Technologies Teachers Should Know About
From RE 5532: Technology-Supported Literacy
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Background Videos About Why Teachers Should Care
These are videos that share information about the ever-changing world in which our students live and learn.
Did You Know 4.0? 2009--Koppenhaverd 14:15, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
Did You Know 3.0? 2008--Koppenhaverd 14:15, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
Did You Know 2.0? 2007--Koppenhaverd 14:15, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
Medieval Help Desk--Koppenhaverd 14:15, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
Be careful! Don't believe it just because it is posted on the internet! Did you know 4.0 --Sefeinman 13:29, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
Informational Websites
These are websites that teachers should visit regularly to keep current in their technology knowledge and to continue thinking about new ways of supporting their instruction, their students' learning, and their communication with others about their classroom.
Mashable has loads of information about every web-based trend and tool there is. This is a great site for "keeping up" with what's going on in technology.--Koppenhaverd 14:29, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
In Touch is a great blog for technology. The tech department at WSFCS runs it and posts almost daily. --Sefeinman 20:11, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
Common Craft is a great resource of plain English animated explanations of various technologies. Also do money, politics, etc. that might be useful for your students.--Koppenhaverd 14:47, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
Rod Lucier is a Canadian teacher who reflects on instructional technology and school issues. Thoughtful and informative.--Koppenhaverd 14:51, 15 September 2009
Educause is "a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology." However, the information and resources you can find linked to their website have wide application in other educational settings.--Koppenhaverd 15:59, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
Free Technology for Teachers reviews free technology resources that teachers can use, provides suggestions and examples of how to use them, and discusses ways of integrating techology in the classroom.--Koppenhaverd 16:13, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
FlipVideos-Great ideas for FlipVideos. 10 Educational Uses for Flip Videos--Sefeinman 13:41, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
THE Journal (THE stands for Technology in Higher Education) has a free online journal, newsletter, and tons of other resources to help keep you up-to-date in classroom technology use.--Koppenhaverd 15:30, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
Three websites teachers can go to to request donations of supplies, technologies, tools to help their students learn: Donors Choose, I Love Schools, and Supply Our Schools, which focuses mostly on school supplies, I think, rather than the broader agendas of the first two organization.--Koppenhaverd 00:08, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
If only I had the money for an iphone. Great apps for teachers and kids to use: kids/teachers.--Sefeinman 20:16, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Tech & Learning is a good site for information on new classroom technologies and incorporating them into your classroom. Also has interesting articles, product info, websites to check out, and free stuff. --jennifer wagoner 17:39, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
New Blogger Widgets This has some wonderful explanations and links to new widgets you can add to your blog. I'm going to add the translation one! --Sefeinman 15:44, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
Web-Based Tools
These are websites that help teachers teach more efficiently and students learn more effectively. The sites provide resources or perform services at no (or little) cost to educators.
Tiny URL converts long URL into shorter URL's. Great for Twitter postings or any time someone might have to actually type a URL to use it.
