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Portable Professional Development (PPD) is a collection of podcasts which demonstrate ways that teachers have integrated technology into their classrooms and to publish them for others to view. PPD podcasts may include introductions to new applications... and PPD podcasts may include clever ways to integrate technology we've been using for years!\n

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Evaluating the use of technology in a classroom environment is not something most administrators are trained to do. It is easy to walk into a classroom and see that every student is using a computer, but how do you really assess if and what type of learning is taking place?

The following resources are available for public viewing and download. All Notebook files copyright SMART Technologies© 2008. Please send questions, comments and feedback to ktrinh@smarttech.com.

Please join us in discussing how the National Educational Technology Standards for Students are being implemented in classrooms around the world.

The Newseum - a 250,000-square-foot museum of news - offers visitors an experience that blends five centuries of news history with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on exhibits.

If you are a teacher, administrator, or technology specialist that would like to learn more about the many free, online tools that can be used to enhance your teaching, then consider yourself personally invited to join us. We'd love to have you and look forward to an exciting, open, and collaborative experience.

At kitZu, you will find a collection of free, educational, copyright-friendly media resources. Students and teachers around the world can access pre-made collections, or "kits," of various digital assets - still images, background music, narratives, video and text. Each kit is built around a common theme, or curricular topic. For students, this becomes the construction paper of the 21st century --allowing them to create reports and projects filled with rich, immersive media for communicating their vision of whatever subjects they chose. AS they master the technology, they will progress from building projects with supplied materials to projects where they find or create their own resources -- a strategy that results in truly authentic assessment as measured by the projects produced.

Rafi.ki is an online learning community using simple technology to build successful school partnerships, transforming pupils into global citizens.

eLECTIONS is a powerful online learning experience that demonstrates how broadband technology - with its capacity to deliver video, audio, excellent inter-activity, design and content - can support active, meaningful and memorable learning.

Integrating 21st Century Tools into Your Teaching Technology Tutorials for Teachers. Tutorials for Delicious, Diigo, Flickr, Gmail, Google: Docs, Presentations, Spreadsheets, Ning, VoiceThred and Wikispaces

This is more of a look and see what you can do with Google Earth and Screen capture software. Click the video to see how the museum uses this technology. Appropriate for Middle and High School.

Welcome to Access, Analyze, Act: A Blueprint for 21st Century Civic Engagement. This curriculum is designed to help you discover the power of social media for teaching media and information literacy, critical thinking, communication, collaboration and technology skills while developing students' understanding of the political, social and economic issues facing our country at election time.

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is pleased to offer Route 21, a one-stop-shop for 21st century skills-related information, resources and community tools.

"Interesting things for Teachers on the World Wide Web". A boatload of links and resources, organized into subject or grade-level catagories.

An AWESOME list of SMARTboard tutorials, resources, integration ideas, subject-specific, examples, etc. A MUST SEE for all IWB users.

The future. Not a time or a place. Simply put, the future stands for innovation in mathematics teaching. Problem-solving, communication, reasoning, connections.