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Technology in the classroom promotes an increase in writing skills; better understanding of math; the ability to teach others; and greater problem solving and critical thinking skills. Learn more from these sites.

• Edutopia Online: The Big List on Technology Integration - The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) offers courseware modules, articles, interviews, professional organizations, and resources to show teachers how to weave computers into the curriculum.
• Best Practices of Technology Integration - Access K-12 lessons that use technology. Written by practicing teachers and "kid-tested", the lessons encompass Fine Arts, Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Special Education, and Technology.
• Technology Integration: Unit Planning - What does the research say about using technology effectively? This site reviews how to design an effective technology lesson, construct the assessment, identify instructional resources, and plan for classroom management.
• Technology Integration - Linda Burkhart provides guidelines, tip sheets, interactive projects, and strategies for K-8 students and special needs students. Topics include the one computer classroom, utilizing Web information, assistive technology, and instructional uses of the Internet.
• Technology Integration Projects for Students - This site lists various ways to use computers, such as conduct research, dialog with experts, publish products, discuss ideas, use multimedia resources, enhance project-based learning, and reform learning. Each category has supporting Web sites.
• Technology Integration - This site holds a wealth of information from keyboarding lessons and game templates to classroom applications using a digital camera and software tutorials. Also available are virtual activities, Web page design tips, links to student sites, and how to use Windows and interactive whiteboards.
• The Benefits of Information Technology - This article by John Kosakowski discusses the advantages of using technology in the classroom.
• Tools for the TEKS: Integrating Technology in the Classroom - Wesley Fryer offers a variety of articles and ideas for jumpstarting instructional planning.
• Planning Lessons that Use Technology - This site offers advice on assessing your technological resources and planning activities within your comfort zone.
• Understand Your Acceptable Use Policy - This site includes a lesson plan and handout for teaching students about AUPs.
• The Traits of an Effective Technology Coach and Signs of a Robust Program - This site discusses the many roles coaches can play, such as cheerleader, sidekick, or judge.
• Bringing A Nation Online: The Importance of Federal Leadership - Both the executive and legislative branches of the federal government are working to bridge the digital divide. This report examines the data in A Nation Online and highlights the gaps between those using technology tools and those who are not.

• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: The Digital Divide - This Foundation has become partners with state library agencies and U.S. public libraries to provide access to technology and training. Find out more information on grants and how to help students achieve.

• Digital Divide Network - The Digital Divide Network provides research, data, and news on technology equity in America. Find out about community technology centers in your state. The site also serves as forum for sharing experiences with colleagues around the world.

• Community Technology Centers' Network - CTCNet is a national network of community technology centers that provides resources and information about the digital divide.

• PBS Digital Divide - This PBS series was designed to raise awareness about access to computers; software and Internet content; and model programs. The campaign looks at the divide from the perspectives of both race and gender.

• 170 Ideas and Resources for Teachers - Integrating Technology into Planning and Curriculum compiled by Virginia Seale

• Tech Planning

• Linux In Education Portal

• Berkeley Logo 5.3 released (freeware)

• Teaching with Electronic Technology

• Collaborative Projects - Collaborative projects often are the most memorable learning experiences for students. But the projects must be well-designed and run by teachers who are knowledgeable and well-trained, especially if they are online projects. A number of web sites provide proven models for online collaborative projects. These projects have been improved and honed over a number of years and iterations. Moreover, they come with built-in contacts to students and teachers all around the world who are working on the same projects and therefore can provide extremely valuable perspectives and enhance the collaborative aspect.
• Learning About Technology - Intel Education
• Arnold Pulda, Worcester Public Schools, Worcester, MA
• Time Management in the Computer Room
• New York Times Daily Lesson Plan and Archive by New York Times and Bank Street College of Education
• Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Myths and Realities About Technology Adoption Among Teachers By Arnold Pulda
• Intime - offers educational/technological support to K-12 grade teachers in technology integration in the classroom. View instructional videos and download lesson plans for free.
• Online K-12 Projects
• Key Pals

• Mind Tools - Also Check School of Information Science Technology

• "Excel" in the classroom

• Bell Atlantic Resources for Teaching with Technology

• Teaching with Electronic Technology

• PTI Curriculum Units Online - The Pittsburgh Teachers Institute offers teachers the opportunity to develop curriculum units for their classrooms. The units, from 1999 to 2001, are designed for all levels of students and cover integrated units in Mathematics, Science, English and the Social Sciences.
• CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric.

