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This is a listing of the largest school districts in the USA. Since all of us probably won't get a job locally, these are the districts that are always hiring.

Are you sick of talking to a machine when you call a company? Here are some direct numbers to major companies to actually talk to a human.

This article discusses desired characteristics and competencies in teachers of gifted students who are culturally, ethnically, or linguistically diverse. These include: culturally relevant pedagogy, equity pedagogy, a holistic teaching philosophy, a communal philosophy, respect for students' primary language, culturally congruent instructional practices, culturally sensitive assessment, student-family-teacher relationships, and teacher diversity. (Contains references.) (DB)

These are videos for teachers made by other teachers

obscure european strategy board games are awesome

This is the Wikipedia "Great Books" listing. Supposedly, if we are to be "well read" we should have read all of these books and understand them.

Great site for ideas on how to introduce podcasting in the classroom, if the concept is new to the teacher. Includes what podcasts are (we know that already!) and then some good examples and ideas are offered.

Scroll down to Mulitmedia Rubrics. There are a few checklists given for finding good educational podcasts. (This site also gives rubric examples for other tasks.)

One of the BEST resources for school students, the ability to request books, magazines, CDs, videos and so forth delivered to your local library, for free! There are even downloadable E-books.

I used this site when I was teaching biology last year. There are some decent lesson ideas and downloads

This site gives examples of how to integrate technology in elementary school mathematics based on Bloom's revised Taxonomy. I tried out some of the tools, and they are great, interactive activities.

this is a site, again for math teachers, sponsored by nctm (national council of teachers of mathematics). similar to the cool math site i mentioned earlier, but this site because of its affiliation with nctm, certainly would be up to snuff as far as national standards are concerned and reinforcing mathematics which are included in the national standards. i have not researched or used this site as much as the cool math, but it looks good!

This is a good site for high school math webquests There are many different levels from algebra 1 through calculus so these examples could be used and changed to bring down to middle school level and great for using in advanced middle school math classes

This article talks about the tools that teachers are using with success (with active links).

This article describes technology as a tool to engage at-risk students through collaborative learning and long-term projects that are administered by knowledgeable teachers.

"In one elementary school lesson, Ponton shows students a professional artist's drawing and then uses DrawPlus to break the image down into its basic shapes. Students are told to put those shapes back together, and in the process, they begin learning how basic shapes can be used to create more complicated images."

A webquest to explain new technology to students. "You might not have known there was a Web 1.0 and there are some who say that we are well on the way to Web 3.0. So, exactly what is Web 2.0? And, how can it be utilized to enhance learning? After completing this webquest, you will have gained a better understanding of some of the applications that make up Web 2.0. "

cute duck! here is the write up from Free Technology site: Duck Duck Go is a search engine designed with clarity and simplicity in mind. One of the ways that clarity and simplicity stands out is when you enter a search term that can have multiple meanings, Duck Duck Go alerts you to that and asks you what you really want to search for. For example, if you enter the search term "duck," Duck Duck Go will tell you that "duck" could be a noun or a verb. (see the screen capture below) Duck Duck Go also provides brief information summaries when you search for topics. This is handy if you're not really looking for a lot of information about a topic, but are just in need of a quick synopsis of a topic.

Great Science Lesson Website with rubrics probided. Tasks are aligned with the National Science Education Standards.