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Educating students about Internet safety can be difficult, especially with constantly changing technologies and classroom time constraints. These resources can help.

This resource shows a few ways parents who have time can get involved in the classroom. As a teacher, you can post opportunities like these to keep parents up to date on what they can become involved in as a parent

If creating a personal Google search engine is too time consuming, here are seven student-friendly search engines. Chapter 6: Finding & Evaluating Resources

Kid friendly search engines are important when you want to filter what your student or child is able to see.

give teachers the opportunity to download apps that are free for a limited time.This works best with 1:1 and your own device. Used for teachers to download apps on each students personal device provided by the school.

A high profile suicide case in which a 12 year old girl killed herself because of a gang of girls that continually harassed her online, even after switching schools several times.

There are many different times of assessments, and different questions come with each one. This infographic helps explain the different forms of assessments and breaks it down step by step so it is easy to follow. Week 5 talks about different forms of assessments and this will be a good tool to use during our peer team teaching.

Digital portfolios provide a distillation of an individual's best work, typically generated over a year or a longer period of time. Most digital portfolios contain a broad range of information

These interactive, real-time collaboration tools make designers' work easier - wherever you are in the world.

This website offers the times of the week when teachers can join in on twitter chats that are relevant to the teachers specific grade or subject they teach.

This is a great list of a wide variety of Twitter chats to check out!

This is a really cool real time website called Africam. Africam brings you live video feeds from the African bush with audio and night vision 24/7. Watch wild African animals in their natural habitat including lions, elephants, giraffes and leopards. .

Completing class projects can be fun for your students, especially if they know exactly what is needed. Creating guidelines can be time-consuming though, so we've made a way for you to do it in no time! To make a project checklist for your students, first choose the grade level for the type of project you want your students to do.

Tons of "best of" lists

Social media is quickly invading the classroom but only time will tell if for better or worse. This website examines whether social media can foster inappropriate teacher-student relationships and what to watch out for in your own classroom.

In today's technological times, teachers need to have a professional and useful website to aid both students and parents. This website offers a comparative view of various website builders with teachers in mind.

How to manage using laptops and iPads in the classroom for teachers. Information on time management, physical space, etc.

This article talks about the difference in making projects and project based learning.

This article talks about the difference in making projects and project based learning.

This website explores the difference between projects and project based learning. Projects can represent a range of tasks that can be done at home or in the classroom that, quickly or over time. Project Based Learning according to this website features project and focuses on how learning and the product itself. This website contains a tab for information, but it also has a tab for parents which is different compared to other websites explored. It also features a tab for teacher development talking about a conference for teachers to help with PBL.

The ChronoZoom curriculum (ZIP, 21MB) is supported by the National Council for the Social Studies, Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and the National Council for History Education. ChronoZoom is an online tool that shows how time is both horizontal and vertical, meaning that multiple events are taking place at the same time in different places, impacting one another.

To help educators save time, we've chosen these 10 virtual field trips based on their relevancy, depth and quality of resources, and potential for student excitement.

This site allows you to formatively assess all of your students at the same time. You can look and see what all of your students are doing and assess them.

A website that creates formative assessments that you can monitor in real time

A website tool that teachers can use to assess students.