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Moodle is a open-source Learning Platform. Moodle is used by millions of educators globally. One of the most popular Web-based learning systems on the web.

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.

Studies have proven that when implemented well, project-based learning (PBL) can increase retention of content and improve students' attitudes towards learning, among other benefits. This PBL research review explores the vast body of research on the topic and helps make sense of the results.

This article discusses what project based learning is. It also mentions learn outcomes and keys to project learning success.

Helpful for teachers who are beginners on trying to make a classroom website. Great reasons why teachers school make a website for parents/students.

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 resource lists ways in which to engage students with technology for writing. She used weekly blogs to engage her students in writing. The technology presented a real audience for their writing. These blogs helped improve the students writing and engaged them with technology.

This is the official website page for the ISTE standards. It gives information about the standards.

This page contains the ISTE standards for students. This can help you know what you are looking for when assessing your students.

ISTE Standards for students

A running record is a tool that helps teachers to identify patterns in student reading behaviors. These patterns allow a teacher to see the strategies a student uses to make meaning of individual words and texts as a whole. Running records, when paired with comprehension inquiry, can be used to identify an instructional reading level for individual students.

Another awesome site to make info graphs.

To help teachers create a infograph relating various topics or idea to a common theme.

Another website to create amazing infographics.

This website shows many articles that are kid-friendly to learn more about nature and science. It helps students to explore by including videos and photos.

This website discusses what exactly is technology integration and gives examples as well.

Technology integration is the use of technology resources -- computers, mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, digital cameras, social media platforms and networks, software applications, the Internet, etc. -- in daily classroom practices, and in the management of a school.

A wonderful website for examples, activities to help you learn to integrate tech into the classroom!

This website helps students learn their alphabet, letters, and animals.

A great collection of resources to help you teach the upcoming election cycle, and get your students excited about our democracy! Students get experience with the process of passing a bill.

This was found by her favorite student, who is awesome and what not

This government site has free resources for teaching digital citizenship. You can order free education booklets and other materials for your whole school. Make sure you scan these materials before giving them directly to students, especially at the elementary level. Some materials contain mature content and should be delivered directly to parents, perhaps during conferences. "The Net Cetera online toolkit offers free resources to help you teach people in your community about kids' online safety. Regardless of your experience as a speaker - or your expertise in online safety - this kit has the resources and information you need to convey key points about protecting kids online."

This is a useful tutorial for Windows Movie Maker. This tool could be helpful for both teachers and students.

How to create and edit a video using windows.

How to add a video to youtube.

This resource is super helpful when searching for scholarly articles. It is an awesome tool when looking for true information.

Great website that shows you accurate information.

I chose this resource because it talk about six tools that help with teacher-parent communication. Being able to communicate with your students parents is a very important factor and it explains that and how to improve it. It discusses six different apps that are used in different ways and gives alternatives to the one he describes.

Common Sense Education provides a list of various tools that teachers can use to communicate with parents, whether they want to communicate via social media, use remind alerts, or start something like a class website.

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.