Tech+Tools

Grow your Skills
[|Web 2.0 Tools for 2010]: Tech Trends and Tools for Teachers [|Free Tech 4 Teachers]

Curriculum Awareness
[|ESU 10 TECHS program]

**Expand Your Professional Learning Network (PLN)**
[|How to Build a Professional Learning Network (PLN)] [|Nebraska's Beth Still on creating a PLN and using web 2.0 tools] [|Social Networking Sites for Teachers] [|Did You Know? Social Networking] Verizon Commercial - Twitter and Facebook


 * Twitter Resources**

[|Twitter.com] [|Twitter tutorials] [|Twitter Tips for Beginners (video)] [|What Parents Should Know About Twitter] [|The best Twitters for sharing resouces] [|A mom's perspective on Twitter] [|Twitter for Teachers] [|History Teachers on Twitter] [|Ways to use Twitter in the classroom] [|Advice for teachers new to Twitter] [|Tips for finding folks to follow] [|Finding teachers on twitter] [|TIME magazine article about Twitter] [|Tiny URL] - shorten those web site addresses so you have room in twitter [|Can Twitter Change your Teaching?] NEA article. [|Teens Snub Twitter] [|Twitter: The Opera] [|100 Technology Experts on Twitter] [|100 Twitter Feeds to Find Teaching Advice] [|The Ultimate Twitter Resource] [|Screenr- Create screen casts to share via twitter] [|Get started with Screenr]

[|Resources about Facebook] [|Coach Sued for Requesting Facebook Log-ins]
 * Facebook**

[|List of Education of Blogs by Discipline] [|Free Tech for Teachers] [|School AUP issues]
 * Education Blogs**

[|Great collection of resources for using wikis in the classroom]
 * Education Wikis**

**Quizzes/Practice** [|Quizlet] [|Hot Potatoes] [|Spelling City]

Augmented Reality
[|GE's solar/wind farm] [|Virtual Business Cards] [|Topps Baseball Cards]

Cool Tools
[|Google Voice] [|Johnny Lee's Wiimote Interactive White Board demo] [|How to Build an Infrared pen to use with wiimote board] [|How to connect your wiimote to your Windows Vista machine]

Humor
[|Web site story: the musical] [|My Life is Average] [|New BBC Talking Animals Series]

Thought Provoking Articles
[|Reading by the Numbers] - New York Times Essay on computerized reading management systems "The Web site for Renaissance Learning, which owns the program, describes it as a way to build “a lifelong love of reading and learning.” As a novelist and mother of three passionate readers, I’m all for that. But when I looked closer at how the program helps “guide students to the right books,” as the Web site puts it, I was disheartened."

[|Willing to Be Disturbed] "As we work together to restore hope to the future, we need to include a new and strange ally–our willingness to be disturbed. Our willingness to have our beliefs and ideas challenged by what others think. No one person or perspective can give us the answers we need to the problems of today. Paradoxically, we can only find those answers by admitting we don’t know. We have to be willing to let go of our certainty and expect ourselves to be confused for a time."