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These sites include RAS Animate with thought-provoking videos about education and other subjects; Problem Attic with a bank of 80,000 quetions from the NY Regents exams, review tests, quizzes, and flash card; Learners TV with thoughsands of video lectures, tests, and animations in various disciplines to support classroom instruction; Sketch Toy which lets you draw and share pictures; Daily Infographic, where you can search topics and subscribe; and Google Tutor, which gives you news, tips, and tutorials about Google. Thanks to M. Sheehan at Learning Never Stops for the info.

"What is it? Here's an article by BIE, updated from its original appearance in the September 2010 issue of Educational Leadership magazine from ASCD. Good for general audiences as well as educators, it explains the essential elements that make rigorous PBL different from "doing projects." Inquiry-based learning is rigorous and engaging for students. This downloadable PDF is a good read.

This is a simple programing language to get very young children into programing without knowing how to read. Might be interesting to experiement with the tool.Directions, lessons, and resources at this site. "ScratchJr will have three components: 1) a developmentally appropriate interface; 2) an embedded library of curricular modules with STEM, math, and literacy content to meet federal and state mandates in early childhood education; and 3) an online resource and community for early childhood educators and parents. "

There are actually 4 STEMs sites, and one linking to the Federal Registry of Educational Excellence (FREE), with a huge collection of animations, photographs, videos, maps, articles, etc.

"Peer review has long been regarded as beneficial practice in the teaching of writing. In North American educational settings, learners are often asked to provide feedback on each other's papers. However, when international students come to study either in intensive English programs or in institutions of higher education, they may encounter difficulties during peer review activities because many of them never had experiences with this kind of practice. As a result, students tend to give each other broad, irrelevant, essentially unhelpful comments." This blog post offers help in training students for giving good feedback.

This resources pages categorizes free video sites by ABC Documentaries, Free Documentaries Online, and Science Network. There is a great deal to explore here, but many live up to the "educational" label. For some there are connected lessons. You may add your favorite sites to the list by signing in.

A great explanation of how and why to use screencasting, with many examples and video tutorials. From Modern Lessons. "The fundamental advantage of screencasting is that it allows educators to provide an easily created video resource for their students that essentially acts like a private tutor. It gives students a way to explain themselves through drawing, typing, voice narration, and video, allowing you, as the educator, to demonstrate a process, concept or skill. Through published screencasts, students can access content in and out of class in order to learn at their own pace. However, we also want to think about having our students act as creators of their own screencasts to demonstrate their problem solving, tell a story, explain a sequence, diagram a concept, or illustrate a concept."

"The goal of the Rich Internet Applications project is to create tools that are informed by language acquisition research, and engage language learners in active learning. "Using our Rich Internet Applications toolset, incorporating speaking and listening into your language class is easier and more flexible than ever! The tools can be used in many different ways: for in-class activities, student projects, homework, or assessment. Because they are tools, not completed materials, they will work with your textbook, language, and level. RIA is a way to help you easily integrate technology into your language class. "The programs are free to use. The project is funded by a US Department of Education grant, and managed by the Center for Language Education And Research at Michigan State University." These applications run in your browser and require only Flash player. Well worth exploring and free.

"The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Despite being the work of one man, Salman Khan, this 1600+ video library is the most-used educational video resource as measured by YouTube video views per day and unique users per month. We are complementing this ever-growing library with user-paced exercises--developed as an open source project--allowing the Khan Academy to become the free classroom for the World." Though not specifically EFL/ESL, the lessons offered could be very useful in class, particularly math, science, history, SAT prep, Calif Standards tests, etc. Also topical videos, such as the Geithner plan to solve the banking crisis of 2009-10.

Discusses why a study in Romanian seemed to indicate that introducing computers LOWERED test scores in math. One answer is the type of statistics analysis used. Another, perhaps more accessible, is that children were given a "bare-room" Windows PC--no educational software, which though available, had to be self-installed. For novices at or below poverty level, how was this to be done. And without educational/pedagogical infrastructure from the school, why would it be done.

"This page provides links to some of the better copyright-free and public domain resources....The ideas are intended for educators and librarians who wish to locate quality, copyright-friendly materials for educational, noncommercial, and nonprofit projects. "

These are fascinating videos discussing various aspects of Multiliteracy and how to put it into practice. A supllement to Kalantzis & Cope's New Learning: Elements of a Science of Education, Cambridge University Press, 2008. From the College of Education, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Five sites with a serious focus on helping people along the journey of self-education

"You've arrived at the most complete and current source of information about the WebQuest Model. Whether you're an education student new to the topic or an experienced teacher educator looking for materials, you'll find something here to meet your needs." Has links to teacher-created WebQuests, templates to creat WebQuests, Useful Resources, a Community to write to, etc.

SimplyBox is a great way to add some Web 2.0 to your research. This would be esp. useful with group orjects where students can then look at what each other group member has found. Use SimplyBox for Education, and get the free app (also has district or school-wide standardization for a fee). The teacher couldstart the ball rolling, and have students join in, boxing their own sites and info. Esp. good for visual learners. This age has three good help videos: Overview, Sharing, and Twittering with SimplyBox. Fairly easy to use, once you get used to it.

A list of over 20,000 links to education sites. This will take a lot of careful combing; however, there are 4 general categories: parents, students, educators, and general interest.

"This is a partially annotated list of references to a chapter in Hubbard and Levy's book on CALL for teachers: Hanson-Smith, E. 2006. Communities of practice for pre- and in-service teacher education, in P. Hubbard & M. Levy, Eds., Teacher education in CALL, pp. 301-315. Amsterdam: John Benjamins."

A frequently updated list of partially annotated references to a chapter in Hubbard and Levy's book on CALL for teachers: Hanson-Smith, E. 2006. Communities of practice for pre- and in-service teacher education, in P. Hubbard & M. Levy, Eds., Teacher education in CALL, pp. 301-315. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

"In this podcast, George argues that traditional courses, where students rely on the educator to structure their learning experience, rob the learner of an enormous part of the learning experience. So, he makes the case for social learning networks and he explains how educational institutions and corporate enterprises can embrace social media & social networks as part of the big shift towards informal and on-demand learning. "

Learn about adult literacy education here, including English language learning, numeracy, and adult basic and secondary education.