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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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Community of Learners Toolkit
  The Individualized Technology Plan is a form designed to assist higher education faculty members in planning their technology learning goals. The form helps faculty outline their technology goals, activities, timelines and evaluation standards.
• Digital Divide Network
  This comprehensive Website provides feature stories about digital divide; current research; discussion lists; and a method for finding public access technology in your town.
• 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 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 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.
• Education With New Technologies
  This networked community is designed to help educators develop powerful learning experiences for students through the effective integration of new technologies. Through this ENT website, one has access to thoughtful colleagues, interactive tools, detailed examples of technology-enhanced education, and a valuable collection of on-line resources.
• 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.
• 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.
• NETS Digital Video Library
  The DVL is a web-based learning resources of lesson activities drawn from the ISTE National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for Students and Teachers curriculum books.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 Matrices
  For each of our teacher education programs, we developed a matrix to store the data regarding the points at which technology standards are evaluated. These matrices are an example of a program review to determine gaps and weaknesses in the program as related to technology.
• 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.
• Using Video in the Classroom
  An article about the benefits and effective use of video in 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.