Technology+Research

http://drpezz.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/teacher-websites/

This is a great resource for those teachers who are thinking of building a website for your classes or those who may have questions. This page will answer many questions for those teachers that are having questions. It has also given me some other ideas for my own website. For example, it states that a teacher could have a page of terms that the teacher has gone over. So if a student misses those notes they can easily access them and not have to worry about it. Me being an English teacher, I have so many literary terms that the studetns must know. I would highly recommend to any teacher if they are taking the "21st Century Pledge" to make a website for your classes and give the studetns no more excuses not to pass and do well in school.

-Tyler Hockaday

http://www.waukeshaschool.com/WIT/SmartBoard/specificapps.htm

Using Electronics Whiteboards in Your Classroom: Profiles, ideas, lesson plans, and web sites

This is a great resources for those teachers who teaches with SmartBoards and may need extra instructional activities. For example, it provides ideas, lesson plans, and web sites that are great in assisting teachers that want to help better prepare their students for the future abiding to the "21st Century Pledge."

I am a teacher that follows the "21st Century Pledge" and with this information I allow my students to work and show their work. This opens up ways for my students to be more and openly involved in the classroom and at times feel as in if they are the teacher for the day. -Evita

I used for foreign language different sites that help students to practice vocabulary, verb conjugation, and grammar. Some of this sites are also useful for other areas.

1. http://www.conjuguemos.com Students can learn and practice vocabulary, grammar through activities such as hangman, wordsearch, crosswords, memory games, etc. Also, teacher can create quizes and new activities that fits their program and unit of study. 2. http://www.quia.com. Students can practice vocabulary, grammar, etc. This site could be use for any subject. You will find activities that are very interesting such as rags to riches, hang man, battleship, memory, colums match, etc. Once again teacher can create activities and share them in the web. 3.http://www.free.rice.com Useful to review all subjects. 4. http://quizlet.com all subjects and different language.

-Sandra Acevedo

Each one of the links that I have listed below are links that I use everyday in my classes. I really lean on these links to assist me with projects to incorporate for my student engagement activities. Also these sites will be helpful for those teachers that are looking to incorporate more technology into their lessons, and they work best for me because two of them already have applied the state frameworks to the lessons.

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators This is a website that has become a host site for all types of activities and lessons to help increase the understanding of specific skills. This site lends an open arm to most content areas, however is mainly focused on the Vocational Business aspect. There are several types of lessons here that enhance a student’s vision, understanding, and comprehension level. It also offers several cross-curricular activities as well. I use this site frequently to provide me with already created examples to show the students. I also use this site to gain different types of assessment tools such as rubrics.

http://bigelow.k12.ar.us/faculty/balducci/BusinessEd/EOCTesting.htm

Arkansas Business Educators This website is a host for resources for Arkansas Business Educators. It offers many interactive sites that help the students practice for their End of Course exams as well as their FBLA contest. These interactive practice tests allow the students instant feedback on their scores. Although the title of the site is Arkansas it can be use with almost any state, it even has many other state’s test listed as practice exams. I use this site to assist my students with their preparation for the district and state FBLA competitions. I also us it as a study for our EOC test at the end of the school. It has proven to be quiet beneficial in letting me know how the students are fairing as far as which areas may need to be recovered before they test and which areas they have reached total mastery. One of the things I enjoy most about the site is its versatility. It offers question and answer for those that need the drill aspect while it also extends a hand to the memory recall through puzzles. It also provides the students with worksheets and handouts to practice at their own pace as well.

http://www.arkansasteachersandtechnology.com

Arkansas Teachers and Technology I wanted to also list this website as a resource tool for offering UDL and DI ideas. This website was designed by teachers located in Arkansas with our frameworks in mind. Each lesson that has been designed also has a direct link to the frameworks that are set by the state department. The strategies that were chosen to implement each lesson give an instructor an idea of how that lesson can be taught as well as sometimes serves merely as a jumpstart for a lesson. It always incorporates technology into the lesson and usually brings in another core area as a support factor. This site really lends itself to cross-curricular support as well. It also provides the instructor with sample means of assessment as well. I use this site with nearly all of my classes that I teach to help bring in new ideas, and make sure that I am staying on target with my instruction for students. I use this site as both a resource and tool.

-Debra Sanders