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How can we keep students focused on schoolwork with all the electronic temptations surrounding them? By engaging the students completely with our lessons, keeping students actively involved in their learning, and reflecting on our practice to avoid blaming the technology or kids' short attention spans, in my opinion.

What do you get when you combine 3DVinci with Google SketchUp? Answer: Students having so much fun, they don't realize that they're learning the same design and spatial-relations skills taught to architects, artists, mathematicians, and engineers.

Collaborize is an online decision-making platform that helps your group identify, refine and respond to important questions, topics and ideas by adding structure to your conversations that drive to results and outcomes."

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"atr is packed with features designed to foster the levels of engagement you would normally associate with a social game. We've got everything from a non-linear interface, to a heavyweight Experience Points and Levels system, through to Social Curation features and lots more in between. You can find out more about these features by exploring the links on the left, but first, allow us to answer a very important question."

teacher and student accounts are free!

best collection of free online videos and

Kids Videos, Games, Music, Contests, Polls, Fun, Creativity, and Cool Stuff Kids Videos, Games, Music, Contests, Polls, Fun, Creativity, and Cool Stuff Video collections

National Geographic kids video collection

"Teaching Channel is a video showcase -- on the Internet and TV -- of innovative and effective teaching practices in America's schools."

Draw it Live is a free application that allows you to work together with other people to draw in real time.  You simply create a whiteboard and share its URL to allow other people to join in. No password is required, and no special plugins are required. Just click on the link, type in your name, and start drawing and chatting with your friends

YouTube, Online Comics, FakeFacebookWalls, TedTalks, and many more resources

"Google Page Creator With Google Page Creator, you can create functional, attractive web pages in just minutes-without having to learn code. You can customize your pages using a variety of styles, fonts, and background colors, and your pages can include images and links to other web pages. We've designed Page Creator to be simple to use-there's no need to download anything to get started, and you can publish the pages you create with just one click. And perhaps best of all, Google hosts your pages for free."

A quick and easy way for teachers and students to create web content for free.

"Online comic creators"