Instructional Technology

An annual event has middle school students racing to the finish line and is teaching them some engineering skills at the same time.

Social studies teachers now have a new resource to help them integrate 21st-century skills into their lessons: a free online document that maps various social studies projects, tasks, and outcomes to corresponding skills--such as problem solving and critical thinking--that are becoming increasingly important for 21st-century success.

Educator accounts for teachers to facilitate classroom-based sharing of bookmarks.

New animoto site for educators!

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Free resource that allows you and a group to create an interactive white board, and web conference. Have not investigated en ough to see if it will allow you to archive.

TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on sixth and ninth grade standards. This Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for library media specialists and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students.

I'd always hoped I'd one day see Tom Lehrers 'The Element's' animated. Who knew I be the one to do it?

In corporate and government bureaucracies, the standard method for making a presentation is to talk about a list of points organized onto slides projected up on the wall. For many years, overhead projectors lit up transparencies, and slide projectors showed high-resolution 35mm slides. Now "slideware" computer programs for presentations are nearly everywhere. Early in the 21st century, several hundred million copies of Microsoft PowerPoint were turning out trillions of slides each year.