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THE Online is the leading Technology based education publication for K-12 and higher education.

Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. They're often appealing and fun for students to use, while at the same time ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction. Read on to see how you can put wikis to work in your classroom.

Liz Davis's blog is one of continous usage of every type of modern educational technology tool presently being used. She has a number of blogs on varying technologies and their uses within the classroom setting. She has blogger, CoComment, Twitter, Del,icio.us, Technocrat, Diigo, Flickr and FriendFeed. The organization of these in her webpage is really interesting!

Quest Atlantis (QA) is an international learning and teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-15, in educational tasks. QA combines strategies used in the commercial gaming environment with lessons from educational research on learning and motivation. Participation in this game is designed to enhance the lives of children while helping them grow into knowledgeable, responsible, and empathetic adults.

Quest Atlantis (QA) is an international learning and teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-15, in educational tasks. QA combines strategies used in the commercial gaming environment with lessons from educational research on learning and motivation. Participation in this game is designed to enhance the lives of children while helping them grow into knowledgeable, responsible, and empathetic adults.

Decent ERIC article on the use of voice recognition software for students with learning disabilities. I have felt for some time that as the software improves with ease of use and accuracy, more and more students may choose to compose their traditional academic essays using VRS.

This blog explains what a blog is, how to use it in teaching and how not to use it in teaching.

Virtual reality is one of many forms of computer technology that schools have begun to use often in the last decade. The U.S. Department of Education reported in late 2003 that about 90 percent of people aged five to seventeen use computers, mostly at school but also in libraries or at home.

This is a rubric from assessing technology use in the classroom. Through the rubric it gives some nice suggestions on how to use technology as more than "a glorified typewriter" (quote from the Innovative Educator blog).

Hundreds of educational games, actiivities, quizzes, articles, and more! My students love this site and it is free!!

Hundreds of educational games, activites, articles and more, for kids and everyone to use online and free! Great for use with an interactive whiteboard.

Excellent mash-up covering fair use and copyright laws

Looks at technology as used in schools; NCLB and High Stakes Testing; the different types of technology and their educational applications; the role of teachers etc.

4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use. Discover valuable professional development resources addressing issues such as equity, ELL, technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students.

My department is considering using this software - primarily for its ability to ensure originality in compositions, but I'm also fascinated how it can be used to track progress, supply paperless feedback, and nurture collaboration.

This site outlines a list present day technologies that can be used in the classroom. It also explains how these technologies can be used to enhance learning.

Providing leadership and service to improve teaching \nand learning by advancing the effective use of technology in education!

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), is a nonprofit membership organization which aims to provide leadership and service to improve teaching, learning, and school leadership by advancing the effective use of technology in PK-12 and teacher education.

Providing leadership and service to improve teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology in education!

Freeware: free educational programs for parents and teachers for use at home and in the classroom.

This website talks about innovative ways of using iPods for teaching languages. It also hosts a blog on the same topic. Excellent!

University of Houston - The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling

Alvins blog explains the use of Everyzing. According to the author this is a service that scans through an assortment of podcasts and converts all speech into text that is searchable. What you can do then is to can search for generic topics. Search results can be sorted by date or relevance. By clicking on a hit, you can listen to the audio in the built-in player.

This article looks at the impact of technology on education. It mirrors George Siemens about how knowledge is created!