TeacherTube - This site is great for introduction videos for your students before presenting a lesson! --Tonna216 14:54, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
Nationalzoo.org is a great website for finding pictures of animals and live web cams of animals.--Patricia Edwards 00:41, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
Flickr is a source of over 100 million photos that teachers (and others) can use without breaking copyright (unlike Google images and most other sources of online images). Use for instruction, PowerPoint slideshows, reports, etc. Read through the attributions requested on the site.--Koppenhaverd 14:22, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
Pics4Learning is similar to Flickr, but made specifically for teachers and students to use. All of the images are free of copyright. The site allows you to search by keyword or through dozens of categories. Fairly easy to use. It does not have as many pictures as Flickr, but also doesn't have any content you would need to be worried about students searching for. (That's an issue for us in middle school!)--Rjohnson 20:25, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
ReadWriteThinkhas tons of interactive lessons that you can use with your students to create character maps, thinking maps, and comics. There are also a plethora of lesson plans and resources for teachers of all ages and subjects.--Amy Hardister 21:11, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
epals: Even though this site is for email, it is great for collaboration projects...INTERNATIONALLY!!!! Just sign up as a teacher. [1] --jennifer wagoner 23:23, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
Pageflakes - A great tool for organizing your online "stuff", like facebook and twitter. --Sefeinman 01:31, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
Blog Post Are you following too many twitterers? This blog post talks about TweepML. TweepML is a great way to share lists of twitter users. --Sefeinman 20:51, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
I really like using Snapgrades [2]to keep up with my grades. You can get a free version which is really all you need. It is very easy to use and you can print your report cards, progress reports, and missing one with one or two clicks. --JenLawson070 21:04, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
Slide RocketA great tool for online presentations. It is just like powerpoint, but you don't have to save to your own hard drive!--Sefeinman 13:31, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
I am quickly finding that I have way too many "places" on the internet. Facebook, twitter, myspace, blogger...etc. This is a neat way to organize everything: ShowYourself Widget I bet there are better widgets out there...but I just came across this one.--Sefeinman 14:06, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
Love your tweets? Want to make them your Skype status messages? This talks about how you can do that with a sync program. There is also a program that lets you use the Skype window to update twitter. Skype Gear--Sefeinman 13:50, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
epals is a cool site I have used. The nice thing about this site is you choose a topic that is of interest to your classroom and student goals and they help match you with another classroom with similar interests.--Candy Mooney 23:54, 26 September 2009 (UTC)--Candy Mooney 23:54, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
Some great websites I use are: Adrian Bruce's, a great website for printable activities of all types; Internet for Classrooms, a website that has tons of great interactive activities for all standards; InterventionCentral, which has great intervention ideas; National Library of Virtual Manipulatives, which has fantastic online manipulatives; and The Reading Lady, for tons of great reading resources! --Adover 20:29, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
Teachers in Surry County were just given the book Usng Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works. It has a multitude of resources and ideas for incorporating technology into the classroom. One website that I have found useful already is [Jefferson County Schools - Power Poit Collection]. It has a wide variety of activites for all subects.--jennifer wagoner 00:39, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
Wordle This is a great tool where you can take text and transform it into word art!--Sefeinman 01:58, 27 September 2009 (UTC) You can also use Wordle instructionally to help students see themes, topics, trends, main ideas in a digital text.--Koppenhaverd 03:22, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
instructify "The Instructify philosophy–Teach smarter, not harder. Instructify is where teachers can stock their toolboxes with practical, time-saving classroom ideas and cutting edge methods of instruction. It’s where to find useful, free technology to utilize in the classroom. And it’s a fun place to spend your planning period." --jennifer wagoner 21:51, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
iTunes has a place in their store where you can download free audio books! The selection is spotty, but it is free. The University of South Florida is responsible for making this resource available. If you google Lit2Go it will direct you to the correct page for searching the database. Through iTunes: click on iTunes Store, then find iTunes U at the top on a black navigation bar. Press the down arrow arrow that appears, then at the bottom of the menu, select Teaching & Education. In the "search store" slot, type in University of South Florida. There will be a big button to select that says "Lit2Go." This brings you to a menu of selections you can choose to download for free!--Stacy Cabeen 19:40, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
Wikis. Like this wiki? Want one of your own? Want to know about cool things you can do with it with your students? Check out this article.--Koppenhaverd 03:17, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
Discovery Education is an awesome site to to search streaming video on any and every topic related to Math, Science and Social Studies. Clips range from one minute to forty-five minutes in length. Davidson County has recently purchased a subscription and I love to use various clip to introduce a subject.
Buzzwordis an online word processor. Very similar to goggle docs with same benefits. Online collaboration, controls to monitor changes, free to use. No installation required. --Sefeinman 21:36, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Zamzar Convert files without downloading software.--Sefeinman 21:40, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
