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 podcast shows anyone interested in creating one how it is done. It is simple, easy to understand and very user friendly. This is the type of tool that would be great for many of our teachers who fear technology but want to bridge that gap.
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.
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.
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.
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!
In this wiki, students from all over the world compete against each other through the use of mathematics games. It has the top 50 teams from around the world. Each game is a minute with individuals competing against other students of the same age group. I loved this because Malaysia is a developing country, has a team in it and is placed in the top 50. There are prizes and other incentives as well.
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 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.
You tube videos that have been compiled in different subject areas from history, science, social studies etc. A great resource for teachers seeking other ideas in these areas!
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.
You-Tube video of the pace with which new computer technologies are being utilized in schools; looks at how students see technology and how the role of the teacher has changed dramatically as a consequence.
Blog from Joyce Valenca - New technologies in education; some of these I had the chance to experience last year like the Geo-everything. This was pretty amazing as one could pinpoint my village and see what was happening there.
Wesley Fry's blog - Using website qik to webcast live and archive these videos directly to the internet! I responded to this blog! Found it very informative in terms of possible things that could be done in Samoa; it is affordable!