You can find a great amount of helpful material on these sites, including videos to augment your lessons, lectures to inspire students, documentaries to show them how things work, and loads of additional videos to help you become a better, smarter teacher.

Explains how Diigo is used in the classroom to make solitary text-based reading social.

Tons of great interactives and generators here... well-suited for the interactive whiteboard

Great video showing how much has changed and how much we continue to struggle with the same ideas. In October 1995, the House Committee Economic and Educational Opportunities and House Science Committees held a nearly three-hour hearing to examine "technological advances in education."

method -- that is experimental, correlational, or longitudinal -- and regardless of the cultures tested in this study [East and West], you get the same effects," said Anderson, who is also director of Iowa State's Center for the Study of Violence. "And the effects are that exposure to violent video games increases the likelihood of aggressive behavior in both short-term and long-term contexts. Such exposure also increases aggressive thinking and aggressive affect, and decreases prosocial behavior."

Free to download this book. "This guide was written especially for educators, who want to teach 21st century skills, such as collaborating, communicating, and connecting, through digital storytelling"

Ipod racing game steering mechanism made from LEGO

Lure of the Labyrinth is a digital game for middle-school pre-algebra students. It includes a wealth of intriguing math-based puzzles wrapped into an exciting narrative game in which students work to find their lost pet - and save the world from monsters! Linked to both national and state mathematics standards, the game gives students a chance to actually think like mathematicians.

A very well-intentioned, but ignorant piece on the role of video games in the classroom. Non-educators should stay out of the education arena and write what they know about!! "On the other hand, does it really take a videogame to make learning fun? Surely, there are better ways, which are less likely to be dated the second they're finished."

Nice "Best of..." list

A very thoughtful article on plagiarism

Great tips on creating powerful visual presentations and avoiding the "death-by-powerpoint" effect.

NY teacher tenure to be tied to student test performance/scores

Videos for kids to learn from. Organized.

Nevertheless, in kindergarten, children are playing for fewer than 30 minutes a day

Great quick reference guides

Great blog post by Diane Ravitch

Customize this bookmarklet to give you a personalized and uncluttered reading experience... really helpful!

Fantastic compilation of media-rich resources here.