Practical ideas with links to futher reading

Good links to assessment tools for principles and teachers to emasure complaince in the 21st century

PinkyDinkyDoo.com - awesome early learning site!

Join the world's first and largest social networking site dedicated to education and educational technology. Launched in 2004 and with over 19,000 members there is something in here for everyone interested in education

Again, a visually stimulating slideshare on where we should be at as teachers

This slideshow gives a visual look at the 21st century learner

From doing calculations straight in your search window to finding information about a website....it is all here

It took tens of thousands of years for writing to emerge after speech, thousands more before the printing press was invented, and a few hundred more for the telegraph to arrive. Today, new ways of relating are constantly created and a new communication medium emerges every time someone creates a web application-a Flickr here, a Twitter there. How can we use new media to foster the kinds of communication and community we desire in education? This presentation will discuss both successful and unsuccessful attempts to integrate emerging technologies into the classroom to create a rich virtual learning environment.

What are your kids learning while you're not looking?

Well structered lesson plan with background and resources!

You will find a growing list of programs that you can use for free on the web or you can download. Scroll through the list and try them out.

The goal of RubyGrade is to provide an opensource online gradebook system similar to Engrade and Chalksite . RubyGrade enables teachers to keep track of students' grades and attendance records. The main difference being that RubyGrade is open source, free to use, and can be downloaded to run on a local server.

An updated way of looking at Bloom's Taxonomy

Step by step assessment how to...

Looking for ideas and strategies about classroom management, lesson planning or discipline? This topic is full of professional development resources.

Transforming Education: Assessing and Teaching 21st Century Skills

Good assessment and tools for assessment site

The use of blogs and online collaboration in education is explored as teachers discover how and why they should make good use of them.

The NZ Key Competencies - What this means for teachers and for schools