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Just received notice about November being Ocean month in Skype's "in the Classroom" project. Please let me know if you need any help. "Throughout November dive in to Skype in the classroom and make connections with some of the world's top ocean experts."

In SimCityEDU: Pollution Challenge!, students play the role of mayor, doing the challenging work of addressing environmental impact while balancing the employment needs and the happiness of the city's citizens. Designed in partnership with the assessment experts from ETS and Pearson, Pollution Challenge! will not only teach students about the factors affecting the environment in a modern city, but the game will also provide formative assessment information about students' ability to problem-solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and read informational texts and diagrams. Lesson plans and teacher and student dashboards - along with student data reporting - complete the SimCityEDU experience, delivering personalized learning to every student. Built with today's classrooms in mind, Pollution Challenge! supports a wide range of implementations from middle school science classrooms to after school programs and technology clubs.

Hi Science Teachers, Check out this AP Science teacher who records his lectures in Youtube for his students in what we consider a "Flipped classroom"

Website that brings together ordinary people and scientists for work on projects. Interesting way to bring real science projects into the classroom.

part of 32 ways to use Google Apps in the classroom starts at 12m8s more info:  http://www.gapminder.org/upload-data/motion-chart/

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

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.