UD EDU 352 Technology in Education

I love this site becuase so often, when we think about differentiating lessons, we think about the kids who are behind, not the ones who are ahead. Here you can find ways to enhance your own lessons, or, make all new lessons for them to work on when they have time. It's a great way to keep the gifted kids busy, challenged, and happy (as well as some over bearing parents of gifted students...).

I chose this site because of the number of things it introduces you to and shows you how to do. You could use it in a million ways. You could find games, lessons, how to make a class website, and a lot of other things that are only limited by your imaginaion and by your busy schedule.

Apples for teachers is more then just a website it helps keep the teacher informed on all the new resources available for their students. This website is for teacher that teaches all grade levels in elementary. This site has fun activities do to with their students. It also haves new articles related to education, stories and research available to them by this site.

I chose this site because of the unique topics they have. Things like Groundhogs Day, and Chinese New Years, which may fit perfectly into your lesson, but, may be hard to find material on. This site is also neat because it has games you can have the students play, or it has things like coloring pages that you can print out (which may work better if you don't have access to enough computers for all your students to play on at once).

This is a great site becuase this is a topic that I know I need help with and I'm sure others would as well. There is such a wide range of disabilites and with each disability comes an even wider range of students who react to that disability differently. It's so hard to be able to know what to do in a certain situation so that you know each student gets the help and support they need. This site is a great resource for adapted lessons and other ideas that will help you reach every student.

I chose this site because of the way it's organized. It's clean and it's simple. I would use it becuase it has a wide variety of lesson plans organized by grade. It also has lots of other things like graphic organizers, projects, managements techniques, etc. These things can be hard to come up with on your own and know they will work for your students. It's nice to get ideas, feedback, and insipration from teachers and tried and true projects and lessons.

I chose this site becuase it has so many ideas that can be adapted and formed to fit your specific class, kids, and needs. Talking about smoking with kids can be a touchy subject just because they may have family members or parents who smoke and you don't want to be seen as attacking them. This site gives you lots of ideas on how to approach the topic with students and teach them about the health risks or smoking.

I chose this site becuase of the help and knowledge it can give to students who want to practice spelling, or are in a spelling bee. It'd be great to use because when you're in a spelling bee you know you have to study how to spell words... but what words?! This can give you lists and guidance as you practice.

I chose this site because it's live action and really interesting for students. I've used this site for students in relation to science courses before. We were doing a habitat/wildlife unit in science, and we would watch the eagles (and at the time their eggs and then babies) and talk about their habitat and patterns in relation to what we were learning. It made our lessons relevant to them and another living thing which is SO important to do with students.

This website is a great resource for elementary teachers to use. This website has many things to offer for all subject area. It has lesson plans and planning, curriculum, professional readings, and many other things. It also has a link to where a teacher can get free books, how to build a website and contest that their students can enter in.

This website is wordy but offers good insight into collaborative learning. It tells how to use informal and formal learning groups and other types of teams.

This allows teacher to view other teachers teaching. Get feedback from others. It also allows a person to view multiple types of lessons in all subject areas.

This has strategies for social studies. It offers a bunch of ideas to try in the classroom. These strategies would work in all types of classrooms.

This is a great site for math lessons. They also have feedback on lesson plans and how they worked for the teachers that used them.

This was a very user friendly website. It allowed for teachers to pick the grade levels and the subject area that they needed a lesson plan for.

This offered some different ideas that could be used as fillers during down times in the classroom. The magic tricks would have to be adapted but it could work if the teacher was willing to take the time.

I liked this website because it offered professional development links and conventions. It also had classroom resources that ranged from K-12.

Great website for teaching upper grades and upper elementary. It has links for both students and teachers. It also has lessons for mentors.

This would be a good website for teachers to find different ideas for lessons. It offers multiple links to other sites that contain grammar and vocabulary work.

Awesome games for spelling, typing, phrases, etc. This would be a great website for students to work on at home or during downtime in the computer lab.

Loved this website! It was great for teaching strategies in reading. It also had a part on the website that was designed just for the students.