RE 6575: Lit-n-Tech

Online supported educational apps for your classroom. This was very helpful with moving my students toward the "online" world.

This link will take you to educational apps that are more on the "fun" side. My students love them!

Here are some more apps for the classroom iPhone/iPad.

This is a great list created by a teacher of different technologies she uses in her classroom and how she uses them. Sometimes we hear about these great technologies- but don't know exactly how to use them with our children.

Another interesting article on ways writers are exploring Twitter as an authoring medium.

Twitter and writing instruction ideas.

Practical and informative for classroom teachers.

Pretty slick. Like other site stats tools except this one provides a running list of who from where visited a particular site, which pages, and when. Interesting instructional implications for teachers who might use the free option.

International Reading Association's position statement on importance of information and communication technologies integrated into the literacy curriculum and principles on which that should be based.

IRA's position on children's rights to excellent reading instruction and the principles which they believe constitute excellence.

This is a blog that gives lessons each day with tips and "do's and don'ts" of blogging.

This blog is a place where teachers share not only ideas, but their own personal stories and classroom experiences. You can search blogs by region, grade or subject.

I think this is a really cool site because it shows you examples on how to incorporate blogging into your classroom. You can choose your grade level or your subject area and examine blogs from not just the USA, but all over the world.

This site has a series of how to about blogging. There are links to blogging tips for beginners, blog design, and even tips for writing content for blogs. Check it out if you are a beginner and need some extra help!

Article reporting Project Tomorrow Speak Up survey results examining what students (and others) say they'd like in integrated classroom technology experiences.

Ways that students can experience space in the classroom on NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory mission. Remarkable science resource. Great use of technology to support learning.

Sally Shaywitz's center. Links to info on dyslexia research, resources for parents and for educators.

Tech the Plunge blog addresses all sorts of ed tech issues. Written by ed techie and consultant in private middle school.

Creative Clommons is the non-profit area of Flickr where photos are shared among members. Millions of available photos in four categories of use (attribution, noncommerical, no derivative works, share alike). None of the copyright violations of using other images on the web.

Quick and free way to collect student responses using text message.

Totally cool. Here's some thinking outside the box that will fascinate some teachers and more students.

We'll get to this when we move to digital writing online as a class topic.