The Digital Textbook Playbook is a guide to help K-12 educators and administrators begin building rich digital learning experiences for students in districts across the country. The playbook offers information about determining broadband infrastructure for schools and classrooms, leveraging home and community broadband to extend the digital learning environment, and understanding necessary device considerations. It also provides lessons learned from school districts that have engaged in successful transitions to digital learning.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) maintains OnGuardOnline.gov with significant contributions from partners on this page. The Flash tutorials were created by the Internet Education Foundation (IEF).

“By 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.”

—President Barack Obama, Address to Congress, February 24, 2009

The National Education Technology Plan, Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology, calls for applying the advanced technologies used in our daily personal and professional lives to our entire education system to improve student learning, accelerate and scale up the adoption of effective practices, and use data and information for continuous improvement.

Welcome to the Ed Tech Action Network, your direct line to Washington.

Now more than ever, Washington needs to hear what you have to say. Support for ed tech is in peril at all levels of government. Important federal programs that fund education technology, including technology training for teachers, hardware and software acquisition, and infrastructure development, stand at the brink of elimination because of limited federal funds and numerous state budget crises. More importantly, many policy experts have not yet grasped the power of education technology to transform learning nor its ability to help ensure that all students achieve and all teachers are of high quality. Through the Ed Tech Action Network, you can tell policymakers in Washington, and in your state capitols, that education technology is vital to fulfilling the mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act and that ed tech programs merit federal funding.

Project Tomorrow is a national education nonprofit group based in Irvine, California. 

The vision of Project Tomorrow is ensure that today’s students are well prepared to be tomorrow’s innovators, leaders and engaged citizens of the world.  We believe that by supporting the innovative uses of science, math and technology resources in our K-12 schools and communities, students will develop the critical thinking, problem solving and creativity skills needed to compete and thrive in the 21st century.

Stop Bullying on the Spot

When adults respond quickly and consistently to bullying behavior they send the message that it is not acceptable. Research shows this can stop bullying behavior over time. There are simple steps adults can take to stop bullying on the spot and keep kids safe.

eLearning Alabama uses a Web-based model to provide effective professional development that leads to gains in teacher’s content knowledge, improvements in their teaching practices and increases in the achievement of their students.

eLearning Alabama is Alabama’s implementation of the E-Learning for Educators Initiative, a project funded through a federal Ready to Teach grant and multi-state collaboration between ten state education agencies and associated public broadcast stations. eLearning Alabama partners are the Alabama Department of Education Technology in Motion program and Alabama Public Television .

The Alabama Educational Technology Conference (AETC) plays a key role in helping educators at all levels increase their understanding of the role of technology in education.  With the required implementation of the Technology Education Course of Study in Grades K-12, professional development in integrating technology into the curriculum will be more in demand this year than ever before.

The popular and FREE gallery360⁰ – ALEX’s podcast treasury is NOW available on iTunes U for your teachers and students:

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Recycle your computers... Do not landfill them. Call for drop off.

Camtasia Studio--Powerful screen recording and editing for high-quality videos.

CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner.

YouTube Downloader is a popular, free program that enables you to download and convert online videos (legal content, to which you have the rights) for later viewing on your desktop or mobile device. It can convert files to MOV, MP4, 3GP, WMV, AVI, or MP3.

SuperAntiSpyware will remove all the spyware, not just the easy ones. Quick, complete and custom scanning of hard drives, removable drives, memory, registry, or individual folders. Includes trusting items, and excluding folders for complete customization of scanning. Detect and remove spyware, adware, malware, Trojans, dialers, worms, key loggers, hijackers, parasites, root kits and many other types of threats. Light on system resources and won't slow down your computer. Repair broken internet connections, desktops, registry editing. Real-time blocking of threats. Prevent potentially harmful software from installing or re-installing.

Lavasoft is a software security company specializing in anti-spyware. Their security center website contains information for keeping your computer safe, including what to look for in a false security program.

Learn more about rogue security and anti-spyware programs from Microsofts website.