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This was sent by a colleague a few years back. It's a repository of digital media for classroom use and instruction.

Teaching history through blogging from Teaching History through Technology.

Some great podcasts for multiple disciplines---check it out!

this has lots of goodies for all of us in all disciplines--take a look!

let's go!

I wonder if there's anything as nice as the Ringing Rocks in Taos? If not, I'm not going much further than the Delaware.

i am in!

"A central goal of this report is to shift the focus of the conversation about the digital divide from questions of technological access to those of opportunities to participate and to develop the cultural competencies and social skills needed for full involvement."

As we gear up for the Fall 2010 semester, I wanted to revisit the idea of teaching with Twitter.

Twitter is a good tool but unless you are on nearly constantly, you miss a great deal.

It should raise questions when an enormous, complicated realm of life takes on the characteristics of a stock drama. In the current school-reform story, there is a reliable villain, in the form of the teachers' unions, and a familiar set of heroes, including Geoffrey Canada, of Harlem Children's Zone; Wendy Kopp, of Teach for America, the Knowledge Is Power Program; and Michele Rhee, the superintendent of schools in Washington, D.C. And there is a clear answer to the problem-charter schools.

Students have more information at their fingertips than ever before, yet the challenge remains for them to find, evaluate, and apply the information they discover in the classroom and beyond.Applying critical thinking skills through web research can help students: Improve search skills.Evaluate the information they find.Incorporate them in their work.Explore the ready-to-use curriculum below, including detailed lesson plans, student worksheets, and class demonstration

Mark Moran's "Teaching Ten Steps to Better Web Research" info from his TSETC session. 

It's been about 10 years since Maine implemented its initiative, and while at least 33 states had experimented with one-to-one computing projects by 2007, none have reached the scope of Maine's project. As jobs and life increasingly involve computers, it's clear that in order to remain relevant to students, schools will need to adopt more technology. Here are six lessons about doing so successfully, taken from Maine's initiative.

Will we ever eliminate textbooks completely?