If you have an issue or questionrelated to anything involved agriculture, agribusiness, or family and consumer sciences within the state of Georgia, then it's good to turn to the Cooperative Extension Service, based at UGA. My dad was an Extension Agent and they can provide valuable information and hands-on experience to a classroom setting. In fact, that's what they are there for, going out in the field and passing along the research of the university!

This is the kids and teachers section of the US Mint website, and it offers some fun lessons and games related to US currency. It's definitely geared toward younger students.

This site, affiliated with the University of Utah, has many different activities and modules related to learning genetics. It's pretty well done, and very slick.

Here is a useful compendium of interactive sites for Biology Education. It's all indexed according to various measures, including accessibility and explanation.

This BBCi site features all sorts of nifty interactive modules designed to help people learn more about the workings of the human body and mind. Some great Flash work here...

On this site are some nice animations and graphs with accompanying explanatory pages related to economic concepts. Some of it is low-tech, but it still helps visualize these things

Though maybe not au courant in terms of technology, this collection of java applets for Physics Education is really neat, with a lot of helpful animations to help explain Physics concepts.

This site helps you make interactive rubrics very easily. There is some registration involved, but it is free beyond that.

A nice overview of RSS feeds and the ways that they can impact your life for the better. Not all of these uses are educational, but they can work both in and out of the classroom.

A great program for sharing large files without having to deal with thumb drives, etc. Good for backing up stuff from a work computer to a home computer or vice versa.

In this short lecture, Bernie Dodge, creator of the WebQuest sites WebQuests and QuestGarden, talks about the way to view learning games with this equation: Power = Attention x Depth x Efficiency. It actually applies to other uses of technology, not just games

This is the CIA's Word Factbook, filled with lots and lots of data on every country in the world. It's very helpful for Geography, Political Science, and History classes. We looked at it in class, so I figured I would bookmark it!

With Google Sites you can create customized websites and secure wikis for free.

This is outdated, but it is fairly similar to my own project, so I thought I would share. It is a webquest dealing with Fahrenheit 451 and propaganda.

Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create, share and present 3D models. Whether you want to design a new deck for your house, build models for Google Earth, or teach geometry to your fifth-graders, you can use SketchUp to see your ideas in 3D. And when you're done, you can export an image, make a movie or print out a view of what you made.

This is really hard to describe, but with Amazon's Mechanical Turk, you can get workers (really bored workers?) from around the world to complete menial tasks for you, some of them research oriented, for very little money. It's pretty bizarre, but I've seen people do academic work on there.

This is a webquest for sixth grade language arts, and I'm bookmarking it because it's very similar to the format of the webquest I will be doing for Fahrenheit 451. It would be easy to follow this format and change the content as it suits you.

This is a good document for helping write a WebQuest even if it is a tad outdated.