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I love this website for kids educational games and my kids do too!

Cool website for kids games.

Math, Science, Spelling, etc....

Designed by researchers for researchers. This tool will allow you to organize your research online & offline. It automatically captures data for citation in MLA, APA, & Chicago. The aspects that they are working on will be amazing in relation to collaboration with other people.

firefox extension for compiling a complete works cited while researching on the internet.  pretty nifty tool - wish it worked on other browsers as well.

This amazing website helps you find open source alternatives to just about any type of software.

Great place to go find free open source alternatives to software. As you cut your budget for next year look here to see what you should use instead!

Open source software with much of functionality of the paid versions

This site uses LOC primary resources to examine American life. It could help develop visual literacy skills, use of primary sources, as well as help teach history.

Diigo seems to be getting us closer to the sematic web. How does this translate to our schools today and in the future?

Great English language vocabulary learning games. This site is adding new vocabulary building games every month.

Improve your vocabulary while having fun. Test Preparation & Vocabulary Building for K-12 & ESL Students. Free Flash word games including Hangman, Word search, Match Game, The Vocabulary Quiz

Learning to recognize word roots early on is crucial in a child's education as it not only helps carry spelling skills over to reading fluency but also greatly increases general comprehension skills, reading or otherwise. A fun way for kids to build their repertoire of root words is by playing online root word games.

This site provides games for different mathematic concepts as well as a link to prealgebra lessons.

Kinda of like an online Google Earth in case you can't get the real thing installed.

Simple, yet detailed alternative to Google Earth. Flash based.

Google Earth alternative.

Compare/contrast a variety of different Wikis using this site.

Free creative commons licensed music for download!

Digital storytelling music site - just be careful, you may want to prescreen and download some yourself as there may be some profanity.

a source of free and legal music downloads. The music on Jamendo comes from the artists who upload it themselves. While not all of the music is licensed for re-use, there is a substantial collection of music labeled with a Creative Commons license. As always, before re-using any of the music you download make sure it is labeled for re-use.Applications for EducationJamendo could be a good source of music downloads for students to use in video and podcast projects. Some of the music does come with an "explicit" label so you probably don't want to send young students searching on Jamendo on their own. In that case it would be better for you to build a collection from which students choose.

Send this to your science teachers.

Great pictures and videos of the world's endangered species

Videos and photos that live up to the simple tagline "images of life on earth". Endangered species are a speciality; the promise is they will live on here if nowhere else.

This site is for the development and improvement in technology implementation. It provides a wide range of resources including framework, state initiatives, events, etc.

Not sure when this list was made, but it is a comprehensive list of education blogs by technorati authority (which I know many ignore now, but yet, it does give you a list.)

Blogs for/by educators.

This is a great site for behavior mgt problems.

Will Rich points to this post re 'online reputation' and job readiness. For me it points to the need for students to use the social tools together with adult help rather than separately as when banned from use at school. And of course..how to help, really?!