Content Literacy

Search engine for kids. Starts with categories or open search with a simple user-interface. Quintura also has a smartphone app version

Lesson planning resources advocated by ISTE, what more is there to say. 

Mix of research, products, PD, and leadership support. McREL is now a nationwide resource. 

Someone has done a nice job of organizing the different tag cloud tools into an online binder of information. Great site for two reasons; the content about tag clouds, and the use of livebinders as the medium. Well organized, and LiveBinders allows you to share easily. 

Use your twitter or facebook feeds to create a newspaper to really maximize your PLN. Paper.li links to posted links, and puts them into categories.  Similar to PostPost for Facebook. Check out this great example: http://paper.li/ITLynda If you have a classroom twitter account this would be a great way of organizing all of the classes  tweets into publishable 'paper'

Connects to the Karl Fisch post I bookmarked earlier.

NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center

Takes the new Google Chrome browser, but is pretty cool. Look and touch all of the parts of the human body. 

for those of us who are too long winded for twitter. 

citation site, free for educators and students at this time. Great tool for helping students learn how to cite websites effectively. Not APA style but does allow for capture of text, images and notetaking on websites and PDFs. 

Skype in the classroom (beta) Meet new people, discover new cultures and connect with classes from around the world, all without leaving the classroom.

Want to let students explore with real data then welcome to FRED® (Federal Reserve Economic Data), a database of 25,176 U.S. economic time series. With FRED® you can download data in Microsoft Excel and text formats and view charts of data series. Students can explore data, create models & hypothesis, and test their models as the year progresses. If their models aren't working they can go back to their original data set and make changes based on what they've learned and see how those predictions work on new data. The best part is the variety of data that is available.  We plan to continually improve FRED® and encourage you to send feedback through our contact form.

Don't know enough about the site to offer an opinion, but looks like it's worth sharing. 

Vimeo Video School is a fun place for anyone to learn how to make better videos. Start by browsing our Vimeo Lessons, or find specific video tutorials created by other members.

Really interestingly designed discussion of ecofriendly or renewable energy (not necessarily the same thing). 

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. 

Building an interactive museum to highlight patterns and structures all around. 

The United States General Services Administration (GSA) and the White House Open Government Initiative are soliciting your feedback on a concept for next generation citizen consultation, namely a government-wide software tool and process to elicit expert public participation (working title "ExpertNet"). ExpertNet could: Enable government officials to circulate notice of opportunities to participate in public consultations to members of the public with expertise on a topic. Provide those volunteer experts with a mechanism to provide useful, relevant, and manageable feedback back to government officials. The proposed concept is intended to be complementary to two of the ways the Federal government currently obtains expertise to inform decision-making, namely by convening Federal Advisory Committees and announcing public comment opportunities in the Federal Register. We are looking for you to provide: Any refinements or suggestions you have to improve the process as described; Any issues (legal, policy, technical) raised by the features described; Any tools that you know of that perform the process described in that step; Any organizations (public or private) that have a similar platform in place.

Interesting discussion of lecture as an instructional tool. It's not a condemnation or affirmation, but a discussion of appropriate use.  Lecture is not evil, but anyone using lecture as the main mode of information sharing should look at doing their own homework on how students learn and how to most effectively (notice I didn't say efficiently) convey information. 

The Dartmouth Dante Project (DDP) is a searchable full-text database containing more than seventy commentaries on Dante's Divine Comedy - the Commedia. Use the links on the right to search the the text of the poem and the commentaries, to read more about the project, to see a list of the commentaries in the database, and to learn how to use the database.