25 Best Websites for Teachers 1. Best Teacher Resources: Scholastic Teachables From lesson plans and reproducibles to mini-books and differentiated collections, Scholastic Teachables has everything you need to go with your lessons in every subject. It’s the best of Scholastic classroom resources right at your fingertips. 2. Best for Finding and Leveling Books: Book Wizard Use Scholastic’s Book Wizard to level your classroom library, discover resources for the books you teach, and find books at just the right level for students with Guided Reading, Lexile® Measure, and DRA levels for children's books. 3. FInd hundreds of standards-based lesson plans, crafts, and activities for every grade level, plus art techniques for beginners to practiced artists. 4. Establish a morning routine with Scholastic's Daily Starters — fun, fast math and language arts prompts and questions, including Teachable Moments from history and Fun Facts. 5. 6. 7. 8. Zoom over the Sahara desert. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22.
iCloud Drive FAQ iCloud Drive lets you securely access all of your documents from your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, and Windows PC. So no matter which device you’re using, you always have the most up to date documents when you need them. Here's what you can do with iCloud Drive What do I need to use iCloud Drive? How do I access my files in iCloud Drive? There are multiple ways you can access your files in iCloud Drive: Using any supported web browser, you can use iCloud Drive at iCloud.com.On your Mac, you can go to iCloud Drive in Finder.On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 11 or later, you can access your files from the Files app. When you add your Desktop and Documents to iCloud Drive, all of your files move to iCloud. What types of files can I store in iCloud Drive? You can store any type of file in iCloud Drive, as long as it's 50GB or less in size and you don't exceed your iCloud storage limit. You shouldn't store app folders, libraries, or .tmp files in iCloud Drive. On iCloud.com On your Mac
20 Fun Free Tools for Interactive Classroom Collaboration The 2014 Gates Foundation report, Teachers Know Best: What Educators Want from Digital Instructional Tools, indicates that teachers want tools “supporting student collaboration and providing interactive experiences”. This doesn’t come as a big surprise since these types of tools are fun and engaging. They also support 21st century skills like collaboration, communication, and creativity. You know what else teachers like? Good quality tools that are free! And why not? This week on EmergingEdTech, we’ve put together a listing of 20 top notch free tools that are being used in schools and classrooms to collaborate and interact on assignments, projects, and other active learning efforts. These tools deliver a wide array of functionality, from communication to collaborative document editing, whiteboards, and gaming, to full Learning Management System capabilities. 1. Twiddle provides a really easy to use collaborative online whiteboard. 2. 3. 4. 5. Yammer is a private social network. 6. 7.
How Blogging is Being Used in the Classroom Today: Research Results In 2013, PBS.org reported that 74 percent of teachers agree that technology in the classroom helps motivate students to learn and allows teachers to reinforce learning concepts. Furthermore, 68 percent expressed an interest in having more technology in the classroom. So where have the last two years taken us? Classrooms are becoming more and more technology focused. Online class enrollment, for instance, increased by 4.68 percent from 2013 to 2014. With the rise of technology in the classroom, students are interacting with computers, tablets, and video chat software more than ever before, but there’s still one technology concept that is still working its way into the everyday classroom: Blogging. About The Edublogger Research If you sought definitive feedback on how many classrooms, teachers, and students currently use blogging, the question would probably yield few well researched statistics. In this research, The Edublogger team surveyed 587 respondents. Key findings showed that:
Top 10 Education Tech Blogs This post was written by Romane Robinson, who is currently pursuing an MA in Cognitive Studies in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. A passionate student and proponent of human development, Romane has a BS in Research and Experimental Psychology and interned at Brainscape as a CEO Relations Manager in 2014. Education is evolving fast. Every day, we hear about some new technology that will change the world and the way we learn in it. Luckily, many dedicated educators blog about some of the best education technologies available and the evolution of their uses. 1. If you have ever felt that school was boring or irrelevant, the Innovative Educator, Lisa Nielson, understands how you feel. 2. Gwyneth Jones, the Daring Librarian herself, knows that librarians can have lots of fun. 3. With weekly posts on the state of technology in education, EdTech RoundUp is the best place to go to find out the latest news related to education tech. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
50 Of The Best Education Accounts On Twitter 50 Of The Best Education Accounts On Twitter By TeachThought Staff Which are the best education accounts on twitter to follow? Well, that depends on how you define ‘best.’ Whether you agree with what the following leaders and leading resources included, they still exert influence over the education industry. We’re going to update this list in a couple of ways, mainly to add educators worth following. We may also increase the list to 100, and we’ll be adding descriptions and other social media info for certain accounts so that you can ‘find’ them elsewhere, as well as an image with the names. For now, here are–in our mind–50 of the best education accounts on twitter. Note: While we tried to include the ‘best follows’ in education, we also wanted to create the ‘best list’–that is, a single collection that you could go through and follow everyone from and end up with a stronger, more critically-leaning and ranging set of education leaders and voices. TeachThought Terry Heick Drew Perkins Dr. Dr.