Teaching With Technology

This website has lesson plans, worksheets, rubrics, and tons of other stuff!

This website has some neat activity ideas about how to show videos and use them for educational purposes.

Guess how many social networks there are? (such as Facebook, MySpace, Goodreads, etc.). 350+ such technologies! This is an interesting list of as many of them as we know about, organized by subjects. There are some interesting student ones, geared more for university students.

Research study shows that students using texting abbreviated spelling doesn't hurt their ability to spell normally in regular writing.

I like the Edublogger--I think she has good ideas. This is her list of blogs that she reads. I'll have to check them out sometime to see if I can pick up some new favorites from her list.

This is an interesting website. I could see it being a valuable resource for university students, but also a way of cheating. It connects to your Facebook and you can upload class notes and materials to share with other students. What do you think? Would you encourage your students to use this? What would you do to make sure it wasn't used for cheating?

An interesting video about how social and digital people are now a days. This video was made to explain the importance of internet advertising to marketers, but there's application to teachers too as we try to understand our students' worlds.

a website of ideas, resources, and lesson plans especially for homeschooling parents, but it could also be extra resources for parents with kids in public schools.

This is a great example of asynchronous video chatting! You can post a picture or slide, and then hear people's comments---just like you would in class. I think I'll use this for my online section.

Interesting voicethread about using the technology for digital storytelling in the classroom.

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

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There is nothing more motivating (and exciting) as digital creativity in the classroom. I personally think you would be hard pushed to find a teacher who

For English Educators and those interested. Interesting things about Historical Fiction in the classroom.

Interesting video on why we should use technology to allow students to create learning, rather than dump information on them. Interesting!

More poetry.