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For quite a while now I have been a big advocate for teachers using social media. Specifically, I have encouraged the use of Twitter as a way to build strong professional learning networks. I know for me Twitter allowed me to make some very strong professional and personal connections.

This page will provide links to online information about the use of Google Chromebooks in the PreK-12 classroom. There have been many successful pilots of these devices and 1:1 adoptions, and this...

Included here are 10 tech tools that a teacher could be using to assist her in teaching the common core.

Anyone using this? Seems like Makerspace material.

This is a creative way to teach source analysis as well as math and reading skills.

Instruction on how to use web 2.0 tools

Infographic on basics of Twitter use

Tips on using Evernote in a 1:1 iPad classroom with apps that work well with Evernote

"Students learn that although the Internet makes it very easy, copying the work of others and presenting it as one's own is called plagiarism. They also learn about circumstances in which it is permissible to use the work of others."

"Students are introduced to copyright, fair use, and the rights they have as creators."

How to use Instagram to promote your library

This might be a great tool for our Rti teachers as well as classroom teachers.

Contains ideas that can be used at the Elementary level; also discussion of when digital tools are not necessary

8th grade class designing a future school using design thinking