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There are several reasons why you, as a teacher and educator, should be using Twitter. First , it is free , easy to use and have a user friendly interface which allows you to keep updated of the latest about whoever you are following.

This is the official website page for the ISTE standards. It gives information about the standards.

This page contains the ISTE standards for students. This can help you know what you are looking for when assessing your students.

ISTE Standards for students

Integrating technology into a high school classroom isn't a one-step process. "You can't just slap a netbook [computer] on top of a textbook and say, 'Great, now we have technology," says Bob Wise, former governor of West Virginia and president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, an advocacy organization.

This is a good place to start to get you thinking about what you need to do for integrating technology in a classroom.

This website shows many articles that are kid-friendly to learn more about nature and science. It helps students to explore by including videos and photos.

This is one of the websites from week 7's Blendspace stations.

A great collection of resources to help you teach the upcoming election cycle, and get your students excited about our democracy! Students get experience with the process of passing a bill.

This was found by her favorite student, who is awesome and what not

Project-Based Learning

I feel that this is a great resource for Project Based Learning because Edutopia does a wonderful job of explaining what PBL is, how it came about, and how successful PBL can be in the classroom.

Edutopia is a great site in general and provides an abundance of valid sources the teacher can use to educate themselves on PBL.

This government site provides information on the CIPA law and its applications to schools. "The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) was enacted by Congress in 2000 to address concerns about children's access to obscene or harmful content over the Internet."

Are you looking for an elearning solution for teaching your staff about procedures and more, Metacompliance is your solution to business to business elearning.

This website has lots of information about assessments. It is specifically focused on how students learn and how we can adapt to that.

This website gives you ways on how to assess students' learning and performance.

Digital Footprints matter

Article that explains what makes up a digital footprint.

This page tells you about your digital footprint and why you should be aware of what you post and search on the internet.

S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource for educators that promises to make a significant contribution to enhancing the teaching of information literacy skills to students in K-16. The project is currently in its final stage of development in which S.O.S. is being expanded for use by high school and college level educators.S.O.S. for Information Literacy will link lesson plans and teaching ideas to related real-world multimedia examples of excellence in teaching, especially focusing on collaborative efforts between classroom teachers and library media specialists in K-12. There are useful lesson plans, powerpoint, handouts, web pages, and activities for your students to learn about information literacy, plagiarism, and digital citizenship.

S.O.S is a site for helping to teach literacy in the classroom.

I chose this resource because it talk about six tools that help with teacher-parent communication. Being able to communicate with your students parents is a very important factor and it explains that and how to improve it. It discusses six different apps that are used in different ways and gives alternatives to the one he describes.

Common Sense Education provides a list of various tools that teachers can use to communicate with parents, whether they want to communicate via social media, use remind alerts, or start something like a class website.

This website provides a Bring Your Own Device toolkit full of files about BYOD classrooms and schools.

Remind, formerly Remind101, is a communication tool that helps teachers reach students and parents where they are.

Remind, formerly Remind101, is a communication tool that helps teachers reach students and parents where they are. This is a great resource and alternative to personal texting or emailing parents with information. It is a way to text parents without giving out your phone number.

Teachers can send important reminders and updates with this app to students and teachers through text.

Weebly is a website creator. Teachers can use this site in order to make their teacher website or to make a classroom website. With the teacher site, teachers can show schools, students, parents, and other teachers what kind of teacher that they are. For the class website the teacher can post information about what is happening in classroom for parents to see.

This breaks down The copyright and fair use guidelines for teachers. The chart is easy to understand and explains exactly what teachers are allowed to do.