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A mobile-capable virtual tour of the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum. This website is great to be able to go look at different things around the US or the world. Especially if a school district doesn't have a lot of money or if it isn't realistic to be able to travel to a certain destination. It will useful to use this tool when learning certain topics.

This activity allows the user to measure angles and explore the concept of "scale" as it pertains to maps, images, and drawings. The scale feature allows the user to define a scale and then using that scale, measure distances or areas on a selected image.

"Ipads in the Classroom" pages 18-20 This article includes the benefits and the disadvantages of ipad use in the classroom. It mentions how ipads help students with adhd and applies the use of these technological tools into different classroom settings, varying on subject and education level.

This website gives resources for teachers to assess their students' content knowledge in a technological way. Assessment of the instruction of content is essential for a teacher. These resources make assessment interesting and show results in a very visual way. This instruction benefits teachers as they get to realize what their students have actually learned. Often students do not want to show that they do not understand the content, these resources give students a chance to share their voice.

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.)

Has step-by-step instructions and storyboarding tips on how to make a storyboard for videos. A storyboard is a tool for sketching out how a video will unfold, shot by shot. It looks like a comic strip.

A brief demonstration video over the website Edmodo. It explains all of the tools teachers and students can use on the website ranging from videos, links, notes, and grades.

Every day, teachers are responsible for maintaining numerous logins, passwords, data, and other private information about their students. With so many tools,

Class websites can be a central hub of online activity for your class. With all the digital content and great web tools available, there's so much you can do. This will show us how we can incorporate more technology into the classroom.

This video is a quick intro to Blendspace, but gives a great overview of what this technology tool can do.

I choose this resource for this chapter because I wanted to provide people with an alternative way to conduct formative assessments. These type of assessments provide feedback right away and actively engage the students. Since these assessments are web based, they can be conducted with any type of smart device.

This site includes a review and test of Weebly, our tech tool of the week. It has a chart that gives direct commentary on different aspects of Weebly sites. It is very helpful it you are trying to compare different blogs to use.

Website Tooltester.Com reviews and informs the reader of all the advantages and disadvantages of websites, particularly Weebly.

Weebly is a powerful tool that allows you to easily create your own website. This series of online training tutorials will present you with the basics of how to sign up for a Weebly account, create your own website, publish that site, and even optimize it so that the major search engines like Bing®, Google™, and Yahoo!™ will stand the best chance of finding it. Because of Weebly's use of drag and drop elements, even novice users will be able to create impressive looking websites!

Classroom Apps Find educational apps for iPads, Chromebooks, Androids and Laptops but first start with a learning objective in mind.

This is a great resource for all teachers to find educational apps for every subject. It is simple to access. Simply use the tools provided to find the best Classroom Apps for your students. All Classroom Apps are recommended for teachers, by teachers!

Use the tool below to find the best Classroom Apps for your students.This is a great activity to start a lesson on technology use.

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

Video about how to search topics on the web using certain tools and words. Chapter 6: Finding & Evaluating Resources

Thinking Blocks provides interactive templates in which students use brightly colored blocks to model and solve problems. As students work through the problems they are provided with feedback as to whether or not they are using the correct sequence to solve each problem. There are templates and problems for addition, multiplication, fractions, and ratios. You can also develop your own problems using the modeling tool.

Great article about using mobile devices in the classroom

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.