Transformative+Resources

====Keeping up and staying current as educators is as important as doctors who have to be aware of new medical conditions and the therapies to help patients. Our students deserve up to date teaching and learning strategies and we know that we have to be life-long learners to attain this in our classrooms and schools. For this activity, become an Internet Detective and find a few resources to share with the group that might be a transformational practice, a new technology, a blog about 21st century learning, a product, a lesson plan or something you have discovered that made an impact in your thinking about TPACK--technology, content, or pedagogy in the 21st century. Post why you chose the resources and how they will help educators stay current and move toward transformative practices.====


 * **Name** || **Resource Title and Link** || **Why I Chose this Resource** || **How will the it help educators stay current?** ||
 * Denise Lutz || Karl Fisch - Blog http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/ || Karl Fisch is a teacher and tech director in Colorado. Karl is an innovator, 21st century practitioner, world renowned speaker, and is pretty funny. || Karl is a educator who continually challenges the norm and pushes us to think and do differently. ||
 * Denise Lutz || http://classroomtech.pbworks.com/w/page/15984809/Podcasting || This is a very concise site that explains podcasting and takes you through the steps of development. Additional resources are posted within the site. || Podcasting creates an authentic audience, offers a window to the classroom, encourages creativity and collaboration, teaches effective communication, engages students and gives them a voice. ||
 * Jessica Cully || [|www.edutopia.org] ||= This site has a lot of interesting ideas. It has articles, strategies by grade level, videos, blogs on various topics dealing with education. There are articles on 21st century learning and integrating technology in the classroom. I even took a learning style quiz. || There are blogs, articles and discussion forums on various topics, so you can collaborate with other educators. ||
 * Kevin Smith || Discovery Education || Discovery offers interactive webinars on selected topics. If you are unable to have your classes watch live, they archive it and you can watch it later. In addition, you can do pre and post breifings and even have the ability to submit questions to the presenter. || This resource allows for relevancy because it connects students and teachers to live experts. Many of the webinars I have seen advertised are geared more towards teachers (pd) and less towards students, but there is a variety. ||
 * Sarah Cashin || [] || I chose this resource because many teachers have difficulty integrating technology to math class. I recently used parts of this webquest in my math class and it made learning symmetry much more enjoyable. || It gives instructions for teachers to create their own webquests and stay current with information in webquests and classrooms. ||
 * Vicki Huey || www.twitter.com || I chose this resource because it gives me valuable information about new technologies and how to incorporate them into my lessons. I can also integrate the use of twitter in my classroom. || Depending on who you follow, there is information every minute. If you type in the #edchat, you get even more information about new technologies. For instance, I learned about www.chartle.net to create your own charts. So you don't necessarily have to tweet or use it in your classroom, you can just follow to learn more. ||
 * Tim Stonerock || [] || I picked this website because it has several power points, videos, games great for the students to prictice their skills and it is a aid in the classroom during instruction. It also has premade jepardy games made to use for review of common topics in math and other subjects. || It gives me great ideas and already made activityies to use in class to teach several differnt topics. Several of the creators seem to be are experts in there fields. ||
 * Richard Batts || http://www.classroom20.com/ || I picked this website because it is a social network for those people interested in learning about social media and technologies in the classroom. || This site will help introducing teachers to new technologies that can be used in the classroom. It has a weekly newsletter, webcast to introduce new technologies, groups and forums. ||
 * Richard Batts || http://www.atomiclearning.com/ || I picked this website because it has several videos that teaches you how to use software. || This site will help teachers and students learn how to use software that are new or specific software techniques. ||
 * Sandy Guinto || [|http://www.freetech4teachers.com] || This website has an enormous amount of information for teachers. It has ideas, lesson plans and video "how to's" for different technologies that can be used in your classroom. It is a place to discover answers to many of the questions about how to use the technology in addition to how to apply it to what you are teaching. || The site is a place for teachers to share resources they have found in addition to what is posted on the site. It has a section for the most popular posts of the month so you can see what teachers all over the country are talking about. ||
 * Sean Reiber || http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Home || I picked this website beause it has tools for everything that you can think of for students and teachers to use. It ranges from audio tools to widgets. || This site gives teachers new sites and computer tools for students to use that they have not used before to incorporate technology into the classroom. ||
 * Amie Case || [] || I chose Expert Space which is powered by Grolier Online. I selected this because it is an online source for students to better improve their reading and writing skills. It allows them to view articles at their reading level as well as make cross-curricular connections. There is also a section that allows students to help develop skills in goal setting, planning and organization. || This site provides some of the crucial resources needed for teachers and students in learning and maintianing 21st century skills. It allows students to learn the requirements needed for language arts class, while still being an active digital learner. ||
