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"mother of all search engines." Searches all places including social media and job postings

According to the textbook, this is a great source to use to "bundle" all of one lessor, or a whole course into one, easy to use site. By using My Big Campus, you are using Web-Based Learning Management Systems (LMS) to incorporate student management tools into your daily learning.

A Learning Management Systems is a wonderful tool that gives you access to class information at your fingertips! The features include: syllabi, teaching materials, quizzes, tests, survey, email, discussion forums, automatic grade book and drop box, just to name a few. Most school districts provide an LMS but if not, My Big Campus is a good resource.

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.

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This article discusses the role of student characteristics in project based learning. It talks about the findings of research that conclude on the effectiveness of project based learning.

Many of these sites allow students to communicate with one another online. As educators we must teach our students the proper and appropriate way to communicate online. This resource has tips on things students should avoid when communicating with one another online.

Another awesome site to make info graphs.

To help teachers create a infograph relating various topics or idea to a common theme.

Another website to create amazing infographics.

19 awesome examples of integrating technology into the classroom.

This web site has a wonderful list of ideas of what you can do with different technologies in the class room..

Project-Based Learning

I feel that this is a great resource for Project Based Learning because Edutopia does a wonderful job of explaining what PBL is, how it came about, and how successful PBL can be in the classroom.

Edutopia is a great site in general and provides an abundance of valid sources the teacher can use to educate themselves on PBL.

This government site provides information on the CIPA law and its applications to schools. "The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) was enacted by Congress in 2000 to address concerns about children's access to obscene or harmful content over the Internet."

This government site provides an annotated list of links to teachers which provide digital citizenship education resources.

This government site has free resources for teaching digital citizenship. You can order free education booklets and other materials for your whole school. Make sure you scan these materials before giving them directly to students, especially at the elementary level. Some materials contain mature content and should be delivered directly to parents, perhaps during conferences. "The Net Cetera online toolkit offers free resources to help you teach people in your community about kids' online safety. Regardless of your experience as a speaker - or your expertise in online safety - this kit has the resources and information you need to convey key points about protecting kids online."

Useful list of platforms for teachers to create there own website and blog.

This Website provides the viewer with websites that provide platforms to create a classroom website and blog. Weebly and Google sites, listed on the website, suggests these may be the best resources for a teacher searching for innovative resources to use in the classroom.

This site offers simplified, easy to understand examples/explanations of several digital citizenship elements we are focusing on. It also provides some good resources and graphics regarding the topic for teachers.

English teacher and instructional technology coach Brianna Crowley offers practical advice on creating professional learning networks built on intersecting layers of relationships. I chose this article because it showed step by step what we need to do to build those connections.

This site provides information on how to create your own Professional Learning Network including how to get started, how to find other professionals, and how to use it to communicate effectively. It is great to join PLNs but it's great to learn how to create one!

I chose this resource because it gives a brief explanation of what a PLN is. Then it give three specific steps on how to build your PLN and goes into detail about each step.

This site let's you assign differentiated reading materials to students in your class.

A website tool used for adjusting reading levels for all students in general. Teacher can assign a reading assignments from an article or news on any website and attach an external link to Newsela. Students then can choose their preferred reading level such as advanced to beginner as students can read an article comfortably.

Here you can find 5 great step-by-step ways to effectively integrate digital citizenship into a classroom lesson. This site is a great resource for teachers wondering how to implement the elements as a lesson in their class.

Teachers would be able to look over these integrating options to merge their classroom into being a technological enviorment.

This is an important article because it gives teachers real life examples of how to integrate digital citizenship into the classroom.

Recently, I was asked why do I use Diigo for my social bookmarking tool. The more I thought about it the more I needed to write about all the great features Diigo is not just for regular ol' users but has some great features for educators too.

Another great site for educators looking into the benefits to what Diigo is able to do in the classroom for your students learning and the educators within your teaching community.

Serious-thought-provoking online games and business strategies simulate activity for high school teens and college students.