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Answers common questions about teachers using resources such as; What can educators use? How can they use it? Has some engaging videos to help teachers and students understand the subject

In K-12 education, it's a challenge to navigate the copyright and fair use waters. What can educators use? How can they use it? VideoAmy has collected some fun, engaging videos to help teachers and students understand the confusing subject. This website talks about copyright and fair use when you are using someone elses work.

In K-12 education, it's a challenge to navigate the copyright and fair use waters. What can educators use? How can they use it? VideoAmy has collected some fun, engaging videos to help teachers and students understand the confusing subject. This website talks about copyright and fair use when you are using someone elses work.

Project Based Learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging and complex question, problem, or challenge. In Gold Standard PBL, Essential Project Design Elements include:

This website goes into detail about what Project Based Learning is. This is a great tool other than the textbook to get a complete grasp on the concept. Not only does it describe PBL as "a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging and complex question, problem, or challenge", but it also provides steps to follow when creating an engaging PBL assignment lesson plan. These steps include: Key Knowledge, Challenging Problem, Sustained Inquiry, Authenticity, Student Voice & Choice, Reflection, Critique & Revision, and Public Product. Following this list of steps and making sure the lesson plan provides all of these points will make for an engaging class. Another component this website contains is a blog for educators to post about the Project Based lessons they implemented in the classroom. I believe sharing ideas with other teachers is one of the most helpful ways to improve your own teaching because you receive feedback and encouragement to what you are doing well, and what can be changed for the benefit of the class.

Using technology in the K-12 classroom has benefits for students and teachers alike. Find out how it engages active learners, facilitates collaboration, and helps teachers succeed.

This article gives 5 good reasons why technology should be used in a classroom, not only by teachers, but also by students. The 5 things are: engages students and creates active learners, encourages individual learning and active growth, facilitates peer evaluation, prepares students for the real world, and creates more engaged and successful teachers.

Think that integrating technology into the classroom will only distract students and marginalize educators? Think again. Since students are already interested and engaged in technology, teachers can harness that attention for educational purposes. Incorporating the internet, laptops, tablets and even smartphones into the curriculum has many benefits for teachers and students alike.

This website showed the advantages of teaching with technology, and how it engages students.

Explores how Project Based Learning is a dynamic classroom approach in which students explore real world problems through hands-on, engaging activities. This website provides evidence of PBL through videos. The video portion of this website is very helpful and connects to this chapter because it shows different activities that teacher's can use to engage their students. Not only are there videos, but there is also topics that organize the different types of lessons and activities making it organized and efficient to use. Lastly there is a blog where teachers can communicate with each other, exploring new ideas and topics.

If you're having a difficult time thinking up a video project that will engage students this list has got 20 ideas.

In my classroom, video usually equals instant engagement. Students like to record it - especially because many of them get to use their phones for school purposes. But they like to watch them even more, and if those videos are produced by their peers, the interest skyrockets.

This website provides a teacher with beneficial knowledge of what you need to do before you get started on a project based learning project

Seven Essentials for PBL. Great outline to how to make your PBL lesson great and keep students engaged!

Seven Essentials for PBL. Great outline to how to make your PBL lesson great and keep students engaged!

This website gives a list of 10 multi-subject project ideas that revolve around project based learning. I found this website useful because it is targeted for teachers that are looking for quick ideas to build off of. The projects are also engaging and useful for students.

This website gives a list of 10 multi-subject project ideas that revolve around project based learning. I found this website useful because it is targeted for teachers that are looking for quick ideas to build off of. The projects are also engaging and useful for students.

This resource lists ways in which to engage students with technology for writing. She used weekly blogs to engage her students in writing. The technology presented a real audience for their writing. These blogs helped improve the students writing and engaged them with technology.

My Big Campus makes it easy to engage students, develop lessons, track and improve academic progress, connect with a learning community, go paperless, and lots more. My Big Campus is a Learning Management System that extends the classroom to a safe and engaging online environment, balancing educational use of Web technologies with network and student safety.

My Big Campus is a Learning Management System that extends the classroom to a safe and engaging online environment, balancing educational use of Web technologies with network and student safety.

You can use Nearpod to create interactive powerpoints for your students.

very cool website!

Nearpod is a simple, interactive website to use in your classroom. On nearpod, teachers can make quizzes, polls, videos, etc in order to engage and assess their students.

Educreations is a community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don't. Our software turns any iPad or web browser into a recordable, interactive whiteboard, making it easy for teachers and experts to create engaging video lessons and share them on the web. Students can replay these lessons any time, any place, on any connected device. We're on a mission to dramatically improve student achievement by extending the reach of great teaching.

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 resource for chapter 7- Web Resources for Teaching and Learning, because it provides a "new" interactive method for teacher-student learning. This source provides information for everything you need to know to help engage both the teacher and the students more.

Socrative empowers you to engage and assess your students as learning happens.

You can use this tool to quickly make assessments for your class. The assessments are interactive and you can look at the data from your students after

"Tackk is a place connect with friends, be creative and have fun conversations." Based on what I learned from my short time of playing on Tackk's website, I have found it to be an interesting way to allow students to be engaged in their learning. One big use that comes to mind for me would be an online study guide. In history courses this could be particularly useful. You can add videos, maps, images, text, etc that the students can look over and review at their own pace.

Link to a PDF for a 10 day lesson plan to teach F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby". This website includes activities geared towards high school students that will get them engaged in this great American classic.

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

The coolest part of this website is the interactive textbook! It would help students become engaged, as well as having somewhere they can read text, if they aren't allowed to take their books home.

Apps can assess student progress and engage with interactive elements in a way that textbooks and traditional learning aids cannot.