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From the site, "Research and revise a wide variety of school subjects as Videojug presents tips and tutorials for a range of subjects across the school-board. Learn or re-learn English, Maths, Science , Modern and Traditional Foreign Languages, Sign Language, Politics, History and Geography. Between brain-teasers and fun experiments theres something for scholars old and new." Interesting take on organizing some of the many videos available on the internet. 

Blog about Chris Geeen's iPod touch project at his school. Has some very interesting ideas about how students can create quick products from research on the iPod touch. Worth looking at if you have access to mobile learning tools not just iPod, although some of the apps are specific to the iPod.

A dowloadable desktop application, centered around open source model, haven't downloaded and played with it. Am just bookmarking it for later development. They have apps for math, science, language, geography and some misc.

Great new mapping tool from National Goegraphic. It's in BETA, but already very good tool. 

Very cool opportunity for exploring different cultural sites around the world using Google maps/iimages. 

Great set of virtual history tours through Google Earth. 

Video lectures from universities across the country. Lecture is not the most engaging format, but a great resource for those interested in exploring topics in more depth on their own, but not a great model for engaging presetation for 60-90 minutes.

Great set of resources that might be interesting to people who want to explore some topics on their own, or want to include some aspects of the lectures in their classes. I think there is a HUGE potential for using this content some how.

Great data and science site. I like the nice real world connections for the data. Also, great science site. Science content using interactivity and data (gotta get math involved).

Interesting Animated history of the US. I like the idea, I wonder if students could use this model to create their own map/timeline combo to present information. 

The Wall Street Journal have created an impressive site that maps the New York, San Francisco, Boston and Chicago marathon routes. Each route includes Street View and elevation charts. It looks like it uses the everytrail api as a backbone. It's very cool. 

Great site for Google Map overlays. Very versatile and has lots of different overlays. 

Interactive world  map

Digital library for Earth system education with grade level and content resources. 

A group of amateur radio enthusiats launch an HD video camera into space and track it back down to earth. I think it's incredible and a great example of what people with an interest in something can do. What could we do if we gave students goals like this to accomplish? Any thoughts about how we use this incredible example of curiosity with students? Also, note that they send it to space, share their work via YouTube, blog about it, get picked up on the Discovery channel for relatively little cost!

Nice little set of quizzes that students can take quickly. Helps memorize some of the features and other facts students need to know for unit study. Interactive and fun. I took two of the quizzes and need to work on my great lakes. How well can you do?

Lots of data displayed in an interactive way. Great for use with an interactive white board. Easy for students to gather data, display, and report.

NASA generated website with pictures, podcasts, blog posts of current happenings around the world. I explored one example, the recent Tsunami. Great pictures of the island and of showing the wave in the ocean! Also, great story accompanying the pics. I, also, loved the interactive global map with the geolocated pictures. Although I haven't listened to the Science for the Hungry World podcast, I subscribe to several NASA podcasts and think they are great for teaching!

Created by Angela Cunningham for the enrichment of Social Studies instruction using technology. Great set of resources and conceptual approaches to embedding technology into instruction.