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Title: **The Teaching Palette** Author: Hillary Andrlik and Theresa McGee Purpose: This blog is authored by art educators for art educators. It provides a collaborative and resourceful forum where art specialists of all levels can explore professional topics that impact our subject area. It was named Scholastic Instructor magazine’s Top 20 Teacher Blogs. There are three main catagories, Classroom Management, Teacher authored- product reviews, and music-art integration. Content:3 Credibility:3 Usefulness:3 Navigation and ease of use:4 Link: [] Rating:

Title: **Art Education 2.0** Author: Craig Roland Purpose: This site is an online professional community of art educators with over 9,760 members! It contains discussion boards, videos, forums, blogs, and frequently asked questions. It is a plethora of information for art educators. You have to join to participate for free. Content:4 Credibility:3 Usefulness:4 Navigation and ease of use:4 Link: [] Rating:

Title: **Ask A Tech Teacher** Author: Jacqui Murray Purpose: This website was created by Jacqui Murray, a technology teacher with 15 years experience. She has written two books for middle school technology. This blog has technology tips, great websites to integrate technology and current trends in technology. Content:4 Credibility:4 Usefulness:4 Navigation and ease of use:4 Link: [] Rating"

Title: **4Teachers.org - Teach with Technology** Author: 4Teachers team at ALTEC Purpose: **4Teachers.org** works to help teachers integrate technology into classroom by offering online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate online resources such as ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use. There are also valuable professional development resources addressing issues such as equity, ELL, technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students Content:4 Credibility:4 Usefulness:4 <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Navigation and ease of use:3 Link: [] Rating"

Title:// **The Power of Educational Technology** // Author: Liz B. Davis Purpose: This blog presents strategies to motivate communities (learning) and to encourage inventive thinking skills. Resources include podcasts, videos, literature, and social networking advice. Evaluation of Utility: Good <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Content: 3 <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Credibility: 4 <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Usefulness: 4 <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Navigation and ease of use: 4 //Link: **[|http://www.edtechpower.blogspot.com]**// Rating:



Title: **World History Teachers Blog** Author: Ken Halla Purpose: This site authored by Ken Halla has links to interesting technology that can be used for history teachers. It includes things such as YouTube videos to websites for creating review games. It offers a tremendous amount of small technological pieces that can be used in the classroom without extensive preparation. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Evaluation of Utility: Excellent <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Content: 4 <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Credibility: 4 <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Usefulness: 4 <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Navigation and ease of use: 3 Link: []