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This professional learning network enables collaboration and discussion amongst colleagues about new ideas regarding Web 2.0.

Students use games, manipulatives, and computers to learn the advantages of using Boolean terms when searching the Web. The site will help you create a lesson to teach your students over boolean logic. With hand-ons and interactive activities, students will be able to understand the concept of Boolean Logic for when they search the internet.

Class websites can be a central hub of online activity for your class. With all the digital content and great web tools available, there's so much you can do. This will show us how we can incorporate more technology into the classroom.

Ten Steps to Better Web Research, helps us to find quality information

This page gives good advice and brings up some important thoughts for evaluating the accuracy and dependability of web searches.

I chose this resource to go along with Chapter 7- web resources for Teaching and Learning because it gives articles on how to use different tools throughout various educational settings.

Search engines are used to find information on the Web. Without them, it would be virtually impossible to locate anything without knowing the URL. Information

This is an interactive, online whiteboard where you can plan and draw webs and timelines and whatever you can think of. You can also insert videos, documents, photos, and lots of other things. You can put notes and post-its and, best of all, you can invite other people to be on the board with you and edit together!! As a teacher this could be very handy and posting a link to it on your classroom website will enable you to work with your students at home!

Students need to know how to find and curate information from the web. Learning how to effectively search for information on the Internet is something that teachers are not teaching their students how to do because they assume their students know how to conduct an effective search. Provided in this link is searching skills and vocabulary that will help teachers teach their kids how to effectively search.

As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy. Our filter bubble causes Google and other search engines to limit our searches by personalizing them. Personalized filters look at what you click on first which will throw off the balance of the information you receive. This filter bubble is important to understand so you know when search engines are personlizing your searches so that you can learn how to balance your searches.

Create great social posts/graphics, web stories and animated videos!

This website is a good resource for websites to try and maybe use in a classroom someday.

One of my friends spent this past weekend working with her 2nd grade daughter on a research project. While her daughter flew through the arts and crafts portion and was able to handwrite the "sloppy copy" of her presentation, she... Read More ›

One of my friends spent this past weekend working with her 2nd grade daughter on a research project. While her daughter flew through the arts and crafts portion and was able to handwrite the "sloppy copy" of her presentation, she... Read More ›

SweetSearch is A Search Engine for Students. It searches only credible Web sites approved by Internet research experts. This one is neat as it has subject specific searches within Sweet Search. It also has a content area that allows students to explore on their own, ways to safely search the internet.

This would be a good "safe" search engine for students to use

A reliable search engine

Students use Internet search engines and Web analysis checklists to evaluate online resources then write annotations that explain how and why the resources will be valuable to the class.

Readwritethink gives an additional lesson plan and ideas on how to teach students to evaluate the internet resources they may want to use.

This website is a lesson plan that I can use in my future classroom on how to teach my students how to evaluate websites.

List of different online resources for every type of learning and a description of what they do

List of different online resources for every type of learning and a description of what they do

Activities and how to manage a one computer classroom. Also includes websites of where to these activities.

This resource is a web-based learning management system.Which allows you to be organize and connect with your students. It's just like D2L.