Rasmussen College has a great article on 100 applications useful for educators. Maybe you’ll find your next indispensable app on their list?
100 Apps for Tech–Savvy Teachers

Presented 1/20&21 at the Ohio Free-Tech Conference in Cincinnati
Presentation:

Handout:
http://tech.savvyteachers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Moodle_Outline.pdf
Resources
Moodle Benefits
http://www.smartschools.ph/SmartSchools/SmartTools/BenefitsMoodle.htm
About Moodle
http://docs.moodle.org/en/About_Moodle
Moodle Philosophy
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Moodle/Philosophy
Review of HS use of Moodle
http://aiken.moodlerooms.com/wb/pages/academics/moodle/moodle-at-aiken-high-school–introduction/moodle-at-aiken-high-school–images.php
Getting Started
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Getting_started_for_teachers
Blackboard vs. Moodle
http://www.humboldt.edu/~jdv1/moodle/all.htm
Hot potatoes – Create Interactive Activities
http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
Wikipedia’s Moodle Article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodle
Demo Course – Features
http://demo.moodle.net/course/view.php?id=5
2 Minute Moodles – Videos
http://tomazlasic.net/moodle/moodle-tutorials-2-minute-moodles/
Moodle Documentation
http://treadwell.cce.cornell.edu/moodle_doc/

Here’s some excellent information about using twitter to improve your classroom.
Do you use twitter to improve your teaching? How do you find great twittering teachers to follow?

This is a great video on a general overview of how a teacher can use technology to revolutionalize how students access and interact with information. Instead of a text book, students are expected to create their own text book, and interact with the creators of the writers of the various blogs and sites that make [...]

photo credit: Extra Ketchup

Typer Shark
Typing of the Ghosts
Cup Stacking
Alphattack
TuxTyping
Learn2Type
TyperShark
Bubbles
Baracuda
Arachnid Falls
Spacebar Invaders
Outerspace Fleet Commander
The Frogs are Off Their Diet

Have a site that your kids love? Leave it in the comments!

Edutopia has a great article on how many teachers are finding ways to use web2.0 sites that are often blocked in the classroom. This goes along well with our recent article on how to bring youtube videos to class dispite filters.

YouTube is often blocked at schools due to the inappropriate content that is hosted on the site. However, there is a great wealth of educational content as well that you might wish to show to your classes.
We will be downloading a copy of the video that you can bring into class. You’ll find that while [...]

Note: This is an on going part of a look at six issues that we face in keeping our children and students safe online. We’ll be looking at the issue, discussing some solutions and recommending some free and commercial software that can help protect the children you work with online.
The issue: Spyware

Spyware is software that can be [...]

Note: This is an on going part of a look at six issues that we face in keeping our children and students safe online. We’ll be looking at the issue, discussing some solutions and recommending some free and commercial software that can help protect the children you work with online.
As a parent, one of [...]

Youtube has plenty of educational content, from Photoshop tutorials to great speeches from history, just about ever content area can be found on the site. Unfortunately, a ton of inappropriate content can be found too. How can you keep the good yet protect your students from the bad?
TeacherTube may be the answer. It’s a youtube-like [...]