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This website provides teachers with certain guidelines to properly and safely implement technology in their classroom. It focuses on common technology tools such as PowerPoint, Online Discussions, Course Web Pages, and Student Web Pages.

This website helps educators integrate technology effectively. The tools that are included promote critical-thinking, creativity, collaboration, and community-mindedness

This website gives appropriate technology websites and tools based off of teacher learning goals. For example, if you wanted to create an interactive smartboard, this website provides you with possible tools, how they are rated, and the ease of using a particular tool. A great way to see what other educators are using and which are effective.

This is a web page from a useful site on integrating technology into the classroom. This site has 5 different examples of technology and links to examples and resources to use them.

This article lists, and provides links, to the top 50 most commonly used technology tools for all classroom teachers. It includes a list of learning tech tools (i.e. quizlet) and social learning tools (i.e. Edmodo). Very easy in navigating the article.

This site has different lesson plan ideas and ways of incorporating technology into teaching English in the classroom. They have lots of different links.

North Carolina's standards for using technology within the classroom for math 9-12.

The North Carolina SCOS technology standards for 9-12 by content area

This site is really interesting because it is a blogging website that is maintained through a high school teacher and her students. There is also a contact email if teachers were interested in getting permission to allow their students to blog about anything biology related. This would be a great way to incorporate technology into the classroom while allowing students to learn from videos, podcasts, and articles created by other students from around the United States.

This article has a link for a digital microscope. This is a low-cost, technology tool for science teachers. It allows the same magnifications and capabilities as an optical microscope, but the images can be imported into microsoft word and PowerPoint. Also, this tool allows for real-time and time-lapse movies... a great tool!

The Concord Consortium is a non-profit organization that helps develop technologies for math, science and engineering education. Their free, open source software is available for teachers to download to use in their classes. They include visualizations and models for a broad range of topics.

The most effective technology integration lessons put students at the center of the learning process. These lessons empower students by fostering creativity and innovation and they enhance collaboration and communication. Look for lesson plans that help build 21st century skills such as inventive thinking, communication and collaboration, and information literacy.

This website has an online Jeopardy game that can either be played as a single-player game or a 2-player game. Once the students enter in their names, a jeopardy board pops up with review questions regarding solving basic equations, two-step equations, equations with variables on both sides, mixture equations, and literal equations. Great technology resource that could be used for review. 

This is another website that contains lesson plans in Mathematics, along with other content areas. Many of them require the students to use a computer or some other form of technology. There are also some lessons with integrated subjects other that math. 

This is a website where teachers can locate a lot of assistive technology devices that their students that need assistance can use to help in their learning.

How to become an effective teacher by using technology to teach all types of learners.

This is a great website to integrate the technology that students use with Apple to enhance learning and creativity.

This site holds a list of any and all online sites that English teachers might want to use in their classrooms. These are all technology based and must be done on the computer.

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Lesson Plans with Technology/Professional Development

Online resource that provides numerous activities, interactive cartoons, and online labs. There is also a link provided on the website "Tips for teachers" that provides teachers with suggestions on how to incorporate this technology into the classroom

This is an online interactive resource for learning biology. There are lesson plans and activities for both high school and middle school teachers. This is accessbile to people using assistive technologies.