Twitter and backchanneling sessions only capture information for finite periods of time. This site will be used to store all of the great links and resources discovered through ISTE 2011 (Jun 26-29, 2011) so you can retrieve them at home. Please join with me and share your favorite links.

Teenagers review social sites for kids as part of the Digiteen project.

Slideshow presentation by Chris O'Neal (ISTE) and Rob Bayuk (Microsoft). Microsoft and ISTE have joined forces to put together a series of web literacy lessons, activities, and support resources to help students develop their critical thinking skills when searching the web. You can find the teacher resources here: http://www.microsoft.com/education/teachers/guides/critical_thinking.aspx

Web site of Gwyneth Jones, co-presenter with Joyce Valenza. (SIGMS Forum: Media Specialists SIG Learning Tools Smackdown)

USB Document Camera ($69) shown at ISTE 2010.

Awesome web site of Joyce Valenza ( SIGMS Forum: Media Specialists SIG Learning Tools Smackdown)

Excellent educator-created video offers students an introduction to the concepts of "managing personal identity online" and "digital footprint" and what it will mean in the course of their lifetime. Particularly noteworthy are the employer comments regarding what they learn from reading what job candidates have posted online and how it affects them both negatively and positively in considering the person for a job.

Pump Up Your Web Presence and develop your personal learning networks. Tools for getting started.

Chris Lehmann's inspirational speech on the need for schools to change, embrace technology and encourage independent learning.

24/7 online help with homework and assignments.

Grades 6-12. In this BYOL session with Rod Hames, teachers learned how to involve, and support students in engaging and powerful thinking generated by a project featuring blogs, collaboration, mathematics, literacy, and competition.

The Algebra Project, Inc. is a 501 (c) (3) national, nonprofit organization that uses mathematics as an organizing tool to ensure quality public school education for every child in America. We believe that every child has a right to a quality education to succeed in this technology-based society and to exercise full citizenship. We achieve this by using best educational research and practices, and building coalitions to create systemic changes.

Video archive of Chris Lehmann's ISTE session. To have a say in the school reform debate we must articulate a clear vision of what 21st-century schools can be. You can also read Chris's ISTE Reflections here: http://practicaltheory.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/2010/06.html

Watch the video of the session with Amber Miskimon and Erin Mayer at ISTE Vision. Discover how to use and incorporate Flip video cameras, Windows Movie Maker and Audacity into your classroom while participating in an engaging middle school lesson. You can find all of their generous handouts here: http://bit.ly/apDT5A

Video recording of Dr. Howie DiBlasi's session at ISTE. You can download his handouts at http://www.drhowie.com/

With an understanding of spatial thinking, educators can learn to use geographic tools to develop research, writing, and presentation in the classroom. Requires Google Earth and ESRI ArcExplorer.

You can download sample teacher lesson plans here at this site. Watch a series of videos on YoLink in action at: http://www.yolinkeducation.com/education/videos/edu-videos.jsp. To see how YoLink works with EasyBib, check here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG7qCTtfkNI

While polarized views of reading methodologies, filtering, DRM, Open Source, copyright/copyleft, constructivism, e- books, computer labs, fixed schedules, Mac/PC/Linux, and the One Laptop Per Child project all make for entertaining reading and a raised blood pressure, radical stances rarely create educational change or impact educational institutions enough to change kids' chances of success. This presentation by Doug Johnson suggests 10 principles to follow from the Radical Center of Education that will actually result in positive change in education.You can find his ISTE session notes here.

At ISTE 2010, CDW-G released findings from their recent study that found that just 8 percent of high school teachers said that technology is fully integrated into the classroom; and the technology that is available is primarily used by teachers and not students. As a result, 43 percent of students said they are not - or they are unsure if they are - prepared to use technology in higher education or the workforce. You can download the full report at this site.