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Google Digital Literacy Tour along with videos. Here are some great lessons and videos and a full curriculum. Just realize that you should involve students in discussions and activities, this is a pretty poor candidate for lecture-based delivery because it is changing so quickly. I use Digiteen but these are great resources. (Hat tip to Theresa Allen for sending this through the Digiteen google group.)

A great site full of customisable games like 'Who wants to be a Millionaire', a darts quiz and many more. Just download and change the questions and answers in the XML file. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Educational+Games

Kansas.GrantWatch.com is the Kansas grants funding website for current federal government grants, state grants, city grants, local grants, foundation grants, corporation grants, educational grants, international grants and grant resources. GrantWatch.com displays new nonprofit grants, new for-profit grants, and new small business grants.

"Steal These Tools Free, high-quality resources for educators to implement the Common Core State Standards."

Really cool searchable database of IWB resources by subject/grade/reading levels

Really cool searchable database of IWB resources by subject/grade/reading levels

Mr B's List is a directory of the best *free* educational websites, (with emphasis on interactive sites) to use with your SMART Board or other interactive whiteboard, etc. Regardless of where your classroom technology comes from I hope you can benefit from quick and easy access to valuable websites for your subject and grade level.

Great resource for educators, counselors, or anyone working with students who are beginning to look at career choices.

"Bloom's Taxonomy is talked about a lot in educational circles. However, if you believe a recent survey of visits to 23,000 U.S. classrooms, the higher-order thinking skills it's ideally designed to promote doesn't get much use."

this isn't so much directly education-related as it is something we all need to consider these days - and so will our students. i'd be interested in knowing which one or more you've tried, and what you thought about the service. would you recommend?

An 8th grade history teacher's blog about history, technology, and education. Includes lots of videos, presentations, and lessons, activities, and resources for making history more engaging in the classroom.

PBS Teachers website provides multimedia resources, PD for K-12 educators along with RSS feeds to keep you up to date.

Great question: what is our core mission?

So if we view our resource in education and schools as being information, we will find ourselves more and more as one option among many. So I think that we need to ask the question: what is our core mission? What can we offer in classrooms and schools that can be gained nowhere else? What makes our spaces different?

Video and activity resources for educators from Scholastic.

Great resource wiki providing many examples on the uses of Flickr in education.

Free model-based learning resources and software We are delighted to be able to offer a growing collection of free software and student materials that use this software. Finding it is a bit of a treasure hunt. Sorry. The software is being developed in different projects, so we have not collected it all in one place. The following describes the major places to look. * Three powerful modeling environments * Activity authoring * Algebra interactives * Sustainable development education * VideoPaper builder * License and copyright You may also wish to visit our complete Software Download Center.

Excellent diigo group about digital citizenship that is being created by educators.

The advocates for digital citizenship, safety, and success diigo group has over 400 bookmarks categorized by the 9 aspects of digital citizenship that we are using to organize. Join in and share your bookmarks. This is becoming a great resource.

Educator who is blogging and sharing some great information with teachers.

Kudos to Brooksie, a new blogger that I found when she left her link on my blog today. Such a great resource. She's doing a nice job!