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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.

West Wing clip explaining the inaccuracies of maps. Great clip.

A cool interactive timeline of the uprisings

Geography frequently takes a back seat to history in the social studies classroom, but teaching geographic literacy is essential if students are going to understanding the challenges and opportunities of our complex world. We have created 10 activities for teaching about geography using Times content, all related to the National Geography Standards, which were produced by the Geography Education National Implementation Project. Our list is a grab-bag of ideas - from designing maps to analyzing border conflicts - and teachers can use the activities in any order, or as a road map for tracking ongoing coverage of geography-related issues.

interactive population visualization tool for any country over time...

A great site on Dunkirk, 1940

This might be useful, not just for geography. You have to spin the cube to get to different topics.

Cool site for showing trends and statistics. It goes with the TEDtalk that I will share right after.