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This is Skype's attempt to get classroom's collaborating around the world.  Some people are looking for teachers to help them with specific lessons (i.e. Spanish teacher)  Please take a look through the Skype Lessons link for more details.

Free math graphing tool Desmos released Polygraph, a collection of four new classroom activities focused on a game involving lines, parabolas, rational functions and hexagons. It works like Guess Who, where one partner picks a graph and another asks yes/no questions to figure out what the graph is!

A good overview of the different types of multimedia, online, and software tools that are gaining popularity in math classrooms

Tableau Software today announced that it will make its flagship visual analytics product free to students currently enrolled at an accredited K-12 institution, college or university worldwide. Tableau for Students is a new program that provides licenses of Tableau Desktop Professional to students to enhance their studies and gain new skills. Tableau Academic Programs also include the Tableau for Teaching initiative, which offers educators software for their classrooms. Students should visit http://www.tableausoftware.com/academic/students to obtain a free product code and will be asked for information to verify their student status at an accredited institution.

How the Common Core is redefining math instruction Integrating skills throughout the curriculum, and drilling deeper on concepts, are among key changes. What does teaching math look like under the Common Core standards? Lots of classroom interaction and more inquiry-based approaches to learning, according to experts who are helping schools integrate the standards into instruction....more

Here are lots of links from the pioneers of the flipped classroom to support it.