EDTECH at Boise State University

"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 site is a great blog with up to date websites for educational technology integration and current trends and issues.

An article about how technology, when used effectively, can enhance academic achievement.

This website gives teachers free access to lesson plans and videos that connect to different content areas. The lessons vary from online or offline work and they often provide way to integrate current events into any classroom.

Another website that provides the opportunity to get videos streamed live into the classroom. These are general produced by PBS and A&E.

This was created by Discovery Education to allow teachers to be able to stream videos on a variety of subjects into their classrooms. It does cost a bit of money but many districts are finding that it is a worthwhile expense. You can sign up for a free trial to use it in your classroom.

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

A web-based word processesor that allows people to work together in real time, which is great for collaborative projects. Has a cool timeslider feature so you can watch your document as it changed over time which is great for teaching revision.

A place to upload, manage, and share videos, images, presentations and documents.

It is a teacher created website explaining how he used iPods to create increase reading in his classroom.

This site is a source for web 2.0 sites for educators. It has a very nice sorting feature a ton of web 2.0 websites. The vast majority of them are free.

It is a website dedicated to the topic of bring 1 to 1 laptops to schools. It has information and discussion around this specific topic.

It a blog by Dr. Scott McLeod. He deals with technology and educational leadership issues. It a great resource to find out about technology issues in schools.

This is a subscription-based service, but it is well worth the money if you have the time and need access to a wide array of training videos for using pretty much any software tool you can think of

ipl2 is the result of a merger of the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII) It contains trustworthy links to online reference materials for a variety of ages and subjects... great place to send your kids to look for information! (Usually better than using Google or Wikipedia)

25 Free Online Photo/Image Editors - Part 2

25 Free Online Photo/Image Editors - Part 2