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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.

Learning Links has everything teachers need for literature-based reading programs - books, study guides, audios, videos and more. As pioneers in publishing study guides for novels and picture books, our signature product, Novel-Ties Study Guides, sets a standard for excellence. With over 600 Novel-Ties in print, teachers and educators have come to expect, and always receive, serious, chapter-by-chapter guides that "talk" to students, and save hours of teacher preparation time.

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."

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.

Teaching science? This site describes the software applications Vernier creates to help teachers and students "see" what is really happening with gravity, parabolas, progressions, etc.

In one of our classes we watched a video of the amazing Mrs. Toliver teaching math. This site has more information about her and the ways she found to make school great every day she taught.