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Online Teacher Meetings - Teachers.Net provides division level Chat rooms for teachers
- Classroom Connect - maintains listservs to support technology integration, in theory and practice
- Education Lists - list of lists
- Educator's List Servs, Discussion Lists & Newsgroups
- E-Mail Discussion Lists - lists and subscription information for a huge number of education lists, many focusing on technology
- Google Groups - access to Usenet newsgroups by descriptor and keyword
- H-Net Discussion Networks - listing, subscriptions and archive for many education lists, including EDTECH
- ISED listserv - Independent School Educators' List - listserv@listserv.syr.edu - Leave the subject blank and in the body of the message, type: subscribe ISED-L (Your First name Your Last Name)
- Information Literacy News: to subscribe, send a message to infoliteracy-subscribe@iti.cnsnet.imsa.edu
- Interactivities Forums - includes one for learning about technology integration
- ITEA (International Technology Education Association) - Idea Garden - requires paid membership - teacher-to-teacher - membership has other benefits, such as good publications and access to an international community of technology using educators
- EDTECH - this list maintains an excellent archive
- Listservs - a list of lists and and lists of lists, from Redmond, Oregon
- laptop_talk@edtalk.schoolkit.com - to subscribe, send a message to manager@edtalk.schoolkit.com with subscribe laptop_talk as the subject - list deals, as you might suspect, with laptop teacher and laptop IT issues
- L-Soft - the Official catalog of Listserv lists - global and searchable
- MiddleWeb - not necessarily focused on tech integration, but very focused upon Curriculum Integration (which often uses technology a great deal) - eNewsletter and Chat - free - the site contains many other resources for the Middle School teacher
- Out2Teach maintains a bulletin board forum for using technology in the elementary and middle school - this is a relatively young forum and a chance to express your opinions and ask questions
- PBS TeacherLine - with free registration, you have access to professional development, a forum, and a bookmark keeper, as well as the resources collected at the site
Teacher
Mailrings - a list of listservs for teachers - with a nice set of
instructions- Topica is an "ad supported"
host of list servs - several may be of interest:
- Ed Tech ThinkTank - comments that you will not find on the above - unmoderated - you can read without joining
- Technology in Education - open discussion, moderated
- Yahoo
Groups - Education - all you need is the free registration to become
part of one of these groups - or you can start your own and use it collaboratively
- Youth Learn - list maintained by this group - for teachers - focused on collaborative learning and inquiry
- WWWEDU
- this list is dedicated to the role of the web in education - many university
professors and consultants are on board and the discussions are always
meaty
Read About Technology Integration
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you going to be prepared?
Bookmark this site for the National
Center for Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology
NCP3 is Here!
Is your school prepared?
NCRTEC - Learning
With Technology Profile Tool
a 30 minute assessment of your current program
Educational Issues that Stem from Technology - current research articles posted by McMEL (Maine Center for Meaningful Engaged Learning)
- Ask Eric/The Educator's Reference Desk - abstracts and full text of articles - main site has been discontinued due to lack of federal support (what? how can NCLB work if teachers can't access information?) - Here is the original link, in case it returns - Ask Eric
- But Not Least... - our own essays and opinions and challenges to the status quo
- CARET - Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology - reports on current research findings - research covers learning, instruction, curriculum, assessment, professional development
- Classroom Connect - news and workshops for teachers and administrators - specific solutions for Math and Reading instruction
- Concept to Classroom - articles from Channel Thirteen's learning network
- The
Collaborative Classroom - from NCREL - short, readable paper that
provides introduction for curious teachers
- The Connected Classroom - Seymour Papert's site in support of his book of the same name - resources include lessons, discussion center, ideas for software selection and use
- CyberPlayground: Technology and Learning - information and learning opportunities - but note the misspelling in the title bar - are they careless?
- Eduweb - Educational Web Adventures - includes "adventures", but look for Research
- eSchool News online - free registration will connect you to an archive of short articles - most link you to further information - you may select to receive the ezine via email
- edTechNot.com - current commentaries on where educational technologists are going and what they are thinking
- Education for an Information Age, 4th Edition - Bernie Poole has made his text available for download
- Educational Technology Journal - free online journal
- elearnspace.everything elearning - articles, trends, information relating to elearning - blogs, hardware, software, pedagogy, library role, literacy
- emtech
- vast listing for parents and teachers - little guidance but there is
a plethora of subjects - you will need to sort out the pedagogical topics
- eot.org - Education, Outreach and Training Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure - supports and links to research, interactive online learning modules (math and science mostly) - k-12
- The Early Literacy Advisor - from NCREL, contains a section entitled Using Computers in the Early Childhood Classroom as well as materials relating to assessment, standards, etc.
