When you want to make your wiki do things that aren't necessarily easy to do this is a great site! I added a background graphic to a wiki with the help of this site. It was very helpful in getting the basic code added and with a little tinkering it did the things I needed it to do! Great resource

Killing two birds with one stone. Here are some interesting facts about social networking and use among 35-54 yo age group growing by 60% recently according to Forrester. Also, if you are looking for a read-aloud to do with math students, here's a great example to use with them. The topic is social media, the content is proportional reasoning, data analysis, and interpreting real-world data. For example if usage among 35-54 yos has grown by 60% what does that mean among the sample of 4500, what does that mean among the sample of the US population, if previous usage was 15% of that age group, what percentage of that age group now use it? Etc. Good math/science reading is as close as your local USA Today/Yahoo homepage/iGoogle/news RSS

Different categories on the MIT teaching with technology page. Great way of thinking about different issues and ways of solving some of those issues from MIT's perspective.

Thought provoking analysis of writing by current students.

Differentiated instruction and universal learning by design comparison. Thanks Viki for sharing Lisa's great work.

Want to thank Michelle Desilva for finding this site. Great resource and full of practical ideas and important processes/structures to think about if implementing with a class of students.

If you use Google tools a lot then this is a great place to go to get some tips/tricks. I learned two things about Google Calendar that I wasn't aware of: attaching Google docs to items and showing free/busy as my status.

Easy to use graphing utility. No adds easy to setup different windows, graph multiple functions.

These templates require the Smart Notebook software, Kidspiration. Inspiration,Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer and KidPix to use. Most have a preview for you to decide if it is something you would like. I would suggest creating folders on your desktop called SmartNoteBookTemplates, InspirationTemplates, and KidspirationTemplates. You can then save the templates in the appropriate folder for later use.

Creating stories using web tools is fun and engaging for student while also teaching them new skills. Best of all you can embed them in blog posts to grab readers; including something a bit different makes reading posts more interesting.

Yet another list of web resources. Relatively up to date and comprehensive. Worth looking at if you want choices for tool usage.

If looking for a system or classroom routine to develop student eportfolio this mosdel is a nice way of organizing the 'tech' aspect of the routine. Have students write blog posts as writing to learn component, get feedback for editing, organize them according theme/topic (allows for cross-referencing), post final products as portfolio pieces. Very transparent, easy to track, allows for built-in feedback/reflection.

A very simple poll generating tool. Doodle helps finding suitable dates and times for group events, e.g., an appointment, a conference call, a family reunion, etc. In addition to scheduling events, Doodle also supports polls in general. That is, groups can conveniently decide on options other than dates. - comment by Rob Reynolds

FROM the Creator/Owner of WORDLE: "I'm happy to announce that from now on, the Wordle front page will never feature images or links that are inappropriate for classroom use. It's now possible to configure an institution's "site-blocking" software to keep Wordle safe for classroom use." Simply have your networking administrator block the following base URLs1: * http://www.wordle.net/gallery * http://www.wordle.net/next * http://www.wordle.net/random -