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This list has several sites I'd not heard of before. (Thanks, Doug Leisher) for sharing this with me via email.

nice jeopardy game that keeps all the teams score easily.

Sites to Promote STEM

This site replaces iCue with the news footage, etc. Looks good.

We are complementing Salman's 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. Log in to the Khan Academy web application for user-paced practice and instruction

WOW, self pace lessons accompanied by the Khan Academy videos. Works with Google Apps and teachers can become "coaches" for the students to run reports on their progress totally free. Looks like it will grow in math and then to science, just a guess b/c of the Google Sky use. Please check this out especially if you have Google Apps in your district.

Display the puzzle atlas at the end of class/beginning of class on IWB to challenge students to put the country/continent back together...incentive for students who finish early or arrive to class early....or as students answer a question correctly they get to come to the board and place a piece of the puzzle to where they think it should go

Display the puzzle atlas at the end of class/beginning of class on IWB to challenge students to put the country/continent back together...incentive for students who finish early or arrive to class early

A vimeo summary

"Call it brainstorming, concept mapping or mindmapping, collecting and organizing thoughts using web 2.0 is a snap. Let's take a peek at several free options. To see these sites in action, visit http://h30411.www3.hp.com/posts/1018306 and watch the video."

Google has built a pretty neat site using the Google Earth Plug-in to show off information about all 44 presidents that we've had in the US.

Screencast tutorials for Moodle

"Below are 20 more activity ideas for ways to use The Times to teach about what's happening as the story continues to unfold."

"Grand Island Public Schools recognizes the critical role that technology plays in educating children for the future. In order to be productive citizens in society, students must possess the skills to be contributing members in an information-rich technology environment. In accordance with state and national instructional technology standards, Grand Island Public Schools learners will be provided the skills and implementation opportunities which will enable them to: 1. use a variety of information technologies and applications. 2. develop positive attitudes toward the social impact of technology and apply ethical and legal principles to the use of information technologies. 3. develop strategies to utilize information technologies to search for, locate, and access information. 4. use a variety of media to communicate, collaborate, publish, and interact with experts, peers, and other audiences. 5. organize, prepare and present ideas and information utilizing information technologies. 6. solve problems utilizing a variety of information technologies "

USDOE's site presenting improvements to increase educational productivity and providing a link to suggest others.

Why not contribute to this group? If not, I'll bet there are some pics in here that you can use with your teachers.