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Fantastic tool Jennifer! This could be really helpful in so many ways for tech planning, professional development plans and evaluation or assessment of progress. Thanks for posting it!

Has some great video examples of some very simple, but profound integrations of technology.

This self-assessment instrument has been designed to:Provide individual reflection and evaluation on your personal skill level/stage with regard to integration of technology into your teaching and learningProvide information to help you develop your professional development plans (PDP) as designed by you and your department supervisorProvide input to guide improvements to our professional development program in order to help teachers become proficient in the integration of technology in classroom instruction

"Free Offer for K12 Schools Elluminate Bridge for Moodle is included in Elluminate's free offer for unlimited access of Elluminate Live!® Lite Edition™ for one year to any K-12 academic institution."

Great group novel study activity.  All planned out, and ready to go.  Here is a great way to integrate tech into literature.

Math resources integrating technology into the curriculum

As New Slate teachers are looking to integrate technology into classroom practice, this Ning is the most robust and helpful community I have found for English teachers and elementary teachers of literacy and literature. Award winning.

Check out the article "The End of Techno-Critique: The Naked Truth about 1:1 Laptop Initiatives and Educational Change." This article has huge implications for how any school improvement model takes hold and elements that make for sustained change.

This is one of my favorite resources for technology integration tools.

I like reading marketing blogs because they focus on communicating and building support for new ideas--sounds a lot like technology integration and education in general. Consider this revised quote from the bookmarked blog post: "The reason social media doesn't matter is because, upon further review, it doesn't exist beyond a label. While all the categorizing, classifying and departmentalizing was going on, that which was called social media simply settled into the center of [learning] and [instructional] strategy and behavior. Everything that we called social media is irrelevant and mislabed - there's a new way of doing [teaching] and [learning] for sure, but it's a behavior and focus on [student] involvement that's become a new norm - and that's all there is to it. We don't need social media tools, social media plans, social media agencies, or social media departments, we need [instructional] strategies and [practices] that are informed by a terribly heightened [learner] expectation."

Levels of Technology Innovato

Dean Phillips Resources

nice work Dean!

Great discussion in the comments

"I wonder if not using computers, mobile devices, social media in schools, etc., on a consistent, yet balanced basis, would be the equivalent of Sir Ken working in the dark as a student?"