Ed Tech @ OSU

Great article about using mobile devices in the classroom

great resource for breaking down game mechanics to "gamify" traditional learning processes in your classroom

fabulous way to extend learning beyond the classroom or to "flip your classroom"

fabulous way to extend learning beyond the classroom or to "flip your classroom"

This is a collaboration website. It allows teachers from all over the globe to interact, share, and collaborate their different ideas and lessons.

This is a website that provides teachers with a way to find and/or create lesson plans. It has many great links for grades K-12 as well as links for professional development and parents.

Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.

Educational website for future teachers to look up lesson plans and related teaching materials

This is a great website to find and share lesson plans and other teaching resources for teachers across the world.

Blendspace is a social bookmarking site. It can be used to find content and create lessons.

Blendspace allows educators to blend their classroom with digital content. Blendspace is a great way to bring all of the sources you have found to one place. It is an interactive tool that is easy to understand.

Blendspace allows educators to blend their classroom with digital content.

D2L is a Learning Management System (LMS) that we here at OSU know quite well thanks to the Online Classroom. It is a great way to connect all of your students into the class. You can do online quizzes, synchronous communication, asynchronous communication, upload syllabi and other content, etc.

This is a great short clip on how to set up and use a blendspace.

This article goes a little more into detail as to why we as teachers should know how to properly collect and save resources.

Pearson gives great detail as to why teachers should use virtual field trips which falls into the category of educational websites or resources used in the classroom. Not only does this help the teacher collect their resources but it also helps him or her save the sources and share with others in a creative fashion.

This video is easy to follow along with when learning how to properly use Diigo.

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.