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NPR - Bridging the Digital Divide in the Classroom (Audio or Text)
"Technology expert Mario Armstrong talks about what two schools are doing to ensure kids have access to the technology they need to do well in school. He describes the challenge of bringing new technology to low-income students."
- National Public Radio, News & Notes, January 3, 2007.

Association for Educational Communications & Technology (AECT)

  • Interpersonal Computing and Technology Journal (IPCT-J)
    "...is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal, published two/four times a year. The journal's focus is on computer-mediated communication, and the pedagogical issues surrounding the use of computers and technology in educational settings."

Association of Learning Technology (U.K.) - (dead link)

AT&T Learning Network - Resources for Teachers
Sections include: Online Tutorials ; Lesson Plans ; Searchable Reference Desk ; Professional Resources ; Classroom Tools ; Technology.

The Campus Computing Project

Canada's SchoolNet - (dead link) "Established in 1993, Canada's SchoolNet is designed to promote the effective use of information technology amongst Canadians by helping Canadian schools and public libraries connect to the Internet. Through its partnerships with provincial and territorial ministries of education, library authorities, education and library associations and the private sector, Industry Canada's SchoolNet has successfully made Canada the first nation in the world to connect its schools and libraries to the Information Highway."

Centre for Curriculum, Transfer & Technology (C2T2) (British Columbia, Canada)
Innovation and Collaboration in Post-secondary Education
Sections include: Curriculum ; Educational Technology ; Teaching, Learning & Assessment ; Student Transitions ; Institutional Effectiveness

Community Learning Network (CLN)
"CLN is designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into their classrooms. We have over 265 menu pages with more than 5,800 annotated links to free resources on educational WWW sites -- all organized within an intuitive structure."
British Columbia Ministry of Education

Currents in Electronic Literacy
"...is an electronic journal for the scholarly discussion of issues pertaining to electronic literacy, widely construed. We seek to publish work addressing the use of electronic texts and technologies in reading, writing, teaching, and learning in fields including but not restricted to: literature (in English and in other languages), rhetoric and composition, languages (English, foreign, or ESL), communications, media studies, and education. We are especially interested in work that takes advantage of the hypertext possibilities afforded by our World Wide Web publication format, as well as in articles concerning the use of emergent electronic technologies."

Digital Equity Portal
"...presents a collection of educational resources addressing inequitable access to technology tools, computers and the Internet. Each resource has been screened by experts in digital equity and professionally catalogued to help you find high quality material that addresses your specific needs."

Education Week on the Web

H-Net Teaching
"This site is intended to serve as a gateway to H-Net's extensive collection of teaching resources including teaching focused discussion networks, syllabi, links, conference papers on multimedia teaching, and web-based teaching projects."

InTime
Integrating New Technologies Into the Methods of Education
"...enables educators to watch online video vignettes of PreK-12 teachers from various grades and subjects integrate technology into their classrooms using numerous teaching strategies."

Institute for Learning and Research Technology
University of Bristol, UK

Instructional Technology Connections
By Martin Ryder, School of Education, University of Colorado at Denver

Interactive Education: Impact of the Internet on Learning & Teaching
"The site covers how to begin, how to operate, and how to make e-learning successful and enjoyable. Its contents are developed over years, and is intended for my current students, and sharing my personal experiences and exchange of ideas with other educators."
By Dr. Hossein Arsham, University of Baltimore

International Conference on Technology and Education (ICTE)

International Society for Technology Education (ISTE)

The Internet Advocate - (dead link)
A Web-based Resource Guide for Librarians and Educators Interested in Providing Youth Access to the Net
Maintained by Lisa Champelli, Children's Librarian, Monroe County Public Library (MCPL) in Bloomington, Indiana.

Journal of Education, Community, and Values: Interface on the Internet
Published by Pacific University - Berglund Center for Internet Studies

Journal of Information Technology Education (JITE)
"...improve IT education around the world by publishing high quality articles on best practices and other topics of use in improving IT education."

