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This article gives great insight into the benefits and reasons to implement social media sites such as twitter, instagram, and Facebook into the classroom. It discusses the use of hashtags on these sites and how they can be supportive and aid in class-wide study groups.

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.

Educators and students are quickly becoming more comfortable with classroom technology, allowing them to shift from thinking about the technical side of integrating a new tool to focusing on how it improves learning. While the sheer number of education apps is still overwhelming, increasingly teachers have found what works for them and are sticking to them.

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.

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

Reading Rockets is a reliable, applicable resource for teachers to use in their classroom and lesson planning. We have found that this website also contains valuable information pertaining to the many benefits of parents being involved and a part of the classroom community. It shows the positive effect a relationship and communication with a teacher has on the parents, the student, and the teacher. This website will add a lot of important information to our lesson and the people we are trying to reach.

Why it is useful to use an iPad in the classroom

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

Many educators are intrigued by the use of educational technology in their classrooms and with their students. They want to move past the productivity stage to the point of truly enhancing their own teaching and their students' learning through educational tools.

This is a fun video that gives an example of various catapults that exists and they can be in all different sizes and can be a really dun activity to be involved with.

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.

This website gives 7 benefits and reasoning to technology integration in education. They are technology makes teaching easier, technology helps us track student's progress, educational technology is good for the environment, students enjoy learning with technology, technology makes distance learning more accessible, students and teachers can access information at any time, and technology makes collaboration more effective.

This is another source that discuss the benefits of integrating technology in the classroom. The reason I chose to use this site is because it says one benefit to integrating technology is that students now love learning because of it. This benefit is one of my favorites and is why I chose this source.

Good resource to understand how schools are graded on an A-F scale.