Resources

//** ﻿ Welcome To Our Online Teaching Resource Page! **// Our resources have been organized by topics. They have been posted and rated by our members according to the criteria explained on our home page. Have fun exploring!

Utilizing Technology in the Classroom [] Melissa's blog is specific to history, yet her ideas can easily apply to all disciplines. She has blog posts including the use of social networking in the classroom, the value of video in the classroom and even her adventures in having her students create their own website. (Link posted by Jenn)  [|http://www.freetech4teachers.com/] ﻿Richard's blog provides technology resources for teachers that are free. They include resources such as "60 Second Lectures from the Univeristy of Pennsylvania" and "Search Team," which is a collaborative web search. Richard provides teachers of all content areas useful technology and reasons to use it!(Link posted by Colleen)

[] Art's site, //View from Room 308//, has numerous links for specific technology tools that are useful in the classroom. He also has links for other teacher blogs listed in a sidebar, video links, as well as own blog posts covering about every topic possible. This site is well organized and full of interesting topics and information. I have posted one his video links, a YouTube video, on our video link page. (Link posted by Mollie) [] Frank's Blog, also known as the 21st Century Teacher covers many issues pertaining to the use of technology in the classroom, however, he also has links to modern events for his students, such as President Obama's inaugural address. There are topics covered such as the use of Twitter in the classroom and the importance of the Network in education, which both tie nicely into what students will need to know for the business world when they arrive! (Link posted by Jenn)

[] This technology resource provides teachers and parents with many great features. It includes interactive games and software, graphic organizers, and simulations. It provides resources for all content area including math. My recommendation on this site is the interactive software "Math By Design," which can be found on the homepage! (Link posted by Colleen)

[] This website provides teachers with a creative way to do concept mapping in their classrooms. Although it is a great website, you may need to play around with it a little to get the hang of it. It takes concept mapping beyond just drawing lines to connect ideas. This provides the opportunity to use words or phrases that show how these words are related. (Link posted by Colleen)

[] I immediately fell in love with this blog! Not only do they have a section entitled "Technology We Use in the Classroom," which covers topics anywhere from One Note to Dropboxes to newer technologies such as Prezi, Whiteboards and Wikis, but they also include scenarios regarding what could go wrong when using technology and possible ways to rectify them. Very user friendly. (Posted by Jenn)

﻿ ﻿ ﻿ [|http://kawehikulani.blogspot.com] ALL THINGS HAWAIIAN is the name of this website. It offers information about education and technology from a native Hawaiian's (Heitiare) point of view. (Posted by Trenda)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">﻿[|http://weblogg-ed.com] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">This website is manned by Will Richardson, “Learner in Chief” at Connective Learning and the author of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classroom. It contains many interesting and sometimes humorous blogs.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">[] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">This website belongs to Jane Hart, a social media consultant. This site includes daily e-learning interests and blogs about computer software. (Posted by Trenda)

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 210%;">Blog Databases <span style="color: #324c6c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[] <span style="color: #324c6c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The site //Best of the Web Blogs// contains a list of quality educational blog links that are alphabetized by blog titles. Each blog has a brief description listed by its link. There are also several categories of databases as options. This site seems well organized and provides an easy way to find educational blogs according to topic; however, after checking out mulitple blogs in this database, I'm not sure if they are worth visiting. Some are very long to read and are almost overwhelming with the length of their articles, as most blogs are intended to be a quick read to get specific facts. (Link posted by Mollie)

<span style="color: #324c6c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">http://movingforward.wikispaces.com/Education+Blogs+by+Discipline <span style="color: #324c6c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">//Moving Forward: Education Blogs by Discipline// is just what its title says it is-- a site that contains a list of quality education blogs that are separated into categories according to teaching discipline. This blog is organized and the categories are very specific, which saves time searching for one's content area. The sites that I visited from this database were full of great ideas and applicable information. (Link posted by Mollie)

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 210%;">Content Sites <span style="color: #324c6c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">﻿[] <span style="color: #324c6c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">﻿ <span style="color: #324c6c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">English teachers will really enjoy this site because the posts are short and provide specific lesson ideas that are easy to access. <span style="color: #324c6c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(Link posted by Mollie)