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Article looking at tech integration into teaching practice.

iTunes University on iTunes has podcasts, videocasts, support material and more for free. Content available from many major universities. View on the web or download to your portable devices. Also includes technology integration lessons and tech help (see University of South FL).

Provides examples of technology integration in the classroom, tutorials, troubleshooting, and more. From Florida Center for Instructional Technology at the University of South Florida's College of Education.

This website lays out the framework for completing Project Based Learning projects. Teachers are assisted through identifying learning, constructing assessments, designing activities, designing the process, and planning for management. The site provides a lot of direction for integrating technology in the classroom.

This is a helpful piece, targeted slightly to teachers of younger children, concerning how to integrate Wikis into a classroom experience.

This article also goes into how users use the information they find such as "fact checking," why they use the internet over other sources, and ways that they locate the information on the internet.

Interesting article on Technology integration looking at pedgogical beliefs.

Summary article explains need to integrate technology in education to create students ready for today and tomorrow's work world. Technology integration also needed to develop creative and critical thinkers able to collaborate with others locally or far away to create authentic products shared with interested audiences outside the classroom. Article also discusses value of portfolios for assessment.

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

Richard Wanderman, a dyslexic adult, shares his story about how technology helped him become a successful teacher, software developer, writer, and renowned consultant. Richard has experienced first-hand how access to technology truly can showcase a learning disabled child's real intelligence and transform his or her life.

Andrea Keith gives an overview of the safe email services provided by Gaggle.net. Gaggle is dedicated to providing safe email accounts for students. The tools they provide allow schools to feel secure when giving their students email access. Gaggle offers both free and paid services.

Interesting way of summarizing user engagement with social media.

Web site for 21st Century skills connecting students, teachers, and administrators to digital resources.

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 article, retrieved from "Tools for TEKS- Integrating Technology in the Classroom" site, goes into why teachers should harness many of the new powers available to them now that read/write web (Web 2.0) programs are so readily available. Now that students have cell phones and are constantly posting to blogs, wikis, and YouTube, the author argues that we as teachers should put these things to good use in the classroom. Cell phones, as well as other digital audio and visual recording devices, can be used to gather and later present information for class projects.

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."

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.

In this article, the author describes a project where students in a 4th grade classroom complete Internet-based lessons about each region of the United States. They then use presentation tools like PowerPoint (which could now be Web 2.0 presentations tools, since this article was published in 2002) to create take-home reports to share with their parents. This artcile has some great ideas and insights into things that could be done differently the next time. Technology upgrades would also make the lessons more interesting, being that it is 2008.

This article talks about a project that was used in a social studies curriculum for 4 or 5th grade students where there is technology integrated into internet based lessons. They also use technology to prepare reports. The beginning gives a quick introduction about technology and the internet in schools today to prepare children for real-world situations. Then it goes into describing the project given to the students and how it affected them.

This page, entitled "Internet Safety for Parents and Kids," features helpful information regarding proper and safe Internet practices. It provides 14 steps to help parents. It also features important facts to think about regarding Internet safety for children. Some of the featured facts/numbers are quite alarming!