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

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.

Digital Media for the Classroom and Professional Development

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 blog has some rcommendations for creating your PLN, which includes some suggestions on how to get Twittering. Some of the links and recommendations are good.

YLI develops free K-12 civic education resources designed to encourage student interest and participation in the American political process.

This free registration site has videos and clips from mostly public television (like NOVA) for all K-Adult/Professional Development. Clips are divided by categories, videos for all subjects and there is a search method.

Funny and disturbing article on "Freedom", a free download developed by PhD student that allows users to force themselves to disconnect from the internet for an amount of time of their choosing. Traister ruminates how staying connected negatively affects our productivity. Luddites of the world unit.

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.

Speakaboos brings classic children's entertainment into a digital world. Beloved characters and treasured stories are given new life through amazing celebrity performances, beautiful illustrations, and original music. At Speakaboos, children develop liter

Site crosses disciplines and age levels. Besides lesson ideas, it has a lot of learning games and activities. Verizon Foundation is the organizer.

Empower educatros and students to be proficient with technology for better instruction and communication.

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.

This is a blog about using podcasting as a tool for teaching foreign languages