Twiducate is a free social networking tool that enables students and teachers to collaborate and work together online.  Twidicate allows for conversations, file sharing, and communication in a secure and safe virtual environment.  Through this “online classroom” teachers can promote higher order thinking, provide immediate feedback, and encourage collaboration.  Today’s students need to have social [...]

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If your school does not have its own website hosting service, Yola is a great choice for building your own virtual classroom!  It is quick, effortless, and free!  Yola’s free service offers photo and video uploads, numerous editable backgrounds, multiple page creation, form creators, HTML embedding code, and more.  For a small price, you can also customize [...]

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Need help finding images to use in your presentations?  Do your students need a way to find images in an organized and logical way?  Google Image Swirl organizes image searches into categories based on content and similarity.  Images are presented in a “swirl” and can be explored further through additional sub-groups within each cluster.  This [...]

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It is great to be with you today at the Fort Greely Middle School. I am using my blog today as a simple way to host the resources and materials that we are going to share today. Think of this as my classroom web page. How do you use your classroom web page to [...]

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It is great to kick off the 2010 – 2011 school year in the Shawnee School District in Shawnee, Oklahoma.  Today we are getting to know each other and how we can integrate 21st Century skills into the classroom.
Describe a good teacher…
Shawnee web sites….
Safe search engines for students…

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It is great to kick off the 2010 – 2011 school year at Homeland Park Elementary School in Anderson, South Carolina. Today we are getting to know each other and how we can integrate 21st Century skills into the classroom.
Click here to connect to our back channel conversation…
Safe search engines for students…
HPE web sites…

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TypeWith.me is a great tool to create relevant, online conversations between up to 15 authors at the same time through one URL. The text is synchronized in real time so that everyone that is working together sees all of text simultaneously. Each author is assigned a different color so that you can see who is [...]

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Need an easier way to organize and present web-based information? LiveBinders allows you to collect, organize, and present information in ONE location. No more clicking back and forth between documents, PowerPoint presentations, white board lessons, and websites. Like an actual notebook, LiveBinders, organizes your information in tabs (much like dividers) and makes it easy to [...]

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This  has been a wonderful week at the CMI Conference in Saratoga Springs, New York. In the Saturday session we will be exploring the use of digital tools to engage and motivate your tech savvy students.

 
 
Curriculum 21 Clearinghouse

Popular Web 2.0 Resources
Digital Tool Evaluation Sites
Share your web 2.0 tool here…
Building your virtual classroom
New site of [...]

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There are tremendous assistive technology applications available for the  iPod touch and iPad.  I have been sharing these applications with special education administrators the past few weeks. There are applications available for free or at a low cost that connect with students with disabilities.
Click here for the complete list and you can download it as [...]

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