TECHNOLOGY

[|100 Most Useful Sites] [|20 Educator Apps] explanation of each [|5-Minute Film Festival]  Learn how to use 2.0 WebTools in short videos at Edutopia. [|A.nnotate] - annotate documents for Think Alouds [|Create Video]in your classroom with this software [|Character Blogs] - Take a character from a book and write from his/her perspective from ReadWriteThink. Facebook Tutorials [|Part I] and [|Part 2]; listen to podcasts to help you [|FaKebook] Website introduced by a member of the IMPACT committee w/DPI as a great way to create 'blogs' for your classroom... [|IngraStock] Research site. Students write any word in the search box. They get a list of articles to read and videos to watch. [|Prezi] - make your own presentations and share them in the cloud. [|SmartBoard Tools] like an online timer, metronome and BIG calculator. Chocked full of ideas. [|Spartan Guides] When you have some time to explore, teach yourself to use technology using this site dense with suggestions and sites. [|Teachers Favorite Websites] posted by Laura Candler [|TPACK]  in a 3-minute VIDEO, using technology effectively along with other effective teaching strategies; not using technology for technology's sake [|Poll Everywhere] where teacher or student asks a question and students respond. Everyone can see the projected answers. [|SmartBoard App] [|Screen-Cast-O-Matic] Videotape yourself so you can be in 2 places at one time. You can build videos, documents, Skype interviews, just about anything into your Screencastomatic. Collaborative groups can screentape their work as well and teach others. Walk through a students' paper with them that the student can listen to later - a virtual conference. [|Apps for Dyslexia] - Free and cheap apps to help students with dyslexia. I am not an expert so I would like feedback on these ideas. [|DPI DATA]
 * [|MY PINTEREST TECHNOLOGY BOARD] **
 * [|Favorite Web 2.0 Tools] and Tutorials in one place **
 * [|Mooresville School System]: 1-1 Technology Conversion - right up the road.**
 * [|Guide On The Side]** - a site that collects the best of the best websites and an explanation for teachers.
 * [| NATIONAL PTA]** EXCELLENT SITE to share with PARENTS
 * [|TPACK] ** - Teachers select an appropriate technology piece by examining the Content-Pedagody-Technology relationship. Make sure teachers put the technology and the content and the pedagogy that they know and have and put them on slips in cups. Teachers then work with what they have.