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Learn how to take notes the right way. Here are some of the most effective tips for becoming a digital note-taking pro.

Learn how to take notes the right way. Here are some of the most effective tips for becoming a digital note-taking pro.

This site is helpful because it is a woman explaining how using "I can" statements helped her better understand standards and deconstruct them easier.

This post is very similar to Dr. Stansberry's instructions on deconstructing standards, and provides a good framework for breaking down what the standards mean and how to implement them. 

Educators use frequent formative assessments to determine the needs of each student. This video is a good example of how we can use formative assessment that is talked about in week 5 in the textbook. Toby also has taught us about differentiation in classrooms.

Educators use frequent formative assessments to determine the needs of each student. This video is a good example of how we can use formative assessment that is talked about in week 5 in the textbook. Toby also has taught us about differentiation in classrooms.

Introduction how to teach spelling I must confess that this page on teaching spelling is a little bit of a misnomer. It's actually more of a page about learning to spell more efficiently. More about that in just a few moments. I think I know what you might be thinking--"A page about spelling?

This resource is good for helping middle school and high school students with citations.

This site is here to help students learn how to not plagarize and site different sources so that proper credit is given.

I could use this in my classroom and show my students how to correctly cite resources. 

This article is about how 21st century children learn, which is with technology. It says that it is important that teachers are up to date with the students in their classrooms so they can better reach them. It says technology can be used for creation and design, discovery and exploration, it shifts the roles from the teachers to the students, and it gives the students and authentic audience.

This website shows how in today's day and age students need educators to re-envision the role of technology in the classroom for them.

A tutorial describing how to put LiveText to use.

This video shows how School 21 incorporates the arts into Project Based Learning lessons, and how these lessons enhance student learning.

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.

Articles, lessons, and classroom examples to help you get started with project-based learning. This website is perfect for someone just starting out with PBL. It shows teachers what it should look like, gives examples, and shows how to introduce it to their classroom.

Free Technology lesson plan for grades K to 5. This is a great website to find free lesson plans that you can find grade specific content. I choose to use a lesson that was for K-5 and explained how technology works.

Weebly is a powerful tool that allows you to easily create your own website. This series of online training tutorials will present you with the basics of how to sign up for a Weebly account, create your own website, publish that site, and even optimize it so that the major search engines like Bing®, Google™, and Yahoo!™ will stand the best chance of finding it. Because of Weebly's use of drag and drop elements, even novice users will be able to create impressive looking websites!

Edutopia's Betty Ray on how to get started using Twitter to expand your personal learning network.

Using Twitter to expand your personal learning network.

These are the questions that you need to ask yourself when selecting an internet source. Not all things found on the internet are true (GASP!). It's important to know that your source is accurate and reliable when using it in any educational setting.

This website provides tips and tricks for evaluating web sites. Because you cannot trust everything on the internet, it is important for students to understand how to evaluate whether the web site is credible. 

I chose this site as a resource for chapter 8 because it is a great tool to use to incorporate technology in the classroom. I also really like it because you can use it on multiple devices (laptop, tablet, phone) and it's free.

To learn how to incorporate games into the classroom, we used Candy Crush and allowed students to play it in the classroom.

In this website related to evaluating resources, teachers can find tips/ideas on how to teach students to validate information and sources. Educators can offer this URL to students, and the learners can analyze what is required in authenticating information they find. For instance, the dimensions of critical analysis (relevance, accuracy, bias/perspective, and reliability) are clearly defined and explained. The teacher can then model examples of each dimension for children. Along with this and much more, questions to consider before using a source in your papers, etc. are identified.

I love this website because it's like a huge, online how-to guide on how to implement the use of iPads in your classroom. It has ideas for every age level and games that follow Bloom's Taxonomy.

This website contains many things centered around iPad use in the classroom. It has a list of K-12 iPad apps. It also has several ways for teachers to evaluate apps based on different criteria to see if the app is classroom worthy.

This site has many useful tips for how to maximize the use of your computer in a one computer classroom.

This is a great tool for ideas in teaching in a one computer classroom. It has many ideas on using it as a teacher, in groups, using as a learning station, etc. It helps give ideas on how to get the most out of a one computer classroom.

This is a great website for ideas when it come to one computer classrooms. There are described ways for it there is only a teacher computer or if there is a teacher computer and one computer for the students to use.

This is a website to help prevent cyberbullying. There are a variety of helpful tools such as information about how to be responsible on social media. There are training opportunities to help stop cyberbullying. There are many other helpful tools that might be useful for teachers and parents.