ISTE Learning provides educators with learning experiences through socially networked platforms that replicate the environments today’s students interact with regularly. The site focuses on four professional development topics each year.  This year’s topics include Web 2.0, project-based learning, digital citizenship and gaming and simulations.

Log on to ISTE Learning today and begin your journey to becoming a superhero!  Also check out ISTE Learning’s new professional development blog, The Buzz. We’d love to hear your feedback on this new ISTE feature.

ISTE’s Kelli Harrington and April Hayman pose next to life-sized cutouts of their superhero alter egos from the ISTE Learning site.

Many of the tweets targeted U.S. Senators and Representatives as well as key members of Congress, including Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman, and Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS), ranking member of the Senate Labor-HHS-Ed Approps Subcommittee; Rep. David Obey (D-WI), Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee; and Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-KS), the ranking member of the House Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee.

Click here to learn how we are working to show policy-makers the full impact technology has on education. Join ISTE advocacy efforts to ensure that your voice is heard. Educators are on the front lines of the fight for funding. We have a responsibility to provide the best education possible to the young people we teach today and the students we will teach tomorrow.

Your tweets, blog posts, and thoughtful comments were inspirational. Leave a comment to let us know what you thought of the ed tech day of action.

On Wednesday, May 12, educators, parents, administrators and students from around the country and across the world are asked to speak out to support funding for ed tech. Take a moment to send a tweet, write a blog, update your Facebook status, start a Ning thread, or however you communicate online to voice your support for dedicated ed tech funding in the 2011 federal budget.

Sample short messages for Tweets and social networking:

• @SenatorHarkin #EETT Support innovation in learning & teaching. Fund #edtech at $500m
• @DavidObey #EETT Support innovation in learning & teaching. Fund #edtech at $500m
• @ThadCochran #EETT Support innovation in learning & teaching. Fund #edtech at $500m
• @RepToddTiahrt #EETT Support innovation in learning & teaching. Fund #edtech at $500m
• Our schools need 21st century education, #EETT. Fund #edtech at $500 m
• No funding for #edtech? No prep for 21st century. Fund #EETT at $500m
• I support #edtech. I vote. Fund #EETT at $500m in 2011
• As a principal/teacher/parent I know our kids need #edtech skills. Fund #EETT at $500m

Sample blog topics:

• How has ed tech improved the way you teach?
• How has ed tech improved the way students learn?
• What would you do with additional ed tech funding?
• What will your students lose if EETT funding goes away?
• Why is it important to have up-to-date technology in classrooms?

Click here for more information on 2011 ed tech funding plans.