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This article helps a teachers' empower student creativity with affordable and accessible technology.

This tool students can use in the classroom to create their own storyboards. It helps them organize their thoughts in an interactive manner.

A first hand account of someone who used Blendspace and some ideas of what it can be used for.

This site is helpful because it outlines unique uses for blendspace. It describes how blendspace helped one specific teacher and discusses the ease and elimination of lost papers created by an integration of blendspace.

Explores how Project Based Learning is a dynamic classroom approach in which students explore real world problems through hands-on, engaging activities. This website provides evidence of PBL through videos. The video portion of this website is very helpful and connects to this chapter because it shows different activities that teacher's can use to engage their students. Not only are there videos, but there is also topics that organize the different types of lessons and activities making it organized and efficient to use. Lastly there is a blog where teachers can communicate with each other, exploring new ideas and topics.

This is a great research article written by Ben Whipple in 2006 who was a student at John Fisher University at the time the article was written. He conducted to see how much technology would either help or hinder a child in the educational setting. After his experiment, he concluded that the integration of technology in the classroom is important in that it helps children stay more focused on the topic being presented and allows for better visuals.

I chose this resource because it explains how teachers can use social media for professional development. It explains how Twitter can be a helpful resource for teachers, how social media can be used just for teachers, and list social sites teachers can use in specific situations.

An article that helps teachers understand the best ways to and why to use multimedia in the classroom.

Examples of digital portfolios that can help guide teachers when making their portfolios for their classroom.

Real teachers and real examples of classroom websites using Weebly.com. This website is what my group used to create our websites and help our classmates

This guide can help teachers incorporate project based learning in their classrooms no matter the subject.

Used to help new learners of this technology on how to use it. Shows steps to creating a infographic.

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

A study on the similarities and differences between heterosexual, two parent households and different- and same-sex two parent families. An article to help teachers learn about these subjects more extensively to better understand their students' situations.

Project Based Learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging and complex question, problem, or challenge. In Gold Standard PBL, Essential Project Design Elements include:

This website goes into detail about what Project Based Learning is. This is a great tool other than the textbook to get a complete grasp on the concept. Not only does it describe PBL as "a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging and complex question, problem, or challenge", but it also provides steps to follow when creating an engaging PBL assignment lesson plan. These steps include: Key Knowledge, Challenging Problem, Sustained Inquiry, Authenticity, Student Voice & Choice, Reflection, Critique & Revision, and Public Product. Following this list of steps and making sure the lesson plan provides all of these points will make for an engaging class. Another component this website contains is a blog for educators to post about the Project Based lessons they implemented in the classroom. I believe sharing ideas with other teachers is one of the most helpful ways to improve your own teaching because you receive feedback and encouragement to what you are doing well, and what can be changed for the benefit of the class.

From the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing. This article talks about family acceptance of LGBT youth and how this acceptance as well as the support from others affects all aspects of these youth's lives. Good read for teachers to help understand students who might identify as LGBT.

A search engine dedicated to helping students solve math and science equations.

This will help students understand a little more about filter bubbles and echo chambers.

This helps students understand why digital footprints are very important.

Input a hashtag, and you can see all of the other tweets with that hashtag to help collaboration between teachers.