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Educators can tap into a web-based ecology and learn 24-7.

S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource for educators that promises to make a significant contribution to enhancing the teaching of information literacy skills to students in K-16. The project is currently in its final stage of development in which S.O.S. is being expanded for use by high school and college level educators.S.O.S. for Information Literacy will link lesson plans and teaching ideas to related real-world multimedia examples of excellence in teaching, especially focusing on collaborative efforts between classroom teachers and library media specialists in K-12. There are useful lesson plans, powerpoint, handouts, web pages, and activities for your students to learn about information literacy, plagiarism, and digital citizenship.

S.O.S is a site for helping to teach literacy in the classroom.

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.

These are a few helpful tips in which ISTE provides to us on teaching digital citizenship within the classroom.

This webpage list the things ISTE suggests you teach your students.

This article further explains how to keep up with the importance of digital citizenships in the ever changing tech world.

This site is an Open Education Resource that lets you explore different historical artifacts. You can look up almost any historical artifact to look at or read.

This article shares the benefits that technology can have when used correctly. This would be a good article for teachers who are on the fence about incorporating a lot of technology in their teaching practices. Knowing how technology benefits your students and classroom will allow teachers to use technology more effectively.

This website explains how important technology has become in the world, and how we need to incorporate it more in our 21st century classrooms.

This website gives more information essential elements of project based learning and also provides additional resources as well.

General, Guest Video is creeping into the education world slowly but surely. In fact, 94 percent of teachers have effectively used video in the classroom during the course of one school year, according to a study by Educational Support Systems. Video can be useful in a number of lessons and classroom settings, and is especially beneficial in reading.

This is a very popular and engaging network for teachers. Eye-catching graphics, hashtags, and pictures share what it means to be a teacher working towards developing a better world. Teachers in this community enthusiastically share their experiences, concerns, and visions, and seem to want to connect to realize their full potential as educators.

I like this website because it is a great resource that makes history interesting for kids.

This article gives great insight into the benefits and reasons to implement social media sites such as twitter, instagram, and Facebook into the classroom. It discusses the use of hashtags on these sites and how they can be supportive and aid in class-wide study groups.

Do you suffer because you only have a single computer and want to bring more technology into the classroom? Well suffer no more after reading this informative article that will teach you how to make that single computer into a "super computer".

This resource gives examples of different activities for a one computer classroom and how to use them from other qualified teachers.

This website gives tips for teachers on how to incorporate technology in a one computer classroom. A lot of American schools today do not have the resources to finance ipads in the classroom. Therefore, teachers need resources such as this to make their content as effective as possible through technology.

Here are a few video production apps to use in the classroom! 

This website compiled a list of apps perfect for creating videos in the classroom!

by TeachThought Staff In education, perhaps one of the least utilized talents of iOS hardware is creating exceptional video. While it's not uncommon for teachers and students to use iPads to create videos, creating stunning videos that are compelling, well-produced, innovative, truly social, and/or something worth sharing with the world isn't so easy.