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Australia eLearning 2009 Expo Speech by Dave O'Hagan on Smart Classrooms

Article in School CIO on Skype in the Classroom

A Side of Sims: Suggestions for the Classroom Example: Froguts This site offers online simulations of animal dissections. ($)

some are free, some you have to pay for...lots of great ideas from here though!

Way Cool, Robin! I started a lunch time Computer Game Club for activities like these. We've been doing, Millsberry, Penguin, Neopets, and Runescape. I love Civilization! These also make great after-school activities.Thanks for the suggestions, especially those that integrate into the classroom - Oh, and isn't Edutopia terrific?

A place to join a network of authors willing to Skype into classrooms to speak with teachers and children.

Some ideas, examples and resources on how to use blogs

A site with lots of activities: arts, crafts, math, simple classroom science etc. K-8

Experience the sites and sounds at the Western Wall in your classroom.

Thousands of Free Lesson Plans and Educational Resources for Teachers ...Thinkfinity is here to help outside the classroom, too... This new Afterschool section provides you with information to help students outside of the classroom.

I will definitely use this site!!! It is already in my favorites at home and I have just sent it to school.

Trish and all, Thinfinity is the primary site we used this summer in the Internet Safety Course. Thinkfinity is a gift from Verizon. Verizon sponsored a contest with netbook winners in our Catholic Schools. Even more important is that Verizon Foundation supports student scholarships. Our local group of Verizon Pioneers gets credit for everyone who links to Thinkfinity through this address: http://www.thinkfinity.org/home.aspx?source=pioneers It is the same as the one you shared but it tracks useage for pioneer credits. Hope lots of folks will add this to school favorites. Carole

Download an e-book, watch videos, and use tempates from teachers to learn how to use Windows Live Movie Maker and other tools to make learning more personal with pictures and movies in your classroom." />Stylesheet

A huge collection of free blank outline printable world maps for every country in the world to print out for educational, school, or classroom use.

Hello Ellen, This picking the correct Tab words is really tricky. I did a search, within this group, looking for this site. I typed in map and it didn't come up; I had to type in maps. I have to remember to think like a user. Great site!

A terrific Ning for those of us who wish to continue pursuing these 2.0 tools. Every Wednesday and Saturday they broadcast / podcast live interviews on topics of interest.

Best Web 2.0 Tools

Some of the ideas in this site remind me of a project I did a couple of years back with some gifted 7th graders in composition. Basically, they made a portfolio of their own "loop" compositions from the time they spent creating it on Acid 5 (a music loop-editing program) Sonar, and Audacity and from the chatting they did online using Blackboard (web 2.0) as a tool. If I had to do it today, I could probably work it out in large measure using wikispaces.

Links to articles and educational resources

Shakespeare we visited frequently in college with classroom analysis and with dramatic renderings onstage. The characters and lines, for me, do not lose their ring or relevance over time. Does anybody--either in jest (Wierd Al Jankovicz) or seriousness--try to put music to any of Shakespeare's work?

This Digital Literacy Toolkit began with the premise that multimedia authoring, which is happening with the extensive use of PowerPoint in classrooms, must be taught as a skill, just as traditional text-based writing is taught. While teachers and students have become familiar with the technical skills required to use images in multimedia productions, they lack a critical language to determine whether an image or a sound is used appropriately.

This is a site that needs to be explored! Lots of possibilities.

Helps create abilty to stream ethical educational content to classroom when the site is blocked by the school server

KidCase - from the Univeristy of Nebraska Tips and Ideas for Audio & Videocasting