Looking For Schools with Great Tech Plans

Does your school have a great tech plan in place? If so, I could really use your assistance. As a member of our district's technology committee, I have been asked to research several things for our district. So...if you're using tablets, have a great Internet provider etc. please take a few minutes to answer and submit the form below.

Thank you so much for your input! It is greatly appreciated.

2011 Edublog Awards Nominations Are Open!

Last year I was fortunate enough to win an Edublog Award (First Runner Up) in the Best Library blog category. It was such an honor just to be nominated!


Since 2004, The Edublog Awards ("Eddies") have been given to recognize the contributions that bloggers have contributed to education. Anyone who has a blog can nominate their favorites in 18 categories:

1. Best individual blog
2. Best individual tweeter
3. Best group blog
4. Best new blog
5. Best class blog
6. Best student blog
7. Best ed tech / resource sharing blog
8. Most influential blog post
9. Best twitter hashtag
10. Best teacher blog
11. Best librarian / library blog
12. Best School Administrator blog
13. Best free web tool
14. Best educational use of audio / video / visual / podcast
15. Best educational wiki
16. Best open PD / unconference / webinar series
17. Best educational use of a social network
18. Lifetime achievement

Here's how to nominate:

• Write a post with your nominations on your blog, link to them and link to the Edublogs Awards site
• Use the form at the bottom of the Nominations Page to send a link to your nominations

I will be posting my nominations in the next few weeks.

38 Sites for High School Lesson Plans

Hopefully these web sites offer every high school teacher some great lesson plans for their subject area. The links should bring you directly to the "high school"  section. I tried to label those sites which did not offer browsing by grade level.  Even though it's not even August yet, it's never too early to start gathering some  great ideas. You will also notice that I just added the "high school" tab at the top of the blog. A to Z Teacher Stuff Awesome Library Cybersmart! Student Curriculum- covers cyberbullying, Internet safety, digital citizenship Discovery Education Free ESL Lessons to Download- nice listing includes Word documents, PDFs, MP3 files Grade 9 to Grade 12 Science Lesson Plans High School Level English Language Arts Lesson Plans High School Social Studies Lesson Plans Holocaust Activities HotChalk Lesson Plans Page ITVS PBS Lesson Plans Lesson Planet- over 200,000 reviewed; can't browse by grade

Lesson Plan Central- can't browse by grade

Lesson Plan Megasearch- search (3) directories. including TeAchnology, LessonPlanz and Virginia's site for educators Lesson Plan Search-can't browse by grade level Lesson Plan Templates Lesson Plans for P.E. Lesson Plans by Veteran Teachers- browse by subject only Lesson Tutor Lesson Planz.com McRel Lesson Plans- can't browse by grade level Microsoft Education Lesson Plans Modern World History Lesson Plans NY Times Daily Lesson Plan- browse by category only Online Economics Lessons Smithsonian Education Lesson Plans Spanish Lesson Plans- from TeAchnology Teaching Economics As If People Mattered TeachNet TeacherPlanet- short list Teachers.net Lesson Plans- long list of all high school lesson plans Teachers Network- high school ESL lessons Teachervision Tech Lesson Plans Technology and Engineering Education Association of Pennsylvania- grades 10-12 lesson plans Technology Education Handouts- 28 to download These Kids Mean Busine$$- for business teachers Thirteen Ed Online Lesson Plans