This site is designed especially with the young learner in mind with its age-appropriate content and emphasis on visual and auditory learning.
Glossopedia is the kind of site that you can leave open for students to explore and find a fast fact of the day, find their favorite image, or video
Glossopedia Categories
Geography and Places
Nature and the Environment
Technology
Animals
Earth and Space
People and Cultures
Human Body
Chemistry
Natural Forces
This site is simple and visually pleasing. The font size is great for young learners. Words are hyperlinked to an audio pronunciation that is a real person, speaking really slowly at first then more quickly, and finally the written meaning of the word. Images and photos have a print button prominently displayed.
"Twitterfall is a Twitter client specialising in real-time tweet searches. New tweets fall into the page.
Twitterfall has a huge feature list and there are many actions that can't be done on other clients."
completely online curriculum with daily lesson plans and resources for middle school technology courses
Units include:
Web safety, netiquette, cyberbullying, ethics
Internet searching, copyright and citations
Digital publishing - presentations, word processing, visual literacy
Web publishing - websites and wikis
Online collaboration - email, blogs, RSS, networks
Media literacy
Graphics - photography, drawing, art, animation
Audio - editing, podcasting, music
Video - editing, digital storytelling
Computer programming
Simulation and modeling
Web 2.0