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The purpose of the New York State Education Department's Virtual Learning System is to encourage the use of the Internet as a tool for teaching and learning and to assist classroom teachers in locating Internet resources for instruction. VLS offers the full text of New York State's learning standards with their key ideas and performance indicators, as well as alternate performance indicators for students with severe disabilities.

This wiki looks at strategies for creating eportfolios with students in conjunction with Google Apps.

Fantastic! I needed this today!

Now if we could only get BZFlag into classrooms...

One person's view of what school will look like in 10 years - proactive and timely!!

"Winkles Wakes Up" - a staple animation in our icebreaker activities was created by this innovative teacher who views technology integration as a means of fostering higher order thinking skills, collaborative communities and effective professional development

On this site, you can see the ways fellow teachers are solving problems, leave a comment, recommend an idea, share inventive things you've done, and take on meaningful professional learning challenges.

Today's college students say the arrival of the internet was the moment that most characterized their lives, a Bronxite author found. In his book, "Generation on a Tightrope: A Portrait of Today's College Student," Arthur Levine, president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, said the internet and the tech-savvy lifestyle that sprang out of it has affected the younger generation the most.

Often in workshops people raise the "privacy" concern about Google. This will help address those concerns.

Guest post by Steve Kinney. Cross posted at http://stevekinney.net There is a lot to like about the iPad when it comes to using them in the classroom. It's light and fast. It turns on instantly. The battery lasts all day. Best of all, it's about half the price of a MacBook.

This is the information site for the Learning Registry. Find out what we are doing. Engage in the conversation. The Learning Registry makes federal learning resources, wherever they are stored, easier to find, easier to access and easier to integrate into learning environments around the country and world.

A number of tools that we use and some we don't gathered in one site.

Post about using Google Docs and the need for a chrome browser extension called WatchDoc that allows for the most efficient, effective teaching with Google Docs...

First off, what is an API? API stands for Application Program Interface. It's a tool which allows web applications (websites and apps to the layman) to communicate with each other and share information stored in each other's databases. This information can then be incorporated into new and different projects.

Suggestions for iPad use from an apple certified educator, broken down by subject and app type.

NYC DOE Common Core Task Bundles that were available to teachers for the 11-12 school year

This site that contains the NYC DOE developed Common Core Task Bundles for Literacy and Math. A good place to see what was expected of NYC teachers for the 11-12 school year and for what they will be expected to implement in 12-13

Clicking with Caution is featured on the DOE website. Teens in NYC created their own messages on Internet Safety. It is a collaboration between the DOE, and other key players...