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Great site with videos 3-5 mintues covering various computer topics. Great for introducing topics such as blogs, twitter, hardware, sofatwere, etc.

a really excellent lesson about Wikipedia from the excellent folks in Canada - Media Awareness.

great guide to writing and grammar, good resource to give to students

A site for free downloadable posters to display anywhere

"One of the most common criticisms leveled at teachers who do attempt to integrate technology into their classroom environment, is that this often results in a lot of 'faffing around' or time wasted while struggling to get the technology to work properly. To some extent I feel that this criticism is fair, but I don't think it's a criticism that should be leveled at teachers, but would be better directed at the people who control the way technology is layered onto the classroom environment, so lets look at that."

ne of the most common criticisms leveled at teachers who do attempt to integrate technology into their classroom environment, is that this often results in a lot of 'faffing around' or time wasted while struggling to get the technology to work properly. To some extent I feel that this criticism is fair, but I don't think it's a criticism that should be leveled at teachers, but would be better directed at the people who control the way technology is layered onto the classroom environment, so lets look at that.

"New media is the heir to the oral tradition and the product of this new age will be very different to that produced in the last century. What are the options? Writing for a website is the closest to what a learner of the 20th century would recognize."Chart of products with links

Thanks to Yuly for pointing out this powerful toolkit allowing wildcard searches and including a reverse dictionary. OneLook contains "19,044,271 words in 1062 dictionaries indexed" (home page, bottom line, 2011.01.28). It sub-divides long lists of hits into categories: "General, Art, Business, Computing, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Religion, Science, Slang, Sports, Tech, [and] Phrases."

Twitter could not possibly be further away from the concept of a computer game or a three dimensional visually rich virtual world. Suddenly instead of learning to fly and exchanging our money for Linden bucks (the currency of Linden Labs' Second Life) we were exchanging grammatically correct sentences for status updates of less than 140 characters! Who could have seen it coming? Perhaps Gartner, who also predicted that "90 Per Cent of Corporate Virtual World Projects Fail Within 18 Months".

A collection of multiple choice games on topics across the curriculum, including maths, science and English. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular

Hundreds of practice games for your AP students!!

This is a superb cross curricular site with some paid for services, but the vast majority are free. View book guides on both modern and classic texts, including Shakespeare. The site also has biographies and history info. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Cross+Curricular