Sugar reinvents how computers can be used for education.
Sugar provides a simple yet powerful means of engaging
young children in the world of learning that is opened
up by computing and the Internet. Sugar promotes
sharing, collaborative learning, and reflection. Through
Sugar?s clarity of design, children and their teachers
use computation on their own terms; they are free to
reshape, reinvent, and reapply both software and content
into powerful learning activities. Sugar is a community
project; it is based on GNU/Linux, a free and open-
source operating system.
Get IN SHAPE for teaching and stay INSPIRED all the year through...
Whether you’re a newbie feeling IN OVER YOUR HEAD or a veteran teacher IN A RUT, you’ll find ideas and plans to keep you energized. Even if you have everything completely IN CONTROL, be sure to check out the creative ideas and time-saving tips to help keep you on top of your game throughout the entire school year.
This guide identifies five principles that represent the media literacy education community’s current consensus about acceptable practices for the fair use of copyrighted materials, wherever and however it occurs: in K–12 education, in higher education, in nonprofit organizations that offer programs for children and youth, and in adult education.
SchoolForge's mission is to unify independent organizations that advocate, use, and develop open resources for education. We advocate the use of open texts and lessons, open curricula, free software and open source in education
The Chief Information Officers (CIO) Council was established by Executive Order 13011, Federal Information Technology, on July 16, 1996, now revoked. The CIO Council's existence was codified into law by Congress in the E-Government Act of 2002. The CIO Council serves as the principal interagency forum for improving practices in the design, modernization, use, sharing, and performance of Federal Go
Opening Up Education:
The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge
Released June 10 by the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the study--called Access, Adequacy, and Equity in Education Technology--examines the state of educational technology resources and support in public schools across the country, as reported by classroom teachers and instructional assistants.
The purpose of this public wiki is to collect and share resources linking Computer and Information Technology with Differentiated Instruction.
All educators are invited and encouraged to contribute and edit as well as reading and using the ideas and strategies found here.
This is the .pdf version of the Florida technology integration matrix.
This is a how-to to get the latest Salasaga (at the moment of writing salasaga-0.8.0.dev-200804012332) working on Ubuntu 7.10. See the picture below.