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"Peggy Benton, an assistant professor in San Francisco State University's Department of Instructional Technologies, discusses the importance of integrating technology in both elementary schools and secondary schools."

This is a really great technology integration matrix with videos and ideas.

The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003).

Written by a secondary language arts teacher, this blog post contains a twitter chat on how secondary educators in ELA routinely integrate technology into their classrooms.

This article offers 10 ideas to integrate social studies with ELA and reading. Small, simple ideas from lesson plan tweaks to adding books to libraries to integrate social studies into ELA.

This site provides ideas, guidance, and information on technology integration, including use cases.

A middle school language arts educator shares his favorite digital tools for text and video annotations, teacher feedback, and formative assessment.

A middle school language arts educator shares his favorite digital tools for text and video annotations, teacher feedback, and formative assessment.

We share evidence and practitioner-based learning strategies that empower you to improve K-12 education. http://www.edutopia.org/technology-integration

I found this Prezi a great example of instructional technology for English language learners. Well done.

A great introduction to TIP for non-teachers like me

This is one of my favorite resources for educational technology. Includes examples of videos and a matrix of key indicators of levels of technology integration in classrooms.

Thank you for this resource! When deciding to use technology, I struggle with efficiency vs effectiveness. Bu using the matrix, I can now frame my analyses in terms of "to what extent" does the tool meet student needs.

Offers links to Excel learning tutorials, subject-specific uses for spreadsheet software, and links to additional resources

Integrating technology in the classroom is becoming more and more prevalent in many schools across the world. Teachers need to think of creative ways to incorporate technology into the classroom. This guide provides help for teachers wanting to use the application, Microsoft Excel, for help in their classes.

Some great tutorials on Excel and ways to integrate it into multiple content areas.

Gives a great justification for technology integration into the classroom.

how and Tell: Ideas for Integrating Visual Thinking in Your Teaching

how and Tell: Ideas for Integrating Visual Thinking in Your Teaching

An article on a digital storytelling strategy for technology integration based on the TPACK framework.

Save your ideas, things you like, things you hear, and things you see. Evernote works with nearly every computer, phone and mobile device out there. Search by keyword, tag or even printed and handwritten text inside images. Get Evernote. It's free.

I recently just started integrating Evernote with writing my lesson plans and lecture notes. In my classes I have a mixed bag of students. Some of my students have varying degrees of IEPs. For along time students who needed audiobook publisher support, to have the chapter notes read to them were bound by 1. The book we were using in class and if it had that type of support and 2. What the publisher thought was important to include in the audio, which often does not provide alternate examples for the concepts the student are trying to learn. With the record Evernote feature I have a simple and easy way to integrate audio and send my recorded lecture notes, examples and recorded exam questions to the students that need this type of alternative learning experience . I'm aware there are other resources where this was possible. Evernote just happens to be in my opinion the best one stop app to write a lecture ,integrate pictures,graphics and audio to effectively reach my entire class. So if you were on the fence about Evernote or have never heard about it before be sure to check it out from the link I provided