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This is a free website builder that you can use for your future classroom. It is a good way to keep student's up-to-date.

My Big Campus makes it easy to engage students, develop lessons, track and improve academic progress, connect with a learning community, go paperless, and lots more. My Big Campus is a Learning Management System that extends the classroom to a safe and engaging online environment, balancing educational use of Web technologies with network and student safety.

My Big Campus is a Learning Management System that extends the classroom to a safe and engaging online environment, balancing educational use of Web technologies with network and student safety.

This is an interactive, online whiteboard where you can plan and draw webs and timelines and whatever you can think of. You can also insert videos, documents, photos, and lots of other things. You can put notes and post-its and, best of all, you can invite other people to be on the board with you and edit together!! As a teacher this could be very handy and posting a link to it on your classroom website will enable you to work with your students at home!

This App allows you to "take collaborative notes, share data and files, and use comments to share your thoughts in real-time." It is an excellent tool to develop collaborative note-taking and writing outlines. Classroom projects and group works can be a lot easier with this app.

Padlet is another way to collaborate with students or parents who want to quickly and easily post something for anyone to access. There is an option to post anonymously. It's a great tool for feedback or questions/concerns or even a way for parents and students to talk to one another.

This website has a mass of very helpful tools and links to use use in your classroom and on classroom websites. They have apps, online resources, tutorials to work with technology in current classrooms, and support.

This app allows students to receive due date reminders, track assignments, projects, tests, and other classes! There is a reward system for students that do the homeworks, and it can be used on different devices!

Infographics blog covering infographics, data visualization and visual thinking. Charts and graphs communicate data, infographics turn data into information.

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.

Collaborators come in all different shapes and sizes. This info-graphic identifies the top nine types of collaborators that typically exist within organizations. Ranging from early adopters to social butterflies to the begrudging skeptic.

Collaborators come in all different shapes and sizes. This info-graphic identifies the top nine types of collaborators that typically exist within organizations. Ranging from early adopters to social butterflies to the begrudging skeptic.

Social media can be great tools in education. Yet, many teachers remain reluctant to use them. Blogger Matt Davis has gathered some of the best resources to help teachers use social media with their students.

Social media can be great tools in education. Yet, many teachers remain reluctant to use them. Blogger Matt Davis has gathered some of the best resources to help teachers use social media with their students.

Guide to creating a PLN. Comprised of 10 sections linked to the main page. Each section includes images and videos that help to illustrate the process.

Know it or not, you already have some sort of Personal Learning Network or PLN! It could be your colleagues, family, students, friends - whoever! But with the power of the web and online collaborat...

10 Great Steps to Grow Your Own PLN

Article regarding how to build a PLN. Contains a chart and 2 screen caps in order to illustrate its point. Also has a helpful list of links that have been organized into a step-by-step process for starting a PLN.

This site covers the importance of PLNs within the topic of continuing education and independent learning. It discusses the importance of staying up to date and in communication with other professionals in the same field.

List format article with 10 tips concerning how to be a more connected educator. Contains a video about the EdCamp movement.

Separated into 2 lists of 10 items each that detail how to use PLNs and how to build them, respectively.

Powerpoint that details how someone can begin creating a PLN.

If you still aren't sure about using Twitter in the classroom, this guide will surely sway you.

A guide on how educators should use twitter.

For future reference: How to conduct a SUCCESSFUL Twitterchat. In case you forget or need a little more convincing on why a Twitterchat is a good tool for you and your students.

A list of twitter chats that can be very beneficial for educators

A blog that discusses five different Personal Learning Networks specifically designed for educators