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National Center for Supported Math: innovative ideas for math instruction

Digital Culture: "Faux Friendship" - how the idea of friendship is being moderated by digital media

Digital Culture: "Faux Friendship" - how the idea of friendship is being moderated by digital media from the Chronicle of Higher Education

We started LearnZillion at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. because we wanted to solve a problem. We knew what lessons our students needed but we didn't have enough time to teach each student the right lesson. To create more time, and to share best practices across classrooms, E.L. Haynes' teachers began to capture their expertise on screencasts. We posted them on a homemade website and coupled them with a short quiz to help us track student progress. Soon the idea grew. What if teachers from across the country could contribute to the site? What if new teachers could learn the new Common Core standards from the wisdom of experienced teachers? What if students could get a playlist of lessons that matched their needs? What if, over time, the video lessons got stronger and stronger, as more teachers contributed and the data showed which lessons had the biggest impact? Thanks to funding from the Next Generation Learning Challenge, NewSchools Venture Fund, Achievement Network, and others, we are about to find out!

Edmodo: secure and trusted social learning environment for classrooms; share ideas, files, & assignments; enables mobile access & messaging

99 designs: put up your design contract and the price you'll pay... and wait for ideas, examples, and bids to come in! Crowdsourced design work is SWEET!

Bright Hub's goal is simple: share knowledge about how the simplest scientific idea evolves into tomorrow's technology. With an expert writer network and an active community of life-long enthusiasts Bright Hub provides a level of technology transparency rarely seen in high tech. The team of writers and managing editors utilize deep domain expertise to focus on creating valuable information for both novice and advanced consumers. With a content inventory of thousands of science and technology articles, software and hardware reviews, buyer's guides, blog entries and forum discussions, Bright Hub is able to provide readers with a dependable resource to make informative technology decisions.

Penzu: a free online diary and personal journal that is focused on privacy. Students can keep their thoughts / reflections and ideas to themselves and share only if they want to.

Twiducate: create a private (relatively secure) online community in your classroom to share ideas, stay connected, get to know one another better

NYTimes article on the reversal of policy ideas by historian Diane Ravitch on education policies including NCLB, standardized testing, math/reading

Mixed ink: a collaborative writing tool that touts itself as a "fun, democratic, and elegant way for people to weave their ideas together" Their service is free.

Hackaday: modifying technology, or "hacking" is a great educational and fun pasttime. This blog is great for ideas on modding your life and working with classes on computers and other electronic devices to make useful things from discarded stuff and learn about electronics, etc.

Nota: "casual collaboration" - mash ideas & media together in this dynamic whiteboard wiki.

Springpad (remember, act, share): like Evernote - a service to put everything in the cloud - this application lets you quickly and easily save ideas and info that you come across everyday. They enhance what you upload with a link and then you access it from the web or your phone.

is a Web 2.0 styled editor having different sections for different functions. The tutorial is not of explanatory kind. The user has to have a fair idea of working on photo editors. It is definitely not for beginners. Registering is required to save your work, hence mandatory. There are a few legal hassles also.

User Design blog of Joshua Porter: user experience design pointers, tutorials, ideas

Insights, ideas, and interactions blog on usability and user design

Cult of Innovation: views on ideas, creativity, and collaboration

Smart Notebooks to save, share and act on what's important to you Create notebooks for recipes, books, movies or anything else that matters to you, together with friends, family and co-workers. Save ideas and info from anywhere, access them whenever, and start getting more from life.