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New worlds, or new areas in cyberspace, are being discovered and being applied to education at breakneck speed. The Internet, 3D graphics, QuickTime Movies, Quicktime VR and a multitude of new concepts and ideas are now being promoted on the internet and in leading educational journals throughout the world. It is a major undertaking just to keep abreast of this technological revolution, but the ideas and methods evolving are impacting education in ways no one could foresee just a year or two ago.

This website is the news blogs created by Ray Schroedoer, a professor in the University of Illinois at Springfield. He put daily news items of relevance in the field of new communication technologies, educational technologies, and online learning.

Video Porduction is more than a new toy for students. It helps students create work in a new and exciting way. This is a place for serious fun. Kids'Vid is an instructional website to help teachers and students use video production in class to support project-based learning.

XplanaZine is sponsored by the educational software company Xplana Learning. It provides the most recent news about publishing companies, information technology, online education research, and schools and programs implementing new methods to educate students. It also keeps track of upcoming conferences and contests to encourage participation in events related to educational technology.

English news lessons: Free EFL/ESL lesson plans, handouts and podcast for teaching current events and current affairs lessons, and business English. It combines reading, writing, listening and speaking - excellent for DI/UDL teaching.This is an interesting novel approach to teaching a language through current events. It is sort of a crossover between English and Social Studies, which is great. We want to move toward interdisciplinary curriculum, as opposed to isolates and disjointed content areas.

Very cool site which allows you to upload data, text, spreadsheets, stats, etc. and visually present them in a new and different way - a way which "democratizes" data analysis so it is more social and collaborative in nature. The result allows us to detect new patterns in the information. It can be a way to jumpstart discussion and insight.

Your source for science behind the news. Confused on something like hybrid cars in an article. Explains the science clearly with examples, videos, and other tools.

Blog from Joyce Valenca - New technologies in education; some of these I had the chance to experience last year like the Geo-everything. This was pretty amazing as one could pinpoint my village and see what was happening there.

Whether working individually or collaboratively, Webspiration is the new online visual thinking tool. With integrated diagram and outline views you can think visually, structure your work effectively and express your ideas in the ways that communicate best. Webspiration is currently in Public Beta and offered free of charge.

Whether working individually or collaboratively, Webspiration is the new online visual thinking tool. With integrated diagram and outline views you can think visually, structure your work effectively and express your ideas in the ways that communicate best.

Click on Inspire me and see the creation of new, sometimes nonsensical, inspirational posters with a saying

Great and easy to use. Import your own photos, make the changes, and export the new.

The Education Podcast Network is a network that looks at all the ways that teachers can use podcast as a tool in education. It lists all the subject areas where educators can get podcasts for. This could really be good for new teachers who are trying to utilize podcasts in their teachings.

You-Tube video of the pace with which new computer technologies are being utilized in schools; looks at how students see technology and how the role of the teacher has changed dramatically as a consequence.

This is a websit where shools and teachers can create their websits including news, homework, calendar, web links, pictures, slideshows, online forms, and more. But it is not free.

Speakaboos brings classic children's entertainment into a digital world. Beloved characters and treasured stories are given new life through amazing celebrity performances, beautiful illustrations, and original music. At Speakaboos, children develop liter

This is an excellent blog on incorporating Web 2.0 tools in the language classroom. The author says: "Over the past year, Google has stretched their search capabilities to include an abundance of open source web applications tailor-made for teachers. In fact, they've called this new suite of tools Google for Educators."

MIT is busy bringing Star Trek to today

You're in a "virtual classroom." Everything you see and hear is coming to you through a computer-operated display that you're wearing on your head like a pair of very bulky goggles.

This is a blog about using podcasting as a tool for teaching foreign languages

Watch the trailer for this documentary. These kids force us to question some basic assumptions we might have about the nature of knowledge and learning. My initial reaction was that this was a hippy school with its steeple stuck in the clouds, but after watching the trailer I feel angry what my own educational experience neglected and guilty for what I'm denying my students.