Teaching With Technology

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

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 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.

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.

creating a virtual tour from a google map with photos.

These look like the best help documents for learning Google Earth

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!

The blogger is passionate about education reform and is especially concerned with decisions being made based on little information or misinformation.

I really love this blog site because it is all about teaching those special students in your classrooms whose needs are quickly met, but who get bored easily with the mundaneness of school. This is a big issue I've struggled with myself--trying to keep my gifted students fully active and participating in everything we do--and I have already found several helpful hints on this site. It includes some neat ideas for technology inclusion, as well. The more educated we are about the diversity of our students and their specific needs, the better we can meet those needs and educate our students with a whole range of abilities.

Are online degrees/teaching less important than face to face? This article explores some myths with online teaching.

Tutorials from Charles Graham on Google Earth

FBI internet safety material---for younger kids.

Really interesting video by Kim on illustrating different creative expressions for one word -- "money"

Great link from Tayler on podcasting and different ways to do it.

OHSU presentation

For 5 points extra credit, you can view this presentation and blog about it on your blogs, reflecting on what the video teaches, the key takeaways, and what you learned as a teacher.

How to create a winning Mormon Messages video. Good tips on video production.

tutorials from IPT 287

facebook apps now can share phone numbers and addresses. Be careful!

14-year-old writes winning iPod app

video games and their effect on mental health