PSU LIB 510

Infographic: Nine themes of Digital Citizenship

iPad apps for educators

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

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

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

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.

Tips for teachers new to twitter

This is a great free tool for elementary or sped classrooms more so than middle or high school, but it could be used at any. Once the teacher puts in the students names the students can choose their Avatar to go with their name. There is also an App to this, so teachers can be walking around the room and click on the person being on or off task by use of their phone or other mobile device. Points are given for on task and taken away for off task. Teachers can look at the end of class/day to see what students were being on task, or on task and for what reason. Parents or other staff members could even access individual students to check on behaviors.

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 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.

An inexpensive site for added reading/language skills support. Kids play computer games while learning sight words, spelling, and reading. (Classroom use is $80 year with 30 users. Small school $500, large $1,000. )

A place for open pictures and submissions. Sites like these are important if you wish to put in photos to your website or when making ibooks or the like.

A tutorial on Google Drive. We are using this in our district and most teachers have no idea how to use it and give permissions for sharing. This will really help.

This is video tutorial on how to make a google site. I have many teachers right now that are having a lot of difficulty with this. This would be a great resource for them. It's short and helpful.

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.

An interesting example of a creative common

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