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"Blogging is becoming more and more popular in the classroom. Teachers can blog to stay in touch with parents and students or they can incorporate blogs from all of the students as a learning tool. The beauty of the student blog is that children from Kindergarten to high school can blog. No matter how you use blogs in your classroom, these tools will help you get started, enhance your experience, or bring the students into the fun. "

Home of Bernie Dodge's work!

"These tables contains external links to downloadable software, "cloudware", and webservices like hosting. "

Collection of case studies in science -- great resource for science teachers looking for relevant real-world data.

Collection of case studies in science -- great resource for science teachers looking for relevant real-world data.

Purpose and educational function first! Technology route to getting there (or tech enhancement of the journey) after! A point always worth repeating!

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TeAchnology is a site that has tons of resources for teachers. There are worksheets, lesson plans, rubrics, teacher resources, printables, tools, tips and there is a membership option. Some of the materials are available free as samples but if you want access to all of them I believe it is 29.99 a year.

Our goal is to increase the quality of our students' writing skills by sharing knowledge among experts and practitioners. We plan to share theory, practice, and research through our articles, feedback from our readers, and a numbers of web events in the planning as we launch. We will have teachers, writing assessment experts, academics, and others write about what they've tried, what works, how to implement ideas, and current theories on the subject of writing. We also plan to include lots of ideas regarding ways to get students writing more, since that's the surest way to improve writing.

Reflection is critical to your continued growth as a teacher, whether you seek student feedback, leave yourself sticky notes, or blog your thoughts for colleagues.

"Save lessons instantly in the cloud. Reuse anytime. Explain lessons once and save it on video so students can review their lessons as many times as they need to master concepts. "