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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning is a website that provides resources on educational web tools and mobile apps for teachers and educators. The website provides free teachers guides on how to better integrate technology into his/her teaching and developed in a simple step by step process

Author Scavenger Hunt

For teachers this is an online resource for students to take part in by searching through scavenger hunts of authors and their books.

JumpStart

JumpStart provides fun and interactive games that engage and educate the whole family.

TeacherVision

In addition to thousands of worksheets, graphic organizers, assessment forms, quizzes, games, and activities, TeacherVision offers teacher-tested (and approved!) classroom management tools, lesson plans, bulletin board ideas, whiteboard-compatible digital books, and hundreds of supplementary videos.

MITOPENCOURSEWARE

MIT offers up the curriculum that is taught in their classes and supportive materials and resources to use this curriculum to contribute to STEM teachings in the classroom.

Box of Tricks

Drawing from real-life examples of students’ work, this website aims to demonstrate how to make the most of the possibilities afforded to us by the effective use of the internet in order to raise achievement and participation, as well as to increase motivation and engagement.

Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies

Free resource site on trends, technology and tools. Here is the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012 as voted for by 582 learning professionals worldwide. Below is the slideset available via Slideshare and beneath it the textual list.

Glogster

Glogster is an internet tool that allows users to create and share interactive posters composed of text, graphics, sound and videos. In addition, peer assessing through the commenting facility in blog like form on the website becomes a very effective way for students to asses each other.

The Journal: Transforming education through technology

The section of the Journal offers the review of IT trends within education and the website has an abundance of resources for exploring new outlets for education online

MentorMob

Mentor Mob allows teachers to focus the student’s attention by creating learning playlists of relevant content which can be enhanced by quizzes and comprehension exercises to test their knowledge as they go.

Sketch Up

Sketch Up is a desktop application from Google that allows teachers or students to create and share stunning 3D models easily and intuitively.

What Kids Can Do

This study, sponsored by the National School Boards Association, reports the findings of three surveys on Internet social networking: an online survey of 1,277 nine-to-seventeen year olds, an online survey of 1,039 parents, and telephone interviews with 250 school district leaders who make decisions on Internet policy.