Rethinking PowerPoint. A wiki with a list of resources for teaching how to use PowerPoint effectively.

A different way to read great literature. This sie is an experiement in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place ... and so much more. Created by Jerome Burg, Google Certified Teacher.

Blogging curriculum, guidelines, reflection suggestions, sentence starters and listing of youth blogs

S.O.S. for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource that includes lesson plans, handouts, presentations, videos and other resources to enhance the teaching of information literacy. Information literacy skills enable students to effectively locate, organize, evaluate, manage and use information. From Center for Digital Literacy at Syracuse University

Each student based their blog topic on this quote by Gandhi, "We must be the change we wish to see in the world". Students chose topics such as recycling, Darfur, donating blood, AIDs, pollution, animal abuse, genocide, teen stress, depression … This is the first exposure to blogging so I directed their beginning posts. Here are the suggestions:

While it is nice to have administrative support for new technology purchases, a "technology purchasing frenzy" is simply NOT the correct response to the realization that our schools are not doing enough to prepare students for their futures. This is really about changing adult perspectives and adult behaviors to create student-centered classrooms that exemplify research-based best practices around learning. It's not about buying the latest, greatest, and most expensive tech toys on the market. Expensive tech in the hands of educators who haven't made changes to their behaviors and instructional practice are no better than the good old chalk board, pencil, and paper. Even worse, expensive tech that the teachers see no use for will end up just collecting dust in a storage room.

Is a growing library of high-quality online course content for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement.

The purpose of this wiki is to gather examples of how educators are using Voicethread in their classrooms (or for professional development) and to share those examples.

I'm doing a personal learning network workshop with a group of media and technology teachers from two different counties on April 24th. I want to share with them just how far reaching a Twitter network can be. I'm sending out a Tweet to the Twitterverse and will add each responder's location to a Google Map to share with groups of teachers. To participate, send a message in Twitter to @misstizzy telling the group your location and any other words of wisdom.

Seventeen lesson course on the various aspects of Search Engines and how to use them effectively to find information on the web. Site maintained by University of South Carolina Beaufort Library. Special lessons on: Google, Dogpile, Ask, Clusty, Gigablast, LiveSearch, and Yahoo! Search.