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Rapid Response: Eighth-Grade Technology Literacy Assessment (2009) This paper was produced by SEDL’s Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC) in response to the request, “What are states in the southeastern region using as assessment tools for No Child Left Behind (NCLB) eighth-grade technology literacy?” The SECC conducted a comparative study of 16 states to address the question.

Afterschool Curriculum Choice: Technology Resources (2008) This online database provides access to high-quality technology resources related to afterschool and expanded learning.

Afterschool Lesson Plan Database (2008) This online database contains fun and enriching lesson plans for afterschool projects in the arts, literacy, mathematics, science, and technology. Expanded learning practitioners can also submit their favorite lesson plans for consideration.

Afterschool Training Toolkit: Building Quality Enrichment Activities (2008) This online toolkit provides resources for developing fun, innovative, and academically enriching activities for afterschool and expanded learning programs. The toolkit includes promising practices and sample lessons in the arts, literacy, math, science, technology, and homework help.

Price: $0 Afterschool Training Toolkit DVD: Short Videos of Promising Practices in Afterschool (2008) Brief videos illustrate promising teaching techniques in six key areas: the arts, homework, literacy, math, science, and technology. Use these free videos with afterschool staff to explore new ways to embed academics in fun afterschool activities.

Instructor’s Guides to the Afterschool Training Toolkit (2008) For use with the online Afterschool Training Toolkit, these print guides help instructors master research-based teaching techniques that engage students and improve academic achievement.

Professional Development Guides for the Afterschool Training Toolkit (2008) For use with the online Afterschool Training Toolkit, these print guides give program directors and site coordinators resources for leading professional development courses on building engaging afterschool activities.

Price: $Annual Service Contract Texas e-Plan: an Online Technology Plan Builder for Texas School Districts (2008) Texas e-Plan is an online system for developing, submitting, reviewing, and approving technology plans. Every district, charter school, and education service center in TexasÑmore than 1,400 entitiesÑare required to submit their technology plans to TEA as of January 2004.

Digital Anatomy: Students Creating Online Resources (2002) This video episode depicts 11th- and 12th-grade students using digital cameras and Web page design software to document the process of specimen dissection for use by other students engaged in the study of anatomy and physiology. Originally recorded in 2002, the video may not demonstrate modern technologies that are now commonplace.

Authentic Algebra (2001) This video episode depicts high school students engaged in three group activities designed to apply algebraic concepts to authentic activities. Originally recorded in 2001, the video may not demonstrate modern technologies that are now commonplace.

Creative Geometry (2001) This video episode depicts fourth graders creating creatures using geometric shapes, which are e-mailed to high school students who then use computer programs to create them. Originally recorded in 2001, the video may not demonstrate modern technologies that are now commonplace.

2nd Grade Classroom Episode: The Desert (2000) This classroom video episode depicts an interdisciplinary unit of study about the desert in a 2nd grade classroom. Originally recorded in 2000, the video may not demonstrate modern technologies that are now commonplace.

4th Grade Bilingual Classroom Episode: Graphing (2000) This classroom video episode shows 4th grade students, who are primarily native Spanish speakers, learning how to use graphs to represent data they collect. Originally recorded in 2000, the video may not demonstrate modern technologies that are now commonplace.

6th Grade Classroom Episode: Collaborative Language Arts (2000) This classroom video episode depicts students engaged in several collaborative language arts activities, including writing and editing autobiographies, sharing book reviews, creating a myth, and writing free verse poems. Originally recorded in 2000, the video may not demonstrate modern technologies that are now commonplace.

9th Grade Classroom Episode: Spanish Travelers (2000) This classroom video episode portrays small groups of students working on a project-based learning activity. Their task is to find pertinent information and create a travel brochure for selected Spanish speaking countries. Originally recorded in 2000, the video may not demonstrate modern technologies that are now commonplace.

Active Learning with Technology Video Series (2000) These ten videos were designed as part of the Active Learning with Technology (ALT) professional development portfolio and provide examples of effective uses of technology in classroom instruction. Originally recorded from 1999-2004, the videos may not demonstrate modern technologies that are now commonplace.

Classrooms Under Construction: Integrating Student-Centered Learning with Technology (2000) This video portrays students, teachers, and principals from culturally diverse schools across the Southwest in the process of constructing learner-centered classrooms using technology. Originally recorded in 2000, the video may not demonstrate modern technologies that are now commonplace.

Reading Buddies: 1st and 5th Graders Learning Together (2000) This classroom video episode portrays how first grade and fifth grade students learn together as they create an electronic alphabet book for the younger children in their school.

TAP into Learning v2.1: Communication: A Key to Learning (2000) This newsletter offers useful and highly practical information for K-12 educators wishing to use technology to support more constructivist learning approaches.

TAP into Learning v2.2: Using What Learners Know (2000) This newsletter examines "Using what Learners Know", a challenge for the teacher to engage students so that they feel their ideas and experiences are honored and so they believe that they have a stake in their own learning.

TAP into Learning v2.3 and v3.1: Knowledge under Construction (Double Issue) (2000) This newsletter issue focuses on the role of social interaction in the construction of knowledge.

TAP into Learning v3.2: Learning is an Active and Reflective Process (2000) This newsletter issue focuses on the role of social interaction in the construction of knowledge.

Connecting Student Learning and Technology (1999) This guide provides teachers with suggestions for using computers as instructional tools and discusses using technology in environments that support learning.

Engaged Discoverers: Kids Constructing Knowledge with Technology (1999) This video depicts K-12 classrooms in 16 schools throughout the Southwest where a variety of technologies are supporting student-centered approaches in the classroom. Originally recorded in 2000, the video may not demonstrate modern technologies that are now commonplace.

TAP into Learning v1.2: On the Road to Student-Centered Learning (1999) This newsletter examines constructivism and some ways technology might be employed to support learning environments based on constructivist technology.

TAP into Learning v1.1: Getting Started with Constructivism and Technology (1998) This newsletter offers useful and highly practical information for K-12 educators wishing to use technology to support more constructivist learning approaches.

SEDLetter, Volume IX, Number 4: Technology Comes to School (1996) This issue of SEDLetter includes the articles: (1) Wired in Arkansas, (2) Lessons in Professional Development, and (3) Resources for School Technology.

Empowering Rural Students with Disabilities through Assistive Technology (1994) This publication attempts to encapsulate for the rural educator an overall perspective on the field of adaptive and assistive technology and issues related to its use in rural schools.