The list below is an ever expanding list of free resources, now over a 100 tools, that can be used in a classroom either by students or teachers.

Not free but reasonable access to historical images and video

Online calendar apps

"This "Critical Thinking" video is worth a watch."

MySpace co-President Jason Hirshhorn has stepped down and his partner and co-President Mike Jones will take the sole helm

free online methods course for beginning foreign language teachers at the high-school and college levels

Correlation between music instruction and success at algebra

"his site is for a three-session faculty development event supported by the John S. Kendall Center for Engaged Learning at Gustavus Adolphus College. The purpose of these sessions is to explore old and new ways of finding information, both web and library-based, as well as to discuss classroom applications, the state of publishing, open access, copyright, and more."

This oped piece suggest that as educators," we are called upon to challenge the way students already think and guide them into new patterns or ways of thinking as required, in order for them to grasp central concepts and applications of learning. Collaborative technologies, while not central to the process, can help facilitate this core function of education."

VoiceThread With VoiceThread, group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world. All with no software to install. A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate pages and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Share a VoiceThread with friends, students, and colleagues for them to record comments too.

free online video processor that might be useful

toolkit of 10 services that can help you take control of Twitter and organize your followers

NING to remain free for education!

Kim has a short list of requirements for a curricular media platform - might be useful to us too.

On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction.

This is part of a Pew Research Center series of reports exploring the behaviors, values and opinions of the teens and twenty-somethings that make up the Millennial Generation

Educause monthly newsletter - i finally found the web link for it - they hide it well! Big news - Richard Katz (has LAS ties to BU via Paul Hanson) is leaving Educause

innovation grants

SOPHIE is an open source tool maintained by USC that allows for creating and reading rich media documents in a networked environment. Sophie authors can easily combine a variety of media - text, images, video and audio into a sophisticated multimedia work.