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"Access all the great educational content found in the Understanding Taxes program on the Internet! This online version includes detailed lesson plans, interactive activities, simulations, and more! For Educators, every Understanding Taxes lesson includes the correlations to national and state educational standards. Each lesson plan includes a link to the applicable national and state standards, making it simple to integrate Understanding Taxes into your existing classroom curricula."

What a fantastic list of links!

"This is a post from my www.tweenteacher.com website. I had just seen Robert Marzano speak at the CUE conference (Computer Using Educators). I've posted before about my long journey down the Interactive Whiteboard road, but this keynote renewed my excitement even while I struggle alone as the only ELA teacher in my district with an IWB. Enjoy." (see link to actual Marzano presentation in the comments, too)

"Wikiquote is a free online compendium of sourced quotations from notable people and creative works in every language, translations of non-English quotes, and links to Wikipedia for further information."

"Debatabase is the world's most useful resource for student debaters. Inside you will find arguments for and against hundreds of debating Topics, written by expert debaters, judges and coaches. Also included are background summaries, links to websites of interest and recommended books, example motions and user comments."

Create a personal page of links that are important to you. Watch this video to see it in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEls3tq5wIY CAUTION: This video will make you cry. Why? Because of all the sites that this girls uses which are blocked to many of us. TELL ME that this girl isn't a walking definition of a "21st Century Learner." Now keep up the pressure to be able to use these tools in YOUR school, too. It's a fight worth fighting!

"Bender Converter is an easy-to-use online application for downloading and converting videos from such services as YouTube, Daily Motion, Vimeo, TwitVid.com, TvGorge.com, Wat.tv, Veoh, Vids.MySpace.com, Google Video and many others. You can download video and audio in MP3, AVI, FLV Flash, iPod / iPhone and other popular formats. The service is fast and doesn't require you to register. All that you need is a link to a page with a video and our software. How does it work? * 1) Choose the format in which you want to download the video / audio. * 2) Enter the complete address of the webpage with the video (for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udxnh75EpoY). * 3) Press the "Convert" button."

"Are you looking for practical ways to improve student achievement? Strengthen teaching and learning processes with research-based instructional strategies combined with effective technology use. Twelve core strategies link to 30 classroom examples that show how to apply key research, using technology to engage learners and improve achievement. "

From its humble beginnings as an elementary teacher's classroom website, on through the present, the KidsKnowIt Network has always had one goal, and that is to make learning free. Founded in 1998 in order to provide student's with a fun and educational way to spend their free time, a teacher's classroom project has grown into a worldwide platform attracting several million visitors every single month. Every website developed is pain stakingly researched for accuracy, and appropriateness. This process begins with the planning and development of materials, activities, and articles by parents and educators, and ends with the final editing and approval of experts in the field being explored. Please come along with us, and enjoy exploring our universe.

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Snap Groups is a free, web-based service that helps you connect without the chaos of other online communities. Here's what's great about Snap Groups: * Snap Groups is faster than other online groups because it lets you send and read messages, called snaps, in real-time * No email flooding your inbox - and no spam or viruses! * Read replies and conversations without battling unwanted headers, links, graphics, and ads * See the public groups your friends are in, and what they are posting about * It's easy to unsubscribe from a group - or make groups private - with a single click * Automatically Tweet and email your friends from Snap Groups to invite them to your group! * It's easy and free to register, so join Snap Groups, and you can start posting in seconds!

"What My Personal Learning Network Means to Me Please leave a note saying where you are from and share your thoughts about PLN's. Feel free to link to a blog or other resource. Share Twitter name, too! "

Lovely provides a hot-linked list organized into live journeys, "interactive environments," travelogues, e-museums, building and place tours, map-based visits, and read-along visits.

Here is a collection of virtual field trip sites.

This Intel site has examples of assessment plans for elementary and secondary. There is also a tab for assessment strategies. The completed plans have curriculum framing questions an assessment timeline and links to clearly define what was part of each specific assessment on the timeline.

Nice site from Intel regarding assessment planning.

Smithsonial Education for Educators, Families and Students

This site is really interesting. I clicked on educators and I was able to search a topic by keyword, grade, as well as state and standard. When the search came up It has numerous additional links to go out to. It really looked like the links had good materials for teachers and kids. The one that I chose had lessons that could be printed out for educators.

"Twubs are Twitter groups built around content aggregated from #hashtags. View the full social landscape of a Twub with tools such as our Live Tweet Feed which pulls in external images, videos and links, and our Tweetups & Events Scheduler. Start searching for your favorite topics now and take full advantage of these and many more useful Twub features to connect and share with people of similar interests."

Link to Andrew Churches' Bloom's Digital Taxonomy

Check out Bloom's digital taxonomy.

ave you ever wondered what it would be like to sit down and talk to Albert Einstein, George Washington, or Susan B. Anthony?  Wonder no more, with Virsona, your students have the opportunity to do just that!   Virsona is an interesting tool that lets students create a virtual character of themselves (or a virtual literary character).  Students answer a variety of questions about themselves (or another character).  They can create automatically generated responses, greetings, and choose a personality for their virtual selves.  After they have created their virtual persona, they can share the link to their virtual self.  Anyone can ask their virtual self questions (via chat) and responses are automatically generated based on the answers that were given.  Virsona has some excellent built in historical, political, and literary characters that students can interact with..  Students can chat with a virtual George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Henry Ford, Pocahontas, Babe Ruth, Susan B. Anthony, and more.  Students choose the persona to chat with, asking them questions about their stance on politics, entertainment, beliefs, and more.  It is very cool!  Try chatting with Abraham Lincoln here.

With this feature, you can mark your videos as "unlisted." This means only people who have the link to the video will be able to watch it. It won't appear in any of YouTube's public pages, in search results, on your personal channel or on the browse page. It's a private video, except you don't need a YouTube account to watch it and there is no limit to the number of people who can view it.

From IU 1 Mara Linaberger says: At IU1 we do an induction workshop for year 2 teachers on Google Tools - its called "Growing with Google" (we keep adding new tools to the choices as we go and as they become available). Its run as small group inquiry and has web links out for each of the tools for teachers to self-train on the tools they choose. It is loosely a "web quest" - although there aren't specific questions to be answered, because the teachers identify their own questions/needs and take their learning from there.

Trick.ly is a free service that shortens and password protects web links you want to share with select individuals on the internet. Rather than rope you and your contacts into a new social network, Trick.ly allows you to share with people on-the-fly.