Instructional Technology Resources
Instructional Technology Staff Development can no longer be an add-on or after-thought. Training needs to be conducted with the same quality and planning as any other curricular area. Suggested minimum requirements for an effective plan are listed below:
For more information click the Staff Development link in the table below. |
Information Literacy |
Integration Websites
Learning Network (New York Times on the Web) Connections for students, teachers, and parents. Grades 3-12 |
MarcoPolo provides the highest quality standards-based Internet content and professional development to K-12 teachers and students throughout the United States. |
SBC Knowledge Network Explorer Blue Web'n is an online library of 1800+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format. |
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Apple Learning Interchange- Teaching & Learning The Learning Interchange's Teaching Practices section contains content that goes much deeper than a single lesson idea or classroom activity. Here you will discover a window into an educator's classroom, through the extensive use of video to see and hear all facets of the Teaching Practice. |
Learn4Ever is a comprehensive subject specific website created for teachers, parents, students and Instructional Technology Specialists. It has hundreds of links to lesson plans, resources, articles and best practice resources. |
HPR*TEC- (High Plains Regional Technology in Education Consortium) THE place to go for Internet based projects and ideas. Easy to use templates and resources to get you started fast. TrackStar, RubiStar, Web Worksheet Wizard, ProfilerPro, and much more. |
CyberGuides: Teacher Guides & Student Activities CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric, based on California Language Arts Content Standards. |
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Annotated K–12 teacher resource to assist with the integration of curriculum and technology. Lesson plans, model student projects, technology tutorials, virtual field trips, technology funding sources, and more are included. |
S.O.S. for Information Literacy Teachers and library media specialists searching for new and innovative ways to educate their students about effective research practices now have a new online tool at their disposal: S.O.S. (Situations, Outcomes, Strategies) for Information Literacy. It is a free multimedia resource for K-8 teachers and media specialists who want their students to learn more, and become excited, about research. |
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TeAch-nology |
Pedagogy
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Taconic Hills School District resource |
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Instructional Technology Staff Development
Partnership for 21st Century Skills The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a unique alliance of education, business and government leaders working to fully address the education needs and challenges of work and life in the 21st century. |
Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning (David Rose & Anne Meyer) This book is the result of 15 years of thought, research, and development conducted by the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) and a number of collaborating individuals, schools, districts, and states. CAST was founded in 1984 with a mission to develop and apply technologies that would expand learning opportunities for individuals with disabilities. Our premise was clear: Students with disabilities should be equipped with particular technologies-new tools and approaches-that would help them access a print-based curriculum. |
What does "teaching for understanding" look like? What would we expect to see in an Understanding by Design classroom? The following list of observable indicators includes items developed by Grant Wiggins, Jay McTighe, and Elliott Seif, as well as items suggested by participants... |
An article published in Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education [Online serial], 2(2). |
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Welcome to the CEO Forum’s Interactive School Technology and Readiness (STaR) Chart, a self-assessment tool designed to provide schools with the information they need to better integrate technology into their educational process. Here, you can complete an online, multiple-choice questionnaire that will provide you with instant feedback on how well your school is doing in this process. |
CARET: Cetner for Applied Research in Educational Technology CARET bridges education technology research to practice by offering research-based answers to critical questions. |
Technology Support Index (TSI) The TSI is a framework that outlines effective technology support strategies. With the TSI self-assessment tool, school districts can appraise the quality of their technology support program and learn about possible improvements they can employ. The TSI is presented by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) |
NETS- National Educational Technology Standards
NETS for Teachers- (NETS*T) |
NETS for Students- (NETS*S) |
| NETS*T- Technology Performance Profiles | NETS*S- Technology Integration- Examples & Scenarios |
Resources
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Free software training videos for school districts. QuickTime video tutorials are temporarily stored on your computer an dplay in your web browser. MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, FrontPage, Inspiration, Easy Grade Pro, HTML and more... |
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Virtual tours through the brain, the skeleton, the human heart and digestive system. |
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Merit Software created this one-stop information source, which uses unbiased listings of commercial and non-commercial resources for teachers. Through the site, educators can browse through an extensive database of available grants, funding, discounted teaching supplies, free lesson plans, reference manuals and dictionaries, the latest educational news, and links to other Web sites and educational software.
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Learn4Ever is a comprehensive subject specific website created for teachers, parents, students and Instructional Technology Specialists. It has hundreds of links to lesson plans, resources, articles and best practice resources. |
Mentoring
Reflective Teaching: Exploring Our Own Classroom Practice Methods explored on this site include writing a teacher diary, peer observation, collecting student feedback, and video recording your lessons. |
Reflective Teaching: Situating Our Stories Professor Kathleen Bailey describes how reflective teaching, or monitoring and critiquing your own teaching practices, contributes to your professional development. |
ERIC Digest: Reflective Practice and Professional Development This article reviews the concept, techniques for, and benefits of reflective practice. |
Handhelds
| 101 Uses for the Palm Handheld List is separated in to Administrative applications, communication and collaboration, and teaching and learning. |
Software for CPR Guides,Diet & Exercise, Nursing Drug Guide, RN CrashCart, the Human Skeleton are just a few of the programs now available for handheld computers. |
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A great application for the Palm, CE, or your mobile phone, that lets you download customizable, up-to-date information and applications to your handheld. |
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| Learner Profile and Learner to Go Learner Profile is the perfect assessment management tool to track Adequate Yearly Progress. Learner Profile gives teachers the ability to record student's grades, track assignments, organize student information, and develop reports. Teachers can use Learner Profile on their computer, and Learner Profile to Go on their Palm or Palm-compatible PDA. Importable test objectives for Houghton Mifflin Reading and Houghton Mifflin Math are also available. (cost involved) |
Allows handheld users to connect directly to digital projectors or other VGA displays. Plug-in drivers compress PowerPoint files or files from any Windows-based program on a computer into a format that can be transferred to a handheld. This product is compatible with Palm and Pocket PC handhelds. |
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A great application for the Palm, CE, or your mobile phone, that lets you download customizable, up-to-date information and applications to your handheld.
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A software program that provides configuration options for handhelds. |
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Quizzler quickly became the standard assessment software for PalmOS handheld computers, then branched out to other platforms. It is loaded with features, has a simple easy-to-use interface, and you can even make your own quizzes easily. |
Tracker gives you easy access to your Student Information System and your entire school database, anywhere or anytime you want it. |
101 Uses for the Palm Handheld List is separated in to Administrative applications, communication and collaboration, and teaching and learning, |
Electronic Books
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Palm eBook Studio creates eBooks that can be ready by the Palm Reader. With eBook Studio you will be able to easily design the navigation of your document, format it, and convert the finished document for reading on a handheld. |
Univ. of Virginia- Electronic Library 1,800 publicly-available ebooks from the University of Virginia Library's Etext Center, including classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, American history, Shakespeare, African-American documents, the Bible. |
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Offers recommended reading lists of free e-books linked to make downloading easier. |
A source for purchasing ebooks. |
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eBooks for Teachers |
Religion Books |
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Explore with Ed-U-Tech a variety of general PDA resources and see how they are being used in the different subject areas taught in K-12 schools. |
uCompass Educator
Information Literacy
S.O.S helps build Information Literacy Teachers and library media specialists searching for new and innovative ways to educate their students about effective research practices now have a new online tool at their disposal: S.O.S. (Situations, Outcomes, Strategies) for Information Literacy. |