 * Mia Brower || []& || I chose this site because it has a lot of different ideas on how to integrate technology into an elementary classroom. || This site has many current forms of technology (iPads, iPods, Smart Boards, Flip Cameras, etc.) and ways to use them. It also shows ways other elementary schools have integrated 21st Century Skills. It is a great source of ideas for integrating technology into your curriculum. ||
 * Kelly Wood || [] || I have posted this link because the Web that works Wiki is filled with great tutorials, help to those of us knew to so much of the 2.0 web stuff and how to use technology in the classroom. (I will also be posting my action research project this month) || Readers and contributors will learn and share information about specific Web 2.0 tools that can be used by teachers, and strategies that can be used with those tools that align with and support research-based effective instructional methods. Reference will be made to specific instructional strategies and a variety of examples will be shared covering all content areas from K-12 to college/university levels. ||
 * Jaclyn Angle || [] || I chose this website because it is a one-stop site that provides an enormous amount of web 2.0 resources. There are hundreds of websites, blogs, webcasts, screencasts, wiki sites, organizational tools, blogs, and "fun stuff to try". || This site will help educators like me to stay current on the "new" and "improved" web 2.0 resources when I am ready to introduce a new topic, concept to my students. Teachers can check this site periodically to help enrich their lesson plans to engage and motivate students. ||
 * Alisha Sleeper || http://teachingmathematicswithtechnology.wikispaces.com/Discovering+Polygon+Interior+Angle+Sum || I chose this website because it has a lot of great math lesson plans that incorporate technology. || This site will help math educators begin incorporating technology into their classrooms. ||
 * Jen Baranek || [] || I chose this website because it has a lot of lesson plans and ideas for every subject area and grade level. || This site will help all educators utlize technology within their content areas. ||
 * Elisa Celio || [] ||  ||   ||
 * e celio || I chose this site because there are many ideas for critical thinking in LA. In addition, there numerous interactive applications to help with prewriting and other stages of Language Arts curriculum. I must go on this site twice a week for ideas and ways to help infuse technology into class. ||  ||   ||
 * Maria Pettet || [|www.edmodo.com/home] || Edmodo is similar to Twitter, but it does more. Students and teachers create short messagege and disseminate them. The messages are sent to defined people or groups, not the whole world. Teachers have control over who views the messages instead of having public access for all. Teachers can post assignments and quizzes on Edmodo for students as well. || Edmodo gives teachers and students the opportunity to use a 21st Century skill to interact with other teachers and students an each other. It is safer for students to use than Twitter because teachers have control of who views the messages. ||
 * Chris Campbell || [] || I chose this site because I found it to be very helpful as a reading teacher. With the new common core standards, students will be expected to read in certain Lexile bands. || [] gives teachers the ability to search books by Lexile number, calculate expected comprehension based on DIBELS to Lexile conversions, and most importantly analyze text passage and give an appropriate Lexile scores to teacher made selections. This website will allow me to better manage my students' reading progress throughout the year, and allow me to adjust text complexity to meet individual students needs. ||
 * Kim Rubert || [|www.kidblog.org] || I read about this site on a literacy page. The teachers uses it to keep students engaged ovet the summer. She liked it because it was kid friendly and easy to use. I am going to work with my 3rd graders over the next couple of weeks to get them interested and hopefully I can help them stay connected to learning through the summer || There are a lot of Blog options. I want my students to be safe on the internet. Many of my students still are not internet savvy. This is a safe and user friently site. Keeping abreast of all the options available and choosing the ones that are right for your students is one of the most important things for a teacher to do. Since I teach elementary, I need something that is not intimidating and easy for them to use. ||
 * Linda Geist || [] || I read about this site when I was exploring the model curriculum for social studies. I choose it because it give teachers a place to check the many facts students will be finding while they are online. There is no way I can be a catalog of facts, yet I need a resource to check accuracy of items students bring to the table. || Information is generated faster than we can possibly digest it. We need a place to cross reference things that we question. This site can keep us accurate as we stay current with the world around us. ||
 * Linda Geist || [|www.cast.org] || I included this site as it is filled with a wealth of resources about differentiation of instruction and use of technology in the classroom. Taken from their website, they claim to be, "A nonprofit leader in education, CAST works to improve learning opportunities and outcomes for all individuals through Universal Design for Learning. Explore this website to find out more about our research and development, innovative learning tools, and professional services." || The site is a is dedicated to transforming education and has multiple resources for teachers to stay current as well as participate in professional development opportunities. ||
 * Beth Simonton || www.pinterest.com || I know this is a tool that many of you may already use but it is a good way of looking at many different educational blogs under one roof. Each picture allows you to link to a blog. I have also heard many teacher talk about "teachers pay teachers". I have seen colleagues implement tools found on this site. || It will help educators staycurrent by motivating them to try new things. It has a link to smartBoard tools and other technology integrating ideas ||
 * Kelly Wood || [] || Just came across this for planning at Wellington-enjoy teamies...great ||  ||