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 * 1.** Visit netTrekker to gain access to peer-reviewed resources for teachers and students. Want to get the most out of it? Visit netTrekker Training Page. The login username and password are posted on the homepage of //CourseDen//.


 * 2.** Visit Classroom 2.0 (and join it, if you like) to learn about what real teachers are buzzing about. Follow your own nose, or scroll down and browse links on the right-hand side. These are categorized by **Tool** (e.g., blogging), **Subject** (e.g., English), and **Area** (e.g., secondary ed). This will take you to discussions that teachers are having about how they are using tools. If you find something interesting, learn more about it and blog about it. //I highly recommend that you join Classroom 2.0: I have learned __so much__ from this social networking site.//


 * 3.** Check out Kathy Schrock's page on the Discovery Education website. There are links to all sorts of great resources here.


 * 4.** Scroll through my list of 170 bookmarks related to educational technology. Any time I come across a tool I think relates to 3401/3402, I bookmark it using del.icio.us and tag it with the descriptor "3401."


 * 5.** Visit the video section of Edutopia and scroll through the videos (sort by "Technology Integration). You may find references to specific tools, or you may find that larger concepts (such as problem-based learning) emerge that you would like to address.


 * 6.** Visit PBS teachers for both scholarly article and reports on the topic of technology integration, as well as drop-down menus for browsing instructional materials by grade level and subject area. This is a rich site.


 * 7.** Check out Discovery Education. Follow your nose. I bet you find way more cool stuff than you'll know what to do with. (Luckily, you only need one topic!)


 * 8.** Lose yourself on Tony Vincent's Learning in Hand website, where he has all sorts of amazing ideas for incorporating technology in the classroom.


 * 9.** There are a number of different tools located at Google for Educators.


 * 10.** //Zowie!// Wait till you see all the tools at Cool Tools for Schools. You may have to be logged in to //wikispaces// in order to view the resources at this site.


 * 11.** Terry Freedman collects and describes Web 2.0 Projects being completed by teachers all over the UK. He organizes it by age, beginning with the little ones!


 * 12.** On his award-winning (Edublogs 2009) resource-sharing blog Free Technology for Teachers, Richard Byrne shares a wide variety of tips and tools for us and goes into specifics of how to use these tools in the classroom. Byrne's Twelve Essentials for Technology Integration points to several tools (some of which are mentioned elsewhere, too).


 * 13.** Visit the archives at LearnCentral to learn about all kinds of technology applications. Watch archived //Elluminate// sessions and tune in to upcoming sessions to learn more about what's new and hot.

14. Screenjelly. http://www.screenjelly.com/