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Animal Quizzes - Hundreds of free, online, educational games for kids. But anyone interested in online learning - so many subjects - (geography, math, animals, science) and many levels, games and activities for learners of any age.

This article from eLearning Industry takes the reader through five advantages to using games in the classroom. The article also has links within it to take readers to other articles and apps.

EducationCity is the leading provider of e-learning resources for schools and families in the UK. Interactive whiteboard resources are supported by fun and engaging online games, offering comprehensive, curriculum-based educational activities for use both in school and at home.

Teaching spelling and vocabulary is easy with VocabularySpellingCity! Students can study and learn their word lists using vocabulary and spelling learning activities and games. Students can take final or practice spelling and vocabulary tests right on this engaging site. Premium games and automated student record keeping are available to Premium Members.

A game where the students watch and learn songs, then complete a cloze test while the song is playing. The song pauses appropriately to allow for the student to fill in the missing words.

Adult ELL lessons designed by the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL). The lessons were designed to have a mixture of vocabulary and games for beginning intermediate students designed around work skills.

"Either teachers embrace the new language learning technologies and integrate them in a new pedagogy or they will not only deprive themselves of the enormous benefits afforded by computer-assisted learning (CALL), computer mediated communication) (CMC), distance learning, social networking, and language games, but they will be increasingly out of touch with their own students, who are by now wired, networked and computer-savvy". This book explained why teachers should integrate technology tools into foreing language classrooms.

This website talked about 5 key resources needed for educators to being and grow their own personal PLNs. http://ning.com offers podcast downloads, discussion forums, videos, relevant blogs, videos and more resources. Powerful Learning Practice is a professional development opportunity that teacher can attend. It offers hands-on applications and the know-how to build and use technology within the classroom. Webinars are conferences people can attend online to join discussions and offer insight to like educators. EdChat is something we can join now on twitter using the hashtag #EdChat every Tuesday. Game based-learning tutorials and talk can be found on http://edweb.net where mentors and people who've successful implemented these practices in their classrooms can offer advice and help.

Those are 5 really good resources. Thanks for sharing.

Global Closet Calculator"-a two-part interactive game that introduces the concepts of interdependence and globalization.

SimCityEDU: Pollution Challenge, an educational version of the popular city-building video game, is a known quantity in a fresh wave of serious learning games that bridge the gap between instruction and assessment. These multimedia tools provide teachers with better assessment tools than written exams.

The article highlights the benefits that students experience from playing games.

This wiki has a lot of objective discussion about the pros and cons of Educational Games

Professor of Math and Social Media (are these related?) as well as CEO of Edge of Learning LLC. Site includes many nice online teaching resources, as well as some math games.

Looks like amazing potential for history simulation. Wonder what the price is?

Another successful Skype application in the classroom! These students are learning about different states and playing games like Family Feud!