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Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation (link: www.nsf.gov), SciTrain works to help high school science and mathematics teachers provide the highest quality education to students with disabilities. The project includes research, instruction for teachers on how to make their coursework, classrooms and labs more accessible, and information resources for teachers including assistive technology for their courses."

great site to use to keep up with technology in classroom. plus gives tutorials in how to use if you don't know already

Founded by the First Days of School Foundation, run by Rosemary and Harry Wong; this site contains a lot of reading material for teachers, specifically those just starting in the profession. Features articles, books, and links on topics ranging from classroom management to technology use to professional development.

This website is full of information for students to research technology used and developed in the past with different societies and cultures. There is an index available to click on for the subject the student may be interested in researching.

Website aimed more at older students. Lots of good information dealing with the real problems with safety with all technology not just internet.

This website is centered around helping teachers integrate technology into their curriculum thoughtfully. It also lets teachers interact with each other to build a support network. The website is very organized, it is easy to navigate, has a tone of information, and the concept is explained very well.

An interesting website dedicated to reviewing applications for the iPad specifically for classroom use. It is fairly new so you have to search archives for apps you might like. Breaks the surface on how to use the technology in your world.

This site offers a bullet point list of science safety tips broken down into different areas of technology.

I thought this blog post was pretty thought-provoking.

Virtual Field Trips is a website that takes teachers and students on field trips via the internet. Categories are Career Technical, Fine Arts, Foreign Language, Health and PE, Language Arts, Math, Library media, Professional Development, Science, Social Studies, Technology and Other. As I searched around it looked like several of the field trips use our Sea Monkey as their web site composer of choice. Uen.org is the URL. At the bottom of the page we can click on "contact us" which takes us to a page where we can put in our contact information so they can get back to us. There is an 800 number to call. The website is based in Utah. Uen stands for Utah Education Network partnered with Utah State Office of Education and Higher Ed Utah, which is in Salt Lake City.

) Paulhami.edublogs.org is a blog site run by Paul Hamilton from the public schools in Vancouver, B.C. He is their assistive(?) technology consultant. He writes about free websites for educators. One that I got stuck on was watch know.org which had something for every discipline. Of course, there were lots of comments from fellow educators who can also add to his list of helpful websites. The latest revision looked like June 20, 2010.

Flash games developed by elementary level technology teacher. Games for keyboarding, mouse skills, math, reading practice.

Kids section of the Tate Art Museums' Websites. Great place for K-6 art students to visit, though older students may find certain sections of the site interesting. Very visually interesting and plenty of activities and resources. Make on online gallery, play art-related games and watch videos about art for free. Contains links to Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St. Ives.

This site provides technological tools for students to modify pictures, play games and ideas on artistic expression. This is a great website to infuse technology into the classroom because it offers students a choice in what they would like to do.

This has several resources for webquests for middle level students. Kids love webquests and they are a nice way to use the web for teaching in a more controlled environment.

This site offers tools to help students and teachers organize information. These can be used in any content area and they enable students to use their higher level thinking skills by solving problems during each "quest." This is a great way to infuse technology into the higher level thinking categories of Bloom's.

Videoconferencing/broadcasting website. Allows users to broadcast over the Internet with a webcam and microphone. Also allows a split-screen broadcast view to show an interview. Shows can be recorded and hosted on wetoku.com. Neat alternative to Skype - especially if you want to broadcast your interview/conversation or if you don't want to install 3rd party software. Not as mature as ustream, but it has potential!

Updated daily. usually at least 3 sites. Description and link to sites with possible applications for teachers when not obvious. Google search within site archive makes it easy to find specific subjects.

Lesson plans, activities, worksheets, etc. Aimed at Elementary level, organized by subject matter, coded for age levels, coded to type of technology (powerpoint, web page, text, etc.). Developed in UK so some terminology is unusual to Americans, "Maths" for example.

This website allows users to create easy animations with cartoon-like characters. What sets this site apart from others is creators' ability to add their own voices to the animations.

This site is relatively new - launched within the past year. They have a fantastic Twitter presence (@simplek12) and share lots of interesting news, links, and strategies through their blog. Some services are premium, but they also offer many free tools (the biggest one being a 21st century skills assessment test!).