• Staff Development for Curriculum / Technology Integration

• A Hotlist on One-Computer Class

• One-Computer Classroom - Thanks to Janine Scott of University of Southern Mississippi for compiling this hotlist (made with Filamentality) for ideas for the one-computer classroom. This is a great resource to kick off a staff  development period, with small groups exploring each site to come up with creative ideas for using computers in education. 

• CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric.

• Teachers Leaders and Leading-Edge Computer Users: Are They the Same?

• Online Debate:  Technology's Role in Schools

• Computer Labs Versus Classroom Integration Of Computers

• School Technology and Readiness: A Focus on Digital Learning, CEO Forum on Educational Technology

• Technology and Reform: Realizing the Possibilities For Education

• Fulton High School A+ Schools Program

• Evaluating Technology-Based Curriculum Materials, ERIC Digest

• The Troubles With Technology: A Study of Teachers Struggling to Use the Computers in Career-Oriented Classrooms

• Does It Compute? The Relationship Between Educational Technology and Student Achievement in Mathematics

• Curriculum Administrator - Best web curriculum sources

• Curriculum Web Site awards 2001

• Gradebook Assistant - download Excel template

• Internet Learning Center

• Technology in the Classroom

• The National Math Trail an interactive, Internet-based project

• Collaborative Projects - hundreds of collaborative projects that have been reviewed and written about at Education World. Educators are encouraged to submit their collaborative project for listing within this resource.

