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This website gives examples of the various things that parents want out of a classroom website. It also provides more examples of classroom websites for a guideline of how successful ones operate. This is beneficial to this lesson because it is important to remember that parents are active components of the classroom and they deserve to be kept in the loop and involved in the day-to-day activities of the class. This website provides ideas and evidence to promote a classroom community involving all parties.

This website is a free video generator that will allow teachers to add pictures from their class to the website and create an engaging slide show of her students. We feel that parents will love this feature of her website and will give them insight of what happens in their child's classroom.

This website is a great resource to use if a teacher wants to add a fun quiz about herself to her website as a link. It is free, easy to use, and easy to access. We think students would enjoy doing this when they go to her website and it would add a unique way for her kids to get to know her.

Project Based Learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging and complex question, problem, or challenge. In Gold Standard PBL, Essential Project Design Elements include:

This website goes into detail about what Project Based Learning is. This is a great tool other than the textbook to get a complete grasp on the concept. Not only does it describe PBL as "a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging and complex question, problem, or challenge", but it also provides steps to follow when creating an engaging PBL assignment lesson plan. These steps include: Key Knowledge, Challenging Problem, Sustained Inquiry, Authenticity, Student Voice & Choice, Reflection, Critique & Revision, and Public Product. Following this list of steps and making sure the lesson plan provides all of these points will make for an engaging class. Another component this website contains is a blog for educators to post about the Project Based lessons they implemented in the classroom. I believe sharing ideas with other teachers is one of the most helpful ways to improve your own teaching because you receive feedback and encouragement to what you are doing well, and what can be changed for the benefit of the class.

Great web page that the NEA has put together with links to tutorials to show students on how to safely use the internet.

Why it is useful to use an iPad in the classroom

A list of links for project based learning ideas

Teaching with iPads in the classroom and children learning from iPads in the classroom.

This resource provides students with an interactive animated game that allows them to create a character based on themselves. Through a series of questions and explanations, this game prompts the student to question if their actions are those of a responsible digital citizen.

This article gives insight to why teachers should be using twitter in the classroom and the benefits this social networking website brings to your students and the content they are learning.

This is a funny attention grabber to introduce googling for students

This website explores digital literacy and media literacy and their underlying aspects and principles. It provides lesson plans and workshops for teachers looking to enhance their classroom's knowledge of digital citizenship.

"Gizoms" are hundreds of online simulations with lesson materials and supporting research-based strategies to build deep conceptual understanding in math and science. This can be used for all grades, and is awesome because it is very interactive and can simulate experiments you can't physically carry out in a classroom setting

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