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This is a great link to ways on using smart boards in the classroom. Besides the direct link, this website offers a wide variety of advice, help, and ideas for teaching!

This website has a ton of videos and audios to help students learn. They even have sample documents you can download to use in either your classroom or for the students to access to study.

This is a good website that helps educators connect. There are podcasts available to to anyone, especially educators, who have posted things they have found to be helpful in the classroom. I feel that podcasts could be an interesting way to introduce a lesson such as multiplication for elementary age students.

Teacher Tube's site has a variety of videos to educate teachers and students on a diverse assortment of concepts and subject areas.

A compilation of education technology tools for teachers! Includes tools for social learning, learning, lesson planning and tools, and useful tools. Perfect resource for using technology in your own learning process and changing your current educational practice.

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Never email yourself a file again!

The University of Oregon's Teaching Effectiveness Program (TEP) works with educators to assess and improve teaching. TEP provides a midterm analysis of teaching, videotaping assessments, consultations, library search services, and teaching portfolio assistance to the UO academic community. TEP also maintains an extensive library of education resources, many of which are available online.

The Teaching Effectiveness Program (TEP) is a website that is designed to educate educators about new technology and software that can be used within their classrooms. This site lists many resources and new tools that can make a significant difference in student learning. Chalkboards are a thing of the past, so say hello to new tools such as clickers, blackboards, power points, MS word, and videoconferencing. These tools will not only allow the teacher to teach their students, but it will allow the students to become more interactive with what is being taught.

This is great for teachers seeking to stay updated with the technology around them. The site provides information about how to use technology for example as a recorder or to edit audio. The site has information about summer workshops and conferences that are available to teach teachers how to use their technology effectively. The best part of this site is the tools for teaching where many if not all of the tools offered and offers details about are free!!!!

This website gives advice on how to teach computer ethics in the classroom, establishing a "proper use" culture, stories and polls of real computer ethic problems and concerns, and additional resources.

Pinterest lets you organize and share all the wonderful things you find on the web. This site allows you to browse pinboards created by other people. Browsing pinboards is a fun way to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests.

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

This website has hundreds of links to all sorts of information for students and teachers.

Scholastic.com can be a valuable tool in becoming a life long learner and bettering ourselves as teachers.

Cerias (The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Sercurity) is a research center that has a multidisciplinary approach to the problems, ranging from purely technical issues (e.g., intrusion detection, network security, etc) to ethical, legal, educational, communicational, linguistic, and economic issues, and the subtle interactions and dependencies among them.

Free tech for teachers is a blog that shows lots of free resources teachers can use to gather and organize research. It has links to helpful websites and tutorials on how to navigate certain websites, creating blogs, finding useful information and more.

In February, 1997, Susan Brooks and Bill Byles began a collaborative effort to extend assistance to fellow teachers. In November of 2000 that project expanded to a web presence known as Internet 4 Classrooms ("i4c"), a free web portal designed to assist anyone who wants to find high-quality, free Internet resources to use in classroom instruction, developing project ideas, reinforcing specific subject matter areas both in the class and at home and even for online technology tutorials. The portal is used by teachers, parents and students of all ages on six of the seven continents (there are not many classrooms in Antarctica) and is available to anyone with an Internet connection. We do not charge a subscription fee.

StudyBlue is your online home to store lecture notes and make flashcards. Study online and on your phone for effective, productive learning. Free.

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For over a decade, Lesson Planet has provided a convenient way for teachers to discover and share innovative lesson-planning resources. The Lesson Planet solution helps teachers find lesson resources, correlate them to standards, and organize curriculum. Our tools provide a time-efficient way to inspire teaching with fresh ideas. It also provides teachers with the best educational apps and finds more effective lessons for special needs students.

WebNotes is a quick and easy way to save, organize and be able to come back to resources and information found online. You don't have to copy and paste into word documents, simply use the WebNotes tool bar to save the information and go back to it later! As a teacher you can easily pull up a saved website or image to show your class.

Fluency 21 is a website about change for students and teachers with the use of technology.

Interactive learning Sites for the Classroom is a great web site that integrates instructional technology to really promote higher learning in classrooms. It is a site that children will enjoy playing as well as learning in any subject area. It creates a wonderful dynamic of hands on experience as well as betters a child's problem solving skills. It has all sorts of different games in a variety of subject areas from math, science, art, language arts, and so on. It even has teacher tools to help educators create things like word search puzzles for their class in only a few simple steps.