- 7 Things You Should Know About ...
"7 Things You Should Know About...pieces provide quick, no-jargon overviews of emerging technologies and related practices that have demonstrated or may demonstrate positive learning impacts."
- 23 Things
"Listed below are 23 Things (or small exercises) that you can do on the web to explore and expand your knowledge of the Internet and Web 2.0."
- 25 Tools
Describes 25 free applications "to help you find out more about the technology behind each tool, the tool itself and why it is so popular, how to try out the tool and reflect on its use for your own teaching and learning and for productivity and performance support."
- Atomic Learning
"Atomic Learning provides web-based software training for more than 110 applications students and educators use everyday."
- Bernie Poole's Online Books
Includes the entire text of Education for an Information Age plus tutorials for Office 2000, XP, 2003, and 2007.
- BlogIT
"We post resources, information and news about instructional technology." (Not updated since Sept. 2009, but archives still have good information.)
- Bud the Teacher's Wiki
"Resources on technology and education."
- Classroom 2.0
"The social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and Social Media in education." See their calendar for a schedule of live online events.
- ClassTools: Free Flash Games for Educators
"Create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet!"
- Co-ment
Annotation tool. "Create, edit, share, collaborate and annotate text documents online." Could be a useful tool for analysis of literary or historical texts, as well.
- Cooliris
Allows viewing of images full-size when online, and enables full-screen slideshows of online images. (Formerly "PicLens".)
- Directory of Learning Tools
"This Directory contains over 2,300 tools for learning."
- eBlooms - A taxonomy for E-Learning design
Presents an interesting take on Blooms updated where instead of the usual hierarchical taxonomy, this version is arranged as a grid (like a rubric).
- Education for a Virtual World
Free online ebook containing "Advice, Guidelines, and Effective Practice from Around the Globe".
- Educational Freeware
"This site is dedicated to listings, descriptions and reviews of educational freeware and shareware, both web based and downloadable."
- Educational Resources
Find and buy software for educators, and general hardware and software with reduced prices.
- eduTeacher.net
"eduTecher offers links to hundreds of web tools and sites and provides concise information on how the tools may be useful in the classroom setting."
- EduHound.com: Your Educational Technology Resource
Subject-organized links to education and edtech webpages.
- Ed.VoiceThread
"A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments. ... Ed.VoiceThread is a secure K-12 network for students and teachers ..."
- Encyclopedia of Educational Technology
"A collection of short multimedia articles on a variety of topics related to the fields of instructional design and education and training."
- The Future of Education - Charting the Course of Teaching and Learning in a Networked World.
An "interview series and discussion community." Broadcast times vary but are usually between 4-9pm Eastern Time but archives of past events are freely accessible for those who can't make them live.
- Gaggle.net
Email, message boards, blogs, chat rooms for teachers and students. Basic free (ad-supported) level and more advanced features and storage with paid ad-free subscriptions.
- Google Wave in the Classroom
"Wave can be really useful in the classroom. Students can use it for collaborative note-taking, sharing assignments with the group and with the teacher, and for group-work/pair-work within or outside of the classroom...."
- Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning
"This Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (HETL) has been designed as a resource for educators planning to incorporate technologies in their teaching and learning activities."
- Ideas to Inspire
"A collection of collaborative presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities. They are the result of the collaboration of teachers from all around the world." Include a number of ideas for software and hardware use.
- Indispensible ICT Tools for teachers
A wiki list of tools used and suggested by educators. List in alphanumeric order.
- 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." Publisher of NETS (National Educational Technology Standards).
- K12 Wiki
Wiki of accompanying materials and discussion for the annual K12 Online Conference.
- Kathy Schrock: The Icing on the Cake
Online tools for teachers and students.
- LearnHub
"LearnHub is for people who love learning and sharing knowledge with others. It is a set of tools that make learning online fun and engaging, and teaching online easy and effective." Free.
- Learning Continuity with Google Tools
Ways to use various Google applications to facilitate communication or remote learning.
- Learning Continuity with iTunes and iTunes U.
Subject-organized list of some of the educational podcasts and classes available through iTunes.
- Media Literacy: Eight Guidelines for Teachers
"Eight guidelines can help teachers promote the crucial skills associated with digital literacy."
