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Technology Resource Guides are now available. Please click on the links provided below:

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Equity in Educational Technology
The Northwest Educational Technology Consortium provides professional development opportunities, technical assistance, especially in K-12 schools, "to become informed and fearless users of technology."

4000 Years of Women in Science
This website includes biographic and photographs of women who have played important roles in the fields of science and technology.

Girls Count
Girls Count is a nonprofit organization designed to support girls in science, mathematics, and technologies. The Organization is dedicated to expand girls’ education and career opportunities.

Girlstart
Girlstart provides a supportive and empowering atmosphere in which girls perform hands-on experiments with robots, microscopes, environmental science, math engineering, and technology.

Girls Tech
Encouraging Young Women's Interest in Science and Technology. GirlsTech (GirlsTech.douglass.rutgers.edu) is a website that explains and demonstrates a framework for use by teachers, parents, and other adults to evaluate electronic resources (web sites, CD-ROMS, and games) that will encourage young women's interest and participation in the sciences and technology. The website describes eight evaluation criteria with which to assess electronic resources, provides examples that illustrate them, and rates the examples. GirlsTech is based upon a research study on girls and the use of technology, supported by Douglass College and the Girl Scouts of the USA through a grant from the Toyota USA Foundation. A summary of the research, an explanation of the theory behind it, and a bibliography are also available on the site.

How Stuff Works
How Stuff Works is an online magazine that explains how things work. Topics include computers and the Internet, engines, electronics, science and technology, aviation and transportation, and other categories.

NCBE: Science, Mathematics, and Technology (SMT) Pathway
The SMT Literacy pathway concerns the development of literacy skills in the areas of math, science, and technology for urban and minority students.

Rural and Urban Images: Voices of Girls in Science, Mathematics, and Technology
This project gives actual activities used by students, such as "Granny Did What?" that suggests students research traditional folk remedies and medicines, examine possible scientific reasons for the effectiveness of some traditional treatments, and familiarize students with the properties of some household herbs, spices, and plants.

SEED The Science Education Website
An educational science and technology forum that shares the expertise and professional careers of the people of Schlumberger with learners and teachers around the world.

Society of Canadian Women in Science and Technology (SCWIST)
SCWISTęs mission is to promote and empower women in science and technology.

SuperKids
SuperKids is a website for parents and teachers that provides information about educational software and educational resources for home and school.

Teachers Teaching with Technology
T3 teachers teaching teachers provides professional development opportunities for the appropriate use of educational technology in the teaching and learning of mathematics and science.

Urban MAST: Women and Minorities in Math, Science, and Technology
Developed to increase awareness of contributions by women and minorities in math, science, and technology and to promote interaction between business professionals and urban education centers.