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Lists 210 educational technology resources in alphabetical order. Also searchable. Found using The Gateway to 21st Century Skills search engine.

Peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. Share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues. Be recognized for your contributions to quality education.

The Learning Times Green Room shares podcasts for "Renewal, Retooling, and Conversations about Learning." In this short episode, the hosts are accompanied by Curt Bonks, author of "The World is Open," for a reflection on technology and education.

MathActive lessons are Flash animated math modules designed for grades K-12. Each module features content that touches a geometry performance objective from the Arizona Academic Standards for mathematics.

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.

From the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's "7 Things You Should Know About..." series, which provides concise information on emerging technologies and practices. "...badges offer an opportunity to reevaluate credentials, expanding their role by making otherwise hidden accomplishments visible."

Inspiration® encourages deeper, more critical thinking and improves students' creativity, comprehension and retention. The software helps students create webs, idea maps, mind maps, concept maps, graphic organizers, process flows, and other diagrams for thinking, organizing and writing.

Lesson plans and classroom materials designed to teach students from all grades about cyber safety, cyber security, and cyber ethics.

Free resources including animation, primary documents, photos, and videos. Lesson plans are also available.

Bitly is a way to save and share links that also shortens the URL links that you share. Their blog is frequently updated with information on the multiple ways that bitly can be used to you advantage - this particular post goes over some basics of "bitmarks."

Intelligent Adaptive Learning™ K-5 Math aligned to the Common Core Standards empowers students to master key math concepts

Great wiki for educators looking for iPad resources...I downloaded a few already and they are great!

Shared resources from teachers around the world...free to join, you can also share your own resources and lesson plans!

This a great tool for teachers who already use random selection in their cassroom...eliminate the popsickle sticks and all students to see their name come up on the screen!

Create a course website with assignments, calendar, syllabus, and discussion tools.

"Inspiration Software® uses research-based principles and strategies to develop and support our visual thinking and learning software for students and educators."

"Standards-based teacher lesson plan books make it easy to integrate visual thinking and learning across the curriculum. Teachers get practical ideas and step-by-step directions for engaging students in activities that encourage learning, thinking and creativity."

"This official site of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. features links to each of the Smithsonian's museums and their exhibitions, as well as special online resources in art and design, history and culture, and science and technology." I love this site because the student can through this Site Search any branch of the Museum of Smithsonian. Also this site the student can identify and look at the audience and other cultures to recognize it at first hand. The teacher can use this site to explain other cultures and civilizations to be presented to students in an interesting way to increase the knowledge of students.

"This digital story emulates the process a 2nd/3rd grade class went through learning how to create digital stories using Garage Band's Enhanced Podcasting feature."

The Digital Storytelling consists of seven elements of effective digital stories:

1.Point of View 2.A dramatic question 3.Emotional Content 4.The gift of your voice 5.The power of the soundtrack 6.Economy 7.Pacing