- Fool's Gold: A Critical Look at Computers in Childhood - the entire report is available online from the Alliance for Childhood (2001)
- From Now On - online journal from Jamie McKenzie - archived and indexed - skeptical of laptop schools, Jamie has developed a set of guidelines for collaborative, project-based and inquiry based learning
- George Lucas Educational Foundation - collected examples of project-based learning, teacher preparation and community involvement - aimed at public school educators, but good ideas abound
- How Do I Integrate the Internet? from Cyberbee
- Independent Teacher - an ejournal for independent school teachers - welcomes serious submissions - currently published out of the Latin School of Chicago - not limited to technology topics, but included here because it will reflect traditional pedagogy as it change- subscriptions are free
- International Technology Education Association - free publication Bright Ideas - standards, activities
- ISTE - Internation Society for Technology in Education - publishes standards, print materials, may links to prof. dev. opportunities
- Just
in Time Technology - it's all about technology and education
- Keeping Up - from Steve Bell, what you need to know for tomorrow
- KIE
Research Findings - from Berkeley - articles regarding studies of
implementation of technology into (mostly) science curricula
- Landmarks for Schools - dedicated to the concept that children build with information - links, pedagogy, resources, activities - includes SLATE webquest builder
- A Lexicon of Learning - bookmark this guide to educational terms in everyday language. Start, as suggested, with Bloom's Taxonomy.
- Media & Methods Magazine Online - reviews of technology for education - somewhat product driven, but current
- MIT Enterprise Technology Review - articles of current and future interest - POP UP ALERT
- National Education Technology Plan
- NCTET - National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training - non-partisan organization that promotes expansion of 21st century technology tool use in schools - political methodology - their Links of Interest provide many articles to support policy decision-making
- New
Century School House - a virtual "new school" in which educators
create and communicate visions of 21century classrooms - create one or
visit and comment on what you see - you can explore just your grade level
or all - part of the Landmark Project
- NTeQ - resources for inquiry-based learning activities and lessons - samples and a Lesson Planner - find here also links to research reports on the impact of technology on learning
- Online Education Journals, Magazines and Organizations - this a listing designed for schools using, or planning to implement, significant mobile computing projects - from NoteSys
- PBLnet
- Project Based Learning is the focus of this site - exemplary projects,
guides, lessons
- PBS TeacherLine - with free registration, you have access to professional development, a forum, and a bookmark keeper, as well as the resources collected at the site
- Plugging In - choosing and using educational technology - a research report from the North Carolina Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) - .pdf and web-based versions - includes an effectiveness measure
- Teaching with Technology - History-focused articles, recommendations, advice, research from teacher Tom Daccord - you will find his links to Best of History Websites a great starting point
- Teaching and the Internet - an online workshop covering the basics, including what not to do
- Technology & Learning - online edition and archive of the print publication - what's in the news, conference announcements, articles about integration in education include a searchable archive
- Technology Integration Websites - from the Foote School
- Ted Nellen's listing - for those who want to investigate change seriously
- The New Curriculum - articles by New England private school tech educator John Raymond - check out the forum and join the group - this is chance to become part of a new discussion community. Issues include: mandating tech. training for teachers, ethics, managing a technology rich classroom - also follow the links on the left to lesson plans
- T.H.E. Journal Online - articles on topics of current interest to ed tech
- The Technology Source - articles accepted by peer-review, covering a wide range of implementation concerns, debates and experiences
- Terry Freedman's Articles - although this is a UK ICT site in focus, the discussions of IT topics are relevant to all
- Ubiquitous Computing Evaluation Consortium - organization whose goal is an independent non-profit evaluation of the impact of desktop, laptop and handheld computing on k12 education - this a new organization with growing content - currently only literature reviews are available - will include important and needed evaluation materials to assess the effects and effectiveness of what they call 1-1 education (one student - one technology)
- Youth Learn - focusing upon Inquiry-based learning and collaborative projects, this group provides practical integration strategies and lessons - many examples
- Web & Flow - inspiration combined with information - should be a weekly visit
