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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.

6th and 7th grade free math worksheets and quizzes on roman numerals measurements, percent caluclations, algebra, pre algebra, Geometry, Square root. This is a math website that can be used for middle school. It has worksheets and games that can be incorporated into the classroom.

This is a direct link to create a custom search engine through Google.

A site that teachers can use to make custom search engines for their classrooms.  These search engines can be as broad or specific as the teacher chooses. The tutorial video is very helpful to get you started!

This is a great resource because it provides examples of digital storytelling in each content area.

We chose this website because it gives information about how to create digital stories to show to your class. We thought it was a different way to teach material that many teachers may not think to do. We thought that because it is not very common that when digital stories are shown to the class, they will be more interested in the material that is being taught.

Gives great ideas and examples for digital storytelling.

Integrating new technologies into the music classroom can be difficult because students usually do not have desks, just seats and music. But there are many different apps that can be used to create a greater learning environment.

Tineye is a free tool that helps you conduct reverse image searches. In a reverse image search you're searching for the places where an image has been posted online. Conducting a reverse can be a good way for students to discover information about an object or location featured in a picture. As demonstrated above, when the image is located through Tineye students can click through to the source to see how the image was used and what was written about the image. Performing a reverse image search can provide students with a good lesson on digital footprints. Have them conduct a reverse image search for images they have posted online and then count the number of places where that image has appeared.

StudentGuide is filled with several useful resources for new teachers. It gives examples for teachers from grades K-12. We felt this cite was relevant because we are all going to be new teachers and the examples that the cite gives are simple, yet useful and engaging.

I chose this because it appeared to be a helpful source to make an infograph for freeeeee

Pinterest can be used as a guide for your creative ideas as you plan your lessons. By simply searching for words such as educational technology and lesson planning you can get a plethora of ideas regarding those areas.

I thought that this site was unique and a cool way to make presentations! I would definitely be engaged as a student!

There are several articles which spell out the benefits of PBL and the different ways PBL can be done within a classroom. Students and teachers can look at these and benefit from the articles.

This site has testimonials which gives great feedback for teachers to help them decide if PBL will be effective in their classroom. It has examples of different PBL's as well.

Virtual Field trips are a fun and inexpensive way to explore a different place of the world! Whether is be going back in time, outer space, or visiting the wonder microscopic world! It provides many of the same benefits as a real life field trip would.

This poster is great for older kids. It pathways how they are not being a good digital citizen.

Welcome to the Carnegie Cyber Academy, the most prestigious cyber defense training facility in the world. At the Academy, we train our cadets in online safety so that they can protect themselves and others from the attacks of malicious Cyber Villains. The Internet is a growing part of our daily lives. It is my hope that future generations will be able to continue exploring Cyberspace in a safe and secure way.

I liked this website because it was simple to use, and I felt like it would be a really useful tool for keeping me organized when I am a teacher! I especially liked that you could keep track of where you are using differentiated learning, and keep track of standards.

Like so many websites, this one gives a list of pros and cons for the Mobile Laptop Lab.It shows success stories about how there have been multiple success stories about how they have implemented this into their curriculum and it being successful.

I think this would be a good read for a teacher wanting to be creative. Further reading to go with pt1!