RE 6575: Lit-n-Tech

Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom. Wonderful short video you should watch and some thoughts on the value of social networking.

Excellent resource for teachers who blog. Answers why, what, and other questions and provides links to nice resources and additional information.

You all should read this as you dig deeper into blogging this semester.

This big huge thesaurus is perfect for every day use! It's very easy to use and can be used in your classroom every day! Put it as a shortcut on your desktop to make it more easily accessible! :)

Some school ban cell phones, others have found ways to include them in instruction.

Younger kids' version of Lane Smith's earlier "It's a Book." Clever comparison of book to a computer.

This is a quick read offering 10 tips for effective and purposeful writing. Very sensical and adaptable to middle grades.

This site is awesome. Use it to play literacy games with your students, use in a center, or even use to help students become familiar with keyboarding. Click on Storybooks and it will read to your students :).

Very cool site where kids can play tons of games on a variety of skills and topics and they are organized by grade level!

All educational games are free and are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn.

This blog says that it is used for students and teachers. It is a place to set up a blog to use it classrooms. It is free and only for education. There is also a way to manage class blogs. Check it out and see if you could use it in your classroom.

Interesting use of social networking to develop online reading community. You can add friends, rate books, gather books on your shelves. Would be far superior to book reports and dioramas my kids all had to do for years and years...

Article on my tech website that talks about eight different ways to effectively use a wiki at your school and within your classroom.

There is a great deal of information here- especially regarding young learners and technology integration in the classroom. I have been struggling with how to integrate more technology in to my kindergarten classroom- this article was very helpful!

Edublog 2011 award winners of Best Educational Wikis: ICTmagic is 1st place, Resources for History Teachers 2nd. Links to these and others.

Wide variety of audio books, some of them with accompanying pictures and/or text. Almost all free. Arranged in categories including alphabet resources, poetry, audio and video books, etc.

This site gives the top eight reasons for using social bookmarking in the classroom.

I found this by accident but thought it could be useful for some :) If you are lucky enough to have an iPad in your classroom- this is a simple and short tutorial on the do's and do not's of using an iPad in your classroom. It gives setup instructions and tips, applications you may need or want- it looks great!

Great information! We have iPad2's at our school, a full class set of 30. It is quite nice, but like you said, it is important to know the do's and don'ts before using an iPad with kids. They are smarter than you think and they know how to work around the system to get items they want. That was very helpful and I will pass along to my administrator as we just got the iPad's this year. Thanks!!

This short article gives bulleted reasons why technology is so beneficial in classrooms today. It also provides reasons by subject area in the classroom. Great resource to back up all of the many reasons we should be using technology in our classrooms every day.

Great resource of "how-to" set up Diigo educator accounts for your classroom and how to get started with Diigo in the classroom.

I found this one too Renee and it is helping me because I did not know what social bookmarking was until our first class meeting. Now I'm thinking of different ways I wish I would have used it at my previous school!

This is an article that explains Diigo. It explains what it is, what it does, how to use groups, the tools, and more.

This article breaks down types of literacy and describes how students will be expected to continue to be literate beyond the word processor. It suggests students must learn to collaborate online and communicate effectively.

This site breaks down social bookmarking into 7 things that you should know what it is, why its important and the implications for teaching and learning.

This is a great article to give you the basic information you need to know about social bookmarking. It is to the point and gives you a great "overview" about the topic. It's perfect for people who want to briefly learn about social bookmarking.