Disability Culture

The article The Psychological View of Disability Culture, by Carol Jill, gives great insight to the disabled community. Things we must keep in mind as teachers of disabled students. Ms Jill states, “Core values of the disabled are: 1) An acceptance of human differences, 2) A matter-of-fact orientation toward helping; an acceptance of human vulnerability [...]

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Teaching Special Education

This article Teaching Special Kids, gives special education teachers wonderful resouces. More educators are teaching children with learning disabilities. With more states and districts mainstreaming special education students and those with learning disabilities, classroom teachers as well as special education teachers need to know the laws and policies that apply to students with disabilities and strategies [...]

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Teaching in a Diverse Community

This video is based in a school near Boston were the population is 33% special education. The video explains inclusion the classroom and the demands of the teachers. Technology in the classroom is used for low to the extremely high learners. Technology can give slower learners support and challenge the higher learners. Technology is not for one type of learner it can [...]

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Evaluating Web Sites

Principles of evaluating web sites, by Steven Downes states, “How do you know whether something you read on the web is true? You can’t know, at least, not for sure. This makes it important to read carefully and to evaluate what you read. This is the most important principle of reading on the internet. You must [...]

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Blogs, Wiki, and Podcasts

Sue’s blog gives ideas for using blogs, wiki, and podcasts in the classroom. She posts other teacher’s blogs for more ideas and activities using technology in the classroom. There are various resouce links that teachers can use. There is a link for students to create digital portfolios for their classroom. There are so [...]

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Rubrics

Rubistar saves you many hours of making rubrics for your classroom. This site has templates for rubrics. You can customize the rubric to fit your needs or use the template that is available. This is a free site and can be used at anytime. In the classroom the use of a rubric is important to let [...]

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Reading

Reading A to Z is one of my favorite sites. As a special education teacher I find this site helpful when all students are at a different level of reading. On this site you can print book for your students to help them with reading, phonics, and it has great activities as well. Frederick County subscribes [...]

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Power Point

Teachers using technology site was an interesting twist to power points. I had always used power points as a tool for presentations and learning. I had not thought about the idea this site uses. The teacher used power point as an assessment for a test. The students had to present a power point about what they [...]

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Net Trekker

Net Trekker is a educational search engine that brings the best of the web to students, teachers, and parents. This site connects you and your students to more than 180,000 hand-selected, educator-approved sites. The site is organized by readability level and aligned with your state standards, providing resources ideal for every student’s learning needs with safe, [...]

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Podcasts

This blog by Allisyn Levy is a great resource for first time podcast users in the classroom. The teacher gives simple step by step instructions on how she implimented podcasting in her classroom. She states, ” I realized that creating classroom podcasts could be one those projects that I might actually be able to pull off! [...]

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