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Professional development and networking are vital in any field, and that's especially true for educators. Whether it's coming up with fresh ideas for lesson plans and classroom activities, seeking mentorship and support from veteran educators, or cultivating resources for technology integration or for meeting state standards, teachers need one another's expertise.

Common Sense Media editors help you choose Apps for Elementary School. Great educational apps for grade-school kids.

Google for Educators, shows how teachers and students can be inspired, inventive, and organized using Google software. Because most schools use different types of computers using Google is more in the cloud. Good for technology or business courses.

This is a great resource for free or almost free learning tools for the classroom. It is split into different grade levels to make it easier for teachers to search.

This is great for teachers who are looking to transform their lessons with more technology and digital media. It can often be intimidating or confusing for teachers but these tips will make it easier.

Recently, I was asked why do I use Diigo for my social bookmarking tool. The more I thought about it the more I needed to write about all the great features Diigo is not just for regular ol' users but has some great features for educators too.

Another great site for educators looking into the benefits to what Diigo is able to do in the classroom for your students learning and the educators within your teaching community.

This website provides multiple apps for teachers to use. The apps provided on this website support Bloom's Revised Taxonomy, which is also explained on this website. Browse this website for fun and educational apps to better the technology in your classroom!

Includes all the Bloomin' versions in one place! I chose this resource for chapter 8 because it contains rubrics and guidelines for educational apps. These rubrics will be a useful tool to refer to when trying to decide if an app should be used in the classroom.

This a good resource to look for apps and websites based on Bloom's Taxonomy. It separates the apps based on levels of learning from surface to deeper learning.

This site is great because it is very organized. It is separated by category which makes it very easy to find exactly what you are looking for.

The apps recognized as Best Apps for Teaching & Learning are of exceptional value to inquiry-based teaching and learning as embodied in the AASL's Standards for the 21st-Century Learner. The apps foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration and are user friendly to encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.

This website gives teachers a look at certain apps and they are categorized so that they are easy to find. They also have links to a website that shows you more about the apps.

This is an online tool for students with choices of way to learn. Students are allow to choose ways of learning and also to demonstrating what they did for their assignments. This online tool is meant to engage and accommodate for all students in general.

This website shows how to make a google search engine customized. This will be used in our lesson for online intelligence for more help and instructions for the students to make their own customized google search engine.

6 Easy Steps for Getting Started Using Free Plickers for Assessment. Data is an essential component in education, yet sometimes it can be viewed as a necessary evil for educators. In the past, a teacher may teach a lesson and require students to complete an exit ticket assessment activity to show mastery of the concept(s) reviewed over a certain time frame.

"Cult of Pedagogy" is a website and a place for teachers to unite and explore ideas together through a blog, podcast, and posts. The main page goes into detail about what Project Based Learning entails. This website uses the analogy "project based learning, the content is baked inside of a long-term project, a real-world problem students need to solve in a creative and authentic way. In the process of solving the problem, students also meet required standards, but this work is integrated into the project, not separate from it". This is a key component in understanding PBL because it is more than just solving a basic math problem. The really cool thing about this website is that it connects the viewer to a podcast called "Cult of Pedagogy". Teacher's can listen to this broadcast to get ideas about teaching and PBL. There is also a tab for teaching materials. The materials included are e-book template, google drive basics, and icebreakers that all educators can utilize when implementing Project Based Learning into their classroom. Overall, this is a great tool created by an educator for all.

I chose this resource because it talks about different plns than we learn about in the tech playground. Professional development and networking are vital in any field, and that's especially true for educators. Whether it's coming up with fresh ideas for lesson plans and classroom activities, seeking mentorship and support from veteran educators, or cultivating resources for technology integration or for meeting state standards, teachers need one another's expertise.

This website evaluates technology as a tool for equality. It features many different devices that can be used for students who are in the general classroom, but have some sort of IEP. When teaching, teachers should be aware of devices that can help students who may need extra help. Teachers can provide additional instruction for these students through many forms of low to high level of complicated technology.

Most educators recognize the need for digital citizenship, but many are at a loss for how to teach it. Here are some resources to help.

This is a great tool to help guide teachers in instructing how to prevent cyber bullying. The website includes lesson ideas for teachers of all grade levels, presentations for students, and additional resources for the parents and families.

Resource #5: I think this would be a great resource for an activity to do in the classroom. This resource provides the reader with rules to teach kids online etiquette. I think a fun activity to do with students is have them come up with a definition for what they think digital etiquette is and then together the class can form a poster for the classroom.