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This page is a great example of a mastery level online classroom. Mrs. Marka uses this classroom webpage to post assignments, study guides, upcoming events, pictures of past events, quizzes, and links to other useful pages. She even created a login where a student can login into his/her personal account to view graded assignments. You can also send an email straight to Mrs. Marka if you have questions on an assignment, grade, or upcoming event.

A resource for math questions of all types.

An educational website that supports the exchange of info between students and adults outside of school.

Apples* pdf giving questions to ask oneself while finding the correct app for your students in the classroom. Also, where to find apps and determine educational apps from game apps.

Description of using apps in the classroom. Learning to integrate apps in the classroom based on learning experience.

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. 

This helps students and teachers to develop information literacy skills so they can become competent finders, evaluators, and users if information mastering the art of curating.

Explore this site for any questions you may have about teaching in Oklahoma. Learn about Oklahoma's Dept of Education, from careers to community.

This site will help to answer some questions you may have about Oklahoma's A-F grading system.

These evaluation questions will help you provide better instruction by organizing and utilizing ipads in a classroom setting.

I think that this is a good example of a classroom website that is not only educational for the students but it was made with a lot of thought and creativity.

This page gives good advice and brings up some important thoughts for evaluating the accuracy and dependability of web searches.

Mashpedia fetches contents from different online sources in real-time, and aggregates everything in a user-friendly interface, presenting an organized outlook for every topic that includes: Information from Wikipedia, recent news, books, videos, images, social answers, twitter messages and related Facebook pages - all related to the topic in question.

A high profile suicide case in which a 12 year old girl killed herself because of a gang of girls that continually harassed her online, even after switching schools several times.

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.

This is a fairly simpler resource for evaluating information you uncover. The following is an example of this: the website includes the "5 W's" one should consider when validating a resource. These W's are who? What? When? Where? and why? Since this approach to questioning a source is obviously easier to understand and explain, it could be used for lower level classes to educate the kids on what to do BEFORE they use information or a source.

Testmoz is a test generator that sports 4 question types, automatic grading, a really simple interface and detailed reports. Testmoz is free, and does not require you (or your students) to register. You can build a fully functional test in about a minute, so why don't you give it a try and generate a test?

This is one of the websites from week 7's Blendspace stations.

Mr. Marcinek's blog is ranked in the top 10 educational blogs of 2013. Mr. Marcinek is focused on explaining and stressing the importance of technology integration into classrooms while making sure that his readers understand the balance between technology and face-to-face learning. Edutopie.org is a great tool for teachers to use so that they can remind students and parents of upcoming events, and successfully communicate and answer questions outside of school.

This page helps explain why the most "popular" search sites are not always the most valid. Validity needs to be questioned when looking at a source.