Classroom+Technology

Technology for the Classroom
Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning []

ISTE NETS []

**Lesson Plans**

Green Education Foundation Lessons []

All about Computers []

ISTE Lesson Plans []

The Gateway - A DOE sponsored site for lesson plans []

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Technology in the Classroom []

100 ideas for Document Camera []

23 Things that you can do on the Web to explore and expand your knowledge of Web 2.0 []

Thinkquest []

**Infusing Technology for the 21st Century Student**

Partnership for 21st Century Skills [] [|Vision of Students Today] [|Generation Y] [|Top 10 Social Networks for Generation Y]

The Amazing Web 2.0 project book []

Supervising the 21st Century Classroom. Making the Most of Web 2.0 Tools []

Top 1000 Web 2.0 Tools []

**Seven Categories of Educational Technology** **Word processing software/applications:** Microsoft Word [|OpenOffice.org] [|Google Docs] [|MyAccess]

**Spreadsheet software/Applications** MicroSoft Excel [|OpenOffice.org] [|InspireData] [|Google spreadsheets]

**Organizing & Brainstorming software/Applications** [|Inspiration] [|Brainstorm] [|Smart Ideas] [|Visual Mind/MindMapper] [|Bubbl] Many Eyes []

**Multimedia** iMovie - -[|MS MovieMaker] Adobe PhotoShop MS PowerPoint Keynote [|OpenOffice.org] Impress Alice Storyteller

**Data Collection tools/software:** [|Probeware] [|USB Microscopes (simulation)]

**Web Resource: Simulations** Virtual Tours Applets Movies Pictures Social Networking

**Communication Software:** Blogs VoIP Podcasts Wikis Email Vodcast [|Skype] [|Spreed]

**Wikis and Blogs** [|Green Schools Wiki] [|Difference between Wiki and Blog] Silk Road to Green Generations wiki Wikispaces [|Shodor Interative Math] [|Voki] [|Exploratorium] [|Future Channel] [|Science Buddies] [|TrackStar]

**Online Comic Maker** [|Hippo Campus] [|Voice Thread] [|GeoGerba] [|bubble.us free online graphic organizer]

Great Textbook Wars http://greattextbookwar.wikispaces.com

**STEM Resources** NASA Education home page []

NASA A to Z Index

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NOAA education home page []

Design Sqaud []

Center for Innovation and Engineering in Science Education []

City Technology []

**Video Resources** Shift Happens - [] A Vision of Students Today - [] Creatively Speaking, Part Two: Sir Ken Robinson on the Power of the Imaginative Mind - [] Generation G - [|> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhnWKg9B2-8]

**YouTube** [] TeacherTube [] Social Media Revolution []

**TED, the Sixth Sense** [] [|Learning to Change-Changing to Learn]

**Text to Voice** ReadPlease 2003 free Download []

**Teacher Productivity Tools** [|You Send It - Large file transfer] [|Mega Upload] [|Google Docs] [|Survey Monkey] [|Thinkature - Online collaboration file] [|Does Twitter Have Educational Uses?] [|Moodle] []

**Online Survey Sites** [|www.surveymonkey.com] [|www.pollcat.com] [|www.websurveyor.com/free-survey-tools.asp] [|www.profilerpro.com]

**Find or Make Your Own Graphic Organizer**

Rubric Generators [|rubricstar]

[|http://Gliffy.com] – Basic free

Use Word to create graphic organizers [] [] [] []

**Digital Permanence** [] []

**Social Bookmarking Sites** Delicious [] Social sites from Education World [] []

[|125 social bookmarking sites] []

**List of Social Software** []

**More Web 2.0 Tools** [|http://delicious.com] [|http://wordle.net] [|http://etherpad.com] [|http://animoto.com] [|http://mindmeister.com] [|http://academicearth.com] [|http://blockposters.com] [|http://www.slideshare.net] [|http://Gliffy.com] [|rubricstar] [|www.surveymonkey.com]

