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This website gives 7 benefits and reasoning to technology integration in education. They are technology makes teaching easier, technology helps us track student's progress, educational technology is good for the environment, students enjoy learning with technology, technology makes distance learning more accessible, students and teachers can access information at any time, and technology makes collaboration more effective.

This is another source that discuss the benefits of integrating technology in the classroom. The reason I chose to use this site is because it says one benefit to integrating technology is that students now love learning because of it. This benefit is one of my favorites and is why I chose this source.

This website has another great list of technology integration resources, including lesson planning resources, general ed tech resources, and resources for writing technology grants. I chose this website because I think it is a great list of resources to look back on when I am a teacher to help me with technology integration.

This website provides resources that help with the integration of technology into the classroom. It list links with descriptions about the definition of technology integration, grants for technology, and even types of technologies that can be used.

BrainPOP is an interactive website where students can learn information about all subject areas taught in school through videos and games. The information conveyed in the lessons could give students a new perspective about content they are learning or challenge students who understand the content to apply it in new ways. The website includes videos, games, assignments, and quizzes for teachers to implement in their classroom.

A website for kids that focuses on all core topics. This website has games and videos and interactive activities to aid learning.

Twitter has proven itself to be an indispensable tool for educators around the globe. Whatever skill level you may be, Twitter is downright fun and worth your time. So here's a useful guide that we curated from Edudemic's archives in an effort to put something together that was a bit easier to read than random blog posts.

Do you have what it takes to graduate from the Webonauts Internet Academy?

The Webonauts Internet Academy game teaches kids about key issues of web safety and good citizenship. They get to go through training learning the rights and wrongs of digital behavior.

The Webonauts Internet Academy teaches kids about key issues of web safety and good citizenship. It offers information on cyberbullying, and activities to enlighten parents and teachers on how to keep children Internet safe.

This website covers an array of technology that can be used in the classroom for communication. It focuses on what parents actually want to see on these sites and how they can be most effective in the classroom.

It is a great information website for those who struggle with today's integrated technology. This website displays classroom information and ways a parent can be more involved with their student's curriculum.

This site provides teachers a variety of tools and suggests elements to include in a classroom website. Some of these suggestions include blogs, wikis, Google sites, and many more. This website also presents ideas of what parents want to see.

"Educreations is a community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don't. Our software turns any iPad or web browser into a recordable, interactive whiteboard, making it easy for teachers and experts to create engaging video lessons and share them on the web. Students can replay these lessons any time, any place, on any connected device. We're on a mission to dramatically improve student achievement by extending the reach of great teaching." You are able to create videos where you can teach your lessons and draw like it is a white board.

Educreations is a community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don't. Can be used when assessing a student or create one for a sub to show when you are absent.

This app allows you to create your own things and then share with others!

Great website that is easy for students and teachers to use.

Here are a few video production apps to use in the classroom! 

This website compiled a list of apps perfect for creating videos in the classroom!

by TeachThought Staff In education, perhaps one of the least utilized talents of iOS hardware is creating exceptional video. While it's not uncommon for teachers and students to use iPads to create videos, creating stunning videos that are compelling, well-produced, innovative, truly social, and/or something worth sharing with the world isn't so easy.

This site is awesome! It discusses how to teach digital citizenship and offers integration ideas for all subject areas. In addition, it offers curriculum ideas for teachers, while providing activities for students as well.

This is a good lesson plan for teaching Digital Citizenship to students.