What's New in Technology in the Classroom 

 Curriculum        Hardware and Software        Open Source       Productivity       

What about common core standards, are there technology resources for the new guidelines?

Common Core Standards resources for teachers. http://www.core-standards.org

Use students' mobile phones to best effect 

(instead of confiscating them!) 

Project K-nect- at-risk students use a new tool:

http://www.projectknect.org/Project%20K-Nect/Home.html

Attitude re-alignment - turn a problem into a resource

http://www.teach42.com/2008/05/06/mobile-phones-in-the-classroom-again/

Cell phones can increase literacy

http://literacyispriceless.wordpress.com/2008/01/21/

using-cell-phones-as-teaching-and-learning-tools/

http://symbianv3.com/read-your-pdf-files-on-your-phone-adobe-reader-mobile/

 

Classroom Technology Integration;

 

SlideShare - teachers have uploaded their best Powerpoint presentations for you to use:

http://www.slideshare.net

Social Media in the classroom (Facebook, Twitter) brought to you on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OxIz_3o3O0

100 ways to teach with Twitter

http://www.emergingedtech.com/2010/02/100-ways-to-teach-with-twitter/

Teacher Tube - teacher's have recorded on video lessons for you to use.

http://www.teachertube.com

Google APPS for teachers

http://www.google.com/educators/p_apps.html

ReadWriteThink - lesson plans aligned to state standards

http://www.readwritethink.org/

Blogs and Wikis for your classroom

http://my-ecoach.com/online/webresourcelist.php?rlid=4992

Best hardware and software 

 

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=11605

http://www.edutopia.org/skys-limit

 

Productivity 

 

Education World, all in one place.

http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/archives/tools.shtml

 

Internet productivity tools

http://fcit.usf.edu/internet/chap3/chap3.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/education/lessonplans.mspx

 

Don't spend money on software if you don't have to: Open Source programs 

 

http://www.opensourcewindows.org/

http://www.publicschoolreview.com/articles/218

 

Just for fun - those downtime moments in the classroom - safe places for your students to go

 

http://www.funbrain.com (K-4)

http://www.sldirectory.com/searchf/kidsafe.html (5-8)

http://kids.yahoo.com/ (K-8)

http://www.surfnetkids.com/

http://www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section=greatwebsites&template=/cfapps/gws/displaysection.cfm&sec=24

 

 

 

 

 

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