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This website lists a variety of collaboration tools that can be benefitial in the schools. Some of these collaborations sites deal directly with documents, spaces, sticky notes, notebooks and walls, PDFs, and even graphs and charts. Check it out!

This website lists a variety of collaboration tools that can be beneficial in the schools. Some of these collaborations sites deal directly with documents, spaces, sticky notes, notebooks and walls, PDFs, and even graphs and charts. Check it out!

Common Sense Media improves the lives of kids and families by providing independent reviews, age ratings, & other information about all types of media. This site lets you choose which age group you want to learn about

Common Sense Media improves the lives of kids and families by providing independent reviews, age ratings, & other information about all types of media. This site lets you choose which age group you want to learn about

This is the actual manual for e-portfolios that is listed on the LiveText site. It may be helpful if the process seems overwhelming.

This is the actual manual for e-portfolios that is listed on the LiveText site. It may be helpful if the process seems overwhelming.

This search engine is good and blocks inappropriate information for kids. My only problem with this site is the refresh for the site is a little confusing but it is nice as a teacher watching students it gives an alert when students are trying to search things outside of the appropriate field.

I used this site to find the most suitable android apps.

I used this site to find the most suitable android apps.

You can shoot some great videos with your Android smartphone, but can you edit them? We review five apps that represent the best video editing options available on the platform today. I used this site to find the best editing apps for android.

You can shoot some great videos with your Android smartphone, but can you edit them? We review five apps that represent the best video editing options available on the platform today. I used this site to find the best editing apps for android.

As an edtech consultant, a common question is asked by teachers and school leaders these days; Which screencasting software is best? In this post I'm going to recommend the screencasting tool ... I used this site to find helpful screen casting software for teachers

As an edtech consultant, a common question is asked by teachers and school leaders these days; Which screencasting software is best? In this post I'm going to recommend the screencasting tool ... I used this site to find helpful screen casting software for teachers

CiteULike is a site used to not only find scholarly articles, but also to connect and collaborate with others who are researching the same topics. You can connect with other people who have related searches and can join groups about the topic that you are researching. You can create a library of your findings so that they are all in one place, so it is a good example of a social bookmarking site.

This website covers an array of technology that can be used in the classroom for communication. It focuses on what parents actually want to see on these sites and how they can be most effective in the classroom.

It is a great information website for those who struggle with today's integrated technology. This website displays classroom information and ways a parent can be more involved with their student's curriculum.

This site provides teachers a variety of tools and suggests elements to include in a classroom website. Some of these suggestions include blogs, wikis, Google sites, and many more. This website also presents ideas of what parents want to see.

This site shows the two assessment types for students - Formative and Summative

Differentiated assessment is an ongoing process of evaluation where the teacher gathers information and data before, during, and after instruction to better facilitate the learning. This website gives several examples that teachers can use for assessing.

I thought this was a nice resource for ideas to differentiate your assessments. One of the items for fair assessment was many different kinds of measures. This source provides you with a lot of good ideas as well as cool activities

Common Sense Graphite is a site by teachers, for teachers that helps you find the best educational technology resources and learn the best practices for implementing them in your classroom. Brought to you by Common Sense Media: Empowering kids to thrive in a world of media and technology. I chose this resource for chapter 8 because on this website you can browse educational resources by subject, grade level and skill. It then provides a list of tools, apps, websites and portfolios that meet the specific criteria searched. This site is helpful when searching for generic educational resources

This is a good site for connecting education and technology. It has options for you to choose rather you are a teacher or a student; they also have a teachers guide column.

Awesome way to explain what a tweet is and how teachers can use it for education!

This is a good site to learn how to use twitter for educational purposes. It explains how social networking and microblogging platform works.

This is a direct link to create a custom search engine through Google.

A site that teachers can use to make custom search engines for their classrooms.  These search engines can be as broad or specific as the teacher chooses. The tutorial video is very helpful to get you started!

I thought that this site was unique and a cool way to make presentations! I would definitely be engaged as a student!

Using mytechplayground, the online class textbook, both the teachers and the students can see what we will be discussing throughout the week as well as the project we will be doing.

Using mytechplayground, the online class textbook, both the teachers and the students can see what we will be discussing throughout the week as well as the project we will be doing.

This site has testimonials which gives great feedback for teachers to help them decide if PBL will be effective in their classroom. It has examples of different PBL's as well.

Youtube video ad for another social bookmarking site not listed in textbook.