- Microsoft Teacher Guides
"Watch videos, and download guides and e-books to inspire your class and to help you make the best use of [Microsoft] tools and technology in your lessons."
- Moving Forward
"A collection of resources to help presenters and change agents as they help move schools and universities forward into the 21st century." Includes great set of links for presenters.
- Multiple Intelligences
Links to articles and information about Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences and how to apply it in the classroom.
- New York State Virtual Learning System
"The purpose of the New York State Education Department's Virtual Learning System is to encourage the use of the Internet as a tool for teaching and learning and to assist classroom teachers in locating Internet resources for instruction."
- Nortel LearniT
"An initiative ... to prepare teachers, students, and learners of all ages to develop 21st century skills that will provide a basis for their ongoing engagement in learning and personal achievement." Includes tutorials, guides, and lesson plans.
- NoteStar
"An Internet utility to assist in the preparation of research papers. ... Students may then take advantage of NoteStar's many features to collect and organize their notes and prepare their bibliography page."
- OER Commons
"In a brave new world of learning, OER [Open Educational Resources] content is made free to use or share, and in some cases, to change and share again, made possible through licensing, so that both teachers and learners can share what they know. Browse and search OER Commons to find curriculum, and tag, rate, and review it for others."
- Overview of Social Learning
"Here are some introductory presentations about organisational social learning, social learning platforms and the new role of social learning professionals."
- Project Based Learning (With FREE Online Tools)
A workshop outline with handouts and links.
- Route 21
"An online interactive tool that demonstrates how 21st century skills can be supported through standards, professional development, assessments and curriculum and instruction."
- School Computing Home Page
"A collaborative guide to information technology in K-12 schools that anyone can edit. Please add information, create new pages, and share knowledge."
- SchoolForge
"SchoolForge's mission is to unify independent organizations that advocate, use, and develop open resources for primary and secondary education."
- Second Life / Virtual Worlds
- Tapped In
"K-12 teachers, librarians, administrators, and professional development staff, as well as university faculty, students, and researchers gather here to learn, collaborate, share, and support one another." Resources include a newsletter and frequent online workshops.
- Teach Paperless
"This is a blog meant to help teachers create and maintain paperless classrooms. In addition, our community regularly posts and comments on all aspects of paperless, digital, and technological culture as it relates to education."
- TEACH WEB 2.0 (wiki)
"We are a group of curious teachers who explore and brainstorm ways to integrate Web 2.0 technologies into our teaching." Links to information about popular web2.0 tools, such as Bloglines, Diigo, Flowgram, Google (whatever), Skype, Wetpaint, etc., discusses their strengths and weaknesses, and use in teaching.
- Teaching Hacks Wiki
"The guiding idea behind this wiki is the creation of a learning tool to assist educators in helping their students develop skills to prepare them for the future."
- Tech-Ease
"Quick answers to real classroom technology questions." For Mac and Windows.
- Technology Tools to Get Teachers Started
Anwers to the questions "So where do you start learning how to integrate technology into your classroom as well as how to use it for your ongoing professional development? And how do you stay current with the almost daily changes in the technology landscape?"
- Toolset for Learning
"Tools and technologies for learning and performance support" organized by category. For those for whom this list of 100 tools isn't enough, there's a much larger Learning Tools Directory as well.
- Tools for the 21st Century Teacher
A nice little guide to social media which can be viewed online or downloaded as a .pdf.
- Visuals - English: a set on Flickr
"Visuals about Learning, Teaching and Technology in Education." (posters)
- Warlick's CoLearners
Wiki by educator David Warlick focusing on educational technology and media literacy.
- A Web of Connections: Why the Read/Write Web Changes Everything
Wiki site by Will Richardson discussing how modern technologies affect society, with a particular focus on what this means for educators.
- Weblogg-ed Wiki
Will Richardson's " resource site for [his] workshops and presentations."
- WikiEducator
"WikiEducator is a community project working collaboratively with the Free Culture Movement towards a free version of the education curriculum by 2015."
- WSD's eToolBox
"This space is intended as a virtual eToolBox of resources for integrating technology into the classroom. It is chocked-full of resources, how-tos, use in classroom, examples and more."
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