Technology+Blogs

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This blog is all about how educators can implement technology into their classrooms on a daily basis. The author, Lucy Gray, updates her readers on a regular basis with new ideas of how teachers can use technology. This blog is full of useful information on how to implement technology, and is full of simple directions, and diagrams. I also really like that the author posts weekly links of new interesting websites, which you would not generally stumble upon. The one drawback to this site is the amount of surveys the author provides. The information contained in these surveys is interesting; however it is not necessarily always worth the time to take the survey, to get the information at the end.

Rating:  By: Jacob March

This blog is all about new and interesting ways of integrating technology into every classroom. I like this blog because the authors update regularly, but more importantly, the blog seems to have a serious following whereby almost every blog entry has a series of comments that really drive a discussion, and further the ideas presented on the blog. I also like that this blog has ideas for every classroom, it is truly a k-12 resource. The series of people that author this blog are is clearly educators, and this makes this blog more real, and interesting in my opinion. I also like that on the right side they have quick links to lesson plans, and freebies for educators, among other things.
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Rating:   By: Jacob March

Mr. Walker’s Technology Blog is a mix of curriculum, interactive whiteboard, and professional development articles. There’s also a section for using Web 2.0 tools like Voki, Story Jumper, and Glogster, as well as how to use a Podcast. The site is updated every week or so and has a search bar to sort out all its information. The posts are a bit random at times, though it does try to cater to all K-12 teachers.
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Will Richardson is the author of this blog site. This site is dedicated to discussions and reflections on the use of Weblogs, wikis, RSS, audio casts and other Read/Write Web related technologies in the K-12 realm, technologies that are transforming classrooms around the world. Visitors may learn how to set up blogs, wikis, and RSS feeds. Other resources, videos, blogs may be used from this site.

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Looking for way to keep up with some of the most current technologies available for use in your classroom? If so, this blog will not disappoint you. Beth Knittle is the author of this blog. She is a k-12 Technology Integration Specialist living in Cape Cod Massachusetts. She feels strongly about stepping outside one's comfort zone to find a creative way to reach all our students. This blog is updated every week. Enjoy!
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">This blog was created by teachers in Ontario, Canada. It is used to show how these teachers in k-12 classrooms integrate technology. It is also used to network with other teachers who blog, as a modeling tool for students to see teachers writing, showcasing teachers' and students' work. It has different sections, one for online teaching resources, one for students' to post, and another section where the teachers write about their experiences integrating technology into their teaching practice. I enjoy this blog and found a lot of valuable infromation located on it. The only two downsides that I could see, one being that there seems to be a lot of "advertising" of certain products they use in their classroom. Secondly, it looks like the last time someone posted was in November, which really is not that long ago, but I would have expected it to be updated more frequently. For those two reasons, I give it one thumbs up instead of two.

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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">The author of this blog is Steven Anderson. He is currently working as a District Instructional Technologist. He works with the district and school administrators on how to harness the power of technology to enhance learning. His postings are very insightful and helpful. He provides links to all the technology he mentions in his blogs so that teachers can easily locate and investigate for themselves what he has shared. This blog is updated frequently. Rating: