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Over 5 million people are learning a language with our award-winning, interactive courses. Practice with native speakers from around the world! A free to join site offering assistance in learning English, Spanish, French, Italian, etc.

All things Google Tools

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

Sites to Promote STEM

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

NASA's JPL developed this fun interactive site where "you can try your hand at making your own planet."

Little Bird Tales is a nice site intended for younger students to use to create digital stories. Little Bird Tales walks users through each step of creating a multimedia story. Users can upload images, draw images, or record from their webcams. Stories can be written with text or narrated by students using microphones connected to their computers.

"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.

Are the richest people in America also the most educated? Check out this and the MANY other visualizations on this site.

This is a ning site dedicated to the support of a Personal Learning Network for Educators . Podcasts, blogs, websites

Ficly is about creativity. When I was originally thinking about this idea, I was looking for something creative I could do for the last fifteen minutes of my lunch break before I jumped back into coding and writing documentation. I'd originally had an idea for a much larger site for serious fiction, but realized that most people don't have the time to write serious fiction. But, everyone can carve out fifteen minutes to either continue a story someone else has started, or start something of their own - something simple - two, maybe three paragraphs of a character, a plot or even just a place. That's the premise. We impose a limit of 1,024 characters because we think constraints are good. They make you choose your words more carefully. They also make it less daunting than starting at a never-ending blank screen in a word processor. All you have to do is write one kilobyte of something - something fictional. That's all.

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

A collection of helpful links for iPad use in the classroom from Kathy Schrock

Looks like a pretty good list of Google sites in other countries. I don't see Korea, though.

Another data site - great visualizations and info graphics

Lots of tutorials and links to resources for many of the tools used in eLearning.

"In August, the FCC clarified an earlier ruling that led to widespread blocking of social media networks by school districts receiving discounted internet access through federal e-Rate dollars."