"The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information. "

This is a cool concept.

"Gooru is a free platform for 21st century teachers and students. We offer a powerful tool for discovering complete lesson plans and curating content. Our comprehensive lesson plans made from interactive web materials bring the classroom to life. By offering these standards-aligned classplans and helping teachers find the best materials, assembling lesson plans is no longer a burden. This lets the teachers do what they do best. Teach"

"The Reading and Writing Project LLC provides literacy professional development to schools across the United States and the world, and generates ideas that are foundational to literacy instruction worldwide."

ties historical photos to Google Maps, allowing you to tour familiar streets to see how they appeared in the past

A simple to use online writing environment for the high-production, creative writer. Write the way you want to write, using any approach you like in a simple, distraction-free environment. It's novel writing in the cloud. All In The Cloud No save button needed. Yarny constantly saves your work to the cloud. Stay Organized Stay organized with separate sections for people, places & things. Write character descriptions, capture research about a location, track to-dos, or use them any way you want to. Distraction Free Start typing, and the distractions disappear. Snippets Write your story in snippets and organize snippets into groups. Auto Versioning

This Seattle-based organization is so dedicated to helping students achieve in math that they've created a free web program for students, teachers and parents. We learned about it from Martha Leslie who says, "It is just for math facts, and it allows you to set it up so that the next student's name comes up automatically so the kids can go get the next learner. Plus, it allows the student to look and see if the next student is absent or busy, click a button to get the next student. I hope that made some sense. Anyway, I've used it now for two months, and it works really well for the independent math facts."

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

Great short videos on a wide variety of teaching topics...searchable by grade, subject and topic.

Shmoop will make you a better lover (of literature, history, life). See many sides to the argument. Find your writing groove. Understand how lit and history are relevant today. We want to show your brain a good time. Our mission: To make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age.

"Projeqt gives you the tools and technology to tell your story. It provides a robust architecture, with unprecedented flexibility and possibilities."

"Figment is a community where you can share your writing, connect with other readers, and discover new stories and authors. Whatever you're into, from sonnets to mysteries, from sci-fi stories to cell phone novels, you can find it all here."

A thinglink is an interactive hotspot you define inside an image, from a thing (an object, a person, or a place) to a link (a shop, a blog post, or anywhere you like).

"Educators from the Bay Area's KIPP King Collegiate High School and the KIPP network have provided these resources for you to use in your own school."

Check out the Critical Thinking Tools that go with this video. http://www.edutopia.org/stw-kipp-critical-thinking-professional-development-video

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"A place to share e-learning and Web 2.0 tools for education. Computers and laptops in education are important only when used with good pedagogy. Digital content and creation is an important part of the process for educators in the 21st century."

PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools.

a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Try the online interactive activities, or click below to find out how to get our engaging 15-minute video programs.

this WritingFix website, which launched back in 2001 as an online place for the NNWP's workshop presenters to post their classes' demonstration lessons and resources