Resources

Edtech Industry and Reference Resources


• Technology Integration - Professional Development Guide Edutopia.org's Technology Integration professional development guide can be used after completion of the Project-Based Learning Guide or with participants who are familiar with project-based learning. It's designed for a two- to three-hour class or session and can be used in conjunction with trainings on technology used in classroom settings.
• 2013 K-12 Horizon Report This reports identifies and describes technologies likely to have an impact in the next 5 years.
• Partnership for 21st Century Skills This organization's mission is, per their site, "to serve as catalyst for 21st century learning to build collaborative partnerships among education, business, community and government leaders so that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills they need to thrive in a world where change is constant and learning never stops." A great resource site for forward-thinking ideas, tools and techniques.
• Edutopia This site has a very broad array of useful articles and videos on current thinking regarding high quality education. They truly support their vision of "a new world of learning based on the compelling truth that improving education is the key to the survival of the human race" in a very wide variety of ways.

Best Practices Sites


• Buck Institute - best practices for Project Based Learning
• Bloom's Taxonomy Overview - the basics of Bloom's, the history, and how it has evolved, from Vanderbilt University
• Flipped Class Introduction - learn the basics about how to flip your classroom, and why it might be beneficial. 
• Flipped Learning Network - many details and ideas about how to successfully flip a classroom.
• Multimedia in the Classroom- excellent how to site on getting more out of multimedia in the classroom.
• Video Strategies in the Classroom - provides detailed how to's and approaches to effectively implement video in the classroom.
• Educators Guide to School Networks - a very comprehensive site, made for educators, to learn all about school networks.

Subject Matter Specific Sites, Apps and Resources

Science

• Hand's On Activities to Teach Biology - an excellent list of engaging hand's on activities for the High School (and Middle School) classroom.
• Biology Corner - many high quality lessons that lend themselves to adding technology components to aid deepened student learning.
• Lesson Plans Inc. - Biology - high quality lesson plans on biology and many other topics. Another site with lessons that lend themselves to adding technology components to augment student learning.
• Interactive Biology Lessons and More - from Richard Byrne's FreeTech4Teachers Blog.
• The Habitable Planet - excellent series of online courses to teach about ecology and other elements of biology.
• Green Screen - free iPad app all about genetics.
• BioNinja IB - free iPad app about the biology of genetics.
• Virtual Bacterial ID Lab - free iPad app about bacteria's DNA sequences.
• MinuteEarth Playlist (YouTube) - short videos about our planet.
• Explorelearning.com - interactive online simulations for math and science.
• Onlinelabs.in/biology - extensive list of online labs for math and science subjects.
• Sciencechannel.com - from Discovery Science, this site contains a wide variety of searchable video content.

Foreign Language

• Foreign Language Teaching Forum- the Mother Load of teaching resources for ALL languages. 
• American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese - a wealth of resources specifically for those 2 languages.
• Spanish Resources - from Canada's Association of Foreign Language Teachers.
• American Association of Teachers of French - wide variety of French language resources.


Multi-Purpose "Evergreen" Apps, Resources and Tools


• AudioBoom - easy to use audio recording app
• Blendspace - a web based tool to curate and structure multiple websites
• Collaborize Classroom - engage students with 'in the cloud' conversations
• Creative Commons - information and search engine to support copyright friendly media use
• Google Apps for Education - comprehensive cloud-base suite of web and tablet apps, to access anywhere a web connection exists
• MindMeister - multi platform brainstorming tool
• Notability - easy to use iOS notetaking and markup app with easy sync to Google Drive
• Padlet - all purpose website to post resource links and images
• Puppet Edu - easy to use multimedia creation app
• Quizlet - easy to use flashcard generator (app and web-based)
• Socrative - fast pre and post assessment polling app
• Thinglink - create webpages with clickable hotspots
• Today's Meet - 'backchannel' conversations to add to class discussions
• Zaption - app and website to add detailed learning content and interactive quizzes onto YouTube and other videos.

Apps and Tools Reference/Review Sites


• iPad Apps in Schools - this site contains well organized lists of iPad apps for use in K-12 classrooms, for all subjects. There is also a ‘general productivity’ category for those ‘evergreen apps’ that span multiple subjects and which can form the basis of a students’ tech toolkit.
• Balefire Labs - iPad and Android app reviews, based upon research based student learning objectives.
• Free Technology for Teachers This blog contains a searchable list of tools for varied use in K-12 classroom. Richard Byrne authors this site and actually tests, in classroom situations, the tool or resource before he recommends it. All the software is free, or VERY low priced for premium versions.
• Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day - an amazing array of blog posts on a variety of education topics, ranging from edtech tools to state and federal policy making and lots in between.