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How can the TED talks be used as springboards for further discourse, exploration, reflection, and action?

Must see!

Yes ipods can be used as a classroom set!

Hey there! Get ready for all sorts of wacky, physical fun - okay, more mental than physical, but there are physics involved - from the comforts of your computer chair! This is IncrediBots, and you'll be building, guiding, jumping, and doing all sorts of wonderful things with your very own robots, spawned from the depths of your creativity, in a wide-open, physics-based playground!

from Cool Cat Teacher

Web 2.0 too. Play math and spelling games. Teachers can even creat accounts for their students.

Enter to win the Inspiring Invention Contest. Create a public service announcement that motivates others to get inspired and start inventing. Show us how invention enriches everyday life and your school could win a prize package from Sony Creative Software!

we've put together a listing of some of the best sites for elementary teachers and students online, plus a few tools to help you keep everything together.

MathVids.com is a website dedicated to providing high quality, instructional, free math videos to middle school, high school, and college students who need math help.

A virtual drum roll please… We are thrilled to officially open the application process for the Discovery Student Adventures Pilot Program. Join us as we discover more of our incredible planet earth together with adventure trips to Australia, South Africa, and China. In order to participate in this pilot trip, you must be a STAR Discovery Educator. Not only are you able to take part in this once in a lifetime opportunity, each STAR selected will be able to choose four of their students to join them on the adventure! This is at no cost to you or your students! So with no further ado… here's the official wording and post importantly the link to apply.

...As Net-generation teachers reach out to gamers, classrooms across the country are becoming portals to elaborate virtual worlds...

Article on using Second Life for professional development. Uses a couple of my photos.

Unless otherwise noted all games are created by GamesfortheBrain.com (Philipp Lenssen). All pages licensed under Creative Commons. Contact philipp.lenssen@gmail.com for more information. If you have feedback on games, or ideas for new ones, please let me know! (Here's my blog, by the way.)

Here are some useful rubrics for evaluating student blog components of your curriculum: