The new offerings for school districts that subscribe [I think all BC has subscribed] include lots of tools for teaching to diversity. This site should be useful to many of us. Slow readers? Need text-to-speech? Readers Theatre? Lots more!

Canada's most prominent cyber presence? He likes to write 1/2 an hour a day online! He puts technology in perspective...does it help us communicate? Does it promote learning growth?

This is a powerful video from CBC. It introduces the world of people within the autism spectrum disorder and provides insight into how they feel about us, our views toward them, learning, etc. Fascinating!

While many educators realize technology's enormous potential to help them differentiate their instruction so that all students can learn, regardless of students' needs, abilities, or learning styles, it might be hard for them to find concrete applications of this approach to emulate in their classrooms. But in a Jan. 28 webinar from the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), experts provided several examples of classroom projects that can help all students learn while keeping them engaged.

Students in a South Texas classroom had taken on the role of employees at CleanWater Tech, a fictional U.S. company that produces water filtration technology, and were poring over the economic indicators of various unnamed countries, trying to decide into which nation the company should expand.

This is a site for teachers or librarians to test technology literacy skills with 6th grade or 9th grade students. It may be a useful tool!

Assessment tool to evaluate 6th and 9th grade student technology literacy skills.

This site has some great review lessons with interactive games. My Grade 6 students loved reviewing geometry terms with fireworks they set off themselves!

A great division video for Grade 6 in BC.

This takes division to include a 4-digit dividend by a 2-digit divisor with remainder. It shows a traditional method of long division.

This site was a "favourite" smartboard site listed on another one. Check it out.

A collection of subject-specific smartboard lessons.

This site offers 100 great web tools and classifies them according to learning styles. Students can bookmark it and choose the tools that will help them get projects done, or the teacher can help them choose one that will work best. Great tool!