2. The Khan Academy app is a really cool place to find extra resources in order to better explain and understand a lesson. It has a ton of videos and explanations of different topics.
This can be used on a desktop computer or found in the app store. It allows students to create mind maps, storyboards or basic outlines of an assignment.
I chose this resource because it guides you step by step through the process of building your PLN. it even discusses how Twitter can be used in developing a PLN.
The main reason I chose this site as another resource is I liked how it gave a chart showing the difference between using technology and technology integration. For someone like me who was struggling to still see this difference, it really helped with the concrete idea that they are different.
Helps shows steps while your working with the infographic and what to add.\
1.) Determine your auidence
2.) Make your research
3.) Choose color palette
4.) Focus on structure
5.) Fill in blanks, compelling data
6.) Integrate and make designs
7.) Add sources to bottom
8.) Share it with students
This website gives examples of the various things that parents want out of a classroom website. it also provides more examples of classroom websites for a guideline of how successful ones operate. This is beneficial to this lesson because it is important to remember that parents are active components of the classroom and they deserve to be kept in the loop and involved in the day-to-day activities of the class. This website provides ideas and evidence to promote a classroom community involving all parties.
This website is a great resource to use if a teacher wants to add a fun quiz about herself to her website as a link. it is free, easy to use, and easy to access. We think students would enjoy doing this when they go to her website and it would add a unique way for her kids to get to know her.
You know the hardest thing about teaching with project-based learning? Explaining it to someone. it seems to me that whenever I asked someone the definition of PBL, the description was always so complicated that my eyes would begin to glaze over immediately.
This website gives 7 benefits and reasoning to technology integration in education. They are technology makes teaching easier, technology helps us track student's progress, educational technology is good for the environment, students enjoy learning with technology, technology makes distance learning more accessible, students and teachers can access information at any time, and technology makes collaboration more effective.
This is another source that discuss the benefits of integrating technology in the classroom. The reason I chose to use this site is because it says one benefit to integrating technology is that students now love learning because of it. This benefit is one of my favorites and is why I chose this source.
This is a blog post from someone who coaches project based learning teachers. It can help everyone working on their own project based learning creation skills as well as help teachers coach fellow teachers on incorporating such an important learning tool into their classrooms.
This app can be found in the Apple Store and it allows you to create a video with many tools. Tools provided are text, picture uploading, pictographs, doodling, voice recording and much more. I found this to be easier to use than other options and great for kids!
This is a website that is used for quizzes, discussion, and surveying the class. I think this is a fun way to use competition to get students motivated.
This is a video of deconstructing the common core standards. While i know that we are using the ISTE-S in class, many of my classmates will go on to use the CCSS in their careers so I thought it would be useful for them to practice and learn deconstructing standards using Common Core.
This website shows teachers how to implement iPads into their classroom. The website is set up like a blog where the writer posts different uses for iPads. Such as, different apps for different needs, theme based apps, how to use Ipads in a variety of settings, etc.