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Book trailers are a hot new way to motivate reluctant readers. Students can also create their own book trailers using a variety of media.

$40 program really simple cool tool makes it easy for kids to create newscasts.

Website made by a grade 5 class in New York studying Canada. Really well done but contains some mistakes...would be fun to challenge kids to find them, e.g. on the BC page.

video calling for a new way to view assistive technology

Great video!

Scratch cards provide a quick way to learn new Scratch code. The front of the card shows what you can do; the back shows how to do it. Click to view and print each card.

This is such a good idea. I would love to make Kurzweil trading cards along these lines. In my spare time...

This site introduces you to the options for using technology in your classroom, e.g. webcasts, webcams, current news sources, inquiry-learning. Even more important, it explains why it's important to make instruction meaningful, current, and engaging for today's students. This is a great place to start exploring your options for integrating technology in the classroom.

Two brilliant high school chemistry teachers have completely switched the lecture at school/homework at home paradigm. Their students watch the lecture at home as a vodcast (on computer, iPod, or DVD) and do problem sets at school with help from the teachers. Check out the news story from the local TV station. I used to live near Woodland Park...

Engineering Interact is a new and exciting free educational resource for primary school children aged 9 to 11. The resource provides fully interactive, engaging game environments and high-quality learning material tailored to the National Curriculum. Information about real world applications and cutting edge research motivates children and introduces them to the exciting subject of engineering. This resource has been created by the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering, with a grant from the HEFCE Aspirations Fund and the University of Cambridge Active Community fund.

Dipity is a free online timeliner tool . I've looked at several and think it may be the best for intermediate students to use. It's easy to create a free account and start working. The interface is very simple and requires no tutorial. Basically, each new event gives you boxes for title, date, upload a picture or video, url link, and description. You can share timelines out by email or automatically to popular online sites such as Diigo, Facebook, etc. iLearn website has a review of this timeliner and ideas for using it in the classroom in the July 22 2008 entry.

Interactive Whiteboard Resources for Teachers. A variety of free, easy to use IWB resources, for teaching a variety of subjects. New resources added weekly. These are great resources, mainly in math but there are a few language arts and one geography resource.

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

Twurdy is a new search engine that searches by reading level. Paul Hamilton blogged about it.

Talk about multiple means of Representation!! Great new search tool displays information in multiple formats including a brief explanation in text, photos, and links. Paul Hamilton blogged about it.

Practical ideas for using tech in teaching.The post is by Kevin Jarrett of New Jersey, but it highlights the amazing work of Tom Barrett in the UK.

Anita's UDL page on the CEET discussion forum. This is a new social network created to discuss tech initiatives in BC education.

E-Books Directory is a categorized index of freely downloadable online books. It is daily updated with new e-books, fresh reviews and free download links.

Amazing resource for educators. Each category (blogging, wikis, social bookmarking etc…) has 5 recommended tools highlighted to try out first. Great place for educators to start learning a new tool.

Listen to work documents, homework, PowerPoint presentations, emails, RSS feeds, blogs and novels while you relax, commute or exercise. Proofread, learn a new language, multi-task, and use YAKiToMe! for entertainment. YAKiToMe! speaks multiple languages (English, Spanish, French, German, ...) with both male and female voices using the world's best text to speech (TTS) synthesis technologies.

Beautiful design and great resources on the new POPEI website that include suggestions for K-3 reading, writing, word work, oral language, and assessment.

New Brunswick teachers rank types of supports that they find most valuable. Collaboration and co-planning top the list and technology is rated last. Today, more and more schools are embracing inclusive beliefs and values and putting into practice structures that will permit each student to learn in an environment that welcomes diversity.