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Weebly is the tech tool of the week. We will use it to make a classroom website. This is a how-to video that should help if you get stuck.

I love this video for teaching internet safety to young students. It does a good job of defining what the internet is so little ones can understand. It explains how the internet can be fun and helpful but also scary without rules and an adult helper. I have used this for PK through 2nd grade.

(WEEK 12) We chose this source because it is important for professionals to stay up to date with learning networks and this also helps with keeping them up to date.

The Edublogger is a great blog to help new users of twitter access twitter chats. The blog is very user-friendly and lists a number of educational hashtags and twitter chats to join.

Common Sense Media editors help you choose Apps for Elementary School. Great educational apps for grade-school kids.

Evaluated apps that help teach design thinking (and are great fun!)

This website includes 50 free ways for teachers to integrate technology into the classroom. It includes websites and other tool to help teachers get started. I chose this website because of the great list of resources included on the site

This is a list of 50 different web sites to help you with integrating technology into the class room.

This source is helpful for researching the different types of apes. This source also touches on what apes eat.

Welcome to our Research Hub! Here you’ll find tons of great and useful info, tutorials, and guides to help you get your paper off on the right foot. Learn about avoiding plagiarism, where to start looking for sources, how to evaluate the credibility of websites, and more. Get started with some of the links below: ...

This video gives some helpful tips and tricks of how to refine your searches to find exactly what you are looking for!

A good checklist that can be used in or out of the classroom to help students identify reliable resources.

This video shows how to use google to create a better way to search engine. It will help you be more specific in their research.

A YouTube tutorial on how to create a custom Google Search Engine for Chapter 6.

This video is helpful for creating your custom search engine to narrow down you web page and have more specific answers.

S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource for educators that promises to make a significant contribution to enhancing the teaching of information literacy skills to students in K-16. The project is currently in its final stage of development in which S.O.S. is being expanded for use by high school and college level educators.S.O.S. for Information Literacy will link lesson plans and teaching ideas to related real-world multimedia examples of excellence in teaching, especially focusing on collaborative efforts between classroom teachers and library media specialists in K-12. There are useful lesson plans, powerpoint, handouts, web pages, and activities for your students to learn about information literacy, plagiarism, and digital citizenship.

S.O.S is a site for helping to teach literacy in the classroom.

"X-ray Goggles is a free tool that lets you remix any page that you find on the Internet. You can install X-ray Goggles in your Chrome or Firefox bookmarks bar. Then you can launch it on any webpage. When you launch X-ray Goggles you will be able to select images and text on a page and then shown the code behind your selection. X-ray Goggles will let you then alter the code to display new things on that page."

These are some fun ways to collaborate within the classroom!

This website has a bunch of videos on how to integrate and improve videos for your class. It has videos to help with idea, editing, camera skills and much more.

This website includes details about how each individual in the classroom can benefit by using Diigo, and it also includes a video located at the bottom of the page.

Beyond extended student learning, Diigo can be used as a form of professional development. Diigo has several educator groups that are active in sharing and collaborating on bookmarks relevant to education. This group has almost 10,000 members. You can find over 200 other Diigo K-12 education groups here.

This website is great for those teachers newly using Diigo as a technology resource for their classroom. Exploring this website really helped give me the basics and help me brain storm ideas for my classroom.

This article talks about KWLs, a way to measure student learning quickly and efficiently. The letters KWL stand for "what we know", what we want to know", and "what we learned". I choose this article as a resource because it helps instructors gage a students prior knowledge and even gives you a timeline of what using the KWL assessment should look like.

Reading Rockets is a national multimedia project that offers a wealth of research-based reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Our reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in helping struggling readers build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.

This is also a great resource for lesson plans and activities.

Is your assessments working? This article helps to give clear cut examples to make sure your classroom assessments are effective.

These seven points help a teacher determine if their assessment of their students is working to foster growth and development in their classes. Each point is a different idea of how assessment can be done in a classroom.

I choose this article because it gives ideas to assess is your classroom assessments are working.