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WHAT WORKS IN EDUCATION The George Lucas Educational Foundation

WHAT WORKS IN EDUCATION The George Lucas Educational Foundation

This resource gives a list of 20 skills that educators should have and resources to help you learn. After the initial list, the article shares different tutorials for each skill. This would be an extremely helpful resource for teachers who don't know how to do something like work spreadsheets.

Inform yourself about curriculum strategies and classroom management for students with different learning needs. We have resources on everything you need to know about teaching special needs students effectively.

Beneficial website that has tips and ideas for teachers as well as lesson plans and printable worksheets.

This website has 4 ways Kindergarten teachers can use iPads in the classroom. I choose this resource because I knew a couple students in Ed Tech are wanting to teach kindergarten. I thought it would be a good resource for them to get ideas.

List of different online resources for every type of learning and a description of what they do

List of different online resources for every type of learning and a description of what they do

I believe this site is a good resource, because it gives students and teachers a list of technology resources that can be used for note-taking. 

This article goes a little more into detail as to why we as teachers should know how to properly collect and save resources.

Pearson gives great detail as to why teachers should use virtual field trips which falls into the category of educational websites or resources used in the classroom. Not only does this help the teacher collect their resources but it also helps him or her save the sources and share with others in a creative fashion.

This Website is a great resource when looking for lesson plans swayed to a certain topic or grade level.

This website is just like "Pintrest" but instead of pinning pictures you bagging different online resources.

Another webpage where you can search for resources based on a particular topic

This is a nice blended learning tool kit, with listings of free Courseware, free Online Texts, and free Video Resources, followed by a section offering tools for 'remixing'.

This web site offers tools and resources for blended learning, grouped into five functional sub-menus: Process, Model Courses, Effective Practices, Evaluation Resources, and a Faculty Development section

This Website is great for teachers. It provides teachers with lesson plans, Common Core material, IPad resources, technology tools, and online art.

Livebinders is a great place for teachers and students to organize their research and attach the corresponding resources. It is just like a binder with tabs. Tabs within tabs can also be created. These binders can be shared among fellow professionals and others as well.

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.

This is a site that has a lot of resources for both teachers and students.

Nine days ago I published Beyond Google, an ebooklet designed to help teachers and students improve their Internet search results. What that ebooklet didn't include was resources for evaluating the quality of the websites that you find through Internet search engines.

Bag The Web is a great place to collect and organize resources into "bags." Students and teachers can collaborate and share resources. They can search and organize resources for assignments and have the option to embed them into a site.

This is a social bookmarking tool that is set up like Pinterest. Great way to organize and find new ideas.