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My Big Campus makes it easy to engage students, develop lessons, track and improve academic progress, connect with a learning community, go paperless, and lots more. My Big Campus is a Learning Management System that extends the classroom to a safe and engaging online environment, balancing educational use of Web technologies with network and student safety.

My Big Campus is a Learning Management System that extends the classroom to a safe and engaging online environment, balancing educational use of Web technologies with network and student safety.

Are you looking for standards-aligned electronic learning resources to help your students? Here, you can find free Educational Resources, reviews of Online Courses, and commercial Electronic Learning Resources. I chose this resource for chapter 8 because on this site you can browse resources by subject area and grade level and read summaries and reviews by educators. This website is helpful when finding and evaluating software applications for a classroom.

This article is about how much more efficient classrooms could be if they all used learning management systems. Although many teachers are afraid that an lms would be too complex to handle, the article argues that it will make a teachers life easier in the long run to take advantage of this technology. During week 7, we will be talking about these systems in class.

This article is about how much more efficient classrooms could be if they all used learning management systems. Although many teachers are afraid that an lms would be too complex to handle, the article argues that it will make a teachers life easier in the long run to take advantage of this technology. During week 7, we will be talking about these systems in class.

Welcome to our professional learning series on building a PLN. This series guides you step by step through the process of setting up your own PLN. The aim of this first step is to: Explain what is a PLN. Help you understand why educators create their own PLN.

Welcome to our professional learning series on building a PLN. This series guides you step by step through the process of setting up your own PLN. It's great for people who still need to delve deeper into what a PLN actually is.

This is a very information-rich site that further introduces the PLN and delves into several different avenues a teacher can take in developing their PLN, with one avenue explored being Twitter. I particularly found the Step 6: Curation page to be intriguing. This page introduces curation, the strategic collection and compilation of knowledge and media found online, and demonstrates how it can be a valuable tool for educators engaged in expanding and sharing their constant learning and teaching journeys (See the video towards the middle of the page where a teacher shows his netvibes and scoopit accounts, and the very complex ways in which teachers can organize and share knowledge from these information collection/filtering tools. VERY valuable for our fast-paced and information-heavy time.)

Great educators never stop learning. Discover and share new ways to collaborate, network, grow, and vent with fellow educators in person and online.

This is an app with great educational games for kids.

This is a social network that allows educators and professionals to connect with their colleagues to collaborate ideas and eventually form their own professional learning communities.

This Ed Tech Online textbook is a great resource when learning about differentiating instruction. My peer teaching group used this source to obtain all of our necessary knowledge on our topic of differentiating instruction.

Gooru is an online source that gives standards for different learning styles and allows teachers all over the world to connect with one another. Teachers can share ideas and lessons.

This is a short and sweet little overview of what a digital footprint is (aimed at younger children). This is helpful with teaching digital citizenship since students need to learn that everything they do online is permanent and is basically public.

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!

The Canvas LMS & iPad app allows students and teachers to participate in a blended or online course through unique and powerful ways. This is more specific for edtech teachers.

For every correct answer you choose, 10 grains of rice are raised to help end world hunger through the World Food Programme.This is a awesome website for your students to use while they are sitting around finished with homework. There are many subjects ranging from math problems to SAT preparation.

As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy. Our filter bubble causes Google and other search engines to limit our searches by personalizing them. Personalized filters look at what you click on first which will throw off the balance of the information you receive. This filter bubble is important to understand so you know when search engines are personlizing your searches so that you can learn how to balance your searches.

This website consists of exciting and informational reading games that will help make learning fun.

Gadgets & Games The Virginia Department of Education is phasing in the second wave of a pilot program that uses Apple's iPad tablet computers as the centerpiece of a social studies curriculum that blends online and face-to-face learning.

Tripline.net is a website that is a virtual fieldtrip website. Children are able to view resources outside of the classroom while in the classroom. Purposegames.com is a website that allows students to play games to learn. They can use these websites outside of class as well as in class. Mathforum.org is a website that allows students to learn math better and get a better understanding online. They can use this at home as well as in school.