The Purple Parade

     The most recent amazing innovation in teaching is Google Apps for Education.  It is truly unbelievable what this new technology can do for your teaching.  Google Apps for Education include: Google Docs (Documents, Spreadsheets, Forms, Presentations, and more), Sites, Mail, Calendar, and Chat.  But, it's not the products themselves that are so amazing, it is what you can do with those products.      In Google, you can share your work with others easily because all of your work is saved in a "cloud" instead of on an individual computer.  You can access your work from anywhere with internet capability.  No longer will you create something at home and email it to yourself at work or save it to your "jump drive" and then load it onto your computer at work.  You create and save within the cloud and that's it!      Here are just a few possibilities that you can use Google Apps for Education in your classroom: Collection of data through docs, forms, sp

I've spent the summer going doing research and going to workshops to gain more knowledge on using web 2.0 tools in the classroom.  I always wondered why they call them web 2.0 tools.  Well, when the web was first created, it was used for research and to gain knowledge in a variety of topics.  Now, there are many sites out there that are interactive in nature.  These sites still help students gain knowledge, but through interacting with learning instead of just reading about it.  These sites are called web 2.0. I have spent many hours this summer visiting sites on a variety of subjects and have compiled the following list of my favorite web 2.0 sites.  The topics I have compiled so far are: Student Engagement, Collaboration, Math, English/Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science .  I will also be researching sites on Art, Foreign Language, Business, and more, and will post those when I get the list compiled. I hope you enjoy the sites I have found.  If you have a favo