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Common Sense Graphite is a site by teachers, for teachers that helps you find the best educational technology resources and learn the best practices for implementing them in your classroom. Brought to you by Common Sense Media: Empowering kids to thrive in a world of media and technology. I chose this resource for chapter 8 because on this website you can browse educational resources by subject, grade level and skill. it then provides a list of tools, apps, websites and portfolios that meet the specific criteria searched. This site is helpful when searching for generic educational resources

D-Day Overview: It is hard to conceive the epic scope of this decisive battle that foreshadowed the end of HItlers dream of Nazi domination. Overlord was the largest air, land, and sea operation undertaken before or since June 6, 1944. The landing included over 5,000 ships, 11,000 airplanes, and over 150,000 service men.

Blogging website built specifically for teachers. Teachers can create newsletters for parents and blogs for students specifically!

Edublogs is a free blogging network that lets students view posts by their teachers. It gives access to email, media, and other posts for the classroom availabilIty to expand beyond school hours.

Edublogs.org is not only a platform for teachers to create blogs that invite participation from students and parents, but is also an environment for teachers to learn from other teachers through blogging.

Integration of dance technologies in the classroom, there are a lot of different technologies that go into dance classrooms. From projectors, to microphones, to lighting, it has become a very important aspect of this classroom.

I chose this resource for chapter 7- Web Resources for Teaching and Learning, because it provides a "new" interactive method for teacher-student learning. This source provides information for everything you need to know to help engage both the teacher and the students more.

Socrative empowers you to engage and assess your students as learning happens.

You can use this tool to quickly make assessments for your class. The assessments are interactive and you can look at the data from your students after

Another good resource for making portfolios from the textbook. It shows the benefIts of going digItal wIth portfolios and integrating technology into them. There are also various examples.

Many educators require student portfolios because they are an ideal way to get students to reflect upon their learning.  To create portfolios, however, students must spend a lot of time managing th...

Many educators require student portfolios because they are an ideal way to get students to reflect upon their learning. Shows student why portfolios are going digital, and the benefits of them going digital.

Great way to learn how to use a PLN in education !

This is a ning site dedicated to the support of a Personal Learning Network for Educators. This website creates connections between professionals and provides many available resources.

This site is actually a PLN for educators to communicate information and includes numerous types of discussion.

Not to familiar with Twitter and what a Tweet is this link can help you understand it better.

To the Twitter-illiterate: The Anatomy of a Tweet. This infographic will clear things up for you right away so you can understand what you're looking at when you're reading a tweet.

Wordpress is a great place to blog and share. It is another opportunIty to communicate wIth parents and students in a collaborative way.

This demonstrates how using Blendspace is ideal for flipping the classroom. It reIterates how efficient blendspace lessons are in delivering instruction online outside of class.

Edutopia is one of my favourite educational web resources . Today while I was checking its Five Minute Film Festival page I came across a link that took me to their YouTube channel where I found a treasure trove of interesting videos on digital citizenship and because digital citizenship is one of the important themes in this blog, I decided to handpick some of the clips that grabbed my attention and share them with you below , you can also check the entire list here.

Effective communication is essential for building school-family partnerships. It constItutes the foundation for all other forms of family involvement in education.

This article explains some benefits of good parent-teacher relationships and gives some examples of ways to build this type of relationship. This would be good to look at when creating my own classroom.

Talk to a trusted adult about any information you receive or see online that makes you scared or uncomfortable.Secret Crush + Text Message = Big Trouble. Will Allie be able to stop the text message trail before it gets to Mike Chang?

This virtual field trip website allows students to explore a forest. During the "trip" students can learn about the environment of this forest and specific process that occur to keep it alive. This virtual field trip would be great to do on a SmartBoard where students can feel like they are in the forest themselves.

This is a great website to introduce internet safety in your classroom. it also provides lessons in internet safety to teachers, parents, teens, and adolescents.

This website allows students to write in a safe environment. Teachers can look at their progress and other students can look at their work.

Kidblog | Safe and simple blogs for your students. It also lets the teacher see what all is being done in his/ her classroom

Welcome to our professional learning series on building a PLN. This series guides you step by step through the process of setting up your own PLN. The aim of this first step is to: Explain what is a PLN. Help you understand why educators create their own PLN.

Welcome to our professional learning series on building a PLN. This series guides you step by step through the process of setting up your own PLN. It's great for people who still need to delve deeper into what a PLN actually is.

This is a very information-rich site that further introduces the PLN and delves into several different avenues a teacher can take in developing their PLN, with one avenue explored being Twitter. I particularly found the Step 6: Curation page to be intriguing. This page introduces curation, the strategic collection and compilation of knowledge and media found online, and demonstrates how it can be a valuable tool for educators engaged in expanding and sharing their constant learning and teaching journeys (See the video towards the middle of the page where a teacher shows his netvibes and scoopit accounts, and the very complex ways in which teachers can organize and share knowledge from these information collection/filtering tools. VERY valuable for our fast-paced and information-heavy time.)

One of the great resources used in schools to teach language arts are videos. One video that really stands out and is used in many schools is the Phonics dance, it teaches students how to sound out words, and how to associate the words with pictures and motions creating a greater chance of remembering the material.

In recent years, smartphones have become so good at recording video that they can successfully compete with standalone cameras, at least when it comes to shooting non-professional video. Of course, if you want your videos to look great, you'll usually need an expensive, 4K-capable handset.