Free Technology For Teachers

I found this website by Richard Byrne very helpful with technology in the classroom.  So many school districts are 1-to-1 or are going to be 1-to-1 so this is a great resource to use to stay up to date with all the new technology and freebies out there for us educators.  The one that I found that I am going to start using in my classroom is on animated science lessons.  Science is a subject that I have a hard time finding materials for my students to understand.  We still have to teach curriculum even though most of the information I am teaching to my students is not helping them with their life skills which they need, I am teaching them subject area content.  Science is one that is hard to put into easier words for kids to understand but these animations are fun and easy to follow for students.  I cannot wait to implement it into my classroom and I know my students will enjoy this new way of learning science. 

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2016/03/a-nice-set-of-animated-science-lessons.html#.VvK_rSGjOFw

I think if I had more time I could for sure make a blog about resources to use in the classroom and have my students look at them and learn more about them.  Their attention span in limited though so a lot of the times doing group activities is easier can you can get their attention, where if they are on their own to search on the Ipad they easily get distracted and end up on websites they are not suppose to be on during learning time.  I work a part time job and also coach so that takes up a lot of time for me but I like to search around and find new resources to implement in my classroom.  I find other teachers blogs helpful but I don't think that I would come up with one on my own to share with others.  I think having a personal blog is fun and blogging about new resources I find would be fun but I don't think I would be able to be consistent with it.  There could be days I could blog a few times and then I could go like a month without blogging.  I do enjoy blogging so I want to continue to use these ideas and learn more but I need to get more into a routine I think.  I am very excited to start using Richard Byrne's blog for my classroom and to see what other new things I can learn about technology!