My edtech Toolbox

Web 2.0 Resources:

• 50 of the Best Google Chrome Extensions for Teachers
• The EdSurge Edtech Index
• Expert-Level Google Tips for Busy Students
• 22 Apps to Make Videos in the Classroom
• 26 iPad Apps for a Paperless Classroom
• Google Apps for iOS
• Podcasting Toolbox: 70+ Podcasting Tools & Resources
• List of Great Free Tools to Create Podcasts
• Math Chimp – Catalog of more than one hundred online mathematics games for elementary and middle school students.
• Top 100 Tools for Learning 2013 from Jane Hart
• The 100 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You
• 101 Web 2.0 Tools Every Teacher Should Know About
• The 55 Best Free Education Apps for iPad
• 100 Ways to Use Google Drive in the Classroom

Videos:

• A Pep Talk from Kid President (education edition!)
• Game-based school uses play to engage kids | MindShift article
• The Global One-Room Schoolhouse: John Seely Brown (Highlights from his “Entrepreneurial Learner” Keynote at DML2012)
• John Seely Brown on Motivating Learners (Big Thinkers Series)
• Rethinking Learning: The 21st Century Learner | MacArthur Foundation
• Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? (TED Talk)
• Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud (TED Talk)
• 5 TED Talks to Ignite Your Classroom
• Neil Degrasse Tyson on being Black, and Women in Science
• ISTE 2012 – A Tempting Trio: Using Twitter, YouTube, and Diigo in the Classroom
• To Live in this World | by Jordan Thomas and Kenzie Wade, Digital Ethnography Class of 2014

Blogs:

• MindShift | How we will learn.
• Wired Campus | The latest on tech and education.
• Dangerously Irrelevant | Technology, Leadership, and the Future of our Schools
• Digital Media + Learning
• Free Technology for Teachers
• Engage | Learning in the 21st Century
• Spotlight on Digital Media & Learning
• Education Blogs | Pinterest
• Te@chThought

Articles:

• iPads are the Worst Technology They’ll Ever Use | te@chthought
• Let’s Ban Bans in the Classroom | dmlcentral
• Can You Run a Classroom with an iPad?
• A School That Ditches All the Rules, But Not the Rigor
• Going Google On Your iPad: What To Expect
• How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses
• The One Room Schoolhouse Goes High Tech
• Bringing America’s Students into the Digital Age
• 6 tips for becoming an effective online teacher
• 10 Characteristics of a Highly Effective Learning Environment

Other Media:

• The Pencil Metaphor: 6 Ways Teachers Respond To Education Technology
• Morphing into a 21st Century Teacher | 27 Ways to be a Better 21st Century Educator (infographic, Daily Genius)
• The Innovation of Education (infographic, Daily Genius)
• 7 Characteristics of a Digitally Competent Teacher (infographic, te@chthought)
• 16 Ways Educators Use Pinterest (infographic, OnlineUniversities)
• Competency-Based Education is Changing Mainstream Learning (infographic, Rasmussen College)
• Connected Learning: Equitable, Social and Participatory (image, Connected Learning)
• Conversations in Social Media (image, Pat Hubert Web 2.0 wiki)

Learning Communities:

• Connected Learning | Google+ Community
• EdTech | Google+ Community
• Making Learning Connected (#clmooc) | Google+ Community
• Google Apps in Education | Google+ Community
• edtech Subreddit
• Education Subreddit