31 Web Sites to Teach You About Technology Integration

It's the 21st century and I'm sure your school district has been embracing technology. With budget cuts, however, can your school keep up with the need for new and updated computers? I work in Bergen County (N.J.) where we have the highest property taxes in the nation, and yet this fall I'm not sure whether or not our media center will see more computers for our students. (Thank you, Governor Christie) I know of districts where every student has their own laptop. Not where I am. Still, I try to use what we have to prepare our students for when they graduate and go out into the world. No matter what they will do in their career, whether it's an auto mechanic or a lawyer, they will need these digital skills. If you are still wary about technology, it is time to jump into the water. We don't want you and your students left behind.


 7 Ways to Increase Teacher Technology Integration in the Classroom

10 Tips for Planning the Use of Technology in Lessons

10 Tips for Teaching Technology to Teachers

25 Easy Ways to Use Technology in the Classroom- the list is downloadable!

32 Great Technology Integration Tips- contributed by educators on Free Technology for Teachers' site


41 Web Sites for Teachers to Integrate Tech into Your Classroom

50 Free Collaboration Tools That Are Awesome for Education

50 Ways to Integrate Technology into Your Classroom Tomorrow

EdTech: Focus on K-12 Video Library- includes "The High Tech Classroom" and "IT Training"

EdTech Magazine

Effective Technology Integration- from Classroom Connect

Getting Started with Technology in Your Classroom- from Edutopia

How to Build a Technology-Based Curriculum- from Edutopia

How to Increase Tech Integration in the Classroom- written by Cheska Lorena, high school science teacher

International Society for Technology in Education

Lesson Plans: Infuse Technology into Your Classroom- from EdTech

The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators- written by many teachers who love using technology



Teach Yourself to Teach with Tech

Teaching with Technology-wiki index covers documents, images, video and more

Tech and Learning Online- you can also subscribe (free) to their magazine

Technology in the Classroom Infographic

Technology Integration Best of 2010- from Education World

Technology Integration for Teachers- long list of ideas for classroom projects

Technology Integration Made Easy- from Education World

Technology Integration Matrix- as used by Florida Schools

Technology Use V. Technology Integration In The Classroom

Twelve Essentials for Technology Integration- written by Richard Byrne

Web 2.0 Tools- my extensive listing of tools for Web 2.0

What Does Technology Integration Mean?- by Mary-Beth Hertz

What is Technology Integration?- from Edutopia

Why Integrate Technology into the Classroom? The Reasons are Many- Edutopia

All About Twitter: 44 Links to Guides, Lessons, Tutorials, Wikis

5 Free Ways to Never Miss a Twitter @Reply- from Mashable

5 Twitter Newbie Mistakes to Avoid

6 Examples of Using Twitter in the Classroom

7 Levels of Twitter Followers

8 Videos to Help Teachers Get Started with Twitter- written by David Wees

9 Twitter Directories You Should Be Listed On

10 Awesome Ways to Integrate Twitter with Your Website

10 Ways to Archive Your Tweets

20 Top Educational Tweeters

25 Important Twitter Guides and Apps for Teachers- excellent listing!

100 Ways to Teach With Twitter

The Beginner's Guide to Twitter- written by Michael Hyatt, this is a "20 minute guide to Twitter for non-techies."

Building a Personal Learning Network (PLN) on Twitter

Connect by Microblogging- from Shelly Terrell

Educators on Twitter- spreadsheet on GoogleDocs; add your name

FLLWRS- keep track of who follows you or unfollows you on Twitter

Hootsuite- social media dashboard

How to Read a Tweet

How the Library of Congress is Building a Twitter Archive

Mastering Twitter in 10 Minutes...or Less- download here

Nine Reasons to Twitter in Schools

A Teacher's Guide to Twitter-written by former science teacher Kate Klingensmith

Seven Ways to Find Teachers on Twitter-learn about new resources and exchange ideas about teaching; from Free Tech for Teachers Richard Byrne

Ten Top Twitter Tips

Ten Twitter Mythconceptions

Tips and Tools to Manage Your Twitter Time- Shelly Terrell

Top Twitter Hashtags for Teachers

TweetDeck- manages tweets

TweetDeck Support

Twibes- group of Twitter users with the same interest in a particular topic

Twishort- write more than 140 characters on Twitter

Twitter 102- The Educator's PLN

Twitter as an Interactive Newspaper for Teachers

Twitter4teachers Wiki-connect with teachers in your subject area

A Twitteraholic's Guide to Tweets, Hashtags and All Things Twitter- from Sue Waters, the Edublogger

Twitter Chat Tools- list of 5

Twitter Etiquette: Five Dos and Don'ts

Twitter Handbook for Teachers- written by Tomaz Lasic

Twitter Help Center

Twitter Lessons in 140 Characters or Less- from Education Week

TwitterU- wikispace which lists some Twitter hashtags

Twittonary- Twitter dictionary

Using Twitter in the Classroom- written by Michael Zimmer, whose blog is The Pursuit of Technology Integration Happiness.

Why Teachers Should Try Twitter

Using Facebook in the Classroom: 29 Tips, Templates and Alternatives

My school has blocked Facebook. It's not the end of the world, and I do understand the administration's concerns. Since I don't see anything changing in the next year, I've suggested that  my teachers should use alternatives, including templates, MyFakeWall and Edmodo. The list below covers everything, whether or not you are able to access Facebook in your school. If you have anything to add, please do so. I'm always ready to try new things!


