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Awesome way to explain what a tweet is and how teachers can use it for education!

This is a good site to learn how to use twitter for educational purposes. It explains how social networking and microblogging platform works.

Students often ask how to determine which websites and articles are good sources to cite. My answer is always, "Well, what do you think?" Students need to be able to think on their own. So, if your...

Students often ask how to determine which websites and articles are good sources to cite. My answer is always, "Well, what do you think?" Students need to be able to think on their own. So, if your...

A great resource for teachers who are stumped on how to integrate technology into their existing classroom. Includes how to get started as well as ideas like, "if you have an interactive whiteboard", "if you have computers in your classroom", etc.

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Integrating Technology in the classroom with some examples on what to use for the technology available.

Provides statistics for why graphic visuals can be useful in a classroom and how the human brain responds to pictures.

A detailed tutorial on how to create an infographic for the classroom. The website also includes ideas for using Piktochart for homework assignments, lessons, comparison charts, etc.

Learning specific skills doesnt have as much value in today's world. Learning how to be more creative prepares students for life beyond the classroom!

This article explains why creativity is so important in the classroom and how it helps students even after they graduate. This article provides us with 5 ideas to bring creativity into the classroom.

This article explains why creativity is so important in the classroom and how it helps students even after they graduate. This article provides us with 5 ideas to bring creativity into the classroom.

I chose this webpage for personal instruction. I was concerned about how, as a pre-service elementary teacher, I could incorporate this into my future classroom. This page highlights how I could go about doing that.

This website shows teachers how to use Blendspace within the classroom, focusing specifically on elementary age teachers and lessons. Two different boards are taught: curriculum-based and recreational-based lesson boards

This website has lots of information about assessments. It is specifically focused on how students learn and how we can adapt to that.

This website gives you ways on how to assess students' learning and performance.

Students may be unfamiliar with how IMovie works and this link provides simple and helpful advice for the people to follow

The use of personal portfolios for assessment and presentation long has been a component of higher education. In fact, personal portfolios are a graduation requirement at many colleges and universities. Now, electronic portfolios have begun to enter the world of K-12 education as well.-Mary Daniels Brown with Education World. This website builds on our learning and use of digital portfolios for ourselves to show how to use them with our students. We will learn how to do our own, and can then help our students in the future.

This is an article on a website written by a teacher describing how she learned to teacher her students better about literature, specially American Literature. Se also discusses different books that are most helpful.

Another great Twitter resource for educators.This is a special guide full of tips, tutorials, and ways other teachers are using Twitter. Click on any title to access the article. If you are still struggling to find ideas on how to use this social networking site with your students then you don`t need to go any further, the guide below is more than enough for you.

This site will teach you how to correctly and efficiently use Twitter in your classroom with tips, tutorials, and ways other teachers are using Twitter.

This is a webpage with guidelines for the best ways to use twitter in your classroom. It gives plenty of great ideas on how to use twitter to better enhance your teaching ability.

I chose this website from the chapter because I think it is important for parents to know how to teach their children to be smart with their cellphones and it might also help parents learn how to be smart with their own cell phones.

Do we remember to include cell phone safety when discussing digital citizenship? Great Website for educating students on proper smart phone usage using games and interactives.

This website helps kids get connected through their cell phones, and how to be safe using their cell phones.

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.

This resource includes both a slideshow and two video explaining how to determine credibility of sources.

Ways and ideas to prevent plagiarism in your classroom. Teaching students, especially those that are young, not to plagiarize is in important. Some ideas of how to avoid having to deal with plagiarism in the classroom are provided.

This is a video over how to build a professional learning network using twitter. This is what we have been working on in class and it's important to know how to build these connections over twitter.

Separated into 2 lists of 10 items each that detail how to use PLNs and how to build them, respectively.

This video is a quick introduction to Wikis. It explains their purpose and how they can be used. It uses teachers planning a camping trip as an example of how it can be used.