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This one looks great but they want you to "sing up" and there's no contact information. You can't even use the feedback function unless you have gone through the "sing up" process. :)

Collaboration via free mind mapping & diagram projects

Cacoo is a user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire framse, UML and network charts..... and it's FREE

This dowload will permit you to save Google Maps offline and at zoomed levels.

Compare the size of Deepwater Horizon oil spill just off of New Orleans, LA to a geographical location of your choice.

Browse local data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009. Because these figures are based on samples, they are subject to a margin of error, particularly in places with a low population, and are best regarded as estimates. Create tons of lessons around this data. WOW

This site contains lesson plans as well as resource information for various levels of teaching government, civics, and history. The Classroom Web site hosts numerous contests throughout the year, as well as great give-aways for teachers. (For example, during the 2004 campaign, they gave teachers huge Electoral College maps.)

Create informational, interactive, and engaging maps with the ability to include photos, videos, and more.

Time Search is a good general resource for history teachers and students. Simply enter a year, press "go" and you're shown a list of significant events that happened in that year. Scroll up or down the list to see events that happened early or late in the year. Time Search lists events that happened worldwide. You can select historical themes to narrow your list of events. You can also narrow results by selecting a region of the world. Next to each item in your events list you will see icons indicating availability of related images, quick text references, and map references. Not all icons appear for all events

Google 100+ Best Tools and Mashups

DoodleBuzz is a new way to read the news through an experimental interface that allows you to create typographic maps of current news stories.

eSchool News collection of resources and information about using GIS/GPS in classrooms.

This site gives a huge supply of blank graphic organizers. Students can benefit from these organizers because they can put all of their ideas on paper and then are able to see the big picture. Teachers can create their own for the lower grades to introduce a new topic. They are good for giving an overview of a lesson.

great concept mapping site

You can create mind maps on desktop then share to web for collaboration. Uses MS Silverlight for enhanced graphics.

Good grief. Should we also tell them to stay away from the road because of the dangerous cars? Sounds like another way to deny kids an increasingly important 21C literacy.

Apologies - I thought you were advocating for the bulleted section of the article.

Thanks. My general rule of thumb is to only advocate for continual improvement through on-going learning. I consider myself to be pretty tech-savvy and was SHOCKED to learn that GPS coordinates get auto-embedded in images. I'd never considered this before and don't consider the extra information (GPS coordinates that can easily be mapped to an exact location) something that "should be" (yet it is) made available to anyone who can view a picture. In other words, let's say, I'm super careful to not include identifying information in my photos (my name, school name, city landmarks, etc) and take a picture of say, my stereo system. I've now included with this image the exact coordinates for where my home (with stereo) is located. Now a potential thief has this information (w/Google Map directions). It's super hard to be intentional about all of our choices and actions (including using GPS data w/cell phone images). That said, the more we all know, the more each of us is able to make decisions that best align with our own views, values and understandings. It's one thing for an adult to make a decision or not make a decision about inclusion of GPS data in their cell phone taken images, it takes another level of consideration when it involves giving that capability to children. THANK YOU for helping me to capture and better articulate my thoughts in this area!

Collection of mindmapping sites to ease stress of writing.

Arizona K12 Technology Integration matrix along with classroom videos mapped to certain parts of the matrix.