benefits for teachers and students alike.

Another collaborative grouping of games. This one is organized by subject, which makes it easy and quick to navigate. There are games for K - 12.

CLRN provides a list of different types of games for all grades and content areas

This website is great because it is really easy to use if you know what you are looking for. You just simply click on the subject you want to teach and it takes you to different lesson possibilities for different subjects.

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . The National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) are a set of standards published by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) for the purpose of leveraging the use of technology in K-12 education to enable students to learn effectively and live productively in an increasingly digital society. What we Found: The National Educational Technology standards give information about the standards with technology. Some of these standards include: -Teachers model and advocate safe teaching -promote digital etiquette, and they exhibit legal and ethical responsibility and respect -teachers identify the societal global issues of media literacy in an evolving digital world -exhibit leadership in their school and professional community by promoting and demonstrating the effective use of digital tools and resources Natalie Copens Brenda Tucker Randy Reed Allee Bernheimer

This site gives specific tips, resources, and tricks to integrate technology in your classroom. You can search by grade-level, subject, learning types. classroom types, and much more! Lots of good links, videos, and tutorials available, AND there's a place for you to share your tips too!

Great resource for lesson plans