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The EDUCAUSE Library is the pre-emninent clearing house for information about timely topics and research supporting the use and management of technology in higher education. It aggregates over 20,000 resources submitted by EDUCAUSE, EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis Research (ECAR), EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC), Grant programs and our members.

Emerging Digital Tools to Support Reflection in Learner-Centered Portfolios

This is an online learning environment dedicated for educators and students to learn how to effectively use Google Apps in an educational context.

Great site for all social studies teachers for incorporating technology into the classroom. Site includes lesson plans, rubrics, multimedia resources, and many other technology related information.

Awesome resource I found on FLDOE. PBS Teachers provides PreK-12 educational resources and activities for educators tied to PBS programming and correlated to local and national standards and professional development opportunities delivered online. It has free webinars, free professional development training modules, videos, and much more.

Here in this website there are some really good examples of Digital Stories. Very good site.

Website by USF offering lesson plans, royalty free photos, interactive tools, and content area specific tools for incorporating technology.

In an attempt to examine dialogue within a second grade classroom, students were encouraged to participate in whole-class mathematics discussions without raising their hands before speaking. Beneficial social and sociomathematical norms developed in place of this traditional social norm. Effects of this change on the dialogue and written mathematical explanations of a class of second grade students are described. Focus was placed on student participation in whole-class discussions. The study helped to determine the effects of student-centered dialogue on students' mathematical explanations and justifications as demonstrated in the students' discussions, participation, and written expression related to their mathematics learning.

Cpalms provides educators with lesson plans, center activities, and numerous resources to implement daily across subject areas. Search subject, standard focus for your Standard-based teaching materials.

Video and reasons why educators should be using technology in the classroom

A Google search engine geared towards students and teachers.  The teacher tab includes lesson plan searches and a professional development section.

I found the lesson plans tab and the professional development sections to be the most useful for teachers like myself. I would need to do a bit more investigating to decide if the student centered search engine is useful for elementary students.

For the ESOL teacher, or student...find ideas for LEP (any language) students. Teaching through technology has been proven to be effective in areas of language deficiency. I've used a few of the Webquests in the Reading section in my classes. If you have the computers in your room or media center, this is a MUST HAVE book mark!

This middle school gives great resources for virtual fieldtrips and scavenger hunts that you can do with your students. We all know that budget cuts have limited the ability for students to participate in really neat fieldtrips. Well, these sites offer a virtual tour with the same information, videos, and pictures. The best part is they are free!

For those of you who are teaching social studies, here is a great site for students to research and explore ancient Egypt!

This site has some great resources on differentiating instruction and using resources for reading success.

I used this site all the time for literacy centers for primary grades. Great choice!

A free website to teach children to read. Perfect for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. Contains exciting interactive books and phonics games.

This was a great center to have when I taught primary. =)