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This video collection is a tutorial on how to use Smart Board Technolgy. It begins with the basics and moves through the advanced features in later tutorials. Not all tuturials have been posted at this time as it is posted to periodically as it is just now being compiled. These tutorials will help teachers use SmartBoard Technology when it is available in their classrooms. Many district classrooms have this technology available at a price tag of nearly $20,000 each I think we should try to use it whenever it will enhance the learnign experience. We will not be trained to use this technology by the district so it isu to you to learn how to use it. These videos make this possible at no cost. There are also workshops periodically in your district put on by the distributors of the SmartBoards. These are few toall community members and the times and locations are posted on district websites.

This website of the Southern Poverty Law Center offers articles, lessons, and classroom activity ideas as well as teacher professional development resources to teach tolerance. It has well developed resources to address issues regarding bullying (including through technology) and teaching diverse students in our schools.

The Education hub at BrightHub.com offers informational articles and quality discussions about the many facets of the educational process, including the technology and policies affecting today's schools and universities. Technology is a hot topic on this site, bringing learning out of the classroom. I particularly appreciate the lessons on helping students study, take notes, and get organized so they can succeed in school. The classroom management conversations are great, too!

This website has rich informational resources and well as lesson plans and other resources specifically designed for teachers to use in their classrooms.

BrainPOP is one of my favorite website for engaging students and supporting educators. The authors have created animated, curriculum-based content Flash-based movies, quizzes, experiments, timelines, activity pages, and much more covering hundreds of topics within Math, Science, Social Studies, English, Technology, Arts & Music, and Health. All of the content is aligned with state standards. BrainPOP is accessible entirely online; there's no software to install or download. You can use BrainPOP's resources with PCs, Macs, projectors, or interactive whiteboards. Check out the BrainPOP for educators' site full of useful teachers' resources: Lesson plans, academic standards, curriculum calendar, blogging and so much more! FYI, there's also a free BrainPOP app for your iTouch or iPhone.

This website has unlimited resources for just about anything you could want related to science. There are ideas for science fair projects, science experiment ideas, answers to science questions, links to careers in science, and links for students, parents, and educators. This site is fun and informative.

Robin introduced us to this online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods. It is easiest to search stories by topic, access the relevant datafile, and then copy and paste the data into a statistics program.

A new site for educators, TeacherTube, takes the sharing, production, and community-building aspects of YouTube and offers an educator's version. According to TeacherTube's founders, "We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners."

Create your own interactive stories, music, games, and art. My teacher had 5th grade students create interactive stories based on their research papers on Explorers. It was a great way for them to incorporate the facts they had learned into a technology display.

A vehicle for information evaluation that helps students determine information relevancy,appropriateness, detail, currency, authority, and bias. It contains a rubric for information evaluation that allows students to determine the usefulness and reliabilty of a resource.

Need stuff for your classroom, but out of budget $$? This blog site from Richard Byrne is a compendium of ideas for helping the poor teacher get things done in her/his classroom. Info ranges, from Gmail accounts, to embedding You-Tube videos, to borrowing books online.