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This article lists the top 10 content curation tools for teachers. It includes valuable resources for organizing and utilizing resources that supports this week's lessons. This article is valuable for exploring other curation tools.

This is a great resource for teacher's utilizing a one-to-one classroom environment. It gives great tips on how to structure your classroom and keep classroom management.

This is a great website that describes how to survive in a one computer classroom. It gives examples of how classroom management is with one computer and gives great activities to do to utilize the technology given to you!

We can also utilize sites like these that provide technology for specific learning environments.

This website answers why we need to have a teaching portfolio and ways we can utilize them.

"Cult of Pedagogy" is a website and a place for teachers to unite and explore ideas together through a blog, podcast, and posts. The main page goes into detail about what Project Based Learning entails. This website uses the analogy "project based learning, the content is baked inside of a long-term project, a real-world problem students need to solve in a creative and authentic way. In the process of solving the problem, students also meet required standards, but this work is integrated into the project, not separate from it". This is a key component in understanding PBL because it is more than just solving a basic math problem. The really cool thing about this website is that it connects the viewer to a podcast called "Cult of Pedagogy". Teacher's can listen to this broadcast to get ideas about teaching and PBL. There is also a tab for teaching materials. The materials included are e-book template, google drive basics, and icebreakers that all educators can utilize when implementing Project Based Learning into their classroom. Overall, this is a great tool created by an educator for all.

I found this site interesting for me (Aaron Awesome Funkhouser) as a history/education major, this website uses historical information through technology.

I found this site interesting for me (Aaron Awesome Funkhouser) as a history/education major, this website uses historical information through technology.

With this ed tech guide, teachers will find easy ways to use technology in the classroom.

This is a great article on 12 ways to use technology in the classroom

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This website explores the different options that Blendspace has for teachers to utilize in their lessons. It is a good overview of all that the website has to offer.

This gives such a great insight about what Blendspace can really do for students and teachers within the classroom.

I chose this because it gives an overview of Blendspace while also giving ideas of what you can use it with.

This website is a rubric creator for teachers. You can utilize this site for creating rubrics in your classroom.

Bill Gates explains where technology is, and how it can be utilized better in the classroom.

These evaluation questions will help you provide better instruction by organizing and utilizing ipads in a classroom setting.

This resourced filled website is helpful for teachers of all types. It is geared primarily towards locating information/resources, and then how to incorporate them in your classroom. Particularly, it allows for a simple search of various focused topics. For example, visitors can use the website to search lesson plans by subject, as well as post their own lesson plans, watch videos regarding using educational technology, and more. This website falls under the finding information section of week 6, because we (as teachers) can utilize it to locate resources we may need for class.

Great free tool for manipulating pdf files!

Importance of Tech Edu for teachers

This site has different apps that can be utilized in the classroom as well as certain apps that can be used strictly for the school, such as a School PA system. These apps are competitive games that involve every subject and allow teachers to edit the questions or games based on the content being taught in the classroom that week. The apps range in prices from $1.99-$10.99. Effective, fun, and helps cut down on expensive costs.

Editor's Note: The following is a guest post written by Shyam Oza, a senior product manager at AvePoint working directly with global organizations - many of which are in the Fortune 500 - on crafting new deployment strategies utilizing hybrid and cloud environments with Microsoft technologies.