Tips+for+Using+Technology+in+the+Classroom+Resources

=** “Tips for using Technology in the Classroom” Resources **=

==This page contains resources that focus on giving tips for integrating technology into the classroom. They go beyond a basic introduction to the technology, but do not necessarily have information about lesson plans using the technology.==


 * __Title__**: Edutopia: Blogs: Nicholas Provenzano
 * __Link__**: []
 * __Contributed by__**: Stacey Komsa
 * __Description__**: This blog is designed to give helpful tips about technology to teachers around the world. The purpose is to provide information on the newest software, how they work, and how they can be implemented into schools. Contributor, Nicholas Provenzano is an English teacher in Michigan. He also contributes for TheNerdyTeacher.com.
 * __Type of Resources__**: This blog caters to software updates, professional technology development within a school, and tips on finding informative and helpful sources with the Internet.
 * __Utility__**: Although this site is useful for finding information that will keep teachers up-to-date with technology trends, it would be even more helpful if it provided information on ideas to incorporate and implement the new technology into lessons in a cost effective manner.
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 * __Title__**: Integrating Technology in the Classroom
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 * __Contributed by__**: Kristine Hibbert
 * __Description__**: Educational Technology in the classroom (K-12 Education) teachers in Ontario, Canada; Kisu Kuroneko is the editor. This site has many ideas for using technology in the classroom and gives great insights to helping your students with the technology.
 * __Type of Resources__**: teacher created newsletters
 * __Utility__**: Full of ideas for technology in the classroom from wikis to laptops to webcasts.
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 * __Title__**: Teacher Tech Blog: Scott Walker
 * __Link__**: []
 * __Contributed by__**: Christie Gauer
 * __Description__**: This blog provides tips to better use technology in the classroom. It is updated a couple of times a week and provides tips on software, hardware, classroom productivity, and lesson ideas.
 * __Type of Resources__**: The blog provides tips about apps, websites, general resources, blogging, and other web 2.0 tools.
 * __Utility__**: This blog seems resourceful and is organized well. It easily accessible and provides pictures along with explanations.
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 * __Title__**: The Research Buzz
 * __Link__**: [|http://researchbuzz.me]
 * __Contributed by__**: Whitney Pastorial
 * __Description__**: While not directly related to education, this blog is updated frequently to reflect the latest changes in databases, search engines, and other data stored on the internet. This site is useful in learning about specific databases that can be trusted and providing rich tools for searching the internet for specific purposes. Overall, a good resource in learning about searching the internet and using databases to your advantage.
 * __Type of Resources__**: There are links to search engines, information about databases, as well as tips for searching the internet.
 * __Utility__**: The author updates this site on a regular basis making it easy to trust links not to be broken to other websites. However, the author does include random trivia of interesting facts he/she has discovered on the internet in each post making it difficult at times to determine the important information in each post. Also, sometimes the links lack description.
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 * __Title__**: Blogging About the Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: A Blend of Technology and Education
 * __Link__**: [|http://blog.web20classroom.org]
 * __Contributed by__**: Whitney Pastorial
 * __Description__**: Written by Steven Anderson, an instructional technologist for the Forsyth County Schools in Winston-Salem, this blog is about various Web 2.0 tools and how to use them in the classroom, such as social media. He focuses on a different tool in each post with a thorough explanation of how to use the tool, tips, and other suggestions about integrating it's use into the classroom as well as background as to why the tool was developed if known.
 * __Type of Resources__**: Usually pictures and/or videos are included in each post to add further explanation of each tool. He also provides links to additional resources to add further explanation or address more advanced uses in the classroom.
 * __Utility__**: An extremely valuable resource, Steven Anderson uses language that is easy to understand and follow. He also encourages discussion of the tools through the comments section of each post. Although there is an archive listing showing older blog posts in the right column of the page, it is not easy to search to see if he had addressed the use of a specific tool in the classroom.
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**__Type of Resources__**: This teacher resource includes blogs, RSS feeds, videos, and Podcasts of different members from all over the world.  **__Utility__**: Navigating and posting on this website is free. So is the membership. The organization is easy to read and provides a slew of topic pertaining to Technology integrated in the classroom. In addition, it is easy to share the information you find with whomever you wish through Twitter, Facebook, Google Blogger, Diigo, Linked In, and Amazon Kindle Blogs! What a site!
 * __Title__**: “Integrating Technology in Education”: Created by Created by[| Greg Limperis]
 * __Link__**: [|http://www.technologyintegrationineducation.com/group/TIEgr][|up]
 * __Contributed by__**: Jacquelyn Caliente
 * __Description__**: This group is for people interested in helping to integrate Technology in education in a seamless manner, in order to use Technology as a tool that enhances education yet does not drive it (Limperis, 2012). I noticed that this website pertains to all different topics of discussion from “Singapore’s 21st Century Teaching Strategies” to attending educator’s conferences, all having to do with the topic of “Integrating Technology in Education”. The blogs and RSS feeds are all created by and include professionals with valuable and insightful feedback.
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