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The key goals of The Commons on Flickr are to firstly show you hidden treasures in the world's public photography archives, and secondly to show how your input and knowledge can help make these collections even richer.

From Jennifer Dorman

From the Hello page on the site - interested in how designed information can help us understand the world, cut through BS and reveal the hidden connections, patterns and stories underneath. Or, failing that, it can just look cool! My pet-hate is pie charts. Love pie. Hate pie-charts.

"Swimming pools can be dangerous for children. To protect them, one can install locks, put up fences, and deploy pool alarms. All of these measures are helpful, but by far the most important thing that one can do for one's children is to teach them to swim." - Youth Pornography and the Internet

Math Snacks are short animations and mini-games designed to help learners "get it". Each snack presents a mathematical concept, particularly those addressed in grades 6, 7 and 8.

Join Google and Clarkstown Central School District in this webinar to learn how the district created a collaborative curriculum portal for teachers across all their buildings and campuses using Google Apps Education Edition. Hear what factors helped them decide to "Go Google" and the results they've seen with school staff and students since making the switch.

Ongoing series of blog posts with different strategies for helping your students succeed during testing season by Porter Palmer.

"Looking for games online that might help students learn important cybersafety concepts? Add this collection from around the world to your digital citizenship training efforts. " via Dean Mantz

"Students - from elementary school to the doctoral level - have turned to the video-sharing site's collection of millions of instructional videos for the same purpose: to supplement their education. "

"A great way to build the foundation skills that today's elementary school curriculum requires. These learning games and songs are fun, teach important skills for preschool and elementary school kids and they're free. Want educational games that help build skills? You've come to the right place!"

Brief Description Microsoft Mathematics provides a graphing calculator that plots in 2D and 3D, step-by-step equation solving, and useful tools to help students with math and science studies.

"Make the World Your Study Group Get live help from other students. Be a hero to your peers."

TodaysMeet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime.

Help for long distance callers, and travelers. Goes along with zebraMap.com Great display

WordSift is a tool that was created primarily for teachers. Mainly, think of it playfully - as a toy in a linguistic playground that is available to instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts, and to help create an opportunity to talk and play with language.

All games here were made by Exuberant Games. Each game goes through important information for a certain subject matter for grades Kindergarten through 6th grade. The math games are great if you need to review your math facts for addition, subtraction , or division. Be sure to check out our new games for other subjects. * English games to review parts of speech * Reading games to help learn sight words * Science tutorials and games are coming soon! via http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/04/fun-4-brain-great-educational-games.html

In the classroom, classical music can be an exciting tool. The Classics for Kids® lesson plans and teaching resources give teachers practical, effective plans and activities that use classical music to help children learn. and meet national and state standards. They are based on National Standards for the Arts and state Academic Content Standards for Music, as well as on Theory of Multiple Intelligences. The materials also incorporate various philosophies, including those of Orff, Dalcrose, and Kodaly.

" Google Certified TeacherThe Google Teacher Academy is a FREE professional development experience designed to help K-12 educators get the most from innovative technologies. Each Academy is an intensive, one-day event where participants get hands-on experience with Google's free products and other technologies, learn about innovative instructional strategies, receive resources to share with colleagues, and immerse themselves in an innovative corporate environment. Upon completion, Academy participants become Google Certified Teachers who share what they learn with other K-12 educators in their local region. "

Google Teacher Academy in DC

Application now open for GTA DC, December 9th, 2009. Apply by midnight on November 9th, 2009.

social networking site for smartboards

"Enter technology. Technology can help bring some excitement and creativity to the traditional book report while still displaying students understanding of reading."

"NewsMaker is a video news-making tool to help provide students an easy, affordable, and fun platform to practice writing, speaking, and presentation skills."