Resources

Expert Pages from Past Semesters Focus: Blogs, Wikis, Multimedia, and other

Web Tools from Past Semesters Selected tools and annotations

Digital Tools for a Writing Classroom: Research, Grammar, and Writer's Workshop (Mark Munro) I started teaching with the purpose of creating a 21st Century classroom, but I often felt guilty spending what felt like hours searching for digital tools as a first year teacher. This upcoming year, I want to execute on my vision to improve the feedback loops for my scholars and save myself time to focus on other important things like building relationships with parents and students. After reviewing roughly 25 tools and apps, these are the ones that I think have the potential to implement in my own 7th grade classroom (and are cost-effective).

Classroom Games (Meredith Edwards) Here you'll find a list of resources for incorporating games into your classroom. Though most are designed specifically for ELA classrooms, almost all can be modified to fit a range of subject areas and student ability levels.

Technology and Multimodal Literacy for Struggling Readers and Writers Kyle Shook This page focuses on different resources that can be used specifically to scaffold for struggling readers and writers with a particular focus on multimodal literacy.

Media and Technology Events (James Mayr) In this community calendar and map, members of CTGE 6261 at the Fordham GSE can add events concerning: -professional development in media and technology -field trips and student-centric presentations -other educational events in New York City

[|Pinterest Board for the MIddle School ELA Classroom] (Arianne Beros) This board features links to classroom activities and assignments, behavioral management tips and tools, and motivational quotes for students (and teachers!). The board has been curated specifically for the middle school ELA classroom, but is relevant and tweak-able for other grades and subjects as well.

Resources for Building Your Classroom Library (Sabine Chishty) This page, which I will continue updating, includes links and descriptions to the resources I've found especially useful in acquiring books for my classroom library.

Parent Resources for Digital Literacy: (Morgen Hall) Here is a page of resources to pass along to parents which focus on access, encouragement and safety.

Geography Resources (Quinn Hurdle, Kevin Aaron)

Resources for Better Collaboration (Josh Micley)