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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.

Great example of a teacher portfolio. Highlights social studies and shows lessons and resources used. Would be good to show potential employer.

Video sources for social studies!

A case study of using Facebook in the classroom in such a way, that I believe is a great example of building a PLN.

Tracking progress of their entire class, this website ables teachers to create and assign formative assessments . Students study at their own pace to navigate learning while getting immediate feedback and personalized support.

EdTech Week 5 PTT Integrating technology to reach the standard: Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

"Tackk is a place connect with friends, be creative and have fun conversations." Based on what I learned from my short time of playing on Tackk's website, I have found it to be an interesting way to allow students to be engaged in their learning. One big use that comes to mind for me would be an online study guide. In history courses this could be particularly useful. You can add videos, maps, images, text, etc that the students can look over and review at their own pace.

Over 300 project-based learning ideas in history, geography, civics, and government organized by grade level.

This article shows a study done with English learning students using multimedia education. It emphasizes the importance of multimedia in the context of learning language.

TeachWithMovies.org offers a collection of lesson plans and curriculum materials using movies to inspire, inform and motivate your students. There are subject-specific sections for English, Social Studies, Sciences, and Other Subjects (which include Math, Health, Music, and numerous other subjects). These subject areas are often broken down into sub-categories (for example, Social Sciences is broke down into US History, World History, and Civics).

This website used several scholarly journals to study the debate of hard copy vs. soft copy note taking. They conducted an experiment with college students over their preference of methods.

The Robo- Penguins (robot penguin) used to study the life of Emperor penguins.

The dozens of excellent assets presented here are organized into seven well structured categories, as follows: What is Blended Learning? Site visits and Case Studies Digital Systems and Digital Content Staffing Cost Hardware and Infrastructure Blended Learning Blogs

This website is an easy way to create flash cards. Students can upload their cards so other students can use them. It would be a good activity to start a new lesson with you could get the students each to define a few words and upload it to the class file that way it would be available for all.

This is one of the websites from week 7's Blendspace stations. Virtual Filed Trips!

Great resource for social studies teachers! Virtual field trips to anywhere in the world.

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

I chose this website because it is a study done by the University of Nigeria to see the effects of learning on a smart board and on a chalk board. The Study showed students learned better with a smart board.

I chose this resource because how technology helps with classroom collaboration. How it flattens the walls of the classroom. It also talks about how students grow with classroom collaboration. Then it has a few videos describing specific case studies with teachers and classroom collaboration.

A study on the similarities and differences between heterosexual, two parent households and different- and same-sex two parent families. An article to help teachers learn about these subjects more extensively to better understand their students' situations.

This article gives great insight into the benefits and reasons to implement social media sites such as twitter, instagram, and Facebook into the classroom. It discusses the use of hashtags on these sites and how they can be supportive and aid in class-wide study groups.