Administrator Training Links

Technology Planning Resources	Federal Funding for Technology
Funding and Grant Writing Resources	Research on the Impact of Technology
Assessing Staff Technology Uses	Research Articles on Assessment
Trends & Issues	Cool
Tools	New & Notable

Technology Planning Resources

TECH PLAN – a technology planning kit created by West Ed.

http://www.wested.org/tie/techplan/

The Switched on Classroom technology planning guide

http://www.swcouncil.org/switch2.stm

Learning thorugh Technology – an online planning guide by NCREL

http://www.ncrel.org/tandl/homepg.htm

Plugging In – NCREL’s think piece for educational technology planners

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/edtalk/toc.htm

National Center for Education Planning – the largest collection of online technology plans in a signal location.

http://www.nctp.com

Federal Funding for Technology (back to top)

U.S. Department of Education 1-800-USA-LEARN

http://www.ed.gov/Technology/resources.html

SouthEast and Islands Regional Technology in Education Consortium SEIR.TEC

http://www.seirtec.org/techplan.html/

National Foundation for Improvement of Education (NFIE) 202.822.7839

http://www.nfie.org

Funding and Grant Writing Resources (back to top)

Michigan DOE

http://www.michigan.gov/mde

Michigan Technology Content Standards

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/Technology_11594_7.htm

Eschool Funding News

http://www.eschoolnews.com/resources/funding/

Site provides up to date information on grant writing and funding resources. Some information is available free of charge and some is for purchase.

Funding Information from the Federal Government

http://www.ed.gov/Technology/edgrants.html

The Office of Educational Technology has a good collection of grant information as well as other federal sources of support for educational technology.

School Support and Technology Programs

http://www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/goals/

Click on Grant Information to get to the Grant Award Database.

Office of Educational Research and Improvement

http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/fy2002competitions.html

Information on the grants this division works.

Funds for Learning

http://www.fundsforlearning.com/

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/

Information on the foundation and the education projects it supports. Visitors can also learn how to apply for grants from the foundation.

IBM

http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ibmgives/grant/education/

The page describes how IBM supports education through grant programs.

Markle Foundation

http://www.markle.org/gpi/_gpi_index.stm

Site explains the types of resources and funding the Markle foundation supports.

AOL/ Time Warner

http://www.aoltwf.org/grants/grants.html

The site explains how the AOL/Time Warner Foundation distributes grant money.

Network for Good

http://www.networkforgood.org/npo/technology/answer4.html

A site provides good funding information for education technology.

The Funding Factory

http://www.fundingfactory.com/etcep/visitorhome.asp

Recycle used technology and earn points to buy equipment.

http://www.networkforgood.org/npo/technology/answer4.html

Nonprofit funding information for education technology.

Funding Your Technology

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listfundingve.html

The Foundation Center

http://www.fdncenter.org/

The Technology Application Center for Education Development

http://www.tcet.unt.edu/START/progdev/funding.htm

Large source of grant information including how to write them, where to find them and how to manage them.

Trends & Issues (back to top)

Technology Leadership News

http://www.nsba.org/itte/insiders.html

Office of Educational Technology- U.S. Department of Education

http://www.ed.gov/technology/index.html

Journal of Research on Technology in Education

http://www.iste.org/jrte/index.html

Current Issues on Educational Technology

http://www.tcet.unt.edu/topics.htm

Teach-nology’s Educational Technology Section

http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/educational_technology/

The Leaders Guide to Educational Technology

http://www.edvancenet.org/

RTEC

http://rtec.org/resource.shtml

National Center for Education Statistics- Technology use in Education

http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/getpubList.asp?L1=79&L2=0

Learning and Leading with Technology

http://www.iste.org/L&L/archive.html

From Now On

http://www.fno.org/

Leadership and the New Technologies

http://www2.edc.org/urltrack/library.asp

International Electronic Journal for Leadership and Learning

http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~iejll/

Leadership and Learning with Technology

http://www.ncrtec.org/pd/llwt/

Tech Learning.com

http://www.techlearning.com/

Impact of Technology on Learning Research (back to top)

Institute for the Transfer of Technology to Education

http://www.nsba.org/itte

Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)

http://www.aspensys.com/eric

Office of Educational Technology

U.S. Department of Education

http://www.ed.gov/Technology

North Central Regional Technology Education Consortium

http://www.ncrel.org/ncrtec

International Society for Technology in Education

Effective Practice: Computer Technology in Education

Order at (800) 336-5191

Committee for Economic Development

Connecting Students to a Changing World: A Technology Strategy for Improving Mathematics and Science Education

(212) 688-2063 ext. 212

Research on the Impact of Technology (back to top)

Office of Educational Technology http://www.ed.gov/Technology

Software Publishers Association

http://www.spa.org

Institute for the Transfer of Technology to Education

http://www.nsba.org/itte

Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)

http://www.aspensys.com/eric

North Central Regional Technology Education Consortium

http://www.ncrel.org/ncrtec

International Society for Technology in Education

Effective Practices: Computer Technology in Education

Order at 800.336.5191

Committee for Economic Development

Connecting Students to a Changing World: A Technology Strategy for Improving Mathematics and Science Education

212.688.2063 ext. 212

Midcentral Educational Laboratory

http://www.mcrel.org/connect/impact.html

Assessing Staff Technology Uses (back to top)

Ongoing authentic assessment of your technology initiative is critically important. Following are web sites and articles that provide sample surveys and research based information on the importance, benefits, and methods of assessing technology use.

http://www.ceoforum.org/questions.cfm.

This is a STaR Chart from CEO Forum. The STaR chart identifies and defines four school profiles ranging from “Early Tech” school with little or no technology to the “Target Tech” school that provides a model for the integration and innovative use of education technology. This chart is to serve as a benchmark agains which every school can assess and track its own progress.

http://www.education.indiana.edu/keyfrick.html

Criteria for Evaluating Use of Information Technology in K-12 Education. Copies can be ordered by calling 847.995.9080

http://www.seirtec.org/eval/gauge.doc

Profiler Technology Integration Progress Gauge. A technology Word document that allows a school site to evaluate technology integration.

http://mycompass.asset.asu.edu/

My Compass is a tool that assesses technology competencies. It was designed for Arizona educators. There is a guest log-in for your review of this instrument.

http://www.ulm.edu/~rakes/mps.html

Teacher Survey on technology use.

http://www.bham.wednet.edu/tcomp.htm

Staff use of technology from Bellingham.

Research Articles on Assessment (back to top)

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/stw_esys/4assess.htm

What Does Research Say About Assessment? Information from NCREL.

http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/About/reform.html

An annotated list of resources provided to you by staff at Armadillo, an educational list on the WWW.

http://teacherpathfinder.org/School/Assess/assessmt.html

Teacher/Pathfinder assessment resources. An excellent listing of educational assessment sites on the Internet.

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/edtalk/newtimes.htm

New Times Demand New Ways of Learning. A report from NCREL that details the indicators that educators and policy makers can use to measure effectiveness of technology in learning.

http://www.education-world.com/a_admin/admin226.shtml

Education World Assessing Staff Technology Needs: Do the current tools work?

http://www.nfie.org

The National Foundation for the Improvement of Education

Assessment and Information Technologies in the K-12 classroom.

Cool Tools (back to top)

http://www.4teachers.org

Tools, Tools, Tools a one stop shop for many great educational tools.

http://www.glc.k12.ga.us

Georgia Learning Connections

http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/

Teach-nology Tool Section- Check out the graphic organizer generators.