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Virtual Whiteboard is a web-based collaborative system that provides a realtime canvas for thinking, designing, and working with your colleagues, clients, friends or family. Virtual Whiteboard is available to anyone for personal, educational, or business use and registration is free.

This page describes all the FutureLab online tools, i.e. Power League, Exploratree. Very cool resources for teachers.

Some really good maths games and puzzles. Really good for problem solving skills and students love them.

Rich collection of graphic organisers and support in using them. Includes collections from Mazano and many others, interactives, online and hard copy. Good collection for the beginning teacher or the experienced.

"Epistemic games are computer games that can help players learn to think like engineers, urban planners, journalists, lawyers, and other innovative professionals, giving them the tools they need for a changing world."

"In Japan, the word otaku refers to people who have obsessive, minute interests-especially stuff like anime or videogames. It comes from a term for "someone else's house"-otaku live in their own, enclosed worlds. Or, at least, their lives follow patterns that are well outside the norm. Looking back, we were American otakus. "

Interesting to think about how Geek culture has changed over the past three decades.

lightweight bookmarking "yummymarks is a simple, beautiful way of keeping track of the websites you love. yummymarks allows you to take your bookmarks to any computer, and works with any browser"

Is it sacrilege pointing out an alternative to the mighty Diigo? Perhaps we ought to think of yummymarks as lite social bookmarking.

"Now, with apps that cost from nothing to a few bucks, you can lay digital worlds over the top of the real world through your phone's camera view. Suddenly data on hotels, restaurants, shop offers, landmarks, social gaming, even menu translations, is at your fingertips."

Fascinating to think how mLearning can overlay with augmented reality when we consider educational connections with this technology.

Over the past few years, I have been collecting interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. Here are 70+ videos organized into various sub-categories. These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use.

Thanks to Di Wilson for this link - looks good.

I noticed a twit from Kim Cofino re: her setting up linked Gmail accounts from one account. This made me wonder how this was done. I'm not sure if this is what she meant, but if you follow this Jingcast, you will see how you can set up multiple student email address which can all be handled and filtered through one Gmail account.

"Gamification" describes turning real-world situations into games. Gamification is a neologism -- a newly invented term that's becoming commonly used. The word gamification was likely born in the realm of casual conversation to convey the idea of turning something into a game. People like entrepreneur and author Gabe Zichermann, though, have given gamification its own unique definition. Zichermann, a respected authority on gamification and its applications, defines the term as "the process of using game thinking and mechanics to engage audiences and solve problems." In short, he describes gamification as "non-fiction gaming."

In his 2010 book "Game-Based Marketing," co-authored with writer Joselin Linder, Zichermann defines a related term he coined: funware.