Week+16

=Links for future exploration=

Please add good resources that are currently not listed!

Other things to try
This page is where we are sticking other neat "Things" to learn. There are only so many weeks in the semester but you can continue exploring here. Utah Education Network Faculty Lounge provides technology training on various topics. Participate live (see schedule) or watch an episode online. A program very similar to the one you have just completed. It has some additional "Things" to do. Take a look and do the Things that are new to you.
 * Other things to try!
 * @http://www.uen.org/facultylounge/
 * @http://classroomlearning2.csla.net/

Keeping up to date about new resources: newsletters and blogs
Finding out about cool new resources to use in your library or to tell your teacher colleagues about without doing any work is now possible! Nathan from the YETC technology and resource center for the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services at Utah State Universitywrites a blog that he shares with teachers throughout Utah. The blogs are filled with wonderful resources for educators are free to anyone. Subscribe to Nathan's TeacherLINK blog (@http://teacherlinkyetc.blogspot.com/) and you'll be completely up to date on what is new and fun. Other teacher resources that he has collected can be found here: @http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/ Free technology for teachers by Richard Byrne. Free resources and lesson plans for teaching with technology. "An Edublog about Integrating Technology into the Classroom". The blog describes tools but also provides information about integrating it into the classroom.
 * @http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/
 * @http://www.freetech4teachers.com/
 * @http://ilearntechnology.com/

Resource lists
Web2.0: Cool Tools for Schools is a Wiki with lists of tools organized by types (e.g. video tools, music tools, writing tools, mapping tools, graphing tools, etc.) Glynda Pflieger has a great page that covers technology to use in the classroom. The Wissahickon School District has an award-winning wiki with an eToolbox containing amazing links to great 2.0 resources. Click on "The Right Tools" link and you can show teachers the best 2.0 technologies to use to accomplish a specific task.
 * http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/
 * @http://edtech2.boisestate.edu/pfliegerg/502/edtech541.html
 * http://etoolbox.wikispaces.com/

Useful tools
A free tool for Windows that allows you to recover files that went missing in the event that you did not make a backup. The Cheapskate blogtells you more about it. For your Files, Lots of Room in the Cloud. Describes multiple options to store your files on the Internet ("in the cloud")
 * @http://download.cnet.com/Recuva/3000-2242_4-10753287.html?tag=mncol;txt
 * @http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/technology/personaltech/27basics.html?_r=1

Books
Doing Social Media so it Matters: A Librarian's Guide
 * @http://link.ixs1.net/s/ve?eli=r1261202&si=v122076534&cfc=3html

Taking Your Students Online
"The internet offers a world of opportunities to socialize and communicate. But they come with risks. OnGuardOnline.gov's Net Cetera campaign provides information and resources about helping kids make safe, responsible decisions when they're online." Here's a fun media literacy playground. What better way to teach your students to be media literate than to make it fun. Yay critical thinking skills!! (sponsered by the Canadian Media Awareness Network) Need a good place to send kids online, just for fun? Try Funbrain. Sponsored by Jeff Kinney, Author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Poptropica has more sponsors).
 * @http://www.onguardonline.gov/topics/net-cetera.aspx
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