Free Classroom Guides and Downloads for 2011 from Edutopia


Edutopia, the George Lucas Educational Foundation, is an excellent resource for educators. Their site has a huge variety of resources, tips, and research on education and is accessible for free. They are a big proponent of Project Based Learning and also have a lot of resources on best practices in education. 

They have a page with Free Classroom Guides and Downloads for 2011 that contains four excellent guides in PDF format. There are also additional, related resources linked from this page. 

The four guides are: 

Top Ten Tips for Teaching with New Media - tips and tools for making learning more engaging and collaborative.

Summer Rejuvenation Guide - Ten Fun Ways for teachers to spend their summers

Top Ten Tips for Assessing Project-Based Learning -  effective assessments for project based learning

Home-to-School Resource Guide - Get tips, tech tools, and strategies for how to strengthen the bonds between schools, families, and communities. 


Edutopia also has great blogs with some excellent articles written by educators. 

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Free Educational Technology Journals and Resources


These magazines/web sites are all great sources of information, resources, tips, lesson ideas, and more and are all FREE.


Tech&Learning Magazine - free print or electronic subscription to educators. Magazine and web site have product reviews, best practices, thought provoking articles, education and technology news, blogs, and more.
(I am a TL Advisor and write a blog for them and I have published articles. )




Edutopia - is a free web resource from the George Lucas Educational Foundation. There are best practices, lesson ideas, project based learning resources, videos, blogs and more. Edutopia showcases schools, districts, and classrooms that are increasing student achievement and decreasing issues and problems.



THE Journal - is another great educational technology resource. They offer free print or electronic subscriptions and the site has a lot of great resources. There are articles about what is working in schools, technology reviews, news letters, and more.
In the February 2010 Edition, on page 17, there was a feature about #edchat on Twitter. I am a strong proponent of Personal Learning Networks, and #edchat on Twitter is a great place to start and grow your PLN.


They are all free, so why not check them out.

Please share any of your favorite free journals/magazines/web sites with us.




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