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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.

Technology Plan put forth by the US Dept. of Ed.

This is the U.S. Department of Education's 2004 National Education Technology Plan. It is based on input from thousands of students, educators, administrators, technology experts and education organizations. It also builds on the previous reports issued in 1996 and 2000

While some are concerned that technology will do more harm than good, this site contains articles about using technology to solve complex problems. Without technology, these kinds of activities would be impossible for students to perform.

An interesting article about reformatting the traditional classroom to incorporate Web 2.0 technology and considerations.

Technology Integration
Research & Best Practices

A great article that describes a great need in education!

"Seeing the Possibilities with Video Phone Technology "

In this short blog post, Walker discusses the changing technology requires us to revisit classic learning theories. He continues to describe Connectivism with references from Siemans and Downes. He touches on the idea that learning is not just inside the learner, it now occurs among learners.

This website breaks down the learning theory of connectivism and how this learning theory came about. It describes how connectivism was created due to the Internet and the need for different strategies.

From this article I understand that connectivism is a way of learning through the internet, media and social networks. It discussed how learning can be formal and also informal, to which informal learning seems to be outweighing the formal learning now a days. Informal learning comes from communities of practice and personal networks which are very popular and common today.

An educator's blog that writes about how to use technology in the early childhood classroom - great ideas to use with younger children.

Statistics on Teens and Technology from Pew Research Center.

Interesting ways to use technology for book reports.

Edutopia kills it one more time with this guide for student-centered learning. As most of these guides do, it points out that there has to be infrastructure development for a program like this to work. Administrators should support teachers interested in doing this.

ways to incorporate technology in ELA along with some musings

Teachers have so many options these days when it comes to helping students with special needs successfully integrate into their classroom. This article explains ways to integrate assistive technology into your classroom.

Assistive devices, commonly used school technologies, links to online resources

This site is from Education World and is speaking about using technology in high school classrooms. This post notes that students in this generation almost demand that technology is to be used in the classroom because that is what they are used to and have grown up with. Cell phones, music devices and tablets have become more prevalent each year with more and more students bring them to school. They cannot seem to separate themselves from social media, music, games, etc. This site has listed some great ideas of how teachers can incorporate technology into their classroom, some of them are: online quizzes, online databases, Microsoft OneNote, online classes, student online portfolios and blogging.

Graphite is a website created by teachers which is a searchable collection of educational technology resources for teachers.

Common Sense Graphite is a site by teachers, for teachers that helps you find the best educational technology resources and learn the best practices for implementing them in your classroom. Brought to you by Common Sense Media: Empowering kids to thrive in a world of media and technology.

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.

A Prezi by Ralph Marlon Saravello that describes why technology use in physical and health education is important and how it can be integrated.

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