1. Free Technology for Teachers. This is an excellent blog that I read almost daily. It is maintained by Richard Byrne, a teacher from Maine, who writes about various technology integration tools, and much, much more.
2. Google Docs. If you’re not already using Google Docs, you should be. Google Docs is a collaborative tool that makes it easy to store documents, share documents, work on documents with others, make presentations, spreadsheets, and drawings too. The third grade team and I have been using Google Docs all year to collaborate on documents and spreadsheets. Here are some useful resources to help learn about Google Docs and what an amazing tool it is.
- Tour of Google Docs from Google
- Google Docs in Plain English
3. Edublogs.org: I started using Edublogs this year and love it so far. Consider a blog as a website for your classroom, or as a way to get students to write more, in a reading response journal for example. 4St has been doing this for 2 years.
- List of teachers using Edublogs
- The Edublogger is a great blog to check out also
4. Ed.Voicethread.com: I’ve written about Voicethread in a previous post, so I won’t go on and on, but if you haven’t gotten a chance to check it out, I highly recommend it. It offers so many potential learning opportunities for students. We found it extremely useful this year in the foreign language classroom. And, Grade 5 did a fantastic project in science using Voicethread. Here are some further links:
5. Edu.Glogster.com: Glogster is an online poster creation tool. We used this tool in third grade this year and the students took off with it showing their creativity and imagination in ways I never could have predicted. Check out their work!
Hope to hear about something that I shared with you that inspired you as much as these tools and resources inspire me. Happy Summer!
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