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great video from Edutopia describing technology integration

"Code School teaches web technologies in the comfort of your browser with video lessons, coding challenges, and screencasts."

bare bones way to access you tube using assistive technologies

Great ideas for when you only have one computer in your classroom.

great visual way to organize and categorize apps for learning!

The TechMatrix is a powerful, free online database to help educators and families find educational and assistive technology resources and help for students who are struggling or have special needs. With the addition of new search features, expert advice, professional development resources, Hot Topic pages, and updated product listings, the TechMatrix is greatly expanded, easier to use, and includes many new implementation resources.   Search by content area, grade level, disability, instructional support, and more than 10 other subjects. Both free and for fee products will be returned in the results.

Khoi Vinh has used this domain since 1997, first as a portfolio and showcase for non-commercial design work, and later as a blog. Former Design Director for NYTimes.com, Vinh also co-founded Lascaux Co., which launched the free iPad app Mixel, described as the world's first social collage app. Posts span design, publishing, technology, pop culture and real life. Aspiring entrepreneurs can read "What I Learned When I Started a Design Studio" or "In Defense of Client Services."

"Mozilla Labs Gaming is a project focused on games being built, delivered and played on the open Web and the browser. We want to explore the wider set of technologies which make immersing gaming experiences on the open Web possible. We invite the wider community to play with cool, new tech and aim to help establish the open Web as the platform for gaming across all your Internet connected devices."

Teach Parents Technology was built by a few folks at Google to help support parents (as well as students, teachers, and beginning users) with basic computer use. It is technical support via video tutorials.

video tutorials in iTunes U that teach video production basics

At w3schools.com you will learn how to make a website. We offer free tutorials in all web development technologies. Select a tutorial from the menu to the left.

Find resources to help integrate technology across the curriculum.

"MIT World™ answers that question by publishing key presentations by the MIT faculty and guest speakers who are shaping the future. These free, on-demand videos, available 24/7 to viewers worldwide, reflect and extend MIT's educational mission-to provide the best education in science, technology, and related fields-to engaged learners anytime, anywhere."

"Robotics is a great way to get kids excited about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) topics. It is also highly effective in developing team-work and self-confidence. This web site is designed to help K-12 and other educators in developing or improving courses that use robotics as a tool for teaching STEM topics or as a topic in itself. The materials on this site include down-loadable lesson plans and links to other useful resources, such as teacher training workshops, public robotic contests, and other educational robotics web sites."

"STEM Robotics 101 is both a turn-key curriculum for novice Robotics teachers and a collaboration tool for veteran Robotics teachers. This introductory STEM Robotics master curriculum uses the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT Education Base Set and NXT-G software to teach a full STEM Robotics course. This master curriculum is divided into Units, several of which contain lessons built around the "NXT Video Trainer 2.0" product from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Academy. (This product is now available free online from CMU's CS2N Courses site). These self-paced learning-to-program videos are supplemented with lessons on robotics technologies, explicit math and science concepts, and the Engineering Process, in order to round out a complete STEM curriculum."

This company works with administrators and educators to integrate technology in their schools, blending online learning and assessments with in-person classroom instruction. A streamlined platform, the Hybrid Learning Management System, supports online education, with a student interface for accessing content as well as a teacher dashboard for monitoring progress.

Science360 Knowledge Network immerses visitors in the latest wonders of science, engineering, technology and math. We gather the latest science videos provided by scientists, colleges and universities, science and engineering centers, the National Science Foundation and more. Each video is embeddable to put on your own personal websites, blogs and social networking pages. Science360 engages the general public, science junkies and students alike in the cutting-edge discoveries and big science stories of the day.

The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology (EET) is a collection of short multimedia articles on a variety of topics related to the fields of instructional design and education and training. The primary audiences for the EET are students and novice to intermediate practitioners in these fields, who need a brief overview as a starting point to further research on specific topics. Authors are graduate students, professors, and others who contribute voluntarily. Articles are short and use multimedia to enrich learning rather than merely decorate the pages.