Ed Tech @ OSU

Here is a detailed breakdown of the top 10 apps to use in education!

This website is a great tool because of it's simplicity. It also allows teachers to look up a variety of subjects. From curriculum ideas to classroom décor, Pinterest will be able to help you out!

Bag The Web is a great resource because it can be used like a serch engine. You can pull up blogs, pictures or articles. It can also be used as a resource to teachers who need curriculum ideas.

This site is a very neat tool. It can turn any classroom into an online classroom. It uses the engine "Blackboard" which is used by a lot of Universities across the world!

This tool is a particularly great due to it's simplicity. It allows students and teachers to create groups and enables those groups to have easy communication with one another. This site can send emails and text messages. It makes group assignments a lot easier.

OpenEd bills itself as the "World's Largest Educational Resource Catalog." I like that you can pick one of the Common Core standards (part of the Oklahoma Academic Standards in Oklahoma) and it brings up electronic resources specific to that standard.

1)http://www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-apps.html - Bloom's Taxonomy -Has a list of ipad apps that meet the standards of Bloom's Taxonomy. 2)http://appitic.com/ -Has a list of some of the best applications for ipads that teachers can use in the classroom. 3)http://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/free-resources/technology-integration/managing-a-computer-lab -Management tips for school computer labs 4)http://edudemic.com/2012/09/the-50-best-videos-for-teachers-interested-in-gamification/ -A list of videos on gamification 5)http://gettingsmart.com/cms/blog/2012/12/how-augmented-reality-can-change-teaching/ -An article on how augmented reality can help to change the way we teach in the future

Great math apps to help elementary school teachers. Some great animated math games covering everything from fractions to addition

Apps for your iphone that help integrate instruction into you every day classroom. Many of these will help make life easier as a teacher.

Great apps for teachers of all subjects that will help make life easier. This site will help you save time, money, and energy when looking for helpful apps

Free apps for the classroom recommended by teachers

This website gives many different apps and descriptions for each app so you can read about it before you download it. They are in categories so they are easier to find and go through. They are also all free apps.

Great article on how technology is helping the classrooms and why it is important for teachers to integrate their classrooms with technology.

Website with many apps to help special needs students as well as special needs teachers.

This list was created by Dr. Susan Stansberry. It is a collaborative grouping of games and simulations that will be extremely valuable for the classroom teacher wishing to incorporate games.

This website contains a variety of different educational, commercial-off-the-shelf, adventure, strategy, and social change games.

We assigned the class to make a lesson plan to learn how to incorporate games in the classroom. We told them to use this site to help aid them in finding games for their assignment.

Another collaborative grouping of games. This one is organized by subject, which makes it easy and quick to navigate. There are games for K - 12.

CLRN provides a list of different types of games for all grades and content areas

This website is great because it is really easy to use if you know what you are looking for. You just simply click on the subject you want to teach and it takes you to different lesson possibilities for different subjects.

How can we incorporate Project-Based Learning? This resource gives 10 great suggestions for having a smooth and helpful group lessons.

"The Business of CTL is Learning; we help schools, districts, post-secondary institutions, and other learning organizations to reach and teach all learners. Louisville, KY · ctlonline.org" This twitter and the linked website are full of great tools and advice for learners.

Real real-life examples of inquiry being used In classrooms and schools, as well as some sample "facilitation plans" that you might use in your own classroom.

"Differentiating Instruction For Advanced Learners In the Mixed-Ability Middle School Classroom" describes characteristics to shape teaching and learning in an effective differentiated classroom. Also lists strategies that can help teachers manage differentiation and help students find a good learning "fit".

"What is the best advice you can give to a teacher about differentiating instruction?" By Larry Ferlazzo. Describes in depth how to use differentiating instruction in a classroom and the steps to take for success.

Describes an effective teaching strategies for differentiation in a mixed -ability classroom. Describes key principles of a differentiated classroom and it's program and what a differentiated program is not.