Ed Tech @ OSU

Step by Step on how to do a Google+ Hangout

Step by Step on how to do a Google+ Hangout

This is a great website that gives seven effective parent-teacher communication tips.

I recommend this because it's easy to use. Their are many different templates to choose from and also there are a variety of different ways to make your blog unique and creative.

Create animated videos and presentations

Very interesting collaborative writing; outlining, project management tool!

A way for teachers to communicate with the students

A way for teachers to communicate with the students

great way for communication between the students

great way for communication between the students

Another easy way to communicate with the students

Another easy way to communicate with the students

Rob Miller is a middle school principal in Jenks and has unique and interesting views about the state department, state superintendent, state testing and specifically the A-F report card. His blog is well written and always interesting. Enjoy.

I like this website and I'm using an article from it in my lesson this week. I like this article as well because I think it is important that teachers understand the necessity of children learning from every experience they have in the classroom.

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.

You read that correctly: Zombie-Based Learning. This website is awesome because it gives you ways how to connect your lessons to Zombies. It makes the classroom environment much more fun!

This is a great website because it shows different ways to incorporate creative curriculum in the classroom to help engage students. There are a lot of different curriculum options to explore throughout the website.

This is a great website because it shows different ways to incorporate creative curriculum in the classroom to help engage students. There are a lot of different curriculum options to explore throughout the website.

Wiggio is a website is similar to facebook and twitter and you can work in groups easily, and it is a single website that brings many different aspects together in one simple website. My big campus is a website that makes it easy for teachers to collaborate with other teachers, students, as well as parents. On top of these, my big campus is also great at helping to create lesson plans, and track your students success. Goorulearning is a website that allows teachers and students to learn in new and fun ways. You can gear the quizzes and study guides for the specific grade you are teaching. Mrs. Cornejos blog is a great example of a blog that each person in our group could see using and even gearing our own blogs around. This blog is a great way to keep parents involved in what is happening in the classroom. Mrs. Anderson's website is an example of a wiki website and is similar to a blog and students can get involved as well.

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.

To learn how to incorporate games into the classroom, we used Candy Crush and allowed students to play it in the classroom.

This is the full-blown curriculum for "Zombie-Based Learning." Don't make them register for the website, but they can click on the Five Parts to get a basic idea of the lesson module. Ask the question: "How would you set this up for students in your classroom?"

This is the EDTech 3123 classroom online textbook's chapter on Problem Solving, Inquiry Learning, and Games. It was useful with definitions and the role of teachers in different "based" classrooms. It was helpful in finding resources and articles to explain problem-based learning, project-based learning, game-based learning, inquiry-based learning, and gamification.

This website contains an infographic about different facts about game based learning

Below is a complete list and summary of each of the activity ideas that are featured in Playing to Learn. The full book descriptions for these activities include: 1) introductory information that sets up the context of each activity; 2) step-by-step instructions on leading each activity in class; and 3) extension and modification ideas for adapting each activity.