Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
Part I. Four Tools to Start With
Tech Tool 1: Web Access, Laptops, Mobile Devices
Tech Tool 2: Webquests
Tech Tool 3: Blogs
Tech Tool 4: Wikis
Part II. Tools for Student Engagement and Empowerment
Tech Tool 5: Cloud Computing
Tech Tool 6: The Flipped Classroom and Khan Academy
Tech Tool 7: Wiffiti
Tech Tool 8: Jing
Tech Tool 9: Gaming, ARGs, and Virtual World Instruction
Tech Tool 10: Diigo
Part III. Tech Tools for Student Creation and Collaboration
Tech Tool 11: Glogs
Tech Tool 12: Podcasts
Tech Tool 13: Scribd
Tech Tool 14: Comic Life
Tech Tool 15: Google Apps
Tech Tool 16: Vokis, Avatars, and Animation!
Tech Tool 17: Vlogs
Tech Tool 18: Animoto
Part IV. Tools for Social Learning and Networking
Tech Tool 19: Facebook
Tech Tool 20: Twitter
Part V. The Teaching Revolution and a Brave New World for the 21st
Century
Index
William N. Bender, PhD, has had a long and distinguished career in
education, teaching in public school for several years and in
higher education for some 26 years at Blue?eld State College in
West Virginia, Rutgers University in New Jersey, and the University
of Georgia. He has written 36 books in special and general
education. With his retirement, he has stepped back from his
rigorous workshop schedule, which as recently as 2016 included some
40 workshop days per year. While the COVID-19 pandemic impacted his
work, he has written four historical ?ction novels and several
educational books in recent years. He has delivered several
professional development projects, including most recently a
keynote for a virtual conference on project-based learning in
Brazil in conjunction with his Corwin book Project-Based Learning
(2012).
Learn more about William Bender′s PD offerings
Consulting Description: Differentiated Instruction
Consulting Description: Math
Consulting Description: Project-Based Learning
Consulting Description: RTI
Consulting Description: Technology
Laura Waller, MS/MA, is a former elementary school teacher, an
author, a National Certi?ed Counselor, and a Licensed Professional
Counselor. She holds a master’s degree in elementary education from
Johns Hopkins University and a second master’s degree in clinical
mental health counseling from Capella University. Waller is also an
ADHD-Certi?ed Clinical Services Provider. She entered the
counseling ?eld after a number of years as a teacher in elementary
classrooms in North Carolina and Washington, DC. This classroom
background yields a unique developmental perspective when Waller is
working therapeutically with children, teens, and their families.
She currently provides individual and family therapy for clients in
the Northern Virginia (NOVA) area ranging in age from 8 to 601. She
also hosts monthly seminars and groups aimed at supporting parents
with a particular focus on raising neurodivergent children. Waller
has led numerous workshops for churches and schools in the NOVA
area with a speci?c focus on communication between teens and
parents as well as using emotional support animals in a therapeutic
setting.
Waller is active in several professional associations, including
the American Counseling Association (ACA) and Northern Virginia
Licensed Professional Counselors (NVLPC). She has coauthored three
books in education, most recently RTI and Di?erentiated Reading in
the K–8 Classroom by Solution Tree Press (2011).
"This book is an excellent resource for both new and experienced
educators looking to make the most of Web 2.0 resources for
teaching and learning. It can be used individually, but I think it
would be most beneficial (and fun!) to use in small groups of
educators as they support and surprise one another with their
explorations and discoveries."
*Chris Toy, Educational Consultant/Graduate School Instructor*
"This is one of the most important tools that today’s teachers
could have in their toolbox. There are great descriptions of the
tools, and excellent ideas about how to easily put them to
work."
*David Callaway, 7th Grade Social Studies Teacher*
"This book provides a wealth of ideas for teachers who would like
to use technology but do not know where to begin. Each chapter
provides a lens into specific categories of use and websites
associated with the use. An encyclopedia of practical tools for the
low-tech classroom!"
*Bena Kallick, Educational Consultant*
"Cool Tech Tools for the Lower-Tech Teacher is a great manual
for all educators. Each of us can benefit from adding new
technology tools in our classrooms, which speak to the
instructional variety that our digital learners come to our
classrooms with each day.
Our digital revolution is now, this book should be one of your
tools as you set about designing a creative, collaborative, social
and self-directed classroom! "
*Cheryl Oakes, Resource Room Teacher*
"Every educator interested in bringing their classroom into the
21st century should get this book. It not only tells what the new
technology is and how to use it, but it creates an invaluable
vision for the future of education in which students are not only
consumers of information but creators. This resource could help
revolutionize education as we know it, if every teacher implemented
the tech tools in this book!"
*Jolene Dockstader, 7th Grade Language Arts Teacher*
"This is a much needed, delightful, inviting, tech plain speak
compendium of cool tech, Common Core tools, any teacher can infuse
using the steps and differentiating strategies suggested by the
authors. This demystifies cool tech tools for the non techie
teacher."
*Rose Cherie Reissman, Literacy Specialist/ Technology Integration
Specialist*
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