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The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells as illustrated below.

SymbalooEDU is a curation tool to organize and share the best of the web with others, for example your friends, colleagues or students.

Mathipedia.com is a site dedicated to making mathematics accessible to everyone in ways that are simple to understand and presented in different forms for different learning styles. Mathipedia has a goal of providing resources that can be used by students, parents, and teachers free of charge without strict copyright restrictions. Here is what you will find on this site:

The Biology Corner is a resource site for biology and science teachers.  It contains a variety of lessons, quizzes, labs, web quests, and information on science topics.   You can find lessons related to biology topics in the links  listed under "topics" on the sidebar.  Topics include:  Ecology, Genetics, Anatomy, Cells, Scientific Method, and Evolution.   I do not at this time have answer keys for the worksheets posted, as students use this site to access their own homework and assignments.

How do we get students to realize what they themselves value? How do we get students to think about their blogging as something other than work for a grade?

As computers and automated systems increasingly take the jobs humans once held, entire professions are now extinct. Click through the gallery below to see examples of endangered professions, from milkman to telegrapher, and hear from people who once filled those oft-forgotten jobs.