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Teaching Today is a McGraw-Hill Company that features teaching tips, lesson plans, articles, and more. This particular article, "Beyond Podcasting Basics," features what can happen when teachers are able to move beyond the basics of podcasting: students who can produce more full-featured, professional products. This how-to article addresses the selection of sound equipment, recording tips, podcasting on a Mac, Windows podcasting, finding music for podcasts, and publishing a podcast.

A Texas high school teacher uses literature to teach tolerance.

Find surprising teaching opportunities for hands-on learning in underresourced areas. The Freedom Project staff and alumni, in Sunflower County, Mississippi, describe how to draw on the history of your region and find the surprising teaching opportunities there.

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Emerging technologies hold great promise for teaching and learning in the classroom, but how can teachers make sense of and keep up with it all? This session will provide an overview of some of the free and available computer-based tools and services ready to be incorporated into the classroom.

Interactive teaching software that allows teachers and students to interact with information and material that is being broadcast the the entire class.

Article looking at tech integration into teaching practice.

Teaching geography and language arts based on the story of Cinderella using Internet resources and computer software.

Dr. Arnie Abrams describes how to teach digital storytelling to students as young as Kindergarten.

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.

This is an interesting article, as it offers a counter-argument to technology integration in all facets of the school experience, as least in the early years. The author makes a good point about young children being over-exposed to computer generated stimuli at such an early age, and he postulates the problems that ensue because of it. He refers to the "erosion" of childhood for marketing/money making purposes that benefit technology companies. He doesn't think software should replace good, interactive teaching.

Although a few years old, this article, entitled "When Technology Integration Goes to Math Class," addresses some still very relevant issues and positive outcomes from the integration of technology into the mainstream math classroom. The article touches on the reasons why teachers have been more hesitant to move to the constructivist approaches now readily seen in language arts, social studies, and in some cases science classrooms. The article features the author's first attempt at this type of teaching in math: a telecollaborative project entitled "Statisitics: A Curiosity Factor."

Students began by studying biomes then divided into groups of five. Each student in the group drew one of the five major biomes. Using books, cds, and the internet they had to find out the physical features, wildlife, vegetation, climate, and problems confronting their biome. Each person in the group contributed information, video footage taken at the zoo or aquarium, and additional graphics when needed to teach others about their chosen biome. The project was put together in iMovie and shared with all students in the class.

This site provides teachers many teaching points on Georgia's five main habitats as well as the plants and animals that live within each one. While the Habitats Research page is a preporatory page for the in-school "field trips" the company provides, it is still an excellent resource for science instruction (regardless of whether you order the program or not).

Cynthia Rylant: a collection of web and database resources from the The Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication. Let us guide you to the resources you need to help your children and students become effective learners. Sample lesson plans for teaching literature.

BrainPop is a highly-regarded, Flash-based video site that offers an array of movies on all kinds of curricular topics covered during the school year. This particular site provides the framework for a teacher to teach a lesson on animal habitats. Beyond just watching the movie and answering the quiz questions, the educator site gives the objectives, materials, preparation, lesson procedures, vocabulary, and extension activities to do with the students. You will have to create a free educator account to gain access to this page.

These web-based modules would be especially helpful to a teacher teaching a life-skills unit in conjunction with instruction by a guidance counselor. All five lessons (important relationships, resolving disputes, dealing with loss, rules and roles, and celebrations and family gatherings) all center around important people in children's lives, namely friends and family. Students can interact with the website and post feelings about what they've learned. The Kidlink site is great overall.

Michelle Moore uses technology to teach language art to elementary students. Video describes innovative methods of using the Internet as well as Microsoft Office programs to increase literacy skills.

In this publication, Marc Prensky talks about the rapid change of technology and the strategies that teaches need to use in order to implement technology in their classroom.

This is an interactive game that teaches fractions. Students learn about the many ways a fraction, and in this case one-half, can be represented. This game is part of the PBS Kids Cyberchase collection of pages. PBS Kids is a very helpful site the provides many features for students, teachers, and parents.

Video podcasts suggesting ways for teachers to teach Math concepts. Similar to Common Craft technique of using whiteboard. It might be interesting to have students create their own video podcasts to explain a concept for their classmates. [At times confusing as to who their audience is supposed to be.]