- edu 2.0
Impressive free portals for educators. Includes tools for teaching a classonline (with lessons, quizzes, and gradebook) as well as teacher forums, lesson plans, member groups, blogs, calendar, and more.
- EDUCAUSE
"EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology." Also publishes EduCause Quarterly and EduCause Review.
- Eduslide
"Create and deliver your own elearning using eduslide.net. Browse thousands of lessons. Create your own and share the knowledge." (Formerly Tuterom.)
- edutagger
"edutagger is a social bookmarking service for K-12 learners and educators, allowing you to store your web links online and share them with others, all within an educational context." Like del.icio.us or Diigo but specifically organized for easy school-subject access.
- Filamentary
"Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into learning activities."
- 21st Century Information Fluency Project
"Digital Information Fluency (DIF) is the ability to find, evaluate and use digital information effectively, efficiently and ethically." Includes tutorials, tips, and other resources.
- Information Fluency
A wiki with resources for finding, evaluating, and teaching with modern information tools.
- Internet4Classrooms
Links and online tutorials for teachers.
- ISTE: International Society for Technology in Education
"A nonprofit membership organization, ISTE provides leadership and service to improve teaching, learning, and school leadership by advancing the effective use of technology in PK–12 and teacher education."
- K-12 Online Conference
"This is a conference by educators for educators around the world interested in integrating emerging technologies into classroom practice. A goal of the conference is to help educators make sense of and meet the needs of a continually changing learning landscape."
- Moodle
"Moodle is a software package for producing internet-based courses and web sites. It's an ongoing development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education." Moodle is a very popular free alternative to programs such as Blackboard.
- New Tools for Learning
Subject-organized links to web 2.0 resources and aids for teachers from Joyce Valenza. (There is an older, text-only set of links at Workshop Resources
- NoodleTools: NoodleTeach: 21st Century Literacies
Basic language literacy, media literacy, visual literacy, and information literacy tools for teachers.
- NCTE: 21st Century Literacies: NCTE Ning
"Technology has increased the intensity and complexity of literate environments. Join this group to share and benefit from current best practices on this topic." Not just for English teachers! See also:
- Open Thinking Wiki: 90+ Videos for Tech. & Media Literacy
"Interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. ... These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use.
- Partners in Learning Network
"We are a global community of educators who value innovative uses of information & communication technology that improve learning outcomes." Includes lesson plans, tools, and other resources by and for teachers.
- Route 21
"The goal of Route 21 is to provide an online interactive tool that demonstrates how 21st century skills can be supported through standards, professional development, assessments and curriculum and instruction."
- TrackStar
"TrackStar helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) for use in lessons. The resource list remains visible allowing the user to easily stay on track."
- Warlick's CoLearners
Wiki by educator David Warlick focusing on educational technology and media literacy.
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this page last updated May 19, 2010