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**2. NETS for Students (National Educational Technology Standards)**
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|| plan strategies to guide inquiry || || || || locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media. || || process data and report results. ||
 * ** 3. ** || ** Research and Information Fluency **  ||
 * || Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Students: ||
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 * // c. // || evaluate and select information sources and digital tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks. ||
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|| ** Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making ** || || identify and define authentic problems and significant questions for investigation. || || ||
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 * || Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources. Students: ||
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 * // b. // || plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project. ||
 * // c. // || collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions. ||
 * // d. // || use multiple processes and diverse perspectives to explore alternative solutions. ||

|| advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology. || || || || exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity. || || demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning. || || exhibit leadership for digital citizenship. ||
 * ** 5. ** || ** Digital Citizenship **  ||
 * || Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior. Students: ||
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**3. General Resources (Click on the images to navigate to the websites) ** ** Search Engines ** In addition to providing easy access to billions of web pages, Google has many special features to help you to find exactly what you're looking for.

Queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking. This "metasearch" approach helps raise the best results to the top and push search engine spam to the bottom. This search engine groups similar results together into clusters. Clusters help you see your search results by topic so you can zero in on exactly what you’re looking for or discover unexpected relationships between items.

Offers search for web sites, images, news, blogs, video, maps and directions. 

K-12 Database program ** Search multiple databases at the same time
 * K-12 Database

An online digital library of education research and information. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research. 

**Various Resources** Allows users to use pre-made flash cards and other review strategies or create your own custom materials. You can create flash cards, matching games, target games, study stacks, notes, etc...

An introduction to a world of possibilities, a bank of educational resources.
 * iTunes**

Integrate thousands of concept-level video clips, interactives, audio files and more.

   YouTube for the classroom! Great resource for educational videos.

Provides students with an essential framework for thinking Find tech-embedded lesson plans, rubrics, games, webquests and more on this website!

  A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. Use this site to find ready-made webquests to use with your students, or gain ideas to create your own.

**Collaboration**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Bring people together in order to build the professional relationships necessary for effective collaboration. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Teachers and students can go to join or start a collaborative project with anyone in the world.
 * Global Collaboration**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> ** Graphic Organizers - ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Graphic organizer templates and examples of Print, Cut, Fold projects <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;">.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Help your students classify ideas and communicate more effectively. Use graphic organizers to structure writing projects, to help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! No signup, no passwords, no charge!

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 26px;">**Technology Tools:** ** iPods ** - <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> iPods are more than just music players. iPods have functionality that can be used in many different ways for teaching and learning.