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This presentation highlights some of the key features and educational applications for Google Earth, Google Sky, and Google Maps. It includes links to tutorials, videos, general and educational resources for all three of these Google applications. Attached is a Powerpoint version of our presentation.

This is a SketchUp Quick Start Guide (or Pathfinder) which is a 2 page document to get you started using Google SketchUp. Teachers are welcome to modify or copy 'as is' to use as professional development in your districts.

If you want to use Second Life as an avenue to collaborate with other educators, this site will help you get started. You will find resources, tutorials, and folks to contact.

This web2.0 resource allows users to create mind map collaboratively online.

Collecting Data or registering people for an event? This free program will create the PHP code needed to produce the output you request. It's a great tool for making forms or surveys online and customizing them to meet your needs. Web Form Factory is an open source web form generator which automatically generates the necessary backend code to tie your form to a database. By generating the backend code for you, WFF saves you time.

DimDim is a new, free or inexpensive web conferencing tool akin to Webex, Elluminate, or Adobe Connect. The free version allows presenters to invite up to 20 participants. The presenter can share powerpoints, pdfs, or on a PC, their screen.

The tool has great potential for web based professional development and other web-based meeting needs.

For additional participants, one can purchase an inexpensive account.

We are a small business in Burlington that focuses on promoting the use of Moodle by providing it free. We also provide free training resources and other online professional development opportunities. Any teacher can register and start creating their own online classroom using Moodle by visiting http://globalclassroom.us. Students can also register to participate in their teachers' classrooms by visiting the same page.

New Initiatives:
In early 2008 we will start creating a library of free course modules for teachers to utilize in their own classrooms (the first course module is an AUP/Copyright/Internet Ethics course developed in conjunction with the GEOSS project).

Also, this year we are promoting a new initiative in Vermont to implement Moodle at 15-20 schools statewide using our system. The National eLearning Leadership Cohort will connect educators also implementing Moodle from several states in a collaborative, shared online experience. Global Classroom will share all of it's training resources and will facilitate discussions, live presentations and on-site training opportunities as participants work to implement Moodle (without the hassles of acquiring server space, configuring the platform and generally 'going it alone').

Interested individuals or schools can contact Joseph Thibault (cell: 802-578-7422, email: jthibault@globalclassroom.us) for more information.

If you've been looking for evidence of what technology programs work, this resource has what you need. There are full text and summary reviews of Technology in Reading and Math and School Reform. This site is published by John Hopkins University's Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education. A variety of programs are rated with the number of studies and methodology described.