- WSIS - World Summit on the Information Society - a watchdog-type site monitored by Andy Carvin - global reports from high-level (UN, etc.) information issues to US education themes
- emTech - Laptops - the same page contains Palm information - current information links, some annotated
- Learning
With Laptops - an online publication of Fred Bartels, Rye Country Day
School, who has been collecting and annotating laptop links since their
use in schools began almost 10 years ago - Rye itself runs a model dual-platform
laptop program
- Maine Learns - homesite of the MLTI - includes resources for any laptop teacher with a Middle School focus
- NetDay
Compass - supports use of the Internet for education - scroll down to
links to several model schools with laptop programs
- NoteSys - site of "papers" on the use of computers in schools, all of which apply to laptop programs - NoteSys was a PC educational reseller - Papers About the Use of Computers
- Plugging In - choosing and using educational technology - a research report from the North Carolina Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) - .pdf and web-based versions - includes an effectiveness measure
- Ubiquitous
Computing Evaluation Consortium - organization whose goal is an independent
non-profit evaluation of the impact of desktop, laptop and handheld computing
on k12 education - this a new organization with growing content - currently
only literature reviews are available - will include important and needed
evaluation materials to assess the effects and effectiveness of what they
call 1-1 education (one student - one technology)
- Digital Media - tutorials, how tos, hardware and software
- Media Literacy
- Multimedia in Education - how to, when to, why to
- Project-Based Learning with Multi-Media is an extensive guide, both the pedagogy, lessons, tools and tutorials
Standards - see also Scope and Sequence (specific to technology education)
- Education
World provides an index to Technology Standards by state - includes
national standards too
- From Florida, technology skills within subject area standards - useful for technology integration curricula
- Teacher Universe has a graphical standards locator
- The Facts About...State Standards - specific to implementation of NCLB
- netTrekker - a fee-based search engine that aligns content to state and national standards
- Usability.gov - National Cancer Institute site covering practices, needs, standards, tools
- U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OFFICE OF THE CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER - REQUIREMENTS FOR ACCESSIBLE ELECTRONIC AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DESIGN
- W3C - Web Accessibility Initiative - developed for developers, but contains a good Checklist to help teachers of the disabled rate web sites
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Database of Products from ABLEDATA - links to products by supplier, need
- EASI - Equal Access to Software and Information - online clinics, webcasts, information
- Inclusion and the Individualized Education Program (IEP) - general information for the teacher or administrator
- Access to Assistive Technology in k-12 Public Education - a guide and white paper - a very broad definition of AT
- Assistive Technology for Children with Disabilities - from Family Village (global community of disability-related resources) - links to articles and resources (for teachers, parents)
- CAST Digital Toolkit - resources online for using and accessing accessible digital materials - Center for Applied Special Technology
- Closing the Gap - subscription based ezine (also print) offering information and solutions for computer technology in special education and rehabilitation
- NCIP - National Center to Improve Practice in Special Education Through Technology, Media and Materials - many information sources, including informational videos of students using computers and computer applications.
- Simplified Technology - links, including some handout materials, from Linda J. Burkhart
- Special Needs Education - an current listing of resources grouped by topic, from Bernie Poole and Yvonne Singer at EdIndex
- Technology for Children
Who are Visually Impared - links to research articles and resources
How Are We Doing? - Technology program evaluation tools
- An Educator's Guide to Evaluating The Use of Technology in Schools and Classrooms - a very useful guide that can be used at the district or school level - the Appendices contain worksheet models
- ISTE Standards Projects - for self-evaluation - NETS are available for Students, Teachers and Administration - from any of these sub-sections of the site, you can find checklists by following the link to Profiles
- Learning With Technology Profile Tool - indicators of engaged instructional practices
- The MILE Guide for 21st Century Skills - Milestones for Improving Learning and Education (this is a .pdf file that will download from the link) - prepared by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills
- NCREL - provides tools for assessing progress in it Toolbelt section, as well as a library of information and professional development materials - the Technology in Education subsection is particularly helpful to those seeking support for a vision
- Profiler Pro - free online tool that you can use for self-evaluation of technology skills - designed for faculty groups
