Technology

__**Technology**__ ==__Study Tool for Vocabulary__ - This free site makes studying vocabulary easy and enjoyable. Teachers can set up vocab lists, students can set up their own lists, or you can use one of the thousand lists that are already set up. There are a wide number of subject areas and multiple languages are available. I have used this as both a class activity where students enter their own definitions and return to the site to practice as well as a homework activity where I set up the list and students use the games to prepare for a vocab quiz. Site link: @http://quizlet.com/ I rate this site 4 out of 5 and believe that it is useful for teachers of any age group.==

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__ InTec InSights: Technology Integration Ideas for the Classroom __
== The creator __ [|Karen Ogen] __is a technology integration (InTec) specialist in Columbia, SC. she has created this blog to share web sites, teacher tools, and technology ideas that teachers can use in their classrooms. Her goal is to share technology resources that teachers can easily use to make learning fun, interactive, and engaging. ==

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==Highschool Physics teacher and Educational Technology Specialist, Dave Andrade, began his blog [] in 2009. Within his blog, Mr. Andrade offers brief reviews of available technological resources appropriate for teachers and/or classroom use, and has links to those sites readily available after each review. This blog is definitely geared toward educators with a fairly strong technology background, and many of his links are, understandibly related to high school sciences. Although this site has many great resources availible, and seems to be fairly easy to navigate, you will probably need to spend a bit of quality time hunting for what you are after. I give this site a 4 out of 5 star rating.==

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==This is an amazing website for students of any age. Not a good artist? Check out [|ToonDoo] now! It is a fun way to create your own comic strips. Just drag or click on various icons to create your own story or to express feelings! I would recommend this website for elementary, middle, and high school students. This website was created by ZoHo Corporation in California.==

==[|The Education Technology Blog] - Written by an elementary technology specialist, this blog introduces teachers to today's newest technologies and internet resources and gives practical ideas for using them in the classroom. Posts include pictures, videos, and detailed descriptions. Whether you just received an iPad, or are looking into social networking sites for educators, you are likely to find a great resource on this blog. This is great for teachers wanting to add more technology into their lessons, or administrators who are looking to find new ways of communicating with their staff.==

==I rate this website 5 out of 5. Everyone in the education field, no matter your grade level or position, can find a resource relevant to their particular needs. The layout makes it easy for you to find a specific thing, and the writing is easy to understand. ==

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==Twiducate is a social net working site for school. It was developed by a group of teachers from Ontario, Canada in 2009. It is a free resource for educators. Safety is ensured by a password protected platform, and only teachers, parents and students can view the teaching ideas, materials and collaborate.==

**[|www.ipadinschools.com]**
==**ipadinschools.com is a great resource page for educators that are using iPads in their classrooms. This website is in blog form that has new posts on a regular basis that address issues of technology in the classroom, such as “How Young Do We Go?”. One of the best resources of this website is the links to apps for iPads at the Elementary School levels, Middle School levels, and the High School levels. I would give this website a 4 out of 5 stars**.==

**[|www.educationtechnologyblog.com]**
==**This education technology blog is simply amazing. It provides educators with great ideas of how to in cooperate technology in the everyday classroom. It provides great links to apps for iPads and iPod Touches as wells. It is hard as an educator to try to keep up on all of the latest technologies and how to use them. This blog is a one-stop place to stay current. I give this blog 5 out of 5 stars.**==

==Technology in the classroom is growing at exponential numbers and teachers should be on top of their craft understanding not only how to integrate this into their lessons but also how to make it an experience for their students. Here are a few websites that are available online currently to help students and teachers alike. ==

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 The website, Teaching History with Technology, found at [], provides several ways to help a teacher in the social studies content area with integrating technology in the classroom. The website is clearly broken up in lessons and activities, presentations, discussions and collaborations, research and writing, assessments and mobile technology style table of contents which makes it very easy to navigate. It is easy to pick which section of history you want to look at from world and U.S. history as well as geography and AP style classes. From there, the limit is enormous as countless lesson plans, activities, assessments and presentations dealing with technology information are their for explanation and use. Overall I rate this site a 5 for its easy use and listings of various resources to add to any history based classroom.

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 Another website dealing with technology in the classroom is a site known as teaching tips for classroom teachers found at []. The website has an aging looking home page and a table of contents that is not position comfortably. After closer examination you can find links to areas called, stuff you got to try, handouts, fun power-points, tutorials, articles and integrating technology workshops. Technology wise the website only contains about fifteen subgroups dealing with integration with lessons, which makes the site not extremely effective compared to others. However once your use to the presentation of the website you can clearly find some easy tips to help you with integrating something new into your lessons on 21st Century education. Overall I give the website a 3 due to its aging presentation style design and its overall lack of versatility for all teachers. Even the technology integration subgroups is based mostly for elementary school teachers.

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 If your looking for something that has more physical resources to use with computers such as "assign-a-day" and "quiz-star" than you might want to check out 4-teachers found at []. The nice thing about the 4-teachers website is it seems to be updated frequently and full of hands on resources great for the both the teacher and for lesson plans involving the students. 4-teachers pushes a lot of technology based resources for teachers that have a internet connection and want to tap into these fields for quick and easy use. In addition to the resources available, which are visually listed in a nice sidebar with pictures, the site also contains teacher success stories with technology and resources you might not find on other sites such as technology for special need students, resources in Espanola and other bilingual education. The only negative I would give the site is the home page is very busy and it might take you some time to navigate and figure out where you want to go from there. Overall I give the site a 5 for its various resources for any teacher in any situation looking for new lesson plan ideas or technology for the teacher themselves.