http://www.doe.virginia.

gov/

http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/

VDOE is the administrative agency for the

commonwealth's public schools. The
Purpose of VDOE is to develop and
implement Strategic Plans for the agency,
relevant programs and service areas and
identify Performance Measures to track
progress in achieving the strategic plan
objectives.
Dr. Steven R. Staples is the
superintendent of public instruction. Dr.
Staples serves as the executive officer of the
Virginia Department of Education (VDOE),
which is the administrative agency for the
commonwealth's public schools. He also
serves as secretary of the Board of
Education. The VDOE website is a place
where students, teachers and parents can
go to stay informed with the changes in their
school district , and also keep updated about
SOLs and other urgent new matters
affecting all in the Virginia School System.
Educationworld.com is a website
created for teachers to help keep them up to
date with new ideas and information about
the ever changing world of being a teacher.
It offers a blog, news board, edtech tips,
examples of lesson plans, and so much
more to new and older teachers alike.
The credentials of the education world
website are network of skilled content
providers, have maintained this free
resource for educators since 1996. In order
to keep the site free, Education World is
funded by corporate sponsors and
advertisers. This website is useful to all
teachers for the simple fact that not only it is

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a FREE site, but it gives great resources,

ideas, and news every single day. It will help
keep teachers informed, and also a free
resource to helping our students when it
comes to technology and education.
Fuel the brain is an interactive website for
elementary educators to have access to free
and inexpensive tools to help their students
in the classroom.
Offering games,
printables, interactives, and so much more it
helps teachers and their students stay up to
date in the tech savvy world. The website
was created by Jennifer, a National Board
Certified Teacher, who provides all of the
curriculum and educational concepts for our
resources.
And then also web/graphic
designer Lee who maintains and creates the
games and interactives used on the site.
The website focuses mostly on kindergarten
to a third grade level and is actually looking
to keep expanding to help keep all
elementary ed teachers up to date on some
new technologies.
The scholastic corporate mission is to
encourage the intellectual and personal
growth of all children, beginning with
literacy. The scholastic website offers
technology as a source of helping students
want to read, and ways for teachers to
encourage it. For teachers it offers a reading
club, resources, tools, and activities for
students to do at home and also in the
classroom. Also offering a blog for teachers
to stay connected and Month by month
teaching ideas for all of those crafty teachers
out there. The credentials of the scholastic

company is that they have been around

since 1920. President and CEO Dick
Robinson, is the son of founder M.R.
Robinson, and entered into the company in
1962.
http://www.edutopia.org/technology-integration
The websites mission is to be dedicated to
improving the K-12 learning process through
innovative, replicable, and evidence-based
strategies that prepare students to thrive in
their studies, careers, and adult lives. The
websites is about giving access to teachers,
students, and parents to technology that will
help students thrive. The website promotes
videos and other forms of media that will
help all through the ages of K-12. Founder
and chairman George Lucas has created
core strategies that are helping teachers
stay up to date on new classroom ideas, and
students informed about the ever changing
world of technology.
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/index.html The Smithsonian education website offers
numerous activities and interactive learning
tools for teachers and students. It offers
lesson plans, resources, and also standards
of learning for each individualized state and
grade level. It also offers online videos and
libraries for students to use at their own
disposal. The Smithsonian education
website is a government run operation that is
run by the staff of the Smithsonian Center for
Education.
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/
Discovery Education offers a breadth and
depth of digital media content that is
immersive, engaging and brings the world
into the classroom to give every student a
chance to experience fascinating people,

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http://teachers.net/

places, and events. Discovery education is

a way for teachers to gain knowledge and
the resources of using technology in the
classroom. Including assessment services,
digital textbooks, virtual experiences, and
also learning communities for teachers and
students. The discovery education website
is ran by a curriculum team that includes
administration and teachers throughout the
years.
This free website offers tools and resources
to help teachers and students expand when
in the classroom and also when working at
home. By allowing teachers to browse by
state standards, and grade level it opens up
many doors to using technology in the
classroom, including videos, interactive tools
and keeping students up to date with day to
day news. It also offers webinars to help
teachers learn new resources to help keep
their students informed on the newest
learning trends. The PBS learning media
wq2website it ran by the PBS corporation.
Teachers.net is a platform where teachers
can get to discover new teaching ideas and
tips, lesson plans, classroom projects and
many more It offers teachers lesson plans,
chat rooms, and also tons of classroom
projects to keep everyone current on new
ideas for the classroom. Teachers also have
access to contribute to the website to bring
new ideas and tools to the table to share
with other teachers around the world.

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Teachers first website offers a resourceful

website that offers teachers the technology
to help their students. Teachers first is
created and edited by professional
educators, which helps give many teachers
the insight into the world of teaching.
Teachers first offers a free membership that
allows teachers to also get weekly emails
updating them of what is going on in the
teaching community. The website offers a
list of teaching contributors that help update,
create, and design the ever changing
website.