Teaching With Technology

This is a great photo for sharing with students when you teach them to be safe on the Internet.

This is a website by the University of Oregon that gives some good ideas about how to use some technologies in the classroom - such as Powerpoint and Blackboard, and also provides some other ideas on how to use technology in instruction.

Allows you to see how states are doing under the NCLB Act. Useful information when deciding where you want to teach.

In our section on copyright, we'll talk about CC licensing, which is easier to use in presentations than stuff with regular copyright restrictions.

Great sources of CC media, which I use all the time in presentations.

Wow! If you are an English teacher trying to find people on Twitter to link to for this week's assignment (if you chose to do Twitter), then check this URL out. It's to a huge list of English Teachers on Twitter. Add your name to the list!

Great idea for communicating with parents about your students' blogs.

Creating podcasts tutorial, part 1.

If you chose to create a podcast as a project, here's a good introduction.

Rules for successfully using Web 2.0 resources

video introducing the digital generation, and how connected kids are to tech and immersed in it. 4 minutes. More tech-centric than I'd like.

Example of a teacher using wikis, blogs, etc. with students. 5 minutes. Google docs. Literacy: she shouldn't have to teach terms, they should look them up. Addresses: do I need to know everything as a teacher? Also accessibility in a rural school. Shows disconnected classrooms collaborating together on reports and a wiki.

Second part of podcasting tutorial

Podcasting tutorial part 2

Technology-fun ways to give a book report.

An example podcasting assignment

powerpoint presentations tips

Interactive whiteboard teaching ideas

Simulation/animation explaining equation mathematics and equality

Digital generation video on Kid who loves making videos and video projects. 9 minutes.

Great website accompanying Roblyer's textbook.