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Free serialized, audio books. Delivered as podcasts, you can subscribe, for free, to any book and start from chapter one.

This presentation focuses on a diverse array of web 2.0 tools teachers and librarians can use to enhance classroom websites, collaborative projects, and multimedia reports created by students individually or in distributed teams.

Kathy Schrock Podcast:  What is the biggest technology challenge facing our school districts?

This is The New Yorker's book blog and therefore has links. Page-Turner takes full advantage of its audience and posts everything from a fantastic monthly podcast to a daily news roundup, great essays etc.

Wiki wth classified lists of links including kids/young adults, memorization, computers and technology, home library, lectures/specches/podcasts, and many more.

Thought Audio is a producer and provider of free audio books featuring classic titles across a variety of genres. Thought Audio audio books are professionally narrated works that you can listen to online or download to play offline. The library of audio books on Thought Audio contains some titles that are hard to find as audio files. For example you'll find titles like Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Life of PT Barnum, and The Madman. You'll also find more commonly read titles like Alice in Wonderland, and Poe's The Raven.

One teacher's students worked together in small groups to research, edit and improve the quality of "Wikipedia articles that were either overly brief or lacking in credible information, with the aim of increasing the quality of Wikipedia's coverage of East Asian religions." Once the improved articles were completed and graded, Chris added the articles back into Wikipedia

A portal for American history on the Web that offers high-quality educational material for teachers, students, historians, and the public

American History Quizzes
Battle Lines: Letters from America's Wars
Creating Digital Historical Documentaries
Featured Documents for your Classroom
Historians' Podcasts
History Teacher of the Year Information
Major Topics in American History
Primary Source Documents from the Collection
Traveling Exhibitions for Schools and Libraries