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Summer PD: A Primer on Compiling Digital Resources | Edutopia - 12 views

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    A list of great free online tools that can help teachers and students compile resources.  Also provides explanations for their best uses.  
anonymous

Pocket : Queue - 5 views

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      This is an excellent idea for a district to implement. Teaching teaches how to curate content online to align it with state standards. Does it take time? Yes. But, instead of playing outside consultants and companies to do this, a special committee of well trained and motivated teachers can come together and do this. They can pay them extra for this position. I think this will even motivate more teachers to get digitally ready when they see their colleagues getting payed extra for this kind of stuff. 
  • created an in-house wiki to manage its growing assortment of digital curricula and lessons.
  • dividing material into grade and subject areas, it helps educators unpack state standards and places them into bite-size expectations for what teachers should teach.
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  • Rather than relying on individual educators to sift through endless material, many districts and states are helping to curate and catalog such resources, serving as the librarians of the digital age.
  • "This is curated by teachers, not by someone on the 70th floor of a New York City high-rise. It's simple, but powerful: Teachers tend to trust other teachers."
  • The goal is to provide materials that meld with a teacher's normal workflow-and not to become yet another website to visit. "We're trying to curate good content, letting them know it's been reviewed and meets our standards, while also being mindful that there are a lot of resources out there,"
Susan Oxnevad

Top 10 Tech Tools: An Interactive Graphic Packed with Resources - 10 views

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    With so many free and user friendly tech tools available for teachers, it's hard to know where to begin to put together a list of the best tools for teaching and learning so I decided to take a look at my own resources to determine which tools I use the most.
Maggie Verster

Digital Gadgets & Podcasting in the Classroom -a Guide for Educators - 0 views

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    There are many handheld devices and digital "gadgets" available to support all types of new teaching and learning initiatives. This pages will provide links to some of the resource pages specifically designed to enhance the use of these devices in the K-12 classroom. From Kathy Schrock
edutopia .org

80 Online Tools, References, and Resources | Edutopia Group Discussions by and for Educ... - 17 views

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    80 online resources for educators and teachers, free, trial, and paid
Mariucha Dias

ESL Printables: English worksheets, lesson plans and other resources - 0 views

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    English worksheets, lesson plans and other resources
Susan Oxnevad

ThingLinkToolkit - 12 views

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    A Toolkit  designed to provide innovative ideas and support for using interactive graphics for teaching and learning.
Roseli Serra

11 advantages of using a blog for teaching - 5 views

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    11-advantages-of-using-a-blog-for-teaching by Frank Calberg Services via Slideshare
Jose Antonio da Silva

Digital Play - 4 views

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    Digital Games For Teaching
Susan Oxnevad

ThingLink Toollkit of Resources for Teachers and Students - 6 views

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    A toolkit  designed to provide innovative ideas and support for using interactive graphics for teaching and learning.
Nik Peachey

The Digital Classroom - Lessons in Digital Literacy - 5 views

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    A collection of lesson plans based around infographics for developing critical thinking skills and digital literacy.
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    A collection of lesson plans based around infographics for developing critical thinking skills and digital literacy.
Susan Oxnevad

10 Free Tools for Everyday Research - 3 views

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    As educators we are faced with the challenge of teaching students to efficiently use the Internet to find and use information. Searching for information and making sense of it is a process that involves critical thinking and it is an important skill. Fortunately, there are many free digital tools available to help students efficiently sift through an overwhelming abundance of web content to find the relevant and reliable information they need. This post will explore some digital resources to provide educators with tools to help all students become savvy searchers and independent learners.
David Wetzel

Tips and Tricks for Finding Science and Math Images on the Web - 7 views

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    Like everything else on the Internet, trying to find images is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Without the right tools for finding science and math images on the web it is often an impossible, or at least mind-numbing, task. What is needed are search engines which make the job easier. This is where the tips and tricks provided below help this seemingly impossible task by using the top search Web 2.0 search engines and tools available today. These are valuable resources for both you and your students when trying to find just the right image for lesson or project involving digital media.
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