[] || @http://code.google.com/intl/en/apis/customsearch/docs/start.html ||
 * From Questions to Concepts video || @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBYrKPoVFwg ||
 * Class poll || @http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/MTYwOTgzMDYxMA/web
 * WatchKnow: Videos for Kids to Learn From || @http://www.watchknow.org/ ||
 * National Education Technology Plan || @http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/os/technology/plan/2004/site/edlite-default.html ||
 * Wikispaces Tutorial || @http://www.wikispaces.com/site/tour ||
 * Google Custom Search || @http://code.google.com/intl/en/apis/customsearch/docs/start.html
 * Ning Tutorial || @http://technogogy.org.uk/ning/seven_steps.pdf ||
 * Ning Tutorial || @http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=131176&title=Ning_Tutorial ||
 * Edmodo Tutorial || http://edmodo.pbwiki.com. ||
 * Edmodo Tutorial || @http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=143578&title=Edmodo_Tutorial ||
 * Collaborative Projects || @http://flatclassrooms.ning.com/ ||
 * Collaborative Projects || http://connectingacrosscontinents.wikispaces.com/Resources ||
 * Collaborative Projects || http://globalcollaborations.wikispaces.com/ ||
 * Collaborative Projects || [] ||
 * Collaborative Projects || [|http://onlineproj4tchrs.ning.com] ||
 * Collaborative Projects || [] ||
 * Collaborative Projects from Stevens || @http://www.k12science.org/currichome.html ||
 * Google Docs Use in Education || [] ||
 * Story Tools || http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools ||
 * Fan Fiction || @http://www.fanfiction.net/ ||
 * Audacity Tutorial || @http://net.educause.edu/Screencasts/Audacity/Untitled.html ||
 * Jing Project Tutorials || @http://help.jingproject.com/index.html ||
 * Create flash activities || @http://classtools.net/ ||
 * Google Cheat Sheet || @http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html ||
 * Crossing Boundary Lines || @http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/education/os-teachers-texting-students-20100301,0,6795209,full.story ||
 * Newspapers Around the Country/World || @http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/ ||
 * Webquest Resources || [] ||
 * Webquest Resources 2 || [] ||
 * Wiki use in a world language class || http://srtailita.wikispaces.com ||
 * Webquest Sample || [] ||
 * Teacher blogging about Skype || [] ||
 * Interesting use of Skype in home bound instruction || [] ||
 * Create online digital stories and have other students comment. || [|www.voicethread.com] ||
 * Online digital flashcards || [] ||
 * Kahn Academy: high quality education to anyone, anywhere || @http://www.khanacademy.org/ ||
 * [|MIT Open Courseware] || httpocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm ||
 * Free Website creator || [] ||

Hear why and how Twitter is used in schools, features Lisa Thumann from Rutgers || @http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4957457 ||
 * == 2/23 140 Conference Meetup ==
 * The White House Twitters || @http://twitter.com/whitehouse ||
 * Social Networking in High School || @http://thumannresources.com/2010/03/02/sn_in_hs/ ||
 * Sweet Search || @http://www.sweetsearch.com/ ||
 * Top Ten Free Tools for Young Learners || http://toptentools.wikispaces.com/ ||
 * 21st Century Supervision Moodle Classroom || http://classroompass.com/indexmoodle.html ||
 * Multi tasking? || [] ||
 * Links searched keywords and brings up paragraphs containing keyword from search results. || [|www.yolink.com] ||


 * 43 Ways to Use Wordle

Inaugural Wodles || ==== [] ==== @http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/17/washington/20090117_ADDRESSES.html?hp ||


 * WolframAlpha || [] ||
 * NING Example || [] ||
 * Delicious || [|www.delicious.com] ||
 * Twitter

What Lincoln would have Twittered || [|www.twitter.com] @http://chronicle.com/blogPost/What-Lincoln-Would-Have/9056/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en ||
 * Twenty-Seven Interesting Ways* to use Twitter in the Classroom || @http://tinyurl.com/yhx7zp5 ||
 * Twitter Lists

Politics Tweet

Retweet || www.listorious.com

@http://politicstweet.com/ @http://retweet.com/ ||
 * Twitter in Plain English || [] ||
 * Free online file converter || [] ||
 * Best Educational Wikis of 2009 || @http://blog.wikispaces.com/2010/01/best-educational-wikis-of-2009.html ||
 * Download streaming videos ... || @http://keepvid.com/ ||
 * Asia Society || http://asiasociety.org/ ||
 * iEarn || @http://iearn.org/ ||
 * Peace Corps || @http://www.peacecorps.gov/ ||
 * Google Earth Literature Trips || [|www.googlelittrips.com] ||
 * Annotate Social Bookmarking || [|www.diigo.com] ||
 * Skype Projects || [] ||
 * NY Times Inaugural Addresses Wordle from 1789 to present || [] ||
 * Create a PLN from Bernie Dodge || @http://edweb.sdsu.edu/Courses/EDTEC470/fa09/activities/pln/index.htm ||
 * Digital Nation Clips from Thinkfinity || @http://www.thinkfinity.org/digital_nation.aspx ||
 * Blooms Digital Taxonomy || http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy ||
 * Tufts Accepts 1 Min. You Tube Video w/Application || @http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/education/23tufts.html?scp=1&sq=tufts%20video&st=cse ||