How Teachers View Technology
A "Teachers Talk Tech" survey found that the majority of teachers view computer technology as a valuable teaching tool that can improve students' academic performance and attention in class, while strengthening the lines of communication with parents.

Bernie Poole’s Essential Microsoft Office 2007, a series of 10 tutorials with skill consolidation exercises, is designed to help pre-service and in-service teachers learn the set of applications that include Word (including mail merge), Excel (including graphing and charting and Lookup Tables), Access (including searching, sorting, and reporting), and PowerPoint in the context of the K-12 classroom. They also include a lesson on the Office 2007 drawing and diagramming tools.

The Connected Classroom Designed to show teachers how to connect their classrooms to the world of information.

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Editing Essays With Word Still grading essays, red ink pen in hand? Next time your students have an essay due, ask them to submit their work in Word, help them identify their grammar and spelling errors, and then have them correct those errors using Word's table feature.

Zoos Where do you go to find unique, engaging online activities from some of the country’s top zoos? Check out this list and discover some cool online tools for teaching and learning about zoos.

A Techtorial "Using educational trading cards to teach subject-area facts can engage students' interest and spark their enthusiasm. Having students make their own educational trading cards can result in an activity -- and a database of information -- they'll be sure to remember."

Interactivity A tool that allows users to visually communicate an image (with or without a voice-over) by recording the process of creating the image.

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Doug Johnson "Copyright instruction and enforcement needs to change from describing narrow limits to emphasizing how educators and students can fully -- and legally -- use copyrighted materials."

Bernie Poole "Information, like the air we breathe, should be free. That's why we have public libraries. That's why we have a right to a free public education. And now we have the Web, which is slowly but surely becoming the fountainhead of education resources -- and most of them are free."

Brenda Dyck "A highly publicized case in Canada…serves to remind educators that in spite of our enthusiastic embrace of 21st century technologies, we still carry residual expectations from our past -- expectations that can put limitations and judgments on how our students use the very technology advances we promote."

Nancy Willard "Student use of Web 2.0 technologies is expanding, along with incredible opportunities for interactive educational activities -- and a host of risk and management concerns. All schools must develop an effective strategy to address the issue of online safety."

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Mr. Mooney’s Web Domain Class website a "must" for Scott Mooney’s students.

Smile! Digital Cameras Can Make Your Day Teachers across the country and around the world are discovering the many valuable uses for digital cameras; uses that both engage students and make their own professional lives easier. If you can use a camera, you can use a digital camera… so, what are you waiting for?

Quick! Get the (Digital) Camera Discover two dozen more digital camera activities guaranteed to make life easier for you and more interesting for your students.

Total Reader: How Cool is That?

Mrs. Young’s Web Site Jocelyn Young's students learn about science, study, and their teacher online.

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In his column, Fair Use of Fair Use, Doug Johnson states that educators "over-comply" with copyright law, denying themselves and their students of valuable educational resources. Do you agree or disagree with his conclusions? Join the Conversation.