NWESD Summer Institutes

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Helps teachers integrate technology into instruction. Features various tools for teachers: one for creating quizzes that students can take online; another for organizing and annotating websites; a third for developing rubrics; and more.

The new home of teacher resources from the Library of Congress. Easy-to-use primary sources on the most frequently taught topics.

Encourages teachers of students at all levels to use archival documents and to teach with primary source materials from the National Archives. The site offers discussions on how primary documents give form to history, instructions for building a school archive, and templates for document analysis worksheets.

Interactive Q&A game for students, regarding copyright issues on the Web.

FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence) makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government. More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.

Collection of e-safety resources and sites gathered at Livebinders.com

"This website has been developed by Helen Barrett and Jonathon Richter of the University of Oregon's Center for Advanced Technology in Education, to support reflection for learning in education, from early childhood through higher education and into the professions."

"What! A podcast? I know what you're thinking. Sounds complicated. Sounds expensive. Sounds, well, technical. The truth is, listening to podcasts or watching videocasts in your classroom couldn't be easier-or cheaper. If you have a computer and an Internet connection, you already have all the equipment you need."

"Removing classroom walls. Opening windows to our world."

Handy chart that compares blogs, wikis, and Google Docs, using the following criteria: nature, authors, collaborators, organization, updates, benefits, drawbacks, and examples.

Classy site for combinations of word play and graphic arts.

"After 25 years of incorporating technology in the learning space, we still may not have figured out how to do technology-related professional development that helps teachers use computers as part of the instructional process. After 25 years of having computers in schools, we still lack an approach that ensures teachers truly understand the benefits and appropriate uses of computers for instruction and that teachers actually use technology as part of teaching and learning."

"Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest."

Good overview of major Diigo features.

This is an approach that uses art to develop critical thinking, communication and visual literacy skills kids can transfer to other subject areas.