• Making Connections - A new Louisiana sponsored Web for teachers.  This project provides links to software products, web site resources, lesson plans, and assessment items to the Louisiana Content Standards.
• Graphic Organizers using Inspiration
• KEY PALS - long list of links to sites for connecting and communicating
  Internet E-Mail Resource Page - Teaching readers that e-mail is much more than just sending a message
  Internet keypal exchanges
  Teachers Net - Teacher Chat, Forums, News, and Resources
  Ed's Oasis Discussion Board
• The Ten Stages to Web-Use Nirvana
• Self Directed Learner's Cross Cultural K-12 Internet  Guide
• Education with New Technologies: Networked Learning Community - Developed by teachers and researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, this site explores issues of improving teaching with technology integration, integrating new tools with classroom practice and curriculum, and collaboration with colleagues locally and around the world.
• CLEARINGHOUSES OF ONLINE RESOURCES FOR EDUCATORS - For a thorough list of online resources pertaining to education and technology, go to "K-12 Educational Resources" on The Technology Education Lab site and be sure to bookmark it! This annotated directory has links to Web sites, listservs, newsgroups, and online forums related to curricular applications of technology. Another helpful site to visit is Teachers@Work--in New Zealand--(http://teachers.work.co.nz/), with a searchable database of 1,000 useful Internet sites for educators that have been reviewed and rated. Betsy Kelaher (bkelaher@ascd.org) is an associate editor with ASCD's Editorial Services.
• ED's Oasis - What teachers have been looking for. A comprehensive instructional resource.
• Microsoft's K12 - wealth  resources, free downloads, and information for the classroom.
• Production Studio - NSU's Ed Tech resources through Main Street on the Web - How to use the digital camera, create multimedia, and many other useful tips for classroom development.
• Sabine's Designing and Creating a Web -  How To for creating and maintain a classroom web
• Puzzlemaker - Need a sponge activity or extra credit handout for your lesson tomorrow? Want to spice up a newsletter or flyer? This site lets you create your own mazes, word searches, crosswords, number blocks, math squares, and more. All you do is enter information and click the "Create" button, wait a few seconds, then print your customized puzzle.
• Quia - learning activities-- This learning game collection provides a fun way to help students review a wide variety of topics in general subject areas of math, science, foreign language, economics, and music. Visitors can create their own java-enabled flashcard drills, matching games, concentration, and word search puzzles using a simple (and free!) editing tool. The editor creates the Web pages and publishes them for all to share. This is a handy way to help students memorize factual information.
• Funbrain.com - Activity - Funbrain.com is the home to interactive, GamesSpell Check, and Wacky include Math Baseball, Fun Match, Change Maker, Tales.   Grade Level: Elementary, Middle School
• Calling Students Back: Using Technology to Support Engaged Learning This article includes tips for creating an engaged learning environment, designing project-based activities, and using online K-12 curriculum resources.
• Productivity in the classroom-Lessons at a Glance Lessons at a glance is a quick reference for what each of the lessons is about, what grade levels it is appropriate for, estimated time allotment, software needed and subjects covered.
• Hero of the Year Activity - In this Web-based activity by 4th-grade teacher Rebecca Pilver, elementary students research selected Web sites to select a Hero of the Year, then design a commemorative stamp. This is a nice example of how elementary educators can make use of existing Web sites in their interdisciplinary lessons.  Grade Level: Elementary
• Issues in Technology Integration - Keep up with the latest school-technology issues--or participate in discussions of them. How do you wire your school for Internet access? How do you ensure equitable use of educational technology? How do you meet the challenges of introducing computers to reluctant staff or students? Three Web sites with articles, columns, forums, and links on these subjects are The Electronic School, Pathways to School Improvement, and The Well-Connected Educator.
• The Learning Connection: Schools in the Information Age - This extensive research report examines, "how educators are grappling with the difficult interplay of technological change and educational values" and "identifies key factors that make the connection work, and reviews major players in the education technology arena." Companion site What's Working in Education goes into greater detail about lessons learned in the field.  Grade Level:  Adult/Professional   
• Molding the Web, Profile of Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee - Scientific American offers a profile of the man credited with inventing the World Wide Web. Currently Berners-Lee directs the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, out of MIT, but more important than the clout or awe these statements inspire is the spirit of the Web embodied by this man. Use this article for inspiration and for evangelizing the real use and power of the Web. Look to quotations like these: "The Web can help people to understand the way that others live and love and are human, to understand the humanity of people" "It is important to realize that the Web is what we make it." "If you are worried that your children are going to read low-quality information, teach them. Teach them what to read. Teach them how to judge information."  Grade Level:  Adult/Professional  
• ICONnect - Learn to Use the Internet as a Curriculum Resource
• ThinkQuest is an annual contest that challenges Students, ages 12 to 19, to use the Internet as a collaborative, interactive teaching and learning tool.
• Teaching with Electronic Technology - The World Wide Web sites collected on this page reflect my interest in the considerable variety of uses for computing and related forms of electronic technology in teaching. I have arranged them in no strict order, but have tried to proceed from the more general and theoretical resources to some instructive examples of specific applications of technology to teaching and learning. Like many other websites, this one tends to change and grow as I find time to revise and update these links. I am grateful to those who have made suggestions and introduced me to additional sites on teaching with technology. 
• Keypals--Intercultural e-mail classroom connections; for teachers seeking partner classrooms for e-mail exchanges
• bioSURF - This resource from Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley is organized around their book, Biology: The Web of Life, and includes links and activities for each unit. "Learning Links" are categorized by chapter, and news, community, and career links are also offered for each unit. A "Teachers' Lounge" helps educators connect to background information, tutorials, software, and activities to help augment instruction. Units include "The Basis of Life," "Genetics," "Change and Diversity," "Monerans, Protists, and Fungi," "Plants," "Invertebrate Animals," "Vertebrate Animals," "Human Biology," and "Organisms and the Environment." This is a great example of how the Web can augment a textbook. Grade Level:  High School  
