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Tired of assigning the same old boring Power Point presentations again and again? Want to challenge your students a bit more than the traditional tri-fold or poster project? Come learn a whole host of new tools to spice up your students' projects and your lessons. Explore and experiment with a variety of Web 2.0 tools including animated avatars, comic creators, digital scrapbooks, image creators, interactive timelines, logo generators, slideshows, streaming video, and the web resources that will serve as "containers" for the different elements.

Workshop at ISTE based on this wiki!

Pocket Literacy Coach is a text messaging service designed for parents of 2-12 year olds. Pocket Literacy Coach sends a daily text message to your cell phone with a short literacy lesson that you can use with your child to help them build their emerging literacy skills

Search PlanIt is a custom lesson plan search engine that ranks lesson plan and worksheet results by teacher rankings.

Tammy always has great resources and this year is no exception!

Rock on, ISTE! A music video created for the ISTE 2011 conference in Philadelphia, PA, inspired by Michael Franti's Say Hey (I Love You) song and featuring the talents of Temple University's Broad Street Line and Alliance for Progress Charter School's 4th Grade Class. Filmed on location in Philadelphia, PA.

Such a cool idea! Stick Pick is an iPhone/iPod touch application that allows you to randomly (or intentionally) draw a student's name from an on-screen can of popsicle sticks -- but that's just the beginning. You determine the mode and level of difficulty for each learner, and then, every time that student's stick is drawn, you'll be shown over a dozen Bloom's-style question stems -- uniquely tied to your learner's individual ability level!

Best practice examples of how other teachers are using LiveBinders.

Free Resource for teachers. Organize and Present your Resources Quickly and Simply.

Fluid environments involve using multiple modes of communication to convey a complex, interactive message. Information flows smoothly from one media to the next. The strengths of each media create synergy. The result is something more dynamic than could be done in a single medium.

Reach your teen audience with creative ways that promote reading and Young Adult literature using free or open-source technology tools On this site you will find ideas from teachers and librarians everywhere on how to use technology to promote Young Adult Literature. Thanks to everyone for all of your great ideas!!!

Who Do You Think You Are, a video from the Adobe Youth Voices series, presented during the ISTE 2011 Conference Wednesday Keynote.

The full-length webcast archive from the ISTE 2011 closing keynote featuring Chris Lehmann.

Kevin Honeycutt is an advocate for using technology in innovative ways to enhance student learning. He is a featured speaker at this year's ISTE conference in Philadelphia. Watch as he introduces students to making music in new an untraditional ways using iPads.

Webcast archive of the ISTE 2011 Conference Kickoff with host Mario Armstrong and featuring presentations by Peggy Sheehy, Adam Bellow, and Julie Lindsay and performance by Broad Street Line.