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Tool to send out a link to interactive surveys

This was our first pick out of the resources. It's an education website that we used to find quality apps best for our students learning. Instead of it being just a general search engine we could put specifics in place to narrow our search.

This is a GREAT website for teachers of ALL ages. It provides lesson plans (PDF and online versions), interactive games, classroom posters, and numerous other teaching tools for teaching students about Digital Citizenship. It also has these tools for other topics like EdTech and Professional Development.

This website is a great source for teachers when they are thinking about creating a class website. It presents the benefits of a class website, along with suggestions of what the website should include. There are also links to various services that provide interactivity to the site.

Nearpod is an interactive classroom tool for teachers to engage students with interactive lessons

How Can Teachers Use It? Undoubtedly, Educreations is an excellent tool for creating and sharing multimedia lessons for you and your students. Teachers can invite students to lessons with a link they send to students via the app or with a code; email lessons; embed them within a blog or website; or share via Facebook, Twitter, or on the Educreations website.

A great app for teachers and students to create presentations

Online guided reading program with interactive ebooks, downloadable books, and reading quizzes.

Online guided reading program with interactive ebooks, downloadable books, and reading quizzes.

"Gizoms" are hundreds of online simulations with lesson materials and supporting research-based strategies to build deep conceptual understanding in math and science. This can be used for all grades, and is awesome because it is very interactive and can simulate experiments you can't physically carry out in a classroom setting

BrainPOP is an interactive website where students can learn information about all subject areas taught in school through videos and games. The information conveyed in the lessons could give students a new perspective about content they are learning or challenge students who understand the content to apply it in new ways. The website includes videos, games, assignments, and quizzes for teachers to implement in their classroom.

A website for kids that focuses on all core topics. This website has games and videos and interactive activities to aid learning.

interactive resource for history students and teachers

Histography is an impressive interactive timeline spanning today through the beginning of recorded history. The timeline is divided into fifteen categories including war, politics, discoveries, inventions, and art. To explore the timeline select one of the categories listed on the Histography website then adjust the timeline slider to see events from the range of dates that you've selected. After choosing a category and date range you can click on dots in the timeline to see pop-up boxes containing event titles, representative pictures, and a link to a Wikipedia page about the event.

this article addresses the many pros there are too gamification, but also stresses how real interaction must be integrated which is a great goint considering the direction classrooms are going.

Resource #3: This video is very important to show to young students in order to teach them all about digital etiquette. This is a brain pop video that is engaging for all viewers. It explains what digital etiquette is and why you should use it.

This fun and interactive BrainPop presentation is great to use in classrooms with younger students. It teachers students proper digital etiquette.

This is a great resource because it provides examples of digital storytelling in each content area.

We chose this website because it gives information about how to create digital stories to show to your class. We thought it was a different way to teach material that many teachers may not think to do. We thought that because it is not very common that when digital stories are shown to the class, they will be more interested in the material that is being taught.

Gives great ideas and examples for digital storytelling.

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.

Blendspace is a social bookmarking site. It can be used to find content and create lessons.

Blendspace allows educators to blend their classroom with digital content. Blendspace is a great way to bring all of the sources you have found to one place. It is an interactive tool that is easy to understand.

Blendspace allows educators to blend their classroom with digital content.

A site to connect you to many resources for virtual field trips. Some included resources enable students to have 360 degree views of cities and interactive museums.

Digital Literacy is an animated, interactive web site that teaches students about digital literacy, safe use of the internet and more.

I liked this app because it was an easy way for parents and teachers to interact. This app tracks students behavior and progress and allows parents to contact teachers and get an immediate response. Plus its free!

This is an interactive learning website that allows students from pre-K to 6th grade to enhance skills in all subject areas through the use of games. There are games for every content subject covered during these grades. The website allows teachers to supplement standard course work with games that engage students to practice the skills in a different manner.