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Edmodo is like a Facebook for parents, students, and teachers to communicate in a safe area without all the excess of Facebook and chances of overstepping that fine line between educator and the law. Teachers can share lesson plans with each other as well as post questions related to what they are teaching.

This is a great link to ways on using smart boards in the classroom. Besides the direct link, this website offers a wide variety of advice, help, and ideas for teaching!

This is a great website for students who want to hone their mathematical skill. The website is very colorful and eye catching and the math problems are interactive and engaging.

This site will be good for teachers to create print outs for their students. This site allow teachers to create them. This worksheets are also fun for students! I saw this being good technology for the teacher to use and to get the students involved.

Make a newspaper clipping with your own headline and story. In example to surprise friends and coworkers, send a birthday greeting or to give your next blog entry a special look. This site helps to supplement instructional strategies.

ClassDojo is a classroom tool that helps teachers improve behavior in their classrooms quickly and easily. It also captures and generates data on behavior that teachers can share with parents and administrators. This site helps teachers track and reward students who are demonstrating desired behaviors, participation and performance levels in the class without actually assigning grades and penalizing those who are producing less desirable outcomes.

Evernote is an interactive website that allows the user to upload, store, organize, and access information that may be needed for projects or research. I have attached a short video about Evernote that can be found on Youtube or Evernote.com. This is a great tool for students and teachers, alike. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjn6YkCY2yA&feature=player_embedded

StudyBlue is your online home to store lecture notes and make flashcards. Study online and on your phone for effective, productive learning. Free.

Standard 6.4

The Homework Zone provides teachers with a free, simple-to-use and easily editable classroom web site. Quickly post assignments, test dates, study guides, printable worksheets, events, announcements, and custom web pages to the internet. The Homework Zone allows students to have a "website agenda" that they can fall back on, giving them the oppurtunity to collect assignments and other information.

"We give you a blank wall. You put anything you want on it, anywhere. Simple, yet powerful." With Padlet, students can create reports using links, photos, personal entries, and videos. Padlet can be used to improve the current learning process by providing a centralized location to collect web pages and other media pertinent to classes in which the student is currently enrolled.

Schoology allows instructors, students and administrators to create a meaningful virtual classroom and extend learning beyond the boundaries of the physical classroom

CourseCracker.com has the goal of utilizing web technology to advance learning and communication in schools. The features provided by CourseCracker benefit parents, students, teachers, and youth education as a whole. Particularly at the K-8 level, schools and educators have yet to properly utilize the power of web technology to enhance and evolve education and the classroom experience. This website is free and my be used by any teacher to communicate with students who are out for a day or long extended periods.

Myplick is a website created to upload powerpoints and share them with a group or publically. The powerpoint is saved to your account once you are done uploading. When uploading the powerpoint it asks the option to add music. I also have the option to see how many slides people viewed and how long the viewed each slide for. Students and parents can download the powerpoint and print it from there. This website is an affect way to communicate with students and powerpoints on what was discussed and about what was being taught in the classroom.

This collection of reviewed resources from TeachersFirst is selected to help teachers, parents, and students understand concepts of copyright and Fair Use. This collection includes instructional activities about copyright and collections/tools to use images, music, and texts legally, either through Fair Use or Creative Commons licensing. Use these resources to model and teach ethical use of electronic media or to find copyright-safe raw materials for student projects. Be sure to share these resources with students for them to access any time they have a project to do.

This collection of reviewed resources from TeachersFirst is selected to help teachers, parents, and students understand concepts of copyright and Fair Use. This collection includes instructional activities about copyright and collections/tools to use images, music, and texts legally, either through Fair Use or Creative Commons licensing. Use these resources to model and teach ethical use of electronic media or to find copyright-safe raw materials for student projects. Be sure to share these resources with students for them to access any time they have a project to do.

This website lets students take the work that they have home with them. There parents are able to use this system for learning and getting better with reading. This website allows kids to use games, worksheets and stories online to improve their better understanding of learning. Being able to choose from many types of content is sure to help a new learning become great at what they do!

This "Website of the Day" is a fun and educational tool that can be used to analyze assessment data and to guide classroom decisions regarding student learning using technology.

This "Website of the Day" is very useful for teachers to learn about podcast, create their own podcast, and listen to others. This website is also not only for podcasts!

Here is a great website to use to make a podcast.

Study Island is a leading academic software provider of standards-based assessment, instruction, and test preparation e-learning programs.

Thinkfinity meets standard 6.2 by offering a vast variety of resources for educators to utilize to help increase student knowledge and participation. Welcome to the Verizon Thinkfinity Community! This page is a great place to start: ask questions, join in a discussion, search groups, and make friends.