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For those of you not familiar, O2 Learn is a free, moderated video lesson sharing website that celebrates the UK's best teaching. It has over 3,000 curriculum focused video lessons for UK students aged 13-18 years old. All the video lessons are moderated by our Learning champions (expert teachers) to check for any inaccuracies. Each week O2 Learn awards £2000 to the best lesson, split between the teacher and their school department. This also qualifies them for the O2 Learn Annual Teaching Excellence Awards will be presented in December with £45,000 prize money for the winning lesson. The power of peer-to-peer learning to engage In recognition, that the best lessons are usually those created in collaboration between teachers and students. O2 Learn asked their teaching community how effective they found student led peer-to-peer learning and the answer was unanimously positive. Changes to the competition So, to encourage great peer-to-peer teaching, O2 Learn has changed the rules of the competition. Secondary students are now able to upload lessons, giving them the chance to win the weekly Best Lesson Award worth £2000 for them and their school. We think it's really important that teachers are involved in this process, so all student entries will need to be approved by their teacher. A free app to help your students get involved To help make film-making more accessible, they've also launched the free 'O2 Learn' iPhone App which makes it easy to film, edit and upload lessons in minutes. You can create title-cards, crop and re-order film footage, and even add a voice over or soundtrack. Then upload your film straight to the O2 Learn website or export to your camera roll. No need to waste time searching for the old school video camera and its missing charger! Simply decide which lesson you want to film, be creative and let the O2 Learn app do the hard work. At the touch of a button it'll enable you to easily; tap to inse

"The Schlechty Center is a private, nonprofit organization committed to partnering with school leaders across the country to transform their classrooms, schools, and school districts from places focused on compliance to those focused on engagement."

"Fund for Teachers provides educators, possessing a broad vision of what it means to teach and learn, the resources needed to pursue self-designed professional learning experiences. FFT grants are used for an unlimited variety of projects; all designed to create enhanced learning environments for teachers, their students and their school communities. We believe that supporting teachers' active participation in their own professional growth, positively impacts student learning and achievement."

Middle School Lesson Plans | Immigration Policy Center

Two Stanford professors leave to start another MOOC (Massive Open Online Course).  Higher Ed implications are significant as traditional academic content becomes commodity-like: it can be delivered any time any where.  Same goes for secondary/high school content. The MOOC approach will hopefully provide our students with greater access to computer science.

Incredible Mural Painter. Was once the Visual Arts Educator for Maple Street School.

Wonderful Lessons for Elementary School Art. Especially liked the Gustav Klimt's Tree of Life Printing project.

Great Blog for inspiring projects for elementary school art lessons.

Great printing project for Middle school Students.

Great mandala for younger elementary school students.

Great two minute journal to show Middle School Students.

Pathbrite helps you collect, track, and share a lifetime of experiences, bringing you closer to your dream school, internship, or career.

OPALS Open-source Automated Library System is a powerful cooperatively developed, Web-based, open source program. This alternative technology provides Internet access to information databases, library collections and digital archives. Many school, college, research, business, religious and library union catalogs (that provide ILL services) use OPALS. There is no need to install software or purchase expensive computer hardware or software licenses to implement this powerful, turnkey Internet accessible system. The "total cost of ownership" of this standards-based, Web-based, feature rich software is demonstrably and undeniably sustainable.

Great video describing Digital Fabrication initiative at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education

from Edina Public Schools in Minnesota

Creators of game-based learning curriculum and the game Historia "Histrionix™ Learning Company provides interactive, game-based curriculum (and teacher training) to public, private and home schools that improves student achievement by engaging all learning styles, enhancing critical thinking skills and encouraging creative problem solving, which are the building blocks of thoughtful, twenty-first century students - and citizens."

High School (Grades 9-12)

I enjoyed reading this article...it states the importance of giving our students the opportunity to using technology during the school day and at home....the students are lucky to have access to so many free resources...we need to start tagging the websites to highlight and share them!!!!