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Explains more about Wiki's and why teachers should use them to communicate with parents.

This is a great tool to help guide teachers in instructing how to prevent cyber bullying. The website includes lesson ideas for teachers of all grade levels, presentations for students, and additional resources for the parents and families.

We think that these areas of the Digizen site will be of particular use and interest to you. Look for the digizen guide on each page - they are colour coded to show if the content is useful for teachers, parents and/or kids. Happy browsing!

This site has many resources for teachers, parents, and even students so that they can learn more about digital citizenship and what that looks like in their lives.

This website gives examples of the various things that parents want out of a classroom website. It also provides more examples of classroom websites for a guideline of how successful ones operate. This is beneficial to this lesson because it is important to remember that parents are active components of the classroom and they deserve to be kept in the loop and involved in the day-to-day activities of the class. This website provides ideas and evidence to promote a classroom community involving all parties.

Building on the best of existing state standards, the Common Core State Standards provide clear and consistent learning goals to help prepare students for college, career, and life. The standards clearly demonstrate what students are expected to learn at each grade level, so that every parent and teacher can understand and support their learning.

Building on the best of existing state standards, the Common Core State Standards provide clear and consistent learning goals to help prepare students for college, career, and life. The standards clearly demonstrate what students are expected to learn at each grade level, so that every parent and teacher can understand and support their learning.

We could use this link to dig deeper into what common core standards are. It could also be used to look up specific standards in different states.

Weebly makes it surprisingly easy to create a high-quality website, blog or online store. Over 40 million people use Weebly to bring their unique ideas to life. This can be used to make a teacher website for parents and students to access for information that will be helpful for the class as well as to get to know you as a teacher.

This kid-friendly search engine has many features that are helpful to kids, teens, teachers, and parents.  There are popular topics to choose from, concentrated topics based on content, and a search bar that can be specialized to kids, teens, and newspapers & magazines.

How parenting has changed since the marriage equality decision was made by the US Supreme Court

I chose this site because it's an extensive article regarding how the marriage equality decision affects LGBT parenting. It's a full article from a peer reviewed journal from a search I performed using the OSU-Tulsa Library site. It's for teachers to learn more regarding how to understand these different families.

This website addresses the extent of the research done to determine a teacher's reason for deciding to use educational websites as resources in the classroom.

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.

I found this particular twitter page very resourceful to early childhood education teachers. Ms. Graboski, the owner of this page, likes to share teaching ideas on this page and post pictures of her students learning through fun games and activities. This is great place where parents can tune in and see what their children are working on in class.

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Kikutext is a service that makes it easy for teachers to communicate with parents using text messaging, so students perform better.

Smithsonian Education's Idealabs Summer spirit is still in the air but it's getting closer to "that time of year" when students and parents prepare for 'Back to School' fun. Check out Smithsonian Education's Idealabs, a great online resource for student's families and educators online!

This social bookmarking website is great for teachers because it has numerous different ways for parents and educators to find the most educational tools for your student. They have iPad apps, learning websites, and activities for students to participate in to make learning more focused on that child.

This is a website to help prevent cyberbullying. There are a variety of helpful tools such as information about how to be responsible on social media. There are training opportunities to help stop cyberbullying. There are many other helpful tools that might be useful for teachers and parents.

Although it is always safe to limit use of social media and stay leery of using it too much, especially when involved with a classroom, this website gives an overview of popular platforms that teachers can use to keep in touch with parents.

I chose this site because it's from the Williams Institute at UCLA. It's a full article from a reliable source. It's for teachers to learn more regarding how to understand these different families.