Facebook
10 Tips for Using Facebook in the Classroom- from Michael Zimmer

20 Reasons You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom

25 Great Facebook Tips and Tricks

100 Ways You Should Be Using Facebook in Your Classroom

A Teacher's Guide to Using Facebook- written by Bernadette Rego; 22 pages

Creating a Facebook Page for Your School- written by Brad Flickinger

Facebook4Education Wiki- started by Michael Zimmer

Facebook as an Instructional Technology Tool

Facebook in Education- Facebook's official page

Facebook Profile Template- created by Suzanne Witlow, this is a Word document

Facebook Strategies For the Classroom

Historical Figure Facebook Project- students will create a Facebook page for a historical figure; lesson plan and instructions are here.

How to Maximize Facebook Privacy- YouTube video

How to Use Facebook: Video Series- eHow; 15 videos

Rules and Reasons for Using Facebook in the Classroom

Tips for Teachers on Facebook- keep students from seeing things your friend are allowed to see

Using Facebook in Education

Using Facebook to Teach- history teacher Sara Romeyn talks about using Facebook in her classroom; YouTube video

Facebook Page Templates
Facebook in the Cloud Project- sample from English teacher's project on the book "The Outsiders"

J.F.K. Facebook Template- download the PowerPoint file and edit the information

Facebook Template Page- from TES Connect

Historical Figure Facebook Page- free download

Microsoft Word Facebook Template

Programs Which Look Like Facebook (and won't be blocked at your school)

Edmodo- social network can be used in your classroom; interface looks a lot like Facebook so students will like it

Fake Convos- create fake Facebook newstreams

Fakebook

Historical Facebook Template- from GoogleDocs

MyFakeWall

The Wall Machine

65 Sites for Digital Storytelling Tools and Information

Information
Center for Digital Storytelling

Creative Educator- 4 articles on digital storytelling

Digital Directors Guild- assists educators with their digital storytelling projects 

Digital Storytelling in the Classroom- from Microsoft Education

Digital Storytelling in Language Arts

Digital Storytelling in the Science and Math Classroom

Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators- 120 page pamphlet (download) written by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano (Creative Commons Attribution 2.5)

The Elements in Digital Storytelling

The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling

Integrating Digital Storytelling in Your Class Resources

Making Stopmotion Movies- information on how to create stopmotion and claymation movies

Tech4Learning Blog- lots of wonderful posts regarding ways to tell stories, including claymation

Online Tools
100+ Digital Storytelling Tools for Your Digital Selves part I

100+ Digital Storytelling Tools...part II

Aniboom- animation studio

Animoto- create video slide shows

Big Universe- for younger children

Blurb- prices start at $10.95 (small book) discounts on quantity orders

Bookbuilder

Bookemon

BoomWriter- students write a book together; class gets one free copy (free shipping)

Chogger- create comics

ClassikTV- create a movie by adding subtitles to old movie scenes

Creaza- suite of creative tools, including cartoonist, movie editor, audio editor and mindmaps

Digistories

Digital Storytelling with the iPad

DigiTales- create 3-5 minute stories from these types: living memories, beyond words, itza wrap

Do Ink- create Flash-style animations using a "simple and friendly vector editor

Domo Animate- free animation website offers characters with dialogue, backdrops and special effects

Glogster- drag and drop text, images, audio, video drawings and more; premium edition has no ads

Google Search Stories- uses YouTube, so if your school blocks it you're out of luck

A Hotlist on Digital Storytelling

JellyCam Stop Motion Maker

Kerpoof- make movies, cards, drawings,pictures, tell stories; for grades K-8; site also has lesson plans and teacher tools.

Lightning Bug -assists students in writing a story from finding an idea to finishing the story

Little Bird Tales- for very young children

Make Beliefs Comix-writing tools, lesson plans, printables

MapSkip

Microsoft's Digital Storytelling in the Classroom

Mrs. P.com

Museum Box

My eBook- create novels, comics, magazines, brochures

My Story Maker- for younger kids; interactive digital story creator

Myths and Legends- online digital storytelling site

Our Story- create a collaborative timeline

PicLits- students are given a picture with a list of keywords to inspire them to write a story about that picture

Picture Book Maker- create an online children's book

Pinball- helps students get started with ideas which are bounced around

Projeqt- visual storytelling

Shiddoni- create an imaginary world with animals

Simplebooklet- create online newsletters, presentations (education version)

Smilebox- mix photos, videos and music into a multimedia presentation

Stage'd- create animated comics

Story Tools

Storybird- "short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read and print

Storyboard Template-choice of different templates

Student Publishing- "Publish individual student stories or have them each contribute to a classbook."; resources for librarians, teachers and parents; many FREE projects.

ThumbScribes- online collaboration of poems, short stories, fiction, novellas

Tikatok- for younger children

Voice Thread- group conversations around images, documents, videos; Voice Thread in the Classroom.

What-if Questions Genie

Widbook- create, collaborate and share books

Xtranormal-create online movies using their characters who speak what you write for them; $$

ZooBurst-create a 3D pop-up book

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