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Kathy Schrock's Guide including a LOT of technology integration ideas, rubrics, bloom's taxonomy information, etc. GREAT STUFF!

iPads have exploded throughout schools and classrooms. Their flexibility, versatility, and mobility make them a phenomenal learning tool. As teachers seek ways to integrate these devices, we recommend focusing on specific learning goals that promote critical-thinking, creativity, collaboration, and the creation of student-centric learning environments. Below, you will find a list of objectives, each one connecting to recommended apps and tools.

Global WRITeS, Inc. is an educational organization whose mission is to promote communication and collaboration among youth and adults throughout the world using innovative technology resources such as video conferencing and digital media. Our programs in schools are literacy based with an integration in the performing arts. Our purpose is to provide opportunities for increased motivation for learning and to further student achievement for high needs student populations in cities throughout the world.

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

ARTSEDGE - the National Arts and Education Network - supports the placement of the arts at the center of the curriculum and advocates creative use of technology to enhance the K-12 educational experience. ARTSEDGE empowers educators to teach in, through, and about the arts by providing the tools to develop interdisciplinary curricula that fully integrate the arts with other academic subjects. ARTSEDGE offers free, standards-based teaching materials for use in and out of the classroom, as well as professional development resources, student materials, and guidelines for arts-based instruction and assessment.

The Partnership created a Mile Guide Online Assessment to help educators and administrators gauge their school's effectiveness in integrating 21st century skills into the learning process. The 23 question assessment will help you measure the progress of your school or district in defining, teaching and assessing 21st century skills. As a result of the Online Assessment, you can initiate discussions with staff, administrators, technology directors, school board members and community leaders about improving your school's plans for 21st century skills.

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

Rubric for assessing technology use in the classroom.

A digital library of classrooms using technology. The Video Classroom is a resource for K-12 teachers, college faculty, and pre-service teachers.

This position statement focuses on the critical role of media literacy in the social studies curriculum. The statement addresses the following questions. First, why and how has media literacy taken on a significantly more important role in preparing citizens for democratic life? Second, how is media literacy defined, and what are some of its essential concepts? Finally, what is required to teach media literacy and what are some examples of classroom activities?

"Most educators hope that their teaching touches students in exciting ways so that the information conveyed makes an impact. One sure way to engage students is to make their educational experience fun. New teachers just starting out as well as experienced teachers who could use a breath of fresh air in their curriculum will love all the great tools available on the Internet to help make their teaching more entertaining. Some of the following tools will have teachers and students exploring wikis, open courseware, Twitter, blogging, comics, videos, and incorporating plenty of other tools that will help make learning fun."

"The Interesting Ways series continues to be a great example of crowdsourcing good quality classroom ideas and it has been a privilege connecting with all of the people who have taken time to add an idea. It is remarkable what can be achieved and created together if you give people the right way to do it. Thanks for all the help so far."

Today, learning happens everywhere and all the time. Education must extend beyond our classrooms and school walls into the lives of every learner.

There is no doubt about it, the first year you are teaching in a 1:1 environment can be nerve racking, painful, and a huge blow to the ego. What do you do when all the students are gazing at the laptops?

We provide free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students. FREE access to: 28,000 lesson plans Teaching tips and Themes 6,700 FREE printable worksheets Games and Downloads Preformatted rubrics 257,000 reviewed sites Printable generators Webquests

This is the wiki site for self-coordinated gatherings ("meet-ups") of educational bloggers, timed to coincide with ed tech conferences. An email discussion list is here. This site is a wiki, and so you add yourself to the attending lists, and help coordinate the time and venue for each "meet-up."