PSU LIB 510

Thinkbinder is an only group study collaboration tool. I think this would be a great way for students to find information from and for each other, ask similar questions, and be engaged in each others learning. This would be a great tool to use in the classroom and have as an optional tool or even an assignment that teaches collaboration.

MobyMax another reasonable site for students and teacher use, in addition to parents. There are many uses, such as; students can play games or do worksheets. Teachers can collaborate with students, teachers, and parents using emails. Teachers can even monitor student's usage on the computer, including homework. In addition, parents and teachers can monitor individual results of assessments. (Can be free, but limited use. Yearly prices: $79 for one teacher with unlimited amount of students, or $499 per whole school)

A free website and great for extra reading support and assessments. Anyone can look up a book, see the author and reading level of the book, and then take a quiz on it.

A chat site where teachers share ideas in all different subjects or meaningful occurrences, such as math language arts, science, social studies, professional development, classroom management, special needs, or technology.

Tips for teachers new to twitter

To help teachers decide which blogging platform could be best for them, I created the following chart. The chart compares eight key elements of five common blogging platforms.

use this popular free mobile app and social network to engage our students and get them to connect with our subject matter

Creative commons is where an individual can go to create a copyright friendly license for their social media tools. For example i have create one for my classroom website

Uses CCSS to create rubrics that you can customize for your assignments.

iPad apps for educators

Infographic: Nine themes of Digital Citizenship

An interesting example of a creative common

A video tutorial about how to make a youtube channel. This can be useful to many teachers who have no idea what they are doing. It will also help those teachers who are looking to flip the classroom.

A more up-to-date teacher sharing chat site. It has many resource suggestions as other sites, but also includes a couple extra topics, like foreign language, art and music. Also, they break it down by grade level and subject, so more user friendly.

Free educator accounts