Web 2.0 and Education

Each student can create page with a personal education plan and profile as they work toward their diploma. Teachers can use ePortfolios to quickly post materials on the web for their students.

Download ready-made curricula, complete with reading assignments, multi-media presentations, quizzes and tests, as well as class presentation notes.

Download a podcast of a speaker, a play, an audio book, a radio or television broadcast. Play it in class or assign students to listen to it as homework.

Watch video podcasts from NROC courses:

• US History
• Physics
• American Government
• Environmental Science

You can access professional development resources via web-conferencing and communicate with other educators throughout the state who are using ORVSD resources.

Put together a course for your students from ready-made materials, or create a test that you can give your students online.

A forum for supporting and discussing the various uses of ORVSD in educational settings

HippoCampus is a project provided free of charge to Oregon schools by ORVSD and the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge

Resources from the Oregon State Library designed for K-12 students and educators integrating information literacy with access to licensed databases.

Google Tools - Coming Soon!

Stay informed about updates in the field of education, professional development opportunities and new tools to help teach students.

DrupalEd - Coming Soon!

Using this software, you can organize classes with high-tech learning tools like social networking and blogging. Students can post comments, take part in forums, work on collaborative projects, communicate among themselves and get assignments and tests from you.