This webcast/podcast tackles the issue of technology offering convenience of information, but not actually offering wisdom in terms of processing information.

This is a Fahrenheit 451-related WebQuest that deals with book banning and how it relates to the Bill of Rights, good to prep students before the Bradbury book.

From the website: Vanishing Georgia comprises nearly 18,000 photographs. Ranging from daguerreotypes to Kodachrome prints, the images span over 100 years of Georgia history. The broad subject matter of these photographs, shot by both amateurs and professionals, includes, but is not limited to, family and business life, street scenes and architecture, agriculture, school and civic activities, important individuals and events in Georgia history, and landscapes. The wide variety of the collected visual images results from efforts by archivists from the Georgia Division of Archives and History who sought, between 1975 and 1996, to preserve Georgia's endangered historical photographs. Designed primarily for preservation, the project located, selected, and copied historically significant photographs held by individuals who wanted to share their pieces of the past with future generations.The Georgia Archives joins with the Digital Library of Georgia to present the Vanishing Georgia images as a digital resource. Support for the project is provided by a Library Services and Technology Act grant administered through Georgia HomePLACE.

Divshare lets you trade files and also create embeddable playlists for music, video, and photos

Though this is a pay site (it's not very much--$20/2 years), Questgarden allows the user to create WebQuests, including supporting documents like rubrics.

Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic. Some handy uses of Google Alerts include: * monitoring a developing news story * keeping current on a competitor or industry * getting the latest on a celebrity or event * keeping tabs on your favorite sports teams

A program that can be used to stream video and music to your website and blogs.

The American Memory project from the Library of Congress offers up a wealth of information on America in various media, particularly in discussing American History.

Knols are articles that try (at the very least) to be definitive articles on a particular subject, eschewing the wikipedia model of everybody chipping in. Instead, readers rate each knol, so the good ones rise to the top.

This economics lesson was developed by The Department of Treasury, Citigroup, and the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Here is one of the developers: Money Math: Lessons for Life teaches students responsible financial practices before they develop bad habits. For example, one path to accumulating wealth is to start saving at a young age and let compounding interest pay you for your effort. Another is to plan your budget realistically, by bringing your income and expenses into balance-minimizing spending so that you will have money to save. These two life lessons alone would reduce credit card debt, reduce financial pressures on families, and increase personal savings and wealth. It's a long, but thorough course.

Mymoney.gov is a joint project on financial literacy run by a number of branches of government, most notably the Federal Reserve. There are a lot of calculators available as help with investing and mortgages and stuff that would be appropriate for a high school economics class.

This webquest deals with the homeless issue in America: what its causes are, what services are available, and even includes a small service-learning component. It's a WebQuest that reaches outside of the classroom and the computer.

A lot of PBS' excellent Frontline programs are available for viewing via Quicktime or Windows Media here. These are some great documentaries that apply to a lot of the Social Sciences.

This lesson uses the CIA WorldFactBook to help students compare economic systems of different countries to the United States.

The Federal Reserve System maintains all sorts of educational tools, and this site is where they offer teachers and students lots of resources into understanding the Federal Reserve, which can often be tough for students to wrap their minds around, even though it's so important to the operation of the US economy.

This is the hub for all educators interested in using the vast resources of the Smithsonian Institute for education. There is something for every subject represented here.

This lesson plan from the Smithsonian uses primary documents, in this case letters from people in Japanese-American interment camps, to discuss a particular era in history. It offers insight into different views of history and the power of primary documents. It also uses lots of great material from the Smithsonian archives.

This lesson plan--sure to be popular!--asks students to participate in a debate on whether video games help with literacy, based on a NYTimes article by Motoko Rich. This lesson allows kids to be reflective and analyze the differences between media beyond the debate question itself.

This is a WebQuest creator that doesn't require knowledge of HTML.

Inspiration, InspireData, and Kidspiration are graphic organizing software that is powerful in helping students organize thoughts and data in a visual way. These use mindmapping, visualization, and brainstorming to help students diagram concepts.