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The "Educational Technology: ICT in Education" website is for educators who use, teach, lead or manage educational technology, or information and communications technology (ICT). It publishes articles covering the whole range of managing ICT in educational context. Although the content of the website is mainly in the form of articles, there are also videos, podcasts, bookmarks and other pages.

This wiki site allows anyone to create their own education wiki. This is really good because it explains in a very clear and precise manner the steps to follow in order to create an educational wiki site. This should be very useful for educators with little technological know how.

XplanaZine is sponsored by the educational software company Xplana Learning. It provides the most recent news about publishing companies, information technology, online education research, and schools and programs implementing new methods to educate students. It also keeps track of upcoming conferences and contests to encourage participation in events related to educational technology.

The Education Podcast Network is a network that looks at all the ways that teachers can use podcast as a tool in education. It lists all the subject areas where educators can get podcasts for. This could really be good for new teachers who are trying to utilize podcasts in their teachings.

This is the website of EDUCAUSE. EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. its membership is open to institutions of higher education, corporations serving the higher education information technology market, and other related associations and organizations.

New worlds, or new areas in cyberspace, are being discovered and being applied to education at breakneck speed. The Internet, 3D graphics, QuickTime Movies, Quicktime VR and a multitude of new concepts and ideas are now being promoted on the internet and in leading educational journals throughout the world. It is a major undertaking just to keep abreast of this technological revolution, but the ideas and methods evolving are impacting education in ways no one could foresee just a year or two ago.

This is a website that promotes Educational Blogging. It has definitions and support for blogging along with a list of education related blogs, including many on educational technology. It also has a search engine for the blogs.

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.

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.

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.

This wiki is a meeting place to experiment with and exchange ideas about online mathematics education collaborative tools. Its goals are as follows: Identify, evaluate, catalog, and aggregate online collaborative tools. Identify technologies and tools that improve in-class mathematics instruction. Identify and leverage technologies trends in education. Improve communication.

This educational podcast allows both educators and parents to find ideas for teaching and learning activities for children. It has a wide variety of podcast channels to support the teaching and learning process.

This website is part of the Milken Family Foundation's commitment to promoting responsible uses of education technology in schools. Education technology related issues, events, articles, projects, and discussions are available here.

This blog provides information about online and traditional education trends

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.

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

The INSTITUTE FOR LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES (ILT), founded in 1986 at Teachers College, Columbia University, works to advance the role of computers and other information technologies in education and society. Through its program of practice, the Institute seeks to empower the creative reform of education through technology:

University of Houston - The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling

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."

This website was created by Dr. Joyce Hinkson, an educator from California, to assist teachers, students, parents and others, with the integration of curriculum and the Internet to promote student literacy. The site is divided into six sections: Education Links,Computer and Technology Specific Links, Government Links, Media Links, Reference Links, and Virtual Field Trip Links.