Provides descriptions of ways schools are using social media for communication with and among students, with parents, and with the community, as well as a general learning tool. Starts with # 10 and counts down to # 1. Need to hit page buttons to get to all the screens, but it is worth the read and worth bookmarking for later reference. This article will help teachers and administrations proceed with plans for social media integration.
Famous actors read children''s aloud. Site include lesson plan ideas. This site will be of interest to elementary school teachers and parents of your children. If you have website, blog, or wiki set up for parents, you might want to see if this is a site you want to share with them after you have had some time to exlpore.
A blog post about ways to use wikis in teaching. Looking for some ideas, bookmark this one, as more comments may be added, with new ideas, or even add your own in the comment section.
This is a great resource guide for using the variety of tools pertinent to Google suite. Download the guide for reference. It is up-to-date for the Google suite as of 2012. This guide is on the blog Free Tech 4 Teachers, a fantastic blog with lots of updates relevant to teaching.
Lots to explore here about all the features available through Google Docs as related to students as well as teaching and learning in general. Just reminds us of all the tools we have on in one place when using the Google suite of educational apps.
Definitely a site I want to explore further as a way to conduct research, organize ideas, and find information. This site is a learning tool,,, and probably works better with high school students than younger grade level students. It might even be useful to college students. Just used it to do a search, and found helpful information.
Helpful resource for finding interactive simulations, games, tutorials, and other resources by academic content area. See the hyperlinks in the Additional Resources list, which uses categories such as Social Studies, Science, etc. Direct hyperlinks go to sites with the listed materials.
If you are interested in having students create book trailer via video, check this blog post. Even though it is on Hemingway's Old Man and Sea, the concept can be adapted for use with students of varied age groups. The video is also worth watching as an example of stop-motion animation.
A tool for downloading videos to use in the classroom. If YouTube is blocked,this site can help with downloading the video and having a copy to play in school.
A free online e-book for learning about and how to use a variety of Web 2.0 tools including Diigo, blogging, wikis, Evernote, Flickr, Glogster, Jing, Prezi, Ning, SlideShare, Twitter, and VoiceThread,