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This blog explains the different uses for an app called ClassDojo. This app is a tool for classroom management and student behavior assessment.

This site is full of tools to help teachers implement the common core standards into their lesson plans.

The #1 task management app used by over 11 million people globally, Any.do is free mobile and online task manager for Android, iPhone, Web and more. This is an easy way to share tasks with others, while also making quick to do lists. Educators can use this tool to organize ideas, and make quick notes.

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.

For future reference: How to conduct a SUCCESSFUL Twitterchat. In case you forget or need a little more convincing on why a Twitterchat is a good tool for you and your students.

Infographics blog covering infographics, data visualization and visual thinking. Charts and graphs communicate data, infographics turn data into information.

This site is a great online tool to create informal formative assessments

Weebly is the tech tool of the week. We will use it to make a classroom website. This is a how-to video that should help if you get stuck.

We decided to include this resource because it tied in with the idea of collaboration tools presented in this weeks reading. This is a tool for using Skype in the classroom developed by teachers. Two classrooms Skype in with each other and attempt to figure out where the other class is from. It involves collaboration with teachers from across the nation and across the world. It has cross-curriculum aspects as well and can help engage students in multiple subject areas

This is a good resource because it has ideas for video production and even has instructions for which websites to use for video production

Great learning/memory tool

Evaluated apps that help teach design thinking (and are great fun!)

This research toolkit provides a collection of sources, tools, and information that you can use to produce a research study.

This article contains various Apps to use as resources in the classroom. I thought this was another engaging way to integrate technology into a lesson or instruction. The link has links to the different apps and provides descriptions of them.

This website gives you apps and descriptions for each one. It shows what it is, who would love it, why it's good, and why it's relevant.

10 Reasons to Use Multimedia in the Classroom By: Barbara Schroeder By incorporating multimedia in their instruction, teachers can capture attention, engage learners, explain difficult concepts, inspire creativity, and have fun. However, there are many tools available and many ways to use those tools.

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.

Remind, formerly Remind101, is a communication tool that helps teachers reach students and parents where they are.

Remind, formerly Remind101, is a communication tool that helps teachers reach students and parents where they are. This is a great resource and alternative to personal texting or emailing parents with information. It is a way to text parents without giving out your phone number.

Teachers can send important reminders and updates with this app to students and teachers through text.