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"Skoolaborate is a global initiative uses a blend of technologies including, blogs, online learning, wiki's and 'virtual worlds' to transform learning. We aim to use these tools to provide engaging collaborative learning experiences for students aged between 13 and 18 years of age. We aim to learn how to use these blended experiences to make learning more meaningful and engaging. The projects we create will integrate curriculum and digital technologies into collaborative global actions. Our virtual learning space is secure and only accessible via invitation. Students from schools around the world are invited to participate. Initiated and manage by Westley Field at MLC School Sydney, Skoolaborate now has over 40 schools and organisations from Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Chile, Portugal, Canada, the UK and the USA."

"K-12 School Lesson Plans, Curriculum and Materials Chemistry ... and Climate Change, Global Warming & Solutions"

One of the many cool sites you will find in the tired teacher's website K-12

Type racer is a global typing race. Looks like a great way to practice and have fun at the same time.

This looks like a fun site to motivate students to work on their keyboarding skills.

Super Teacher Tools is a site that shares a variety of teacher resource tools, and games. Instant classroom allows teachers to set up a class seating chart and randomize partners in class. The site includes a classroom jeopardy, speed match a quiz maker, who wants to be a millionaire, seating chart, group maker, random name generator, splitflap counter for a quick timer or countdown for your classroom, USA population counter, Global Head Count, hangman, flash lottery, random fact desk, classroom update

The text that originated this movie was published on May 29, 1990 with the title "State of the Village Report", and it was written by Donella MEadows, who passed away in February 2000. The statistics have been updated based on specialized publications, and mainly reports on the world's population provided by different resources, like Un publications, PRB. org and others. Please see these statistics as a tendency, and not as accurate.

Something to think about regarding the global society.

I like this! Using for my 7th grade geography students and sharing with the rest of department.

This is the destination for digital literacy resources and collaboration. Use it to share and enhance the tools necessary to learn computer and Internet skills needed in today's global work environment.

PBS Teachers is a wonderful site with lots of resources and supplemental material for teachers to use with students. This particular link will take you directly to the STEM education resource center: Professional Development and the focus on this page is Global Climate Change Modules from PBS and NASA. However, if you look at the top of the page you can choose a specific grade band and then within that there are various content areas that can be chosen. Looks like a very interesting site with lots of resources to select from.

Looks like a good site full of supplemental resources. Worth the search and a look.

With a view of travel as an educational experience like no other, the project makes use of digital media to promote an understanding of different culture and customs to students worldwide. The site hosts virtual field trips to England, Jordan, and South Africa that include more than 160 fort films that correspond to the destinations. Each video explains more about the region's food, music, culture, and language. Since 2003, project explorer has counted more than a million visitors to the site from more than 40 different countries. Recently, it won a Parents' Choice Award for "Outstanding Web Programming." The site's developers qre not working to add a fourth field trip--this one to Malaysia--the Project Explorer has lesson for upper elementary, middle and high school. They plan to offer lesson specifically designed for the early grades.