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My RSS Feeds and why:

Bud Talbot because he is a science teacher and technology enthusiast. He is very involved in teaching science, has many years of teaching under his belt, and already adds tech to the classroom with success. Since my goal is to do the same, I thought he would be a great resource. He has a post specifically on science and web2.0 technologies. He focused on blogging, microblogging, and collaboration docs like google docs, all of which we are doing or talking about right now. I found this to be very helpful.

Connecting news with National Science Education Standards because in teaching science it is important to be aware of not only state standards and goals, but also the science goals of our country since we are currently afraid of being the country left behind. This is a great place to find out about the current trends in science education?technology included.

ECH Houston feed because it is all about Middle School Science. They have activities, resources, content focus weeks, and question and answer sections to help drive enthusiasm into the classroom. Many of the posts are dates for conferences and online learning session for content specific focuses; there are also links to helpful places and activities.

Ed Tech 4 Science is pretty self-explanatory; it is all about teachers trying to add tech to science classrooms, how they do it, what they are doing, and how it all went. It?s great place to go for ideas. There are all sorts of things from cell raps, lab demos, to articles about how the old ways of teaching are not going to work anymore.

Educational Technology and Change Journal is the one I will head to for background on education and technology without it being content specific. This is useful for background and reasoning for the technology use in the classroom.