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The Global Virtual Classroom is a free online educational program for primary and secondary schools around the world, It aims to complement the efforts of governments and education departments around the world to integrate technology into their classrooms and curricula and to link their schools to the information superhighway.

Simulations are creative, complete units of instruction that incorporate traditionally taught material into a simulated environment in the classroom - anything from a constitutional convention, to turn-of-the-century Ellis Island, to establishing an undersea habitat . Students are organized into small groups and role-play either actual persons or characterizations of persons in history...or in social, economic, or political situations of today...or explorations of their place in the future. Goals are set for individuals, as well as for the groups with which they work. The goal setting in conjunction with the competition with the other groups keep the students very involved in the learning.

Simulations are creative, complete units of instruction that incorporate traditionally taught material into a simulated environment in the classroom - anything from a constitutional convention, to turn-of-the-century Ellis Island, to establishing an undersea habitat .\nStudents are organized into small groups and role-play either actual persons or characterizations of persons in history...or in social, economic, or political situations of today...or explorations of their place in the future.\nGoals are set for individuals, as well as for the groups with which they work. The goal setting in conjunction with the competition with the other groups keep the students very involved in the learning.\n

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.

You're in a "virtual classroom." Everything you see and hear is coming to you through a computer-operated display that you're wearing on your head like a pair of very bulky goggles.

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.

Looking for fun scripts to stage your own puppet show or play in the classroom, this is a fun site.

This blog includes links to presentations by Google about using google and google tools in the classroom. And some information on what it means to be a Google Certified Teacher

Digital Media for the Classroom and Professional Development

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).

This is a very fun site for students to create interesting layouts of their photos to display in the classroom or on a project. This website also allows you to share your photos with family and friends.

School Time Games -- Wholesome Learn Fun for Kids -- Great site with games that can be used in the classroom in conjunction with the Smartboard. These games are also fun on a personal computer.

This is a teacher's site showing how they are using podcasting in the classroom. Students watch podcasts at home and then do mostly hands-on in class

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

A series of user-friendly techniques, suggestions, tips, and advice which is focused on teaching and learning to make technology useful in the classroom. This is specifically related to Foreign Languages teaching, and it's awsome!

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.

This is an excellent blog on incorporating Web 2.0 tools in the language classroom. The author says: "Over the past year, Google has stretched their search capabilities to include an abundance of open source web applications tailor-made for teachers. In fact, they've called this new suite of tools Google for Educators."

The Community Learning Network is a site designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into the classroom. Over 5,800 annotated links to educational sites with free resources, all organized by theme pages and keyword search, can be found here.

Provided By Google Certified Teachers, from The Media Library at Temple University. This presentation goes through some of the laws, use of materials, what you and your students can and cannot do.