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An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an interactive map.

Project New Media Literacies (NML), a research initiative based within MIT's Comparative Media Studies program, explores how we might best equip young people with the social skills and cultural competencies required to become full participants in an emergent media landscape and raise public understanding about what it means to be literate in a globally interconnected, multicultural world

Earth Album is a simpler, slicker Flickr mash-up that allows you to explore some of the most stunning photos in the world courtesy of Google maps and Flickr. To begin your journey, just click somewhere on the map, e.g. "India". Note-- since the top Flickr images are used, the images change every few weeks; bookmark this site and check back for a different experience in a month!

Educational materials on genetics, bioscience and health topics.

These resources for learning about genetics by the University of Utah's Genetic Science Learning Center include interactive visualizations, 3D animations and activities. Student activities include taking a "tour" of DNA, a chromosome or a protein, building a DNA molecule, or exploring the inside of a cell. The university is also building a sister site, Teach.Genetics, with print-and-go lesson plans and supplemental materials for some channels on the Learn.Genetics site.

advance estuarine and coastal literacy. Explore these living classrooms and laboratories - our estuaries -, discover their importance and beauty, and learn what you can do to protect them

This paper explores the possibilities of using the recent findings within the area of Neuroscience for developing effective instructional material in the digital form using the interactive hypermedia components that can be used for effective delivery of eLearning.

This guide explores the what, why and how of learning objects. It offers practical advice for designing for usability - and reusability; for keeping your learning objects learner-centered and learner-driven; for aligning with current metadata standards; and for making your objects accessible. It includes tips for "marketing" your finished work and points you to resources for follow-up information.

Gladys Gahona and Nellie Deutsch have been collaborating online at WikiEducator, an international community dedicated to the design, development, and delivery of free content for learning. In this seminar they will introduce us to the many opportunities available to educators to learn from others, to collaborate on curriculum projects, and to explore new technologies that will improve educational access and quality.

Explore U.S. Government Data About Your Community

Very nifty tools: Great impact with little effort! Animoto: Put your photographs together and add text and music. Very effective! Big...

Are you interested in how innovative districts are leveraging the increasing number of laptops, cell phones, MP3 players and smart phones their students carry? This webinar explores the views of of K-12 students, teachers and administrators regarding the use of mobile devices within instruction from Speak Up 2008. The webinar is scheduled for August 18th from 12:00pm -1:00pm PST.

The world has changed drastically due to the advancements in the field of education. In early ages education was thought to be important only to earn a decent amount of money and to live a life in good manner but now humans are exploring more and more things to get the knowledge of this universe and to innovate latest things.

I do not see how these links belong in the Classroom 2.0 group. why not create your own group or list.

A series of reports by the Pew Research Center exploring the behaviors, values and opinions of teens and twenty-somethings.

"imagery of World Heritage sites into Street View. To whet your appetite we've released new imagery for 19 UNESCO sites around Europe, including places in Czech Republic, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom. You can explore the sites directly in Google Maps"

NASA has created the Be A Martian site, where anyone can explore the red planet through images gathered from all the Mars landers, rovers, and satellites.

Skills for Success will provide you with hands-on opportunities to explore and discover how to do many things on a computer. You will have a chance to use computers to find information on the Internet as well as use computers to paint and draw pictures, write, solve mathematics problems, and create presentations.

Student questions and questioning become a major focus of classroom activity as teachers demonstrate and then require effective searching, prospecting, gathering and interpretation techniques while students use the tools and information to explore solutions to contemporary issues.

"Class Blogmeister is one of several blogging engines that \nhave been developed specifically for classroom use. You are welcome to explore \nthe writings of teachers and students alike."