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These templates are provided as a starting point for developing an electronic portfolio to demonstrate each of these sets of standards. Be creative! Apply your own graphics and backgrounds. National Educational Technology Standards Electronic Portfolio Templates for Teachers, Administrators, Students in Word, html, Excel, and PPT

Encouraging Teachers to Use Technology Effectively and Effortlessly (presented at ICE 2009)

Dive into Search and learn more about what happens behind the scenes of Google Search. Play with our Experiments Lab and get a better look at the technology behind Google.

We love this document that Mark Anderson has produced for a training day at his school in North Somerset, UK. It succinctly provides the name of Web2.0 tools and gives you examples of how to use them. From our experience teachers did need quick, easy and fast ways to connect to new technology ideas. We think Mark achieves this very well!

Ideas for progress toward reforming public education, innovative uses of technology in the classroom and making school an authentic and meaningful experience.

List of Tech Tools for Educators

Here are the ABSOLUTELY EXCELLENT posts from the past three years Leadership Day 2007 - Summary Leadership Day 2008 - SummaryLeadership Day 2009 - Summary spreadsheet

Described as a resource for "adult educators in Colorado who wish to integrate technology into instruction". CCCOnline's very own Leecy Wise is editor for this newsletter. I find it a great refresher of skills and inspiration to try new things.

"The National Federation of the Blind and the American Council of the Blind are suing Arizona State University for its use of the Amazon Kindle to distribute electronic textbooks to students, saying the device cannot be used by blind students. The groups say the Kindle has text-to-speech technology that reads books aloud to blind students, but that the device's menus do not offer a way for blind students to purchase books, select a book to read, or even to activate the text-to-speech feature, according to a joint statement by the two groups."

At a time when tech-savvy educators are touting the power of technology to transform teaching and learning, thousands of attendees at the National Educational Computing Conference gathered here this week to discuss and debate how to make the best use of those resources and extend their use to more of the nation's classrooms.

Prezi is way cool! Great for faculty meetings instead of the standard Powerpoint.

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