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Glogster EDU is an interactive digital platform for users to create online multimedia posters, called glogs. Users can drag and drop text, audio, video, images, graphics, drawings, and data to create glogs. The completed glog can be shared in a variety of educational settings, including blogs, wikis, web pages, or e-mail.

Classroom Resources have a pretty wide collection of lessons and web resources for teachers, students, and parents. Materials are easily access by subject area and then you can use them to create lesson plans or at-home activities. There are many multimedia (video) presentation of contents as well.

This site allows you to create customized maps by one of two methods. Draw your own or layer information onto existing maps provided by Ikimaps. Once completed, maps are given a unique URL to share by link. They can also be embedded onto websites. Ikimaps could be used as part of student presentations or could be created, with the use of an interactive white board, as a interactive, multimedia activity during class.

The Write Source website has writing topics by grade level (K-12) and provides student models with comments by grade level. It helps students create multimedia reports. The materials are created by teachers and writers. It provides information on MLA and APA style, a blog, and a list of publishers for student writing. The site has two very useful student resources: guidelines for how to evaluate interent resources and Research Links: Homework Help and Search Engines. The Write Source could be used by teachers and students.

A non-profit organization, Teaching Channel launched publicly in June 2011. In addition to exemplary website content, this organization produces a weekly one-hour program featuring Tch videos, Teaching Channel Presents, which airs on PBS stations in nearly 75 million homes across the United States. Being veted by PBS for educational content to put on the air gives this site more credibility use in the classroom! This website offers a full library of educational videos that are student-centered and lesson plan ready! There is little information on the organization philosophy when you first enter this site and a balance of teacher's commentary on instructional methods and menu of available video topics! This can be a great resource in lesson planning with the integration of instructional video that have reliable content and provide the student-centered materials that engages student in the lesson.

This website povides video Math course online for K -12 and College students . MathVids was launched on March 14, 2008 as a joint project of Scott and Ryan Anderson! It has since grown to 1550 Math video lessons taught by 40 teachers! According to the founders, through "the accessibility of online math videos, we hope to provide students around the world with an equal opportunity to access high quality math lessons and improve mathematical literacy in the 21st century." Seeking only the highest quality of math video, this website screens content very closely. Often allowing several teachers to teach lessons on the same subject for reaching students that may reach the conclusion through separate intelligence! This website is organized like a textbook, so math students can be browsed through easily in addition to using fully-functional search utility that will help students find exactly what you need. I found this site very user friendly and could see myself examining some of this material for lesson planning ideas!

This appeals to me because it is a fun video website that make video technology the central topic for the improvement of classroom education. The Infinite Thinking Machine (ITM) is a high-energy Internet TV show, first launched in 2006, directly targeted at K-12 educators, parents and students with the simple goal is to inspire creativity and innovation in education. Currently in its second season in the current format, it provides an upbeat and engaging commentary that appeals to older student and educator, alike. New episodes are released every two weeks during the school year. Each show features a classroom teacher as its host, many engaging educators as "Field Trip" correspondents and amazing innovators as guests. Innovative approaches to education are showcased, and the teachers, administrators and students behind them are celebrated. Special segments address deeper topics head-on, often challenging conventional educational thinking. Currently in its second season, the ITM depends on a mix of funding from its producing organization, education partners and corporate sponsors. Produced by Computer-Using Educators (CUE), a nonprofit educational association focused on advancing student achievement through technology. I found the several segments that I watched informative and interesting professional produced programing!

This website provides the tools to create infographics for student presentations and assessment. Students choose a general theme and drag and drop graphics and information onto the graphic. After creation is complete, students receive a URL to share their Easel.ly.

"Explore the science of music with us, through these online exhibits, movies, and questions. Along the way, you can compose, mix, dance, drum, experiment, and above all…listen." This site allows students to learn about the science behind music and experiment with different sounds and instruments. Artists from around the world contribute to the videos and sound files giving historical background to musical instruments and styles of music.

This site is very informative and would be a great resource for any general classroom teacher in making connections between music and science.

This site teaches younger students about the mechanics of Cinquain, Haiku, Free Verse and Limericks. Students can choose from several phrases to complete poems of each style. Poetry Engine would be a great introduction to a basic poetry unit and is interactive whiteboard ready.

Earthducation Adventure Learning Series is a series of 7 expeditions to every continent spread over 4 years by explorers and educators designed for the dynamic connectivity between education and sustainability. As the explorer and educators carried out their expeditions throughout the world,  students can experience the travels with them virtually. 

A writing generator for grades K-6, this resource is very teacher- and student-friendly. An animated guide on the home page for teachers was very simple to understand.

Scholastic Story Starters help students generate ideas, allow creativity, identify story elements, accommodate writing levels and allow students to illustrate their work. It can be used for whole class instruction and individual writing projects.

A site that allows teacher to offer online quizzes, games and activities in any subject area. Shared Quizzes or games might come directly from a text book or be written by Quia site members and are free for use. With membership, teachers can also create their own quizzes and activities from 16 different activity templates. Student date is collected upon completion and is reported back to the teacher in a variety of forms including charts & graphs.

This home page for this looks great. The site is down for temporary maintenance until Sunday, September 9. I'll look again then.

This app for iphone or ipad is an idea board that provides students with a new way to collect, organize, and share your ideas. The "cork" in corkulous is reminiscent of old cork boards and one would organize with notes, pictures, messages and lists. Corkulous is the digital version of this! Students could us this app to organize ideas, write step-by-step plans for a project, grab images to save and create a reminder list of things to do. I also think it could be used as a quick, one-shot way to assess student knowledge on a particular topic, much like a powerpoint, but less involved and quicker.

A site offering educator approved videos in the subject areas of language arts, math, writing, fine arts, science, social studies, and languages. Videos are divided by age level and could be used in the classroom as an introduction to a topic, a review of information or to present a topic in an alternate form.

This website allows students to choose a subject area and then collect information in a variety of formats. Students can get a dictionary definition, use a thesaurus, look at a map in an atlas, find more information in an encyclopedia or view a timeline related to the topic. I think this would be a great general reference site for student or teachers. Wonderful for the interactive white board.