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When used educationally, podcasts can empower students and teachers to become content producers rather than content consumers, and they can give them audiences beyond the classroom. Student-created podcasts reinforce course concepts, develop writing skills, hone speaking ability, and even help parents stay current on classroom activities.

Interesting article on copyrights and showing free time movies in the classroom.

You may have seen this, but I thought this was great as a way to teach young elementary students internet safety.

Another engaging activity about what to share on-line and protecting your computer from a virus is http://home.disney.com.au/activities/surfswellisland/ Surfs Well Island by Disney. I found the tip that you should never tell an on-line friend the name of your baseball team very interesting.

free online resources engage elementary kids:  awesome, short video about a fifth grade class using technology tools on the web to create multimedia presentations.

Each of the six links off of this page go into greater depth on how to use specific apps!

new teacher bootcamp for web 2.0

Empowering and connecting teachers, administrators, and parents with innovative solutions and resources to better education. This site has ideas for group learning and motivating students.

A great page for teacher's who school's are going Google, or who want to look more into google apps can start!

This article gives me a new perspective on Project Based Learning, and one teacher incorporates a lot of interesting technology to expand her anatomy class.

This blog explains the use of digital photography to entice reluctant writers.

From YouTube to Edutopia--and of course, TeachThought--this post includes 13 timeless project-based learning resources for the classroom.