A neat blog post about how a 6th grade teacher is not only excited about starting her first Skype project for her students, but also her thoughts and suggestions about the future of Skype in the classroom. This might also be a blog you want to follow in Google Reader.
This project makes use of a variety of tools, including Cacoo, a brainstorming tool, PhotoStory, Weebly for website design, and Foto Flexer. It was prepared by a middle school librarian.
A wonderful example of a collaborative blog project in which students submit blogs about what they learned on a given day. Wonderful way for students to showcase their learning.
A site for finding and downloading high quality photos for use in projects. These photos have been entered into the public domain and the user can use them freely, though the Pixabay site might be acknowledged as well as the photographer who took the photo.
Another class blog that is part of a spring 2013 QuadBlogging project. Looks as though all the schools are focusing on the weather in their parts of the world. An easy and effective way to teach geography and comparable skills.
Tweeting about literature, this time students tweeting about The Great Gatsby. Love the Twitter hashtags they use, for example: #Daisy and #EastEggProblem. This project could be done with any piece of literature, and is an inventive way for students to discuss a book and then look at the tweets by hashtags.
Digital Pen Pal - students connect to other students and/or classrooms with students throughout the country or other countries. This project helps kids develop literacy skills.
Pew Research study about technology use in US classrooms. Helpful to see the statistics from a large-scale study, which indicates increased use of technology in the classroom.