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From the website: Vanishing Georgia comprises nearly 18,000 photographs. Ranging from daguerreotypes to Kodachrome prints, the images span over 100 years of Georgia history. The broad subject matter of these photographs, shot by both amateurs and professionals, includes, but is not limited to, family and business life, street scenes and architecture, agriculture, school and civic activities, important individuals and events in Georgia history, and landscapes. The wide variety of the collected visual images results from efforts by archivists from the Georgia Division of Archives and History who sought, between 1975 and 1996, to preserve Georgia's endangered historical photographs. Designed primarily for preservation, the project located, selected, and copied historically significant photographs held by individuals who wanted to share their pieces of the past with future generations.The Georgia Archives joins with the Digital Library of Georgia to present the Vanishing Georgia images as a digital resource. Support for the project is provided by a Library Services and Technology Act grant administered through Georgia HomePLACE.

Wealth of information and links on Georgia, Georgia history, and Georgia maps. Maps can be chosen with or without labels.

This Day in Georgia History is a fun site that could be used at the beginning of the day in any Georgia History class to get students thinking and discussing history.

According to the website, Georgia Public Broadcasting "creates, produces, and delivers high quality educational resources that enrich, inform, and support the Georgia learning community." GPB provides multimedia educational programing with supplementary materials and training on classroom technology integration. The statewide network empowers teachers across the state to collaborate by connecting them with other teachers in and out of their fields.

TeacherLine Southeast provides online professional development courses for PreK-12 teachers in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. These PBS TeacherLine courses are standards-based and proven effective. Georgia PLU credits for recertification are available through their programs. As a result of these courses, teachers are better prepared to help students meet NCLB requirements.

Georgia State Parks have a site that lists all of the Performance Standards that can be met by visiting one of their parks. You can even view the Historic Sites or State Parks by subject. There are also educational guides here for each state park.

If you have an issue or questionrelated to anything involved agriculture, agribusiness, or family and consumer sciences within the state of Georgia, then it's good to turn to the Cooperative Extension Service, based at UGA. My dad was an Extension Agent and they can provide valuable information and hands-on experience to a classroom setting. In fact, that's what they are there for, going out in the field and passing along the research of the university!

This is my own set of bookmarks that I've collected around this course for awhile. I haven't reviewed them in awhile, so some may no longer be good.

Bookmark list for my EDIT 7500 Class (Technology Enhanced Classroom Environments) at the University of Georgia.

BrainPop provides animated movies and follow-up quizzes/activities related to hundreds of curriculum topics in Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Art, Music, Health, and Technology. The movies are correlated to the Georgia Performance Standards, so you can select a standard (objective) and search for movies that are related to a specific standard.

Cherokee County, GA's program for getting technology tools to teachers who are motivated to use them. I listened to a podcast of their presentation at GAETC 2007. Sounds like a great way to use limited money to put technology into classrooms where it will be used. Teachers have to commit a lot of time to training, implementing lessons, and sharing what they did.