"Each month our guest experts discuss and invite you to share your ideas about using multimedia resources to address common instructional challenges. These practitioners live and work in your standards-based, resource-challenged world. They share your commitment to creating rich, engaging learning experiences for students and are pioneering methods for infusing their instruction with media to improve learning across grade levels and curriculum topics. Pull up a screen and join us!"

find and clip content, make your zine, share your zine, spread your ideas

scholastic's kids site. sign in to create your own profile and share info about books with friends

DC's 2009 presidential innaguration website.

"This is a collection of movie clips in which Mathematics appears."

interactive visualization of amazon bestsellers

"a week's worth of news, rapped. new every friday."

using Google Docs in the classroom

"GotoFreebie.com makes it easy to find and share the hottest freebies, free stuff and free samples. GotoFreebie offers useful and quality free samples and giveaways on everything from baby and healthcare products to games and music. Gotofreebie is updated frequently and daily with the latest freebies handpicked and posted by GotoDaily's staff and people like you."

"These modules, designed for George Mason University's U.S. survey course History 120, offer relevant exercises that reinforce textbook readings and classroom discussion. They provide an alternate, often entertaining, way of investigating historical concepts and problems.Divided into four chronological periods, these modules cover a variety of topics, including indentured servitude, runaway slaves, popular culture in the 19th century, and advertisements in the early 20th century.These modules help students build their Information Technology (IT) proficiency. Students can learn to build and maintain web pages, complete online assignments, perform online research, and use technology in historical analysis." includes introduction, assignments, and resources.

Capture images, record video, share online.

"Find data to study or add your own data. Study and play with data online as flashcards, hangman game, crossword puzzle, matching, word search, or word scramble.Study anytime/anywhere by printing data or exporting flash cards to your cell phone, PDA, or iPod." (site contains ads)

using Google Earth in the Math curriculum

"SnagFilms is committed to finding the world‘s most compelling documentaries, whether from established heavyweights or first-time filmmakers, and making them available to the wide audience these titles deserve.
SnagFilms.com is a website where you can watch full-length documentary films for free, but we’re also a platform that lets you “snag” a film and put it anywhere on the web. With a library of nearly 450 films, and rapidly growing, you’re bound to find films that resonate with your interests. We make it easy for you to find a film that shines a light on a cause you care about. You can then open a virtual movie theater on any web site, so any one can watch your favorite SnagFilms for free. " (site contains ads)

hip-hop and educational content. download catalog or view samples.

"The American Human Development Project's mission is to stimulate fact-based public debate about and political attention to human development issues in the United States and to empower people to hold elected officials accountable for progress on issues we all care about: health, education, and income."
Includes interactive maps, "well-o-meter" and more.

college resource

paste in text and get possible plagarism references

college reviews and videos, for students, by students

"Confusing Words is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.Some of these words are homonyms (words that sound alike but are spelled differently) and some are just commonly confused."

blogpost about creative commons in the classroom

"Create and customize your own personal newspaper using feeds from your favorite sites; from the New York Times to Digg"

"stinto offers you a comfortable, yet also easy to use chat, which you can create with one click and which will be deleted after a longer period of inactivity.
* Conferences with business partners
* Planning for the evening with friends
* Gamer meetings
* Nice discussions
* stinto is the right choice for every reason!
Create your own free stinto-Chat with only one click – no registration required!"

blogpost on how to introduce blogging to elementary students

"database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio, and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two." (site includes ads)

no setup or signup. email photos, videos, mp3s, and files and get a link to your site.

some interactive lessons from scholastic. fee-based, but has a few free samples (missing operator, water cycle, solids/liquids/gases, fractions)

from Smithsonian- info and interactives for the US flag

photos from National Geographic- check out the photo galleries…

This seems like such a great tool, especially for ESL/ELL students…
Upload video, add subtitles. Add translations to other videos.

from washington post- interactives, videos, and text about upcoming innaguration of Barack Obama

images, text, videos, maps, and music about/from Australia (National Geographic)

Free site that helps you study vocabulary words. Has basic vocab setting as well as practice for SAT/ACT/GRE. Interactive, though it doesn't let you input your own list.

This is an amazing visual representation of news stories… amazing!
"Spectra merges the news spectrum and the color spectrum into an expansive news viewing experience. With comprehensive live news coverage, striking design, complete customization, dynamic browsing, human body interaction and many other unique features, Spectra brings A Fuller Spectrum of News to life in our most immersive extension yet."

From HBO- sign up to purchase DVDs at a discount. Even if you don't buy the DVD, there are some great printable educator guides.
"This website has been created specifically with our country's teachers in mind. Here you'll find an array of films and documentaries which deal with historical and socially relevant themes, along with teaching guides that will help facilitate classroom discussion."

search blogs, twitter, videos and tons more with this search engine

"Using the stories of young people caught in the conflict, this resource helps you to introduce the realities of life in Darfur to students aged 13+."

virtual tour of George Washington's home

blog post by Larry Ferlazzo- with best web 2.0 apps for education

play games or create your own

Larry Ferlazzo's list of the best education links (that include ed resource links)

"TimeSpace is an interactive map that allows you to navigate articles, photos, video and commentary from around the globe. Discover news hot-spots where coverage is clustered. Use the timeline to illustrate peaks in coverage, and customize your news searches to a particular day or specific hour."

word clouds (frequency) from the congressional record. great tool for discussing current events and topics in government

text, audio, and images about Washington, DC