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Blogging in Education
Interview with Will Richardson who is an academic blogging advocate and the supervisor of IT and Communications at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, NJ.

Changing The Way We Teach: You Can't Stop Learning!
Successfully implementing educational technology into your teaching requires you to learn many new skills! It's an exciting and never-ending process!

Changing The Way We Teach: Girls and Computers
Girls don't want to be geeks. There's more to it, of course.

Changing The Way We Teach: Is Technology The Answer?
Computers are only a means to an end, not the end itself! 

Apex Learning
"Our Advanced Placement Courses provide educators and students with the tools to help prepare for the College Board Exams—whenever they want, wherever they are, and whatever the size of their school's AP program. More for benefits to educators. More for benefits to students."

Blackboard.com
"Blackboard offers a complete suite of enterprise software products and services that power e-Education programs in our primary markets – Higher Education, K-12, Corporate/Government and International."

California Learning Resource Network
"Search for titles identified as correlated to the California adopted academic standards for History-Social Sciences, Mathematics, English-Language Arts, and Science." Over 3,600 titles indexed.

Cmap Tools
"The CmapTools program empowers users to construct, navigate, share and criticize knowledge models represented as concept maps." Free download.

Center for Children and Technology
CCT is a leader in research on how technology affects children in the classroom.

The Concord Consortium
"We create interactive materials that exploit the power of information technologies. Our primary goal in all our work is digital equity — improving learning opportunities for all students."

Education with New Technologies (ENT)
"Through this ENT website, you will have access to thoughtful colleagues, interactive tools, detailed examples of technology-enhanced education, and a valuable collection of on-line resources."

The Global School House
The Connected Educator, The Connected Classroom, The Connected Learning Community. Get connected!

Hot Potatoes
"The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web."

IBM at School
Solutions for Schools. Educational transformation!

InTime
"InTime" features 400 video vignettes of pre K-12 teachers using technology in language arts, math, science, & other instruction. A conceptual model for analyzing the use of technology in instruction is among the tools & information on the site.

The Knowledge Loom: Good Models of Teaching with Technology
"Best practices, success stories, policy links, and interactive tools to get the conversation about best Technology practices."

Leadership in the Successful Laptop Program
It's a question asked all the time in committee meetings, board rooms, faculty lounges and educational technology gatherings and forums: how do we integrate technology into the classroom successfully? Hear what John Raymond of The New Curriculum has to say.

Lguide.com
"Use Lguide.com to find and evaluate the online courses you need."

Moodle
"Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities."

NetDay
"NetDay's mission is to connect every child to a brighter future by helping educators meet educational goals through the effective use of technology."

The Net Generation
An EduCause eBook. "This collection explores the Net Gen and the implications for institutions in areas such as teaching, service, learning space design, faculty development, and curriculum. Contributions by educators and students are included."

NetLearn
"NetLearn is a directory of resources for learning and teaching Internet skills, including resources for WWW, email and other formats." From the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

the New curriculum
"Started in the spring of 2001 by John Raymond, an educational technology consultant living in Connecticut. The site is designed to provide essential resources to help teachers integrate technology into their classes, including annotated links and a biweekly column or two on practical tech-integration ideas. "

LearningShift.com
A lesson on Medieval Art. One of several "lessons and links related to the integration of technology into the general curriculum. The following lessons contain descriptions of the lesson as well as information regarding the equipment used, the training required, and reflections for future changes."

Park School's Technology Page
Why bother reinventing the wheel when you can model your policies on such an excellent example? Tom Smith, Park School's Technology Director, knows what he is doing.

Promethean
"The focus of Promethean is to provide the ultimate collaborative classroom teaching system for groups. More than just an interactive whiteboard, Promethean provides the complete and best of class solution including our ACTIVboard, ACTIVstudio and ACTIVprimary software as well as interactive accessories to complete the package including the ACTIVslate, ACTIVote and the ACTIVtablet."

Renaissance Learning
"Renaissance Solutions for reading, math, writing, standards mastery, and English language acquisition give educators something they've never had before—timely, accurate, objective information they can use to personalize instruction and accelerate learning for students of all ages and abilities."

SketchUp
"Award winning SketchUp presents a completely new way to design in 3D on the computer. Developed for the conceptual stages of design, this powerful, easy-to-learn software allows for quick and easy 3D form creation, modification and communication."

Software Research Institute's Quality Hotlist
"Our aim in building and maintaining the Software Quality HotList is to bring to one location a complete list of technical, organizational, and related resources.

Teacher Universe
"A vast array of technology tools is essential to support our teachers and ensure success. Teacher Universe is committed to providing the highest quality Instructional Tools to our teachers and schools. We believe in Technology Integrated curriculum with unique content."

ThinkQuest
"ThinkQuest is an international website-building competition, sponsored by the Oracle Education Foundation. Teams of students and teachers are challenged to build websites on educational topics."

United Streaming
How does 4,000 videos sound? This site gets raves from teachers, even teachers who feel technologically challenged.

Vivid Education Corporation
"At vivED we empower schools to make decisions about technology. Many people believe that technology has the potential to be a very powerful tool in schools. Unfortunately, there is little available to show them how and where technology fits. vivED helps schools figure out what role technology can play by offering Consulting as well as a Platform to help schools link various tools."