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The world's largest interactive whiteboard community with a vast amount of teacher resources.

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Thank You Loyal Promethean Planet Members

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Promethean resources and ActivInspire Flipcharts can now be found on ClassFlow, Promethean's next generation lesson delivery software.

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TpT is a community of educators that provides access to over 2 million resources to use in classrooms. This is one of my personal favorite sites.

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World's most popular online marketplace for original educational resources with more than four million resources available for use today.

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This site provides opportunities to connect and learn how to teach with technology.

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ALTEC, the umbrella organization for the 4teacher tools, manages the Technology Rich Classroom (TRC),Title II-D initiative in Kansas. Take a look at the powerful 21st Century learning taking place in these classrooms!

4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use. Discover valuable professional development resources addressing issues such as equity, ELL, technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students.
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Professional Development for Ed
Engaging on-site professional development for educators.

Online Educational Games
Arcademic Skill Builders are educational video games offering fun ways to learn math and vocabulary skills.

4Teachers Videos Channel
Our video portal on YouTube and TeacherTube has tutorials and educational videos.

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ALTEC, the umbrella organization for the 4teacher tools, manages the Technology Rich Classroom (TRC),Title II-D initiative in Kansas. Take a look at the powerful 21st Century learning taking place in these classrooms! 4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering online tools and resources.

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Collaborative learning environment platform

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The site is an extension of the EdChat account on Twitter and allows me the opportunity to expand upon the brief Twitter conversations.

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What is #Edchat? #Edchat is the weekly Bammy Award-winning Twitter discussion that any educator can discuss and learn about current teaching trends, to integrate technology, to transform their education, and to connect with inspiring instructors around the world. We also discuss education policy, education reform, and often allow world-class leaders to take part in our talks, such as Alfie Kohn, Diane Ravitch, and Finnish Education Leaders.

Edchat was founded on July 30, 2009 by Shelly Sanchez Terrell (@ShellTerrell), Tom Whitby (@TomWhitby) and Steven Anderson (@Web20classroom).

#Edchat would not be possible without the help of our volunteers and moderators. @BlairTeach, @Shiftparadigm, @WMChamberlain ,, and @ sgthomas1973. Weekly archives are prepared and done by @jswiatek. Thanks to @edtechsteve for creating this wiki. Useful links: Jerry Cybraryman's #Edchat page, #Edchat is what, #Edchat: Participate in the discussions,

What's Twitter Chat?

When's #Edchat? Every Tuesday, at 7PM Eastern (19:00)

Share Resources and Success Stories! This page is where you can share blog posts, videos, links, or anything else you might want to share about a specific #edchat discussion. We all want to hear how ideas and speeches are translated into reality.

Join our group in the educator's PLN Ning community!

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What is #Edchat? #Edchat is the weekly Bammy Award-winning Twitter discussion that any educator can discuss and learn about current teaching trends, to integrate technology, to transform their education, and to connect with inspiring instructors around the world.

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This site will allow me to share ideas regarding new media. I can connect with others to grow my knowledge.

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A great resource that allows me to collaborate on group projects with others in the education field.

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My Pinterest site links to my favorite resources that are organized by file type for easy access.

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See what TeacherGirl003 (teachergirl003) has discovered on Pinterest, the world's biggest collection of everybody's favorite things.

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My blogger is where I share detailed reflections and ideas

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"When students create for the world they make it good. When students create only for their teachers, they make it good enough." - Rushton Hurley

The iPod teacher, Jon Smith, gave an extremely interesting talk on how he has used, is using, and plans to use ebooks to make an impact on his students. In summary, he discussed how he was working with a group of students who absolutely hated writing, hated schoolwork, and hated school in general. Then one day, Jon decided that these students were going to write a book, publish it, and make it available to download through the iBooks store. What were the results? Students were excited! They were engaged! They were taking what they learned in the classroom and sharing it with the world! This created a snowball effect, and other teachers in Jon's area followed this example. Altogether he has helped classes write 32 books with almost 25,000 downloads across the globe at the time he gave the presentation. If you're interested in listening to Jon talk more about this success, you can find the video Anyway, I think that ebooks can impact the writing process in two main ways, which will effect students, and therefore effect teachers as well. Cyclical processes, for the win! First, ebooks give students a sense of purpose. Other than receiving a good grade, there is very little motivation behind completing an assignment to turn into the teacher, who will return it to the student, who will most likely throw it away when they get home (</3). The idea of leaving behind a concrete product that displays student's learning achievements for the world to see is a profound accomplishment. Students will finally have motivation behind their work because there is a chance for people in 50+ countries around the world to see what they've done and what they know. Second, it gives students reason to take ownership over their world. Like the quote above, they are going to want their work to be GOOD (great, even!) if it is going to be shared with countless people. They will want to follow the writing process, understand the steps, put in effort to create something that makes them proud. In an article about
As a future English teacher of America (yay!), I am always interested in ways to engage my students in the writing process and get them excited about taking ownership of their work. This week, I learned about the use of ebooks, and the impact they are making by revolutionizing student learning.
here. Just be warned, if you're emotionally invested in students learning and get excited about students wanting to learn, you might shed a tear or two hearing about their excitement. #nojudgment #notashamed #gokids!
5th graders who published their own iBook, Jon stated that "[w]e need to globalize our teaching. Kids need to understand that there are other people in this world who care about their work than just their teachers." Excited students who are willing to learn, inspire teachers who want their students to achieve. The entire classroom environment changes and gives everyone involved a sense of purpose and accomplishment.
All of the above are benefits to students creating ebooks in the classroom, and the best part is, they are not just for English teachers! Any subject, any discipline can use this tool to help students display their knowledge and take ownership of what they have learned. As a plus for English teachers everywhere, our peers will be helping students hone their writing skills! The main consideration to take into account is first, remembering to follow all of the necessary steps to gain permission from the students parents or guardians to allow the students to collaborate in the project. Also, the teacher needs to present the idea of writing a book correctly so the students are excited! Motivated! Ready to take ownership! If the students see this as just another assignment to get a letter grade and move onto the next grade level, the point of the ebook project will be missed.
Back to Jon's presentation, the most striking idea that I took away was that teachers need to be willing to try new things to engage their students in the learning process. It is so easy to use what has been done before because you are fairly certain of the outcome, but to take a risk and hope for the best, is a scary thing. If we are to become teachers who are truly invested in our student's learning, we need to be willing to go to the edge of our comfort zone to empower the future. We need to be willing to continue the learning process ourselves, and seek out these new tools and new processes that allow students to take ownership of their learning and prepare them for their own futures in the world.
I hope you'll take some time to watch Jon's presentation and consider how the use of ebooks can engage your students and making learning fun!

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"When students create for the world they make it good. When students create only for their teachers, they make it good enough." - Rushton Hurley The iPod teacher, Jon Smith, gave an extremely interesting talk on how he has used, is using, and plans to use ebooks to make an impact on his students.

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Twitter is where I participate in discussions and share ideas