UD EDU 352 Technology in Education

I just recently learned of this website from a teacher who has been using it in her class. She reports that it works great and really helps the students. It is basically an organizational education site for your classroom. Students can log on to Haiku and look at assignments and other upcoming things. Teachers can upload any resource they would like students to view. Similar to Moodle, students can submit homework online. Haiku can also be synced with Google, allowing things such as a Google Calendar to be implemented.

This website is incredibly helpful in talking about Web 2.0. It explains Web 2.0 and the details surrounding it. It also provides a number of Web 2.0 teaching tools for teachers to use. The creator of the website explains on the home page that they have been teaching for over 25 years and is not a tech expert. Therefore, the creator provides reassurance that Web 2.0 is something that everyone can utilize.

A great thing about this website is that you don't have to sign up and it is completely free. Not only does this site offer lesson plans, but it offers a multitude of other helpful tools as well. There are free printable worksheets and activity sheets, message boards, entire units, and project ideas. Daily writing prompts are a big part of this website, which I think is great because it gets students thinking and writing. It has other random tools for teachers to utilize and create their own, such as word scrambles, coloring pages, calendars, tests, crosswords, mazes, and more.

Sharemylesson is "by teachers, for teachers". It has lesson plans for early elementary, late elementary, middle school, and high school. It also has modified lesson plans for students with various special needs. It has a community tab that answers teacher questions, provides information on Common Core, and also has a general forum in which teachers talk and share their ideas and frustrations. There are over 300,000 teaching resources on this site alone.

This is another helpful educational gaming site. It has games for grades K-8. There are math, English, science, and history games on this site. It also has resources that can help students with homework. There are also just simply arcade games that students can play for fun. These games help students because they can have fun while they learn, making them more likely to enjoy learning.

There are a TON of educational games on this site. You can search by subject, grade level, or both. The games on this site are geared towards lower kindergarten grades. Although I am secondary education, I realize the importance of students having preliminary knowledge before they arrive in your classroom. By students participating in activities such as playing these skill-building games, they are ensuring their abilities for the future.

This site is completely dedicated to health and fitness. For PE/Health teachers, it seems to be ideal. It has information on physical education and how activities can be adapted for students with various needs. Health and nutrition lessons are also included. It has links about fitness outside of school. It even has information about using technology in physical education. This site seems to have everything PE/Health teachers would be looking for.

This site is really nice because it has options for all grades, K-12. There are over 300 lesson guides provided for teachers to use. All of the lesson guides are designed to meet national health curriculum standards. The site also provides several assessment strategies in order to assess what you have taught. I think sometimes it might be harder to find health lessons so this website is probably very helpful for health educators.

I absolutely love Bill Nye. Without Bill Nye, far less students would think science is interesting. Bill Nye always broke things down in a fun yet still meaningful way for students to understand. His site has science videos that cover a huge variety of topics. It also has educational resource for teachers to use. The educational tab comes with demos, episodes, printable worksheets, and more.

Ning costs, but I can see how it would be very useful to teachers. It has a ton of community features that promote communication and the sharing of information. Some of these features include forums, photo/video/doc sharing, broadcast capabilities, email, and more. It has publishing tools, as well. These publishing tools include blogs, websites, and an unlimited access to custom HTML pages. It allows member sign in through a number of social media websites and also integrates YouTube videos on social channel pages.

This site is simple, but I can't stress enough how helpful it will be. It is also downloadable as an app. Instead of calculating grades individually, Groovy Grader allows you to find student scores with ease. Teachers can enter in the number of questions, and then all possible scores are calculated from that. For example, if there are 63 possible questions to get correct, Groovy Grader shows the score if a student got anywhere from 1-63 wrong. This takes some of the hassle out of grading. It also will help eliminate calculation mistakes.

This is a great website to learn about digital citizenship. There are videos you can watch, online training programs, and presentations.

More science activities that you can do anywhere. Simple item and ingredients used that create a lasting impression on kids.

These preschool activities are sure to bring a smile to your child's face, and provide her with wonderful learning opportunities at the same time. Each activity focuses on a certain theme and uses art to enhance the connection.

Fantastic math activities for kids that should make kids fall in love with learning math. There are multiple categories of math activities depending on what skill of math you would like to teach, such as sorting and classifying.

These free, hands-on preschool math activities help preschoolers get acquainted with counting, patterns and more. there are tons of math activities to choose from and pictures are included which makes it easier to browse.

This website has many activities to build a child's language skills. It is geared for home schooled children but all the lesson can be applied to a child in any educational setting or even when you just have time to talk with a child.

Kinder Art is a easy to navigate blog that is full of really neat art projects for Early Childhood Educators. There are many activities that connect languages arts, math, and science to art so learning these areas are more hands on and creative.

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Newsela is so helpful in general, but especially helpful to teachers that teach social studies or even a kind of current events class. At first the site seems like a simple news article site. It has a bunch of articles on current events or new discoveries. What's unique about it, though, is that you can get the same article in different ways based on lexicon. You can choose the lexicon level and based on that, the article is written at different levels. For gifted/talented students, they can be given a higher lexicon level version of the article. For students with special needs,