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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.

Educators and students are quickly becoming more comfortable with classroom technology, allowing them to shift from thinking about the technical side of integrating a new tool to focusing on how it improves learning. While the sheer number of education apps is still overwhelming, increasingly teachers have found what works for them and are sticking to them.

Reading Rockets is a reliable, applicable resource for teachers to use in their classroom and lesson planning. We have found that this website also contains valuable information pertaining to the many benefits of parents being involved and a part of the classroom community. it shows the positive effect a relationship and communication with a teacher has on the parents, the student, and the teacher. This website will add a lot of important information to our lesson and the people we are trying to reach.

Why it is useful to use an iPad in the classroom

This resource is a twitter page where Oklahoma teachers can connect to share their ideas, classrooms, and issues important to them (such as those regarding the state of the education system). Although it contains a lot of discussion about the education system, the twitter page describes itself to be "non-political" and a place that "brings OK educators together" through constructive dialogue.

This is a funny attention grabber to introduce googling for students

This website explores digital literacy and media literacy and their underlying aspects and principles. it provides lesson plans and workshops for teachers looking to enhance their classroom's knowledge of digital citizenship.

Rather than assessing students by traditional tests, a portfolio offers a more creative expression of student skills.it shows the strengths of a student, regardless of if they are strong test takers, and is more adaptable to the individual.

"Gizoms" are hundreds of online simulations with lesson materials and supporting research-based strategies to build deep conceptual understanding in math and science. This can be used for all grades, and is awesome because it is very interactive and can simulate experiments you can't physically carry out in a classroom setting

BrainPOP is an interactive website where students can learn information about all subject areas taught in school through videos and games. The information conveyed in the lessons could give students a new perspective about content they are learning or challenge students who understand the content to apply it in new ways. The website includes videos, games, assignments, and quizzes for teachers to implement in their classroom.

A website for kids that focuses on all core topics. This website has games and videos and interactive activities to aid learning.

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.

Wix is another online website creator for the classroom. This one is really cool because it does have a format that can be used from a mobile device. This website is a for more tech savvy teachers who have the time to figure out it's many different features.

This is a great website to build your own website

Create a free website with Wix.com. Customize with Wix' free website builder, no coding skills needed. Choose a design, begin customizing and be online today! This can be used to make a teacher website for parents and students to access for information that will be helpful for the class as well as to get to know you as a teacher.

An informative website that would allow for teachers and students to work on Digital Citizenship

CyberWise is a source for adults (parents and teachers) who are seeking online safety and education information that will help them educate kids. It offers videos, tutorials, and lesson plans.

If you're having a difficult time thinking up a video project that will engage students this list has got 20 ideas.

In my classroom, video usually equals instant engagement. Students like to record it - especially because many of them get to use their phones for school purposes. But they like to watch them even more, and if those videos are produced by their peers, the interest skyrockets.

A word or phrase preceded by a "#." How do hashtags work? Twitter can be a busy place with lots of tweets-and thus lots of "noise." A #hashtag is a way to aggregate tweets that are appended with a hashtag. Picture it like a magnet that attracts all messages categorized by that topical word or phrase. Also this website offers great resources for every possible class a teacher could teach.

Hashtags to look at whenever searching for resources on twitter.

A digital citizenship article that defines digital citizenship and explains the importance of it.

This website tells about the possibilities the popplet app has. it also lists and shows examples of how to use the app in a classroom. Popplet is a good resource for students to have to make concept maps fun.

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A website that can help inform children about cyberbullying and the negative effects of it.