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The "Great Debate of 2008" is a collaborative project that provides students in grades 8-12 with an opportunity to lead an exploration and discussion of issues and candidates surrounding the 2008 presidential election.historic1.jpg

A look at different perspectives in TKM - collaborative webquest project - good stuff!

Contains links to more information on multiple intelligences, technology and MI, and project-based learning.

When your students are at home and trying to collaborate on your project, this site may be very useful to help facilitate the work.

The wiki for the Flatclassroom Summit held this year in Mumbai, India. Check this out. Follow the links to the ustream archives and listen to the reflections of the participating teachers. You don't have to go to Mumbai to have your own flatclassroom project. As Thomas Friedman says, "If it's not happening, it's because you're not doing it."

The K-5 Economics and 6-12 Economics navigation menus (above or to the left) are organized so that you can locate resources * by concept * by standards * by lesson keyed to concept and standards Great supporting Resources and Student Projects for your economics teaching are also found in K-12 section.

"Student Journalism 2.0 engages high school students in understanding the legal and technical issues intrinsic to new and evolving journalistic practices. It is a project of ccLearn at Creative Commons, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in partnership with HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory), the University of California, Irvine and Duke University. "

The goal of this project is to provide teachers a list of common terms or phrases aimed at improving vocabulary development of students in Tennessee. Although there is no single best way to teach terms and phrases, Dr. Marzano's research and theory on vocabulary development does point to a few generalizations that provide strong guidance. This site is dedicated to the sixth step in that process by providing a collection of games and activities designed to review and strengthen vocabulary development.

After clicking on a career you might be interested in, you're led to a page of simple interviews with people working in that profession, along with other resources (including salary projections).

The Classrooms for the Future Evaluation Project completed the Year Three Evaluation Report (2008-09). This report describes the findings from the teacher and student surveys, the classroom observations, and interviews with CFF Coaches, principals, and building contacts.

Google Apps administrators can use a open source project, the Feed Server Client Tool (FSCT) to control which gadgets appear in the Google Sites gadget directory for their domain. Before beginning, make sure you are running Java 1.6 (you can check your version by running the "java -version" command)

We believe todays students have tremendous potential, are interested in making connections between their academic study and careers, and deserve widely accessible career information. Who are we? Our World Interactive is a not-for profit web and film project jointly produced by WHYY (the Philadelphia and Delaware public broadcasting affiliate) and GlenDevon Group (a private company), Life Science Career Alliance (an industry and education partnership) and the Chester County Intermediate Unit (an educational service agency). . WHAT We offer EXPLORE YOUR FUTURE is an interactive website for job and career exploration targeted to teenagers and young adults in middle school through college and the mentors who advise them. OUR WORLD is a film series highlighting a broad spectrum of careers within one or more industry clusters.

"Students at Asher Public School, Asher, Oklahoma, are currently collaborating with students in Illinois, Indiana, and Washington using a global platform that consists of the project Ning, Wiki, and Skype. The Ning is located at: http:dontextandrive.ning.com/. Membership into the Ning is representative of their pledge not to text and drive. The Ning sufficiently addresses current research, data, laws, and even legislation through active blogging and forum discussion exchanges. We are interested in collaborating with schools from within the United States to outside. This is a global issue and deserves global attention. We want to be part of the solution and not part of the problem. Please join us."

"Our Courts is a web-based education project designed to teach students civics and inspire them to be active participants in our democracy. Our Courts is the vision of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who is concerned that students are not getting the information and tools they need for civic participation, and that civics teachers need better materials and support."

"One of the discussions that came up during the morning presentation with the middle school staff was the idea of writing for audience. The traditional model in the classroom has the teacher assign a writing project for students. "

Teachers...Make a Wish Just like a gift registry, you build a wish list of technology products for your classroom. Then you can tell prospective donors how their support will make a difference to your students. After a purchase, Digital Wish automatically donates an additional 2%-10% in funding for your next technology project!

Another amazing facet of the WolfrmAlpha projects. Share this with your music teachers.

Gov of Louisiana uses Google Earth KML file to project oil spill trajectory

THIS is what you can do WITH computers that you cannot do WITHOUT them.