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Gamestar Mechanic features gameplaying leading to gamebuilding. Excellent problem-solving skills required. Accessible to older elementary and middle school students. The AMD challenge takes this interactive work into the realm of global issues, asking players to create games that have social impact. IBMYP teachers may see this as Community and Service. Students are asked to use the elements they have learned to make a game that raises awareness about challenges like "energy, food, pollution, and poverty." BTW, my 5yo loves this: enjoys playing others game and creating his own. He truly gets the collaborative nature of this space.

How to cite a web page, an online image, a database, e-mail or blogs PurdueOWL clearly and succinctly guides you and your students through referencing all your tech resources accurately.

Excellent source for videos and free publications about online safety. Useful for support when talking to kids or parents. The games on the site are generally multiple choice quizzes with some animation, but might be a nice review for a presentation.

With so much data available via the internet, an important skill students must learn is how to make meaning of that information. Many Eyes gives middle school+ students an opportunity to experiment with comparing values, tracking value over time, looking at the relationship between the parts and the whole. Data can also be interpreted as text or with maps. Creates polished looking infographics that would be great visual aids for science experiments or oral presentations. Good resource for teachers and administrators, too!

Oceans, Nature, 3D Buildings

Easy websites for your classroom or your students!

A quick and easy reference. This tool might be nice for introducing other teachers to the possibilities of Diigo.

Support for educating students and adults about how to be aware on the web. Tips for safety in a variety of situations and links to more information. Special pages for parents, educators, kids 7-10, tweens 11-13, and teens 14-17. The animations would b great to include in classroom presentations - access them directly at http://wiredsafety.org/flashandvideo/index.html.

Short direct videos that explain concepts in easy-to-understand terms. Mostly focusing on technology topics, these videos could be used to help with staff development or in the classrooms with students. For students, these videos would make great intros to technology topics or stand as excellent examples that they could model their own videos after for an assignment (eg. explain Google docs to an incoming student through a video they can watch again and again). Generally speaking, accessing Common Craft videos through You Tube is easier, but this has a nice table of contents.

Use this tool to make an interactive poster. You can add all different types of media to this page, making it good for multimodal 21st century learning. Would work well with lots of subjects, but could be especially fun for addressing communication and math. Students could make a Glogster for a word problem they write or explain the concept of slope using a variety of formats. Older students could even work on analyzing data to make their own infographics. This is great for getting students to respond in a variety of modes. Teachers could use this as a communication tool for parents - with info, pics, and videos. Below is an example of a glog made by a 7th grade teacher to "sell" a book -students could make their own glogs similar to this one instead of a traditional book report.

More information about copyright and the internet. Create, remix, and share - legally. "The infrastructure we provide consists of a set of copyright licenses and tools that create a balance inside the traditional "all rights reserved" setting that copyright law creates. Our tools give everyone from individual creators to large companies and institutions a simple, standardized way to keep their copyright while allowing certain uses of their work - a "some rights reserved" approach to copyright - which makes their creative, educational, and scientific content instantly more compatible with the full potential of the internet. The combination of our tools and our users is a vast and growing digital commons, a pool of content that can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon, all within the boundaries of copyright law."

"[L]esson plans and teaching ideas to related real-world multimedia examples of excellence in teaching, especially focusing on collaborative efforts between classroom teachers and library media specialists in K-12." "The development of media submission software accessible from the S.O.S. site enables educators to upload digital photos and multimedia support materials that help illustrate their lesson plans and ideas. A new feature, buILder (stands for Information Literacy Builder), will allow users to translate lesson plans into actual online lessons for their students. That is, instructors will be able to actually build an online lesson with menus, links, and of course, the research challenge."

Easy to coordinate with use of student's own mobile devices or a classrooms set of iPod touches. Make your students aware of the organisms around them. Show students how to participate in research through collaboration. Works on android and iPhone platforms. Great connection of science to a theme like "Community and Service." I would use with elementary level students.