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• Activity Overview Video: "Hyperlinking Partnership"
  In this video case study, teacher David Pratt's high school CADD students are brought together with two other teams: the new staff of the "Hometown Perry, Iowa" museum; the employees of Wetherell, Ericsson, and Leusink Architects. This meeting was critical to involve students in the professional world of architects and museum specialists in order for them to appreciate and understand the demands and potential of technology.
• AskA + Locator
  The AskA+ Locator is a database of high-quality "AskA" services designed to link students, teachers, parents and other K-12 community members with experts on the Internet.
• Biography of America
  This comprehensive Website was designed as a companion to the video series and telecourse of the same title shown on PBS. Includes extensive U.S.
• COATT Tech Tips
  A quarterly newsgroup with information and resources for teachers, student teachers, and university supervisors. Sponsored by the Consortium for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching with Technology.
• Computers and Classrooms: The Status of Technology in U.S. Schools
  This report is about technology in the classroom. It addresses student access to technology; how technology is used in classrooms; effectiveness of the use of technology; connecting teachers and technology; software; and costs.
• Digital History
  This Web site was designed and developed to support the teaching of American History in K-12 schools and colleges. The materials on this Web site include a U.S.
• EconEdLink
  EconEdLink is a program of the National Council on Economic Education. Centered on curriculum standards and based on the essential principles of economics, EconEdLink provides a premier source of classroom-tested, Internet-based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students.
• Get Started On Our Site: Principals
  A collection of articles related to the role of the principals in school change and reform.
• Gina Amenta-Shin Ed. D.
  Gina is a member of ISTE's NETS for Teachers Writing Team and NSCD's Staff Development Standards for Online Learning Team . Through her past experiences as both a doctoral student and professor, Gina has developed multiple perspectives of distance learning - using interactive technology and virtual communities to facilitate online professional development.
• Handhelds in the Classroom
  Four schools share their experiences with portable digital assistants, aka handhelds.
• Instructional Module: Assessment
  This module is meant for use either after completion of the project-based learning module or with participants who are familiar with project-based learning. The module is designed for a two to three hour class or session, divided into two parts.
• Knowledge Innovation for Technology in Eduation (KITE)
  The Knowledge Innovation for Technology in Education Project involves a consortium of 8 partners collaborating to address issues in creating and diffusing technology integration knowledge. (This is a PT3 funded initiative.).
• Latinos, Computers and the Internet
  A comprehensive fact sheet about Latinos and the digital divide. Includes information about Internet access, computers at home and technology used in employment.
• Making Technology Work for Every Child
  Redondo Union High School, in Redondo Beach, CA, gives every 9th grader a wireless/infrared notebook computer, customized to access library resources, the Internet, and electronic learning tools. Combining technology and instruction, the "Freshman Foundation Program" is having profound effects on students and teachers.
• Meridian: A Middle School Technologies Journal
  Meridian is an electronic journal dedicated to research and practice of computer technology in middle school classrooms.
• Performance Assessment in Real Time
  This article from "The School Administrator", addresses how to harness today's technology to support data driven instruction, specifically student assessment.
• Project Vism: Visualization in Science and Mathematics
  The Integrated Science and Technology program at James Madison University, with the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation is designed to get more teachers and students interested and enthused about using data visualization to learn more about math and science.
• PT3 Profiler
  Use Profiler to strengthen your organization's ability to share expertise. You can build or take an online survey to assess your abilities in any given subject and then utilize Profiler to locate someone who can help you strengthen these skills within your immediate learning community.
• RubiStar
  RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.
• Teacher Knowledge Video: "Using Technology for Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, and Word Identification"
  In this video case study, teachers Craig Saddler and Kim Miller have students define unknown vocabulary words and decode unknown words in their reading using a Quicktionary Reading Pen and Franklin Spell Checker. Students also create reading comprehension questions that will be incorporated into a classroom Web site game.
• Teacher Preparation STaR Chart
  This site offers schools, colleges and departments of education a tool to determine their current standing and future direction for the integration of technology into preparing teacher candidates.
• Technology & Learning Continuum
  A model for technology integration into learner-centered classrooms. The model is a guide for the redevelopment of complete learning units.
• Technology Prerequisite Tutorials
  Short, animated tutorials on technology-related knolwedge and skills that are considered prerequisite to successful classroom use. Over 150 currently available, and more added each week.
• Technology Utilization Survey
  This survey was developed as a means of gathering more specific information about the use of technology in the teacher education program. Data gathered from this survey are assisting us in program review of technology integration.
• The Digital Classroom: Using Primary Sources
  To encourage teachers of students at all levels to use archival documents in the classroom, the Digital Classroom provides materials from the National Archives and methods for teaching with primary sources.
• The Director in the Classroom
  This website explores using filmmaking and digital cameras in the classroom as a learning tools.
• The Futures Channel
  The FUTURES Channel is a content service for educators in any setting. It gives users direct access to video, sound, image and print resources.
• Think.com
  Think.com is a free service from Oracle designed for teachers. After registering, services include a place to build a school website; tools for conducting on-line discussions; integrated e-mail designed for a school; and administrative tools.
• 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 (This is a PT3 funded initiative.).
• Using Video in the Classroom
  An article about the benefits and effective use of video in the classroom.
• Video Strategies
  Teachers who use instructional video report that their students retain more information, understand concepts more rapidly and are more enthusiastic about what they are learning. With video as one component in a thoughtful lesson plan, students often make new connections between curriculum topics, and discover links between these topics and the world outside the classroom.
• Virtual Reality Training for Teachers
  Teachers can efffectively use virtual reality in their classroom. See how teachers used VR, developed learning activities, and found a large number of teaching resources.
• Vision through Video
  The Vision Through Video Project captures teachers authentic classroom practices and streams them from the web with no download. Faculty and preservice students use the materials.
• WebQuest Training Materials
  This page lists a variety of resources that can be used to teach about WebQuests, both to preservice and inservice teachers. It includes links to courses and papers written about WebQuests.