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Great tutorial to a great app. This app can be used as an agenda/calendar, or your very own schedule. This app also introduces a very organized way to take notes electronically.

A powerpoint from EETC (Early Education and Technology for Children) describing instruction for teachers to intergrade technology using differentiation. This takes you step by step through the process the teacher should take to use differentiating instruction.

A great power point presentation of examples on how to make sure when you integrate technology you differentiate as well

Jamshed Lam takes a look at technology in the classroom and the law that kick started it forward.

Class pager is another text service that as a teacher you can send group messages to the class. It can also be used to take polls or exit tickets in class. It is a handy resource

This a great resource that takes the experiences of the people who have tried using different technology in their classrooms and presents them in a concise question answer format.

This website is about how a teacher used iMovie in a classroom. She mentions movies being expensive, so she brought the movies to her classroom. She would take things off of youtube and trim them to make the perfect video fro her classroom. 

Video projects teach students to plan, organize, write, communicate, collaborate, and analyze. In fact, video has become so prolific that some colleges even include video submissions as part of the…

This would be a good site to use because it breaks down the steps students need to take in order to make a film. It also gives great ideas for sites that they can share on and how to go about doing so. It also gives examples of what some of these videos may look like. 

Your students are creating fantastic projects to show what they know. You can take their learning, and your ability to assess their achievement, to an even higher level using digital portfolios. Portfolios have long been a mainstay in the visual arts, where skill and expertise cannot be accurately represented by percentage points and letter grades.

This is a fun game that the class loved! This website made it super easy for us to take attendance.

DreamBox combines a highly personalized math learning experience with a rigorous curriculum for deep understanding of math concepts, so students learn to solve real-world math problems. Results are driven by: Intelligent Adaptive Learning™ technology that differentiates content, pace, and lesson sequence in real-time A rigorous K-8 math curriculum aligned to CCSS, TEKS, SOL, WNCP, and Ontario Curriculum A highly motivating learning environment that encourages students to persist and progress Take a look at our K-8 math curriculum

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.)

Creating compelling home videos takes practice, and we've put some tips together to get you started. They'll help you record more watchable movies that you and your family can enjoy for years to come. Our shooting tips fall into two categories - honing your technique for engaging movies and general suggestions for improving your shots.

Click to view Nothing brings out the camcorders like the holidays, which is why this is the perfect time to admit an ugly truth: You suck at making home movies. No, really. I'm sure you're a nice person and all, but there's more to videography than just taking the camcorder out of the box and pressing Record.

Apple has come a long way since introducing video recording with the iPhone 3Gs. The newest iPhones can shoot stunning 4K footage, but if you just pull your iPhone out of your pocket and hit record, you won't take full advantage of everything this powerful camera can do.

This is an infographic displaying the benefits of using a chromebook in classrooms.

This resource helps educators learn how to take a whole-community approach to empowering students to think critically, behave safely, and participate responsibly.

Get beyond ticket out the door and freshen up your formative assessment approaches with these strategies.

Get beyond ticket out the door and freshen up your formative assessment approaches with these strategies.

Get beyond ticket out the door and freshen up your formative assessment approaches with these strategies.