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//[|Tools For Change] // // This site shows and demonstrates what a classroom today should look like and also explains how it is different then say 5 years ago due to new instructional practices. One example used in this was how the classroom is set up to surround the interactive white board. It also acts as a touch-screen for the computer monitor during presentations and group Internet surfing. //

//[|The Educational Podcast] // // This site gives background information on the education podcast network. It states that it is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and explore with. On the left side there are specific topics such as computer tech skills or dance education and there are also student and class podcast specified by grades. //

//[|The Digital Camera in Education] // // This sites focus is to provide information on digital cameras and how it can be used to assist in the education process. They have many examples such as illustrating steps in a procedure or using a photo as a prompt for a narrative. //

//[|Rubric Assessments] // // This site shows a variety of rubrics and has a large collection based on specific subjects or specific grades. The site also includes multimedia rubrics, rubric generators, builders and supporters. //

//[|Bulletin Board Ideas] // // This site has a variety of links on the homepage about bulletin board ideas from specific genres or specific times during the year. It gives a person a large collection of ideas and even artwork to help bring these to life. //

//[|The Jason Project]// //This site is has free online curriculum and it is designed to connect students with great explorers and great events in Science. This could be used in the classroom setting during Science lessons such as geology, energy and ecology.//

 //[|Prezi]// //A Prezi is a web-based presentation tool that uses a map layout and zooming to show the connection to each part of the information. It is a modern day Microsoft PowerPoint and I say this because it presents the information in a new and exciting way which ultimately will help the students teach their peers and be more interested in the information they are collecting.//

//[|Glogster]// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//A Glogster is a social network that allows users to create free and easy interactive posters or glogs. On this site you can mix images, text, music and video. This could be utilized in the classroom because it is another new way to present information and students can add their own spin on it. For example it could be used to create a book review and demonstrates using video, graphics and texts.//

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//[|Storybird]// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//Storybird is a site that will help students create short, visual stories. It will ultimately help students because you can save them, share them and even print them out. This would be useful to students because technology is significantly increasing in society and each new and fun way to learn content online will aid them in remembering the information that needs to be remembered.//

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//[|Evernote]// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//Evernote is a site that helps students keep track or find their various notes that they have taken throughout the day. It ultimately helps students become better organized. The good thing about this is that students can access it from anywhere, even on iPhone's. A lot of students have trouble keeping organized, but now all of their notes can be found in one place and can be accessed anywhere including at home, even if they have forgotten their notebook and they have an exam the next day.//

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//[|Museum Box]// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//Museum Box allows students to place items into "virtual projects." The items may include images, video, text and sound. This is a good way to present content throughout the curriculum because it can help describe a person, place, thing, event, idea, or issue in a new way.//

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//[|Debategraph]// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//This site helps students grasp a new understanding of topics and current issues that are impacting our world today. It is defined as a browser based, wiki-style site, where students can synthesize, evaluate, expand, collaborate, and contribute their own thoughts and ideas to both sides of the presented issue. This can be used to present learning content and also can get the students involved. It is a new and exciting way to present information and present sides.//

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//[|Scratch]// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//Scratch is a site that is targeted to 8-16 year olds and it allows students to create and share projects, presentations, stories and video games. The emphasis is put on multi-media and includes graphics, sounds, music and photos and encourages creativity, problem-solving, and collaboration. This could be used in learning the content for students because it explains information in a fun way and helps students create.//

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//[|SchoolTube]// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//This is a place where students can create their own channel for school or shared videos with other students and educators. This can help students learn content and help them present information without being distracted by other videos that could be found on say YouTube.//

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//[|StarFall]// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//This site is a collection of stories and activities that use phonics to have students from pre-school age to first grade learn to read. It is divided up with activities progressively requiring more of the student as they become more comfortable with reading. It starts with letters sounds and ends with interesting stories. This can help students with their very important reading abilities.//

