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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.
• Aligning Assessment with Learning
  Educators discuss aligning assessment with student learning and with state and national standards.
• ALL TECH: Where technology is about people
  ALLTech is a nationally recognized center that provides training, consultation, and technical assistance in the areas of assistive technology, specialized software, Web accessibility, and universal design in curriculum.
• 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.
• Assessment Rubrics
  This Website has a collection of assessment rubrics that may be helpful to teachers. When using the Internet in the classroom to support instruction, it is important to address assessment.
• CIESE Online Classroom Projects
  CIESE sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet.
• 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.
• Customizing Your Technology Assessment
  Three school districts (South Huntington; North Lawrence Community School; and Kyrene) have developed and carried out a technology assessment. Here is a description of assessments and lessons learned.
• Digital Divide Resources
  Resources, articles, projects, people and businesses that help define the breadth of "digital divide" and gain an understanding of what needs to be done to increase digital equity. Includes background documents, statistics and fact sheets.
• Digital Divide Series
  Based on a two-part series for PBS about the digital divide, it is possible to explore the issues of classrooms, gender, race and at-work through interaction, voices and links.
• Digital Equity Toolkit
  The Digil Equity Toolkit points educators to free and inexpensive high quality resources that help address the digital divide in the classroom and community.
• 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.
• Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)
  DLESE is a grassroots, community-based effort involving teachers, students, and scientists working together to create a library of educational resources and services to support Earth system science education, at all levels, in both formal and informal settings.
• 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.
• Handhelds in the Classroom
  Four schools share their experiences with portable digital assistants, aka handhelds.
• Ideas for Staff Development
  This website is an example of how a school system can provide resources and links to other resources, to help staff development leaders plan.
• 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.
• Math WebQuests
  A presentation from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual meeting. Includes math projects which use Internet resources to obtain relevant data.
• Middle Education Global Activities (MEGA)
  MEGA provides K-12 teachers greater opportunities to improve their technology skills and focus on specific content areas in addition to interdisciplinary projects specific to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
• National Educational Technology Standards (NETS)
  The primary goal of the ISTE NETS Project is to enable stakeholders in PreK-12 education to develop national standards for educational uses of technology that facilitate school improvement in the United States. The NETS Project will work to define standards for students, integrating curriculum technology, technology support, and standards for student assessment and evaluation of technology use.
• National Institute for Community Innovations
  The mission of NICI is to foster local economic and social well-being through educational innovation. Contains resources related to equity, higher education, banks, business, K-12 schools, libraries, and technology.
• 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 VIEW
  Project VIEW, a Federal Technology Innovation Challenge Grant is led by the Schenectady City School District. This program is designed to open the classroom door so that students and teachers can engage in an array of learning opportunities by utilizing interactive education technology which accesses content-rich resources, activities and the exchange of ideas.
• 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.
• San Antonio Technology in Education Coalition
  The San Antonio Technology in Education Coalition (SATEC) seeks to connect student learning to concrete experiences through the seamless integration of technology into curriculum and instruction, by developing a training and application model.
• 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.
• Teaching Diverse Learners (TDL)
  Teaching Diverse Learners is dedicated to enhancing the capacity of teachers to work effectively and equitably with all students. It includes information about Teaching and Learning Strategies; Assessment; Policy; Strategies for working with families, and organizations.
• Teaching History in Inclusive Classrooms: Technology-Based Practices and Tools
  An 8-page document describing ways to use technology when teaching history.
• 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 Helping Educators (THE) Consortium
  In early 2002, the Technology Helping Educators (THE) Consortium and one of its partners, RISE Learning Solutions, Inc., a Consortium partner, produced a video about the THE Consortium and the Head Start Communities of Learners (COLs) with whom it works. The 20-minute video details some of the innovative practices THE Consortiums COLs developed in order to raise their teachers technology levels.
• 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.
• 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.