Great article about the future of education in the eyes of George Lucas. (Thanks for sharing Phil)

great look at old newspapers

Here are some alternatives to fakewall that gave us some problems this year.

You can select data sets and this program creates a map on google earth. Could be used for economics, social studies, etc.

Different way to assess student understanding of some key historical events.

Good article about tech enriched student empowered classes with quite a bit of detail on how to organize it.

Tedtalk showing Gapminder. Really cool.

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

A cool interactive timeline of the uprisings

There are some good macro and microeconomics and social science simulations here that you can manipulate online now for free. Great population simulations.

This is a tool that I am learning for possible research papers etc. Jill recommends it for high school students.

New York Times lesson plans. Some of them look pretty good.

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

I thought this was kind of cool.