Journal of Interactive Media in Education
(ISSN 1365-893X)

The Literacy Web
"...is designed to promote the use of the Internet as a tool to assist classroom teachers in their search for best practices in literacy instruction, including the new literacies of Internet technologies. We have made every attempt to link teachers with current research and theory that supports traditional and new literacy practices as well as to guide teachers towards particular classroom resources that can enhance literacy development for students at all grade levels."
- Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut

National Academy Press (free online versions)

National Center for Technology Planning (NCTP)
"The National Center for Technology Planning (NCTP) is a clearinghouse for the exchange of many types of information related to technology planning. This information may be: school technology plans available for downloading via a computer network; technology planning aids (checklists, brochures, sample planning forms, PR announcement forms); and/or electronic monographs on timely, selected topics. The NCTP was created for those who: need help, seek fresh ideas, or seek solutions to problems encountered with planning."

NetFiles
"...is a 30-minute, monthly, news magazine style, in-service, television program..."
Sections include: Programs ; Net Classrooms ; Net Wise ; Net Speak ; Net Safety ; Net-igration ; Build A Website ; Teacher Guides.

New Intelligence Inc.
Commercial software and print resources for improving reading, writing, and reasoning skills for use in K-12 classrooms.
Includes a nice selection of workbooks and programs promoting diversity.

NPR - Bridging the Digital Divide in the Classroom (Audio or Text)
"Technology expert Mario Armstrong talks about what two schools are doing to ensure kids have access to the technology they need to do well in school. He describes the challenge of bringing new technology to low-income students."
- National Public Radio, News & Notes, January 3, 2007.

Pew Internet & American Life Project
"The Project creates original research that explores the impact of the Internet on children, families, communities, health care, schools, the work place, and civic/political life. The Pew Internet & American Life Project aims to be an authoritative source for timely information on the Internetís growth and societal impact, through research that is scrupulously impartial."

  • Reports - (dead link)
    • The Internet Goes to College: - (dead link)
      How Students are Living in the Future with Today's Technology (September 2002)
    • The Internet and Education - (dead link) (September 2001)

PT3 NOW!
"...is a television and radio series that investigates the relationships between education and technology. The series explores issues, ideas and strategies surrounding today's education and tomorrow's teachers."
Watch the television series online or listen to the radio series.

RIPPLES
Research in Presentation Production for Learning Electronically
"...project is investigating how to most effectively use WWW multimedia technology (HTML and audio/video browser plugins such as RealAudio together with customized WWW servers) to deliver stored course or training materials such as class notes/overheads and audio/video of classroom lectures to students. Our focus is on asynchronous learning environments with stored classroom materials, where students proceed at their own pace and are not assumed to be accessing the same material at the same time as others."

TeacherWeb
"...your free personal website that's as easy to use as the bulletin board in your classroom...With TeacherWeb, you simply type in new homework assignments & special announcements while viewing your website. Then with the click of a button, your updates will be instantly available to your students using any Internet access!"

Teaching History with Technology
Online Journal
"...is designed to help middle school and high school history and social studies teachers better integrate technology into their classrooms. The journal attempts to fulfill this function by providing teachers with models that document how others have incorporated technology to enhance their studentsí learning experiences.

Technological Horizons in Education (T.H.E.) Journal

TRAMSS: Teaching Resources and Materials for Social Scientists
"The site provides a taste of statistical software applications in event history analysis and multilevel modelling...The focus of our target audience is full-time and part-time Master's students in quantitative social science research together with research students in ESRC related Departments."
By ESRC - Economic & Social Research Council, UK

U.S. Department of Education see Education - U.S. Dept. of Education

University of Bristol (UK) - Institute for Learning and Research Technology

VCTEL - Virtual Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning
"Collaborate between Institutions in developing, sharing, and disseminating mutually beneficial and interesting applications of technology in education and learning...The institutes collaborating in this interaction are from India the Indian Institutes of Technology at Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Kanpur and Kharagpur; the Indian Institutes of Management at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta and Lucknow; and from USA the Carnegie Mellon University at Pittsburgh.""

Velsoft
"Download computer eBooks including lesson plans, learning activities and other teacher resources designed to teach K12 students and teachers the fundamentals of computers."

Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technology
"...a resource for faculty seeking direction in appropriate ways to use Web-based technologies to accomplish key learning strategies. The guiding principle of this project is to go beyond technical skill towards a full examination of the teaching/learning issues in technology-enabled instruction."
University of Maryland University College

www4teachers
"...a carefully indexed collection of online resources made by teachers for teachers! The resources on the 4teachers site are created or reviewed by the HPR*TEC Teacher Team.
Sections include: Professional Development ; Integrating Technology ; Tools ; Stars.

See also Internet Studies



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