Educational Insights Helping Teachers Locate Technology Today 

 PDF Resources – Forms to Conversions 

  Active Presenter – Easily Create Screencasts allows you to record your computer screen with voice narration.

  100 Uses of a Document Camera

  Online Discussions: How to Engage Students

  are two great presentations sent to me from Blake Harris at FETC and presented by Jenna Linskens

  Get the Math

Get the Math is a multimedia project about algebra in the real world. See how professionals working in fashion, video game design, and music production use algebraic thinking. Then take on interactive challenges related to those careers.

  Apple iBooks 2 Preview has a nice collection of screenshots to give an overview of the textbooks being offered through iTunes.

  Think Tac Toe 

 T-T-T is a form of alternative assessment and can be used with all grades and will all subjects. The idea is for students to work in groups and choose three projects to do. The top line are simple, the middle line are a bit more difficult and the bottom line are projects that would take several days to complete. Students can select their any of the three columns (which would include on project from each level),or they could choose either diagonal. Teachers may decide to assign particular projects to the groups.

  Earth Cam.Com has a live camera view of most of the major cities in the world.  Allows you to give students that true visual of what a place is like with real time views.

  The Futures Channel

hosts educational videos sorted by topic.  Best part – this site not blocked by most school filters.

Wolfram Alpha Education Portal  In the portal you’ll find a dynamic textbook, lesson plans, widgets, interactive Demonstrations, and more built by Wolfram education experts. You can take a look at the types of materials we offer below, but to get full access to all materials, you need to sign up for a free account.

  Power My Learning 

PowerMyLearning.com is a groundbreaking learning platform for teachers, students and parents that makes the best free digital learning activities on the web easily accessible and usable to meet the full range of K-12 learning needs.

  Clutter Free Classroom Blog has tips and resources for effective classroom and time management.

  Evernote for Education has forums, ideas, and resources to make Evernote even more useful to educators.

  Engineering Resources for Elementary STudents is a Livebinder created by Michelle Tona – Braden River Elementary.  Check out all the science resources for our younger learners.

  IEP App for Parents is a great tool to keep track of all the paperwork and meetings involved in the special education process.  Would also be a good app for school personnel to know.  It’s inevitable that it will start showing up at IEP meetings.

  We Give Books - a “Win-Win” for reading…

We Give Books is a free website that enables anyone with access to the Internet to put books in the hands of children who don’t have them, simply by reading online.

Simply choose the charity you want to read for and then select the books you want to read. For each book you read online, we donate a book to a leading literacy group on your behalf.

The more you read, the more we give.