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Most educators who learn to use Twitter effectively say they learn more from their personal learning network (PLN) on Twitter than they've achieved from any other forms of professional development or personal learning.

Reading website for emerging readers. Free reading games, ideal for interactive whiteboards. Online guided reading stories and teaching resources with lesson plans.

The State Educational Technology Directors Association are providing "The Guide to Technology Requirements," a website to assist school and district leaders to understand the detailed requirements for the online assessments being developed by all six assessment consortia.

Flash animation of the growth of America. I would challenge students to create their own guide to a social studies topic.

Visual notetaking is a process of representing ideas non-linguistically. (That's a fancy of way of saying, "drawing pictures.") Visual notetaking can include concept mapping, but also more artistic ways of visually capturing and representing ideas. On the simpler side of the visual notetaking continuum, visual notes can be used to create narrated art. On the complex end of the spectrum, some visual notetaking applications support the creation of whiteboard animation videos which include audio narration synchronized to screencasts of drawings. Visual or graphic facilitation can be used at meetings to summarize presentations and guide discussions. Whether simple or complex, visual 

Khan Academy lets you track your child's progress so you can support their individual learning needs. Signing up is completely free for you and your child. Get started right away here, or check out the instructions below for step-by-step screenshots of the sign-up process. As explained below, when you click "Parents, start here," the site will guide you through the process of creating both your account and your child's account. If your child is under 13, their account will have special privacy considerations.

tooll that allows you to grade muliple-choice/fill in the blank assessments

This article examines some of the literature on the topic of cyber bullying and provides information on its prevalence, the definition of cyber bullying,

middle and high school Social Studies classrooms. Some of them are also appropriate for older elementary students. These tools and sites take advantage of the higher speed and bandwidth of today's Web with full-motion video, 3D animations, and interactivity.