Introduction

The Internet Resources

• National Center for Technology in Education - This site is gives suggestions and tips for special education teachers interseted in using technology to help special needs students. It provides a section which offers advice for beginning technology integration. It also gives an overview of different types of software and adaptive equipment.

• Simplified Technology - This website talks about the importance of using assistive technology and communication devices with students. It provides a general philosophy for providing assistive technology. The author also discusses the benifits of providing this technology to special needs students.

• Wisconsin Assistive Technology Initiative - This website provides many diffent links to different types of assistive technology. The site also provides a resource guide for teachers interested in integrating assistive technology into their classrooms. Finally, the site provides links to other sites that offer assistive technolgy.

• Closing the Gap - This site is a company whose goal is to provide helpful ways to integrate technology in the classroom. It provides teachers with a listing of helpful software and hardware. It also gives teachers a listing of solutions to common problems.

• Schools Integration Project - This website is a project of the National Center for Technology in Education. It provides teachers with a publications and internet links which are helpful when beginning technolgy integration. It also contains a collection of projects which use technology for learning.

• Technology in Education: A quick key to technology integration - This site focuses on the understanding of Title II, Part D of the No Child Left Behind Act. It lays out technology intergration part of the NCLB Act. It provides resources for teachers trying to learn how intergrate technology into their classrooms.

• Teachers.net - This is a article entitled, 'Technology Integration:Dealing with Educational Innovations, Fads, and Goblins. In this article, the author discusses the development of technology integration throughout the past few years. He also discusses the problems with the integration of technology into the classroom.

• The Center for Assistive Technology - This is the site of a center which contains assistive technology for students with disabilities. The site contains presentations and publications about technology in the classroom. It also contains information about the adaptive center.

• Technology and Media Division of the Council for Exceptional Children - This website provides the Council for Exceptional Children's view on technology integration for special needs students. It provides publications that help teachers with beginning technology integration in their classroom. It also provides a section called Technology in Action which provides examples of technology incorporation.

• Families and Advocates Partnership for Education - This site is a publication about using assistive technology to aid toddlers with special needs. The site provides answers to different questions that parents and teachers may have about the assistive technology. It also provides an answer to the question of how to obtain the assistive technology.

• Engagement Theory: A Framework for Technology-Based Teaching and Learning - This website is an article that focuses on technology-based teaching. It outlines the basic principles for teaching using technology. It also discusses project-learning in the classroom using technology.

• Technology Integration Ideas - This site is a collection of resources for teachers. It contains many different ideas for integrating technology. It also provides different subject areas and age level ideas.

• Working Togather to Provide Brighter Solutions - This is a article that discusses different types of technology in the classroom. It discusses how the integration of multimedia technologies provides students with a fun way of learning. It also discusses how to make the best use of one computer in the classroom.

• Using the Internet as a Distance Learning Tool in Selected Secondary School Areas - This article discusses the idea of using the internet as a learning tool. This article discusses the idea of the learner and the teacher being in seperate places and using the internet to connect them. This could allow students a world of opportunity when it comes to learning.

• A Model Of Constructivist Learning In Practice: Computer Literacy Integrated Into Elementary Mathmatics And Science Teacher Education - This is an article that discusses an expirement to determain whether or not computer training helped teachers gain a confidence of computer skills. The studies was done to determain if the integration of computer literacy training was helpful to new teachers. This article shows the results of this expirement.