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from The Tech Savvy Educator, many of us have seen Google Earth at conferences. It is time that more of us start using it.

A great resource for classroom ideas for using the iPad. A lot of pedagogy up front but then there are descriptions of apps and ideas for using them.

A great resource for classroom ideas for using the iPad. A lot of pedagogy up front but then there are descriptions of apps and ideas for using them.

A program that gives you the opportunity to play with physics - using your own hands. Apply a constructionists learning paradigm, learning by doing. Use simple drawing tools to design, construct and explore with. 

Part of the excellent Under Ten Minutes video site on how to use education technology quickly, this explanation of how to add pictures to Google Maps can be used in several different contexts across the curriculum.

Even some of us geeks struggle with this. This may help a lot of us move to the next step in our sharing of resources.

Using Screencast-O-Matic - Free online screen recorder for instant screen capture video sharing. How to record voice in Garage Band and saving it for use elsewhere.

Edmodo is a social network set up for school use. This is a resource page that will help you understand how to use this social network.

The Interesting Ways to Use series has been really successful. I measure their success in how useful they are to teachers and other educators in helping with

Blog Post: Classroom Uses of Flickr

Great resources for teachers considering to use or expand their use of Google Apps for Education

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A safe, private environment to use Aviary tools with your students.  Create private accounts, manage assignments and projects, use image editor, vector editor, audio editor, and creator.  All content and images are 100% school safe.

Objectives:Students will be able to compile information on given subjectStudents will be able to organize information on a given subject using tagsStudents will be able to present information Process: If you are presenting this lesson in a Web 2.0 class you will have many directions in which you can take this lesson. If you are integrating these tools and this lesson into a content area classroom, you will want to focus your lesson around what you want your students to find. 1. Have students respond to this prompt: Social Networks are closing us off from the rest of the world and creating a society of selfish, ego driven individuals. They are wasting time in workplace and are a constant disruption to a student's learning.  2. Explain that students would normally respond to this type of response in a written essay, however, that will not be the case today. Have students seek out information to either defend or challenge this prompt. Instruct students that they have the entire class period today to work in groups or individually and find clippings that support or challenge this prompt.

US History resources and guiding questions. 

Ning network created to explore ways iPads and other portable devices could be used to innovate education.

A series of 4-5 posts addressing technology use in education.

Storyboard creator that allows one to choose a script and make a storyboard using location photographs.  Storyboards can be shared as a video with friend with a registered account

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.

Learnist makes sharing what you know and learning from others fast and easy by remixing anything on the web like videos, ebooks, maps, blogs, podcasts, surveys and more into a simple and elegant learning resource on any topic that you can share with anyone. Learnist is like a collaborative, multimedia and interactive ebook from the future.

ConSource is a free online library of constitutional history. We digitize and cross-reference source documents written by individuals who drafted, ratified, and influenced the creation of the U.S. Constitution and its Amendments. We also run programs and host events that make use of constitutional sources.