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//[|Free Rice]// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//This site stresses the importance of two other critical skills for elementary students to learn such as basic math and vocabulary. This site quizzes students in subjects such as vocabulary, basic math, multiplication, and foreign languages. Every time a student gets a question right on this site, 10 grains of rice gets donated to the United Nation's World Food Program. This could be used in the classroom for students to practice these important skills.//

<span style="color: #f51515; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|//Mobile Learning: Not just laptops any more.//] // //<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">By: Jennifer Nastu, a Contributing Editor. // //<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">This article explains that the term "mobile learning" implied laptop computers and mobile cares that were wheeled from classroom to classroom. Today that means smart phones, tablets, and other mobile devices that can connect to the internet wireless through a cellular as well as a Wi-Fi connection. Mobile learning is expanding and so are its possibilities. The article states that last fall nearly 50 percent of middle and high school students said they carried some type of smart phone which as a 47 percent increase from Fall 2009. There are now five billion wireless subscribers in the world and of those 1 billion are 3G subscribers. By 2014, there will be 2.8 billion 3G subscribers. Because students are increasingly carrying smart phones and technology, maybe schools and teachers could integrate them into teaching and the learning content. //

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//[|Enhancing Classroom Instruction with Collaborative Technologies]// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//By: Jody Bowie// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//This article explains that today's students are raised in a completely different technology-rich world rather than previous generations. Today our students play video games, use laptops, mp3 players, cell phones, online gaming and use social networks. It goes on to explain that some are skeptical about using laptops, digital tablets, and smart phones in education and as educational tools. Others say that these can be used as educational tools and will help students with skills such as critical thinking, decision making, collaboration, leadership, and more. The article explains that many teachers struggle with keeping their students engaged in many classroom activities, many blame distractions from technology. The author stated "I have found that if you allow students to direct their learning through an active voice in the materials and curriculum they are being taught, they respond with more involvement and excitement about their learning experience."//

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//[|iPad Pilots Launching in Higher Ed this Fall]// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//By: Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//This article explains that a simple reason they believe that the Apple iPad pilot programs coming to colleges and universities, the apps. Research from university campuses and rural community colleges alike tested the iPad in small groups when students returned from school in August and September. The colleges evaluated how learning could have been improved using a device that had been proven popular among twenty year olds who liked Apple products even before the iPad. The article goes on to explain that the iPad could be more widely accepted in education because of is vast library of educational applications.//

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//[|Blackboard backs Ed-tech Standards]// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//By: Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor.// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;"> //This article explains that the common standards for online learning has become more interesting when Blackboard Inc announced that it would support an "open database initiative that could make educational content usable on any platform." The standards have been developed by IMS Global Learning Consortium which is a nonprofit organization that advocates for greater use of education technology. The commitment means faculty members could use online exams and students would be able to log onto several websites through the same account because the platforms will be integrated.//

<span style="color: #f51515; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//[|Why Integrate Technology into the Curriculum?]// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//By: Staff// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//This article explains that most schools lag far behind when it comes to integrating technology into classroom learning. While integrating technology into classroom instruction means more than teaching basic computer skills and software programs in a separate computer class. The integration must happen across the curriculum in ways that research show deepen and enhance the learning process. It goes on to explain that effective technology integration is achieved when the use of technology is routine and transparent and when it supports curricular goals. Technology also changes the way teachers teach, offering the teachers effective ways to reach different types of learners and assessing students understandings through multiple means as well as enhancing the relationship between student and teacher.//

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//[|Visualizing Technology Integration]// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//By: Robert Simpson// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">//This article explains that the National Educational Technology Standards for Students are calling for the integration of technology in schools which is difficult but very necessary. Curriculum development requires educators who have good instructional skills. In this article exactly, it states that their curriculum started as an elementary science lesson on natural resources and simple machines. The students performance data on the state's standardized science exams indicated that they did not understand the subject areas enough so the teachers in decided to choose a new approach which was tying new information and what they need to learn to old information. They designed a custom web site and this helped the students a lot.//