HPR*TEC
http://hprtec.org/

The High Plains Regional Technology Education Consortium (HPR*TEC)  representing Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota and Wyoming, was formed to help teachers and other educators create, share, or find solutions to problems they encounter when integrating technology into education.  With a region covering 2.7 million students and 173,000 teachers, HPR*TEC  offers a tremendous network of experts.

Under the title of Network of Solutions, there are links to such areas as: 

Profiler, an online collaboration tool strengthen your school district’s ability  to share expertise; RubiStar, a tool to help teachers develop rubrics without having to start from scratch; Trackstar, an online interface to organize online resources and file them in a Trackstar database; www.4kids.org, a kid safe spot where a weekly newspaper feature searches three of four fun and educational sites giving kids the opportunity to be a 4Kids Champion of the week; www4teachers an indexed collection of online resources made by teachers for teachers such as making a quiz, web worksheet, a project based learning checklist or a trackstar; and Edlines, an educational web based newsletter features new HPR*TEC  events, HPR*TEC  resources, school pages, national educational technology news, Tech Tips, and a URL with suggestions for use in the classroom.

By far one of the most innovative and useful features of this website which makes it stand out from all the rest is the TracksStar feature.  TrackStar is a program that allows teachers to organize a collection of websites into an interactive online presentation.  It’s an Internet web-based lesson plan maker. 

All lessons are searchable by keyword, subject and grade, themes and standards.  You’ll find some great ideas here, plus a lot of opportunities to create and share some great lesson plans for other teachers in the Internet community.

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