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Welcome to my Personal Learning Network for Instructional Technology! A Digital Portfolio of a Technology Integrationist

PLN GOALS: 1. Create a space where different perspectives concerning issues of education can be viewed. 2. Manage various resources useful to a fourth grade classroom. 3. Provide an opportunity to share personal interests with colleagues and other professionals. 4. Link useful technologies to the classroom.

BLOGS: Langwitches Blog Blog by Silvia Tolisano, which focuses on education in the 21st Century. Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis, co-founder of the Flat Classroom projects .

Angela Maiers Educational Services rss url="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AngelaMaiers" link="true" description="true" number="5" David Warlick's Blog rss url="http://feeds.feedburner.com/davidwarlick/wkGb" link="true" description="true" number="5" EdTech Solutions- Teaching Every Student

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Steve Wheeler's Blog rss url="feed://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/cYWZ?format=xml" link="true" number="10" date="true" author="true" enclosure="true"

<span style="color: #007fff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">EDUCATIONAL WIKIS: <span style="color: #007fff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Flat Classroom <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Wiki dedicated to the Flat Classroom Projects. <span style="color: #007fff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Soar 2 New Heights <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">A view from a 4th Grade classroom. <span style="color: #007fff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The World Project <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">A global project with students and teachers from all over the world working collaboratively.

<span style="color: #007fff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">EDUCATIONAL DISCIPLINE SUPPORT: <span style="color: #007fff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Reading Strategies for Social Studies <span style="color: #007fff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Website dedicated to appropriate stratgies to be used to teach Social Studies content. <span style="color: #007fff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Aleks <span style="color: #0017ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Assessment Learning in Knowledge Spaces is a web-base artifically intelligent assessment and learning system for mathematics.

<span style="color: #007fff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">International Reading Association <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Publishes "The Reading Teacher" and is dedicated to literacy.

<span style="color: #007fff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">NEA <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">The National Education Association's website.

<span style="color: #007fff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Scholastic Book Clubs <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Online book clubs providing access to the latest books for students. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Edmodo <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">A secure social learning network for teachers and students. One way to conduct an online class with with elementary age children on up! <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Kathy Schrock <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">A website that is pack full of resources for the elementary teacher. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #007fff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Assistive Technologies <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Read the Words <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">A site that will say what you type. Great for students who need audio.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Natural Readers <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">A super fabulous type of software that will change text into speech!

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Enable Mart <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">An online store in which assistive technologies can be purchased.

<span style="color: #007fff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">PREPARING THE ONLINE LEARNER

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Self-Assessment Tool-Boise State

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Online Readiness Quiz-Sierra College