Group items tagged

Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator.

eSchool News is a website that shares technology news with educators.

A technology news website. Provides resources, videos, and webinars on technology in education. Current topics that I found interesting are: "Ten tips for using social media in communications" and "Empowering education with video".

This is an e-Learning blog. The author of this blog tries to find new web 2.0 tools that would be beneficial to educators who are looking to integrate technology into their classrooms. He describes new tool that he has discovered and shares his thoughts, feelings, and findings about each tool.

This site provides 3-5 daily links to new resources from all over the web.

In these financially tight times, everyone could use a little something that's free! Great technology ideas for free tools.

This blog has links to free technology resources for teachers!

This website describes the tools, resources, and opportunities that the state of New Jersey is using for professional development. There are many interesting resources posted! A great way to see what other states are doing for professional development, how they are incorporating technology, and how they are merging the two areas!

A VoiceThread is a tool for having conversation around media. A powerful new way to talk about and share your images, documents, and videos. Viewers can leave comments via voice, text, audio file, or video. Imagine, an entire group discussion on ONE page; digital storytelling made simple! It is free and has an education side to it with a secure network for K-12 students and teachers to collaborate and share ideas with ANYWHERE in the world!

This is a free online journal that addresses the use of multimedia resources in online education. You can sign up to get notifications when new issues appear online.

The Missouri Library Association is an organization that works to encourage cooperation of all Missouri libraries and services through the state of Missouri. This first thing featured on this website is a mission statement of the MLA. State laws, budgets, etc. is listed next as well as any current information about the MLA. This is a great website for librarians in Missouri because it would keep you current with any new information from the state!

This site was created by a technology integration specialist. She shares her thoughts, ideas, and projects. Almost daily she adds new sites to her blog. She has a lot of information about digital storytelling. If you are looking for technology project ideas this is a good place to browse.

This site is a listing of Kiwi educators who have blogs and/or podcasts. You can either be a Kiwi edublogger living abroad or an edublogger living in New Zealand. I found this interesting to hear from other locations.

The mag that gives you news, views, ideas and more from the world of ed tech & edublogging. It is an excellent connection to educational issues and topics. It is free! I was amazed at the depth of information it provided. It would benefit all teachers because of the content and the ease in navigation.

In the springtime, I am always looking for new ways to keep the kids engaged. Webquests seem to be the ticket. The kids love to do them because its independent work, group work, and whole class work. It's a fun way for them to really get engaged and to take responsibility for their learning. This site has a multitude of different webquests. I just type in the topic I'm looking for, and usually about 2-3 webquests will pop up.

This is the website of the elementary school where my kids go to school. They are always playing with new and creative ways to get the kids interested in what they are learning about. The fourth grade classes do podcasts after different lessons to emphasize what they have learned as well as work on their reading fluency skills.

A librarian created this blog in order to answer all the "foreign" questions she is asked. She answers the questions in hopes of teaching others about new technology and how to integrate it into the classroom.

Provides how-to advice to learn new technology skills. Many articles also available in Spanish. Includes ISTE standards that are met with each skill. Also includes Technology Glossary.

This is a professional networking site where educators can learn about what is happening in technology in the classroom by following the latest news in Ed Tech, sharing content such as favorite webpages, lessons, video, audio, and written content. Visitors are encouraged to join in and add content.

A great resource for personal learning. I enjoyed listening to several podcasts.

This site provides some great articles about assessment and testing. There are also blogs and articles about professional development, how to incorporate technology in to the classroom, and leadership.

This is a magazine that shares resources and strategies in education. It also is used as a professional development tool to help with the newest technologies. A great website for all educators to learn about the newest technologies.

A site for webinars, blogs, videos and current events in tech and learning. I like this site because it has reviews of new tech and also has a professional development section in how to implement tech in the classroom and in the school in general.

Has many great ideas and programs to use in class. I like the engrade program.

This site helps nonprofits and individuals to streamline their work with the web. Up dates on new technologies are also available.

You can listen to podcasts of booktalks at this site. This would be great for students who can't seem to find a good book to read. The books chosen are Isinglass Teen Read Award Nominees - this is a teen book award in New Hampshire, but I am sure these books are popular all over!