Teaching With Technology

My friend in Memphis is in charge of a privately-funded, faith-based organization providing professional development to teachers on technology integration topics. LOTS of great videos on great technologies here! Check them out!

A great resource for al kinds of teaching blogs.

The collective blog of those on the front lines for Teach for America. Although I don't necessarily agree with the TFA program, these teachers are teaching students who are just like the ones I will teach some day.

This is a great place to find top-notch lectures on various topics. I found this when looking up string theory. They have lecture series as well, and frankly, they're really, really cool. This could be great for all teachers, I think!

Virtual tours of famous 1906 San Fran earthquake. Interesting idea for history lessons.

Google earth can be a great tool, not just for virtual tours of the past but of the present. For example, when teaching about the ohio river valley, its great to be able to pull it up on google earth and show the contrast between the ORV and say a swamp area near the Potomac. It just helps people become aware of the landscape.

english ning recommended by byu profs

This website is an incredible (free!) resource for English teachers. It has ideas, articles, networking for nearly any subject in English you could dream of! It was recommended to me by one of my English Teaching professors.

These look like the best help documents for learning Google Earth

creating a virtual tour from a google map with photos.

Decent video tutorial on how to create a virtual tour with Google Earth. Cool idea for social studies students, or perhaps when studying famous literary authors and landmarks.

I love playing around on the history channel website for videos, which can be episodes or short clips. When I'm trying to implement visual representations into my lessons, this is an easily accessible source. Simple, but effective.

This website and others like it allow you to keep your French skills strong with daily updates about what's happening in the Francophone world.

I forgot to mention why this is so important to me as an educator, but I figured it was pretty obvious--I'm going into language teaching and if I don't maintain my fluency one way or another, my students will get nothing but repetitive and maybe incorrect phrases...short of moving to France for total immersion this is the best way to stay current with the language.

I found this while I was looking for blogs to follow, but I think it is so cool! Great ideas from all over.

The NCTE Homepage provides the latest information on upcoming events and opportunities with NCTE, as well as resources for educators.

THE organization to follow if you teach English. They update with great ideas and information!

This is a good website that contains lots of information for teachers and future teachers.

This is especially for my fellow English Teaching friends, but I find this so inspiring. Disclaimer, this is PG-13 for language.

Here's a tip for using the Wii as a whiteboard in your teaching

This website is a gold mine of websites and information that is useful for teaching, and the best part is that most of it is based on classroom safe web practices.

I stumbled on this article and thought it was very interesting. I think it's important to keep these things in mind when bringing technology into the classroom, not to discourage you from doing it, but to help you navigate through the problems that may come from it.

This is a great site for English teachers with ideas for teaching literature, writing and grammar with and through technology.

I found this cool site online. It shows you what happened in histoy on any given day of the year. I think that this would interest students and you could make an assignment for each student to find out what had happened each day/week etc and then compare it to what is going on now.

I first heard about this from my Eng 150 Librarian, but was reminded of it the other day. If you love to read and are always looking for good books it is awesome! I noticed Professor West even has a link on the class website. Enjoy!

I think there are probably a lot of you that already subscribe, but I've recently joined and I love having a way to keep track of the books I've read. I highly recommend it.

It's a great way for English teachers and students to keep track of the books they've read and be able to remember them. It's also a great way to share what books you've read. You can makes groups and have discussions, too.