York Ed Tech Council

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While the down economy continues to hurt funding to our schools, more and more teachers are looking to web-based services to help educate their students. Whether it's through ...

The past few years have seen an explosion of disruptive technologies that challenge the way we think, the way we operate, and the status quo of educational practice. Understandably, critical questions have emerged regarding the use of these technologies in education. Do they actually lead to new literacies, or do they simply provide a new context for the development of skills educators have always valued? What impact are they really having on students and schools? How can organizations implement, evaluate, and sustain these technologies in the service of learning?

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EOS-WEBSTER provides free, customized Earth Science data. Our data holdings can be searched spatially, temporally, or by keyword, freetext, or collection name. We have distributed almost 700,000 data products to our users world-wide since 1999.

a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based science and education program. GLOBE's vision promotes and supports students, teachers and scientists to collaborate on inquiry-based investigations of the environment and the Earth system working in close partnership with NASA and NSF Earth System Science Projects (ESSPs) in study and research about the dynamics of Earth's environment

Useful presentation and good example of Prezi.

Do you Tweet? Moodle? Blabber? Voki? Glog? Learn about 10 cool tools that can be used to engage students, develop a PLN (personal learning network), and help you to be a more efficient and effective teacher. Links provided to hundreds more.

Great to use with students and global connections. You can follow discussions/comments about the UK gov by gov officials. WOW!

Here you will find the Top 10 Language Blogs in the category 'Language Technology'. This category is for blogs discussing technology as part of the language learning process.

The Google Checkout store gadget allows you to quickly and easily create an online store using a Google Docs spreadsheet. No complicated coding or technical tasks are required. You can get your first online store up-and-running in under five minutes.

Thinking about using this for an online school store.