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This is an interactive, online whiteboard where you can plan and draw webs and timelines and whatever you can think of. You can also insert videos, documents, photos, and lots of other things. You can put notes and post-its and, best of all, you can invite other people to be on the board with you and edit together!! As a teacher this could be very handy and posting a link to it on your classroom website will enable you to work with your students at home!

A brief demonstration video over the website Edmodo. It explains all of the tools teachers and students can use on the website ranging from videos, links, notes, and grades.

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.

This App is sooo cool!! Students take pictures of their work, save their notes, etc and it uploads to their digital portfolio!

The #1 task management app used by over 11 million people globally, Any.do is free mobile and online task manager for Android, iPhone, Web and more. This is an easy way to share tasks with others, while also making quick to do lists. Educators can use this tool to organize ideas, and make quick notes.

Educators from around the country share their favorite educational apps.Most of the apps are free. The ones that are not free have the price listed. This website is great because it places the apps into specific groups (bibliography, note taking, storytelling, etc.) This allows you an efficient way to find something specific.

Great tutorial to a great app. This app can be used as an agenda/calendar, or your very own schedule. This app also introduces a very organized way to take notes electronically.

This app allows teachers to organize things such as their notes, attendance, behavior of students and much more. Al of this information can be easily shared with parents via email.

X-ray Goggles is another great tool that Mozilla makes to help students learn the code that powers much of what they see on the Web. X-ray Goggles is a free tool that lets you remix any page that you find on the Internet. (Note, it doesn't change the way others see the page, it only changes the way that you see it). To use X-ray Goggles you need to install it in your Chrome or Firefox bookmarks bar. Then you can launch it on any webpage. When you launch X-ray Goggles you will be able to select images and text on a page and then shown the code behind your selection. X-ray Goggles will let you then alter the code to display new things on that page. Watch my video here to learn how to use X-ray Goggles.

An example of what a blog dedicated to your classroom would look like. Note the different pages that she used.

Padlet is another way to collaborate with students or parents who want to quickly and easily post something for anyone to access. There is an option to post anonymously. It's a great tool for feedback or questions/concerns or even a way for parents and students to talk to one another.

This is an infographic displaying the benefits of using a chromebook in classrooms.

Get beyond ticket out the door and freshen up your formative assessment approaches with these strategies.

Get beyond ticket out the door and freshen up your formative assessment approaches with these strategies.

Get beyond ticket out the door and freshen up your formative assessment approaches with these strategies.

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

Editor's Note: The following is a guest post written by Shyam Oza, a senior product manager at AvePoint working directly with global organizations - many of which are in the Fortune 500 - on crafting new deployment strategies utilizing hybrid and cloud environments with Microsoft technologies.

Integrating technology into a high school classroom isn't a one-step process. "You can't just slap a netbook [computer] on top of a textbook and say, 'Great, now we have technology," says Bob Wise, former governor of West Virginia and president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, an advocacy organization.

This is a good place to start to get you thinking about what you need to do for integrating technology in a classroom.

A study on the similarities and differences between heterosexual, two parent households and different- and same-sex two parent families. An article to help teachers learn about these subjects more extensively to better understand their students' situations.