Ed Tech @ OSU

Examples of ways to engage students and make lessons fun through various games and activities.

This portion of Blendspace gives several examples of how to creative unique and engaging presentations that are informative and fun for students.

This resource on the Tes website gives great examples of fun ways to use Blendspace.

Link to article from Ed Tech Magazine that goes into depth about upcoming technology breakthroughs in the classroom in the near future. Ed Tech Magazine also possesses articles that are state-specific. This website is a great resource that is easy to navigate and have bookmarked for future use.

Reading Rockets helps to better understand how to see all students as literacy learners and provides helpful activities.

A general article about physical education.

The history of physical education.

This website gives multiple tips on how you can surf the web in the safest ways.

This video will help me teach my students about primary, secondary, and tertiary colors. This will be a great aid, as well as a resource for my students to refer back to.

Fun video to teach students about classical and operant conditioning

Resources on teaching students with disabilities

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.

Teaching Peace in Elementary School

This video explains what a "filter bubble" is and how we are being fed very limited information based on our web browsing habits.

This explains how filter bubbles affect our lives and what type of information we receive when we search the internet.

Basic information describing the deep web.

This resource is super helpful when searching for scholarly articles. It is an awesome tool when looking for true information.

Great website that shows you accurate information.

Digital Footprints matter

Article that explains what makes up a digital footprint.

This page tells you about your digital footprint and why you should be aware of what you post and search on the internet.

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.

Another scholarly article on assessing learning

Talking assessment for learning, as learning, and of learning.