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The American Library Association is the one stop shop for all library professionals. It's a great resource for new librarians beginning their career, and for seasoned library professionals trying to keep up to date with new and current library trends.

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Dealing with censorship challenges at your library or need to get prepared for them? Visit our Fight Censorship page for easy-to-access resources.

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Technology advancements are made every single day, and unfortunately there isn't enough time for schools to schedule necessary professional development to learn how to use these technologies. This website has a plethora of tutorials for new and older school technologies.

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Technology is becoming a very vital part of our lives. In this digital age, we should make use of these technological tools in our classrooms. More and more schools are adopting technology as a resource for teaching. Some tools can be used for instruction and some can be used to assess the knowledge gained by students.

However, we need to face the reality that not every teacher is provided with a technology-equipped classroom. In such cases, teachers will have to find some resources on their own. There are many free web-based tools that are available on the Internet, which can be easily integrated into lessons and are accessible to everyone.

In my wiki ' Using Free Web-based Tools in the LOTE classroom', I had introduced educators to various web-based tools that they could use in their instruction. I had also provided examples in order to help teachers see what the final product would look like. I consider this website, 'Technology Tutorials for Teachers', as an extension. My aim in creating this website was to provide educators with a platform where they could find all the information about how to create the web-based tools. The website contains video tutorials for many of the tools and it also has links to the Support and Help sections of the tools. I hope that this will help teachers and their students to actually create educational products in their classes.

Since this is a work in progress, I will continue to add more tutorials. If you would like me to find tutorials on some specific tool, please feel free to contact me and I will be happy to help.

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Technology is becoming a very vital part of our lives. In this digital age, we should make use of these technological tools in our classrooms. More and more schools are adopting technology as a resource for teaching. Some tools can be used for instruction and some can be used to assess the knowledge gained by students.

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The "School Library Journal" has been providing librarians with a plethora of book recommendations as well as technological resources and in depth reviews from fellow library professionals.

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Nearpod is another great tool to create interactive lessons. Nearpod can take existing Google slides and Powerpoint slides and turn them into interactive masterpieces. One of my favorite features of this resources if the ability to make user responses and poll responses anonymous. This allows for shyer users to be open and honest about their feelings or opinions. The Nearpod library also had great pre made lessons available as well for both teacher's and librarians. This is not an entirely free resource but it is something that could be purchased using library or school funds, and chances are that your district is already using Nearpod as a part of their curriculum.

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Nearpod: Foster a love of learning in every student

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Create active learning experiences students can’t wait to be a part of.

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"The Library Journal" is another resource that is great for librarians that are interested in expanding their collection, as well as keep up to date with issues that pertain to the library world.

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Library Journal is rolling out the 2020 class of Movers & Shakers! You can find a new group announced here each day this week, two on Wednesday and concluding with today's Community Builders! It is my great pleasure to congratulate and welcome the 2020 Movers & Shakers. They join a distinguished group that is now nearly 1,000 strong. Reading any of these profiles will surely bring a little light into our COVID-19-quarantined days.

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Library Journal is rolling out the 2020 class of Movers & Shakers! You can find a new group announced here each day this week, two on Wednesday and concluding with today's Community Builders! It is my great pleasure to congratulate and welcome the 2020 Movers & Shakers.

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Flipgrid is a must for teachers and librarians interested in increasing their student engagement. Flipgrid allows students to create video responses on set prompts and topics. Students can be as creative as want, they can add filters to their videos, pause and stop to create stop motion videos, or add and embed pictures and links to their videos. At my current school, we use Flipgrid to help our Emergent Bilingual students practice their English speaking skills privately.

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We express ourselves in different ways. On Flip, you can use our simple and fun built-in camera to record your thoughts, add effects and share within your Flip group as video, audio only or text in your web browser or mobile app.

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Flip is a video discussion and sharing app, free from Microsoft.

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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video discussion and video sharing app, free from Microsoft, built for classrooms and beyond. Learn more.

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Peardeck can take any boring google side and turn it into a fun and interactive assignment. Peardeck is an add on that can easily be downloaded into your Google add-ons, and it extremely user friendly. Peardeck will prompt and suggest activities that can be embedded into new or existing Google slides, and it can allow for a self led, or teacher led lesson.

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