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Google custom search engine for students to find appropriate images. Here is another one: http://bit.ly/searchimages. Use these or create your own.

ISTE's Journal for Computing Teachers

Students working together internationally to develop solutions for global issues.

Google Wonder Wheel is a new great feature from Google which allows you to see relevant search results to your query in a unique semantically relevant and graphically design way.

Graphic organizer courtesy of David Warlick.

Posted for the ISTE Conference. Excellent code of conduct for using backchannel anywhere.

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.

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

The Amazon Kindle and Apple iPad may be a breeze to use and fun to have, but what about blind students?The federal government is stepping in after a few lawsuits regarding how unfair these new types of books are for visually impaired and blind students.

Actually, the iPad is compatible for blind and visually impaired users. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/7801280/Apple-iPad-is-great-gadget-for-blind-people.html

Take a look at these awesome open education tools to find ways you can incorporate open education in your curriculum-whether your students are in a traditional K-12 classroom, in higher education, or completing an online degree.

Pico Pocket Projector.

From Crystal Grandison: I thought it would be fun to pick some of my favorite tweets from #ISTE10 and share them with you all. Many of them I felt were thought provoking as well as great quotes to show the extend of how well this social medium has been used.

Another site with links collected at the ISTE Conference.

"Mike - "Do not do workshops around hardware and software training. The research is clear if you train teachers how to do spreadsheets -- if you teach them how to analyze data - they go back and teach kids how to analyze data and do spreadsheets." Cyndi - "Get rid of the network nazi's -- people who are IT people with no background in curriculum or education have no business making curriculum decisions." (Those who have heard me speak know I agree with this.) Mike- Leadership is everything - 4 characteristics of places where successful things are happen"