Organising platform that would be good for upper grades, college students, teachers or really anyone looking to organize themselves in one online place.
Nominated for two Edublog awards in 2009, David Truss shares his reflections on education, technology, and learning. A great sense of humor and excellent writing skills make this not only a thought-provoking and informative blog, but also an entertaining one.
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.
Add written text, choose an animated character, and xtranormal creates a movie! Great for creative writing lessons in the classroom. If students know that their 'writing' will be used to create a movie, they will be more cautious about their editing, wording, etc. Plus, they get to 'watch' something they created!
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 must have website. I have this as an RSS feed to my iGoogle account because there are many current events, hottopics and a forum that I can access. There are also reviews on new technology and how they fit into state standards as well as the NETS.
FREE print or online publication that is delivered right to your desktop. I have subscribed to this one for a long time and have gotten many great tech tips from this resource. Includes webinars, blogs, hot topics forums, and much more. Great professional development resource for any educator.
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.
From the Apple Learning Interchange website. It showcases podcasts created by "Apple Distinguished Educators". There is a contents bar on the right side with topics such as Staff Development, Student Instruction, Elementary, Middle, High School, or Higher Education.
Great podcasting website for teachers. It has plenty of podcasts that you can download yourself and use. You can also post your own podcasts. This site also includes video tutorials on how to use it.
This site would be a great tool to use in the classroom (or in a library). A "wallwisher" wall allows everyone to communicate on a "wall" answering a question you have posed. Using sticky notes, those in the class answer on the virtual/visual wall. The wall I built asked the question, "what are you reading and what do you like about it so far?" Students can answer with both words and images. Therefore, it is my hope students will upload a picture of the book cover and give a quick review of the book based on what they have read so far. You can design the color/design of the wall. I found this tool to be lots of fun and it could be used in many ways in a classroom or library. Wallwisher could definitely be used to inspire collaboration and communication.
This is an online notice board maker where you can post announcements, greetings, jokes; just about anything you would want to put on a Post It. I think this would be a great tool for students to use in a note taking assignment. This would be fun to collaborate multiple students' posts and try to combine them randomly to create a funny poem or short story.
Great for students and teachers. You can communicate with other classes in the same grade. The teacher is the manager of the student blogs for it is very safe. There is also advance privacy available. The students can upload text, photos, and videos. Easy and fun!
Teachers can host and manage blogs for your students, use a Class Homepage to communicate with students, review capabilities of entries, and it offers advanced privacy. Students get fully featured blogs to upload text, photos, or insert videos, fun learning experience, customizable visibility and comment settings, and no e-mail address required.
Skype is a great tool that allows you to connect virtually everywhere and to anyone. Imagine that you want your students to be able to talk with a famous author in your classroom. Skype can do just that. Skype can visually and orally connect you with others around the world at a click of a button. This would be great in the classroom, professional development meetings, guest speakers and much more.
Skype is such a wonderful resource, in and out of the classroom. At the present time, facebook, cell phones and Skype are howf my family communicate. Tonight I talked to my parents, and two sets of aunts and uncles. One set who were celebrating their 50th anniversary.
This site offers teachers resources in lesson planning, professional development and tech integration. There are also links to resources for administrators and issues concerning our schools.
Resourceful site for all types of educators and leaders. The site contains lesson plans, professional development, and technology integration. Resources for teachers are extensive and cover quite a lot of material.
This site has a professional development section. Some articles have suggestions for new teachers, strategies for classroom management, bullying, and character education to name a few.
This is a place where teachers can gather and share ideas. This resource includes lesson plans, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, articles written by educational experts, web site reviews, and employment listings. I believe we can all share ideas and build upon those ideas to create lessons that are meaningful to students.