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This is a website for a magnet school in San Diego, CA that specializes in math, science and engineering.

I found this site today and I think it is a great way for kids to be creative by writing their own story and even uploading their own drawings/photos. This would make a great gift for Mother's Day, grandparents, or other family members. For $2.99 they can make a PDF eBook.

This is a neat take on how we can get students to think beyond the text when discussing pieces of literature in class.

This is a nice article about how teachers of Language Arts can incorporate the use of technology in their classrooms. Usually, we think of Language Arts classrooms as being only about books, but there are many programs, like Prezi and PowerPoint, that we can use to put presentations together.

The Immersive Education Initiative, currently holding the Boston Summit (http://immersiveeducation.org/) is promoting virtual and augmented reality.

This website encourages girls to explore science, math, and technology in a fun, interactive way. I recommended it to my 12 year old daughter.

Seems like an informative website for girls

This article talks about the evolution of new technology and what it means to educators.

The other side of the spectrum from Apple: ebooks for kids at no cost!

This article talks about a tool that has been designed and tested in a classroom setting thats uses a virtual reality theme.

This article talks about the implications of technology in the grade school setting such as virtual realities, virtual communities etc...

This article talks about the higher demand of having technology in the classrooms by the government. There have been studies that shows technology can be useful and helpful with teacher but it has to be administered in a correct manner.

This paper brings to the reader the many facets of bringing or imbedding technology into education from preparing teacher to dealing with the lack of technology.

This paper goes a little more in depth on technology helping students to improve and to achieve their goals.

This article backs up Cody's on games helping students to achieve their goals.

I like this article because it shows that no matter where you come from, how small a community, you are important and can teach others a thing or two. This is an excellent example of using video conferencing.

This article is short but it gives one solution to a problem that most schools face.

This paper illustrates the conflict that exists between what is required of teachers in preparing students to meet certain standards and the need to incorporate technology into their courses of study.

This article talks about how toddlers show a incredible aptitude for technology which emphasize the importance of incorporating technology in education because it helps maintain that connection to the education setting and the real world setting.

See, games do benefit students in academic settings...

This article talks about students offering tips to teachers on how to use technology and incorporate it into the classroom. Sometimes the teacher HAS to become the student to really learn.