Yesterday, I trekked down to Camden County and spent some time with teachers seeking training and certification that will eventually allow them to teach gifted students. I was asked to demonstrate an instructor might integrate technology within a classroom for gifted pupils. The first thing I did was to introduce my participants to del.icio.us, an extremely useful social bookmark manager. I wish I had had time to show them justcurio.us, too. After learning how to tag their del.icio.us resources, I suggested that one way to motivate gifted students was to link new concepts to the pupils' prior knowledge. Since many learners use their impressions of scenes from motions pictures as the context for ideas expressed in class, I suggested that our group examine the Internet Movie Database. I also threw in the Internet Movie Script Database as well. Although it seemed silly at first, the participants began to see how something as trivial as movies could demonstrate the usefulness of a database when it comes to sorting and reporting large amounts of data. After all, if students can navigate a database about popular films, they should also be able to make use of other databases such a national database about plants, a database of languages, a database about minerals, or a database containing international demographic/socioeconomic information. Next, we looked at the changing nature of geographic information. I took the class to Google Maps and encouraged them to explore. My group really seemed to be taken with this easy to use tool. Later on, I introduced them to Google Earth. I encouraged my audience to examine a few 3D Google Earth maps. The participants liked this resource. In order to make use of engaging, effective, and efficient teaching resources that integrate technology, we looked at the Marco Polo: Internet Content for the Classroom site. Many of the teachers liked the NCTM's wonderful Illumination web site. My new friends also enjoyed ReadWriteThink and Science NetLinks. Naturally, just as everyone was getting into the swing of things, we ran out of time. I had a great time working with the teachers. I hope I can come visit with them again and very soon.