Eclectic Technology

Here, we offer just a few tech-focused ways to help students learn grammar, essay-writing, and why good writing is so important to their futures.

There are many tech tools available that engage students. This post share a range of information, from program that provide feedback to gramar tutorials to writing as a multimedia exercise. Online tools also provide the ability to have students experience authentic audiences. Check this out to see if there is a tool you might use with your class.

A collection of 100 sites to find videos, split into the following categories:

* Educational Video Collections - "specfically designed for education, these collections make it easy to find video learning resources";

* General Video Collections - "Network TV, inspiring talks and more are available in these collections...";

* Teacher Education - "Featuring higher-level learning, these video sites are great resources for finding education that's fit for teachers.";

* Lesson Planning - "Put together your lesson plans with the help of these video sites.";

*Science, Math, and Technolog - special attention to STEM subjects;

* History, Arts and Social Sciences - Videos that explore history and more;

* Video Tools - "Make it easy to find, share and view videos with these tools.";

* Network and Program Videos - sites for public broadcasting and other education programs;

* Free Movies and Clips - Documentaries and other educational videos;

* How-Tos - "Satisfy students' desire for knowledge and hands-on learning by sharing how-to videos from these site";

*Government and Organizations - "Offered as a service from government organizations and other groups...great places to find top-notch education videos and often, historical treasures."

A wonderful resource to find videos for your classroom.

"The recently announced update to Apple’s iBooks app has been lauded as an incredible change for education, reinventing the textbook as we know it, and allowing teachers to become content creators like never before. The upgraded app has its fair share of fans, but there are many teachers who just aren’t buying the hype. Common complaints include the cost of investment, closed software, and even the idea that students are in need of a bigger change than just multimedia books."

HippoCampus provides free mutlimedia study materials and study information for high school and college students help in algebra, statistics, calculus, biology, physics, chemistry, Earth science, economics, history and government, psychology, and religion. Users may create their own multi-media playlists and choose to share them (as can teachers).

"ChronoZoom is an open source community project dedicated to visualizing the history of everything to bridge the gap between the humanities and sciences using the story of Big History to easily understand all this information. This project has been funded and supported by Microsoft Research Connections in collaboration with University California at Berkeley and Moscow State University.

You can browse through history on ChronoZoom to find data in the form of articles, images, video, sound, and other multimedia. ChronoZoom links a wealth of information from five major regimes that unifies all historical knowledge collectively known as Big History."

An overwhelming amount of information in one location...this will take time to explore!

Mount Rushmore, also known as the Shrine of Democracy, is a National Monument and Memorial depicting four of the most prominent presidents of the first 150 years of the United States - George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Thomas Jefferson. This website allows you to explore Mount Rushmore through multimedia, 3D content, site information, GIS and a virtual tour.

K – 12 America Since 1981 – Interactive Timeline This interactive timeline digs deep into the Education Week archives to tell the story of U.S.