• The Catapult Museum - Small and specialized, this intriguing, well-illustrated Website touches a lot of bases: ancient warfare and mechanics, Rome, Medieval times, the Wright brothers, traps, and basketball shoes. The text describing each type of catapult provides fresh and factual background for a school homework theme. The organization of the content here, which is around a very small topic, shows the power of the Internet to bring information together for study in totally new ways. A school textbook would not have this kind of depth on the subject, and to find it in a library would involve bouncing all over the stacks.
• Curriculum Associates - Learning Online, an Internet/activity book program which covers topics in all curriculum areas, and draws on Internet resources to enhance the lessons.
• Distance Education at a Glance... - This outstanding site from the University of Idaho guides educators through all phases of developing and delivering a course at a distance. Guide topics include an Overview, Strategies for Teaching at a Distance, Instructional Development, Evaluation, Instructional Television, Instructional Audio, Computers, Print, Strategies for Learning at a Distance, Research, Interactive Videoconferencing, the Web Copyright, and a Glossary.     Grade Level:  College, Adult/Professional
• Six Paths to China - Building on his original WebQuest, Searching for China, Tom March has fully revised this popular site to provide more scaffolding for student cognition and more effective use of the Internet. Tom also created "Six Paths" to China which incorporates five more Web-based activities on the topic and stands as a living example of the strategies he explored in the article Working the Web for Education . 
• Tales From the Electronic Frontier - In this exceptional WestEd publication, ten teachers share "actual classroom experiences using the Internet in K-12 science and mathematics." Each story is followed by questions and issues, making this an ideal resource for teacher preservice or inservice instruction on classroom use of technology.
     Grade Level: College, Adult/Professional  Content Area(s):  Education (Teaching and Learning, Educational Technology), Technology (Internet)
• American School Directory - Schools wishing to create Internet pages can use GeoSystem's Map Quest software to add maps, and free lifetime e-mail accounts are available for teachers and students.
• Integrating the Internet - find primary resources, projects, a weekly newsletter, units of study, and a tutorial to help you plan projects and class homepages.
• Scholastic Technology Guide - QED Education Network, a service for educators. The service offers forums where educators can debate issues, success stories including curriculum information and teaching strategies, news stories of interest to K-12 educators, a teacher registry, and offers for products and services.
• The Web for Educators -- Resources for Making the Most of the Web
• Levels of Technology Implementation - A Framework for Measuring Classroom Technology Use
• In Search of the Giant Octopus - A research team, which traces its project's start to the clean-up of spilled oil in Prince William Sound, Alaska, has built a scientific treasure trove of information and color photos around the knowledge it gathers. Being in touch here with scientists at work lets younger students learn that the octopus takes crabs home for dinner and tosses the shells out of his den on to a midden pile, while those in the grad school can note that the biggest crab in the Octopus dofleini diet is the Telmessus cheiragonus. There is a new section (July 1997) called "On Rocky Shores" with educational projects for K-12. A sample: the "Life's a Beach" puppet show, starting Olivia Octopus.
• The Roman Forum - Here is a place to learn not only all about the history, religion, daily life and major players in the Roman Forum from 100 BC to 100 AD. This Web site was created by a high school class in Hengelo, the Netherlands, and is an exhibit of excellence for what students can contribute to cyberknowledge. The students who created Roman Forum invite you to correspond with them by email. They were coached by three teachers: of Latin and Greek, of English, and of German and Computer Science.
• Harnessing the Power of the Web for Classroom Use: A Tutorial
• Reasons to Use the Internet in Your Classroom
• Microsoft in K-12 Education
• WebCT -- A tool that facilitates the creation of sophisticated World Wide Web-based educational environments
• Bat Thematic Unit - Use this site to get ideas for a thematic bat unit or find a fun Halloween activity for your elementary students. Sections cover basic information, resources (web links, books, etc.), projects & activities (be sure to try the BatQuest!), art, science, conservation, literature, environment, sports, and even a Bat Quiz. Even with some sections unfinished, there is still plenty to do at this site. Created by students of CSU Hayward's Educational Technology Leadership Graduate Program. Grade Level: Elementary, Middle School Content 
• The "Professional Cartoonists’ Index site" - The site includes current, updating cartoons from twenty four of the best editorial cartoonists in the world, like Pulitzer Prize winners Jeff MacNelly, Mike Luckovich, Signe Wilkinson and Mike Peters. The most compelling use of editorial cartoons is to interest students in discussions of current events. Our lesson plans include games, like scavenger hunts, tic tac toe and cartoon bingo, which engage students as they explore and interpret the symbolism in cartoons. We include all necessary pages to print out as student handouts. I’m hoping that English and Social Science teachers, who seem to make the least use of their school’s computer labs, will take advantage of our resource. There is no cost. No catch. It is kid safe and RASCi rated. Grade Level: Elementary, Middle School, High School
• Telecommunications In The Classroom: Keys to Successful Telecomputing
• Answers to Commonly Asked "Primary and Secondary School Internet User"Questions - User Services Area of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) documents questions most commonly asked about the Internet by those in the primary and secondary school community, and to provide pointers to sources which answer those questions.
• Hewlett Packard E-Mail Mentor program - This e-mail project facilitates mentor relationships between HP employees (worldwide) and grade 5-12 students and teachers throughout the United States. "HP employees motivate students to excel in math and science and improve communication and problem solving skills. In addition, students are encouraged by their mentors to pursue their unique interests and link these interests with their daily school experience." Grade Level: Elementary, Middle School, High School
• Welcome to the ideas page -- Teachers will want to look at this site
• Project OWLink -- A collaboration between Rice University and Texas area public schools that attempts to create new models for teaching and learning with tele-distance and the Internet. Includes online lessons, resources, schools on the network, and training materials.
• WEB66 - Designed to facilitate the introduction of this technology into K12 schools.
• CCCnet -- Computer Curriculum Corporation, Two-way communication medium for educators
• Lightspan Partnership
• The Puzzle Depot - This site is devoted to "puzzles, board and logic games, skill contests and trivia as well as related books and software for recreation and K-12 education. You'll find crosswords, riddles and word puzzles, logic and strategy as well as board games." Grade Level: Elementary, Middle School, High School  
• AskERIC - Educational Resources Information Center
• The Teachers' Lounge - Teacher resources
• Virtual Classroom - Eastern New Mexico University

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