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Another page from the EPA website, this database provides educators and learners a like with more information on environmental topics. Want to learn more about air pollution? or you want to see evidence and data? This is the place to start your search. A great resource for students to research environmental topics themselves.

A resource for lessons to support Common Core Math/ELA and NextGen Science standards.

A great article on the three Es - engagement, enhancement and extension.

The site contains information on a variety of initiatives. Openly Licensed Educational Resources (OER) is one of those initiatives that may serve as an excellent resource for teachers.

In this article, the author goes beyond the definition of Communities of Practice, but he explains each key component of CoP. The author explains the three traits of CoPs, the stages of development, and how to operate a CoP. However, I feel the first two keys (the traits and the stages of development) are important in understanding what CoP is.

School culture is an important ingredient in successful tech integration.

Great resource for online learning and blended options!

I love edcamps! They seem to be most helpful since they offer participants choice and the opportunity to share. It's a great platform for PD!

This was a great and very informative post regarding technology integration and 21st century learning.

This has practical information on using multimedia in education. It presents 4 different pedagogical scenarios for using multimedia in education - provides definitions and possible uses, and a chart with advantages/disadvantages.

Elearning Industry published their top statistics on the size of the digital learning and game-based learning markets as well as some of the recent trend reports on how kids and adults see these tools.

"Imagine if kids poured their time and passion into a video game that taught them math concepts while they barely noticed, because it was so enjoyable," Bill Gates said. This article talks about what role games should play in the classroom.

This educational youtube channel was created by two educator brothers. One creates videos in which he teaches the humanities and arts while the other creates videos for science. The videos are fun and engaging for younger students around the 5th grade mark.

Use this Chrome add-on to block the majority of pop-up ads during online use. This add-on even blocks youtube commercials and its great for classroom use in general.

This teacher presents a possible solution for those students who learn at different paces, come with different abilities and are participating in a flipped classroom. She suggests using Book Creator as a way for students to engage in creating books.

This resource talks about the benefits of using e-Book readers that possess built-In dictionaries, ability to highlight text and text-to-speech note taking so that students can better understand what they are reading.