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Here is a great site for those educators who are teaching world history! I use the games from this site and my students absolutely love them!

USA TODAY newspapers, article collections and curriculum programs effectively support the literacy and cognitive skills needed for success in college and careers by engaging students in real-world news and information. USA TODAY Education creates innovative, interactive, multi-platform learning programs that engage students with real-world information to improve their literacy and critical thinking skills and prepare them for college and career paths.

From Information Please, this website helps young students with research. Categories include people, science, sports, math, games and quizzes, and more.

This is a kid friendly site. It is a multi - subject site that students can gather information or play learning games. The subjects include world news, U.S., people, sports, math and money, science and a homework helper. There was information on how to write a biography under the people subject.

Web cam use for in and outside of the classroom

Consider adding a web cam for students to travel the world, study the weather, geography, or to create virtual field trips.

Web cam site with hundreds of links. Let your students show you their worlds.

This site lists a number of countries around the world and explains the holiday traditions of each country.

This site features lesson plans and activities for holidays around the world.

iPads are making waves in education all over the nation, even in college classrooms, where they're replacing laptops, textbooks, and notebooks. Some colleges have even gone so far as to hand out iPads to new students, helping students and faculty all work with the same technology for learning.

Virtual Reality and Nursing School

Helping keep the digital world civil . . . This blog post lays it all out: the rationale for teaching digital citizenship; how to start teaching it in elementary grades, and some follow up ideas for middle and high school. It's never too late to start working with students on digital citizenship, though! :-)

From the iPhone to the Garmin, advancements and gadgets introduced this decade changed the whole world. They've affected how we live, do business, acquire information, and connect with others. We've gotten used to touch-screens, blazingly fast Internet, and the ability to have the world at our fingertips in seconds.

Great educationally relevant materials!

so cool looks awesome thanks for the update

A great education news site that provides a sub section just for technology. A fantastic way to get access to up-to-day edtech news and best practices. Perfect resource for those in EdTech.

This programming tool for young kids makes video games and more.

It's Google's world, we're just teaching in it. Now, we can use it a little more easily. With classes, homework, and projects-not to mention your social life-time is truly at a premium for all teachers, so why not take advantage of the wide world that Google has to offer?

I was looking for 5 Senses Activities on Education World and came across this page. You can also tell this was my first time using diigo and that I'm half asleep, because I completely messed up where to type my comment. Sorry for the confusion.

Create a Class Account in Storybird and your students can create their own storybird books.

Make, read, and share visual stories. A global community of readers, writers, and artists of all ages. We curate artwork from illustrators and animators around the world and inspire writers of any age to turn those images into fresh stories.

The Connected Educator Month (CEM) initiative networks educators and education stakeholders through connected professional learning experiences worldwide. Over the past three years, millions of educators and others around the world have participated in hundreds of professional development and other educational opportunities, offering highly distributed, diverse, and engaging activities to all stakeholders at all levels.

The Clayton Christensen Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank dedicated to improving the world through disruptive innovation. Founded on the theories of Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen, the Institute offers a unique framework for understanding many of society's most pressing problems. Our mission is ambitious but clear: work to shape and elevate the conversation surrounding these issues through rigorous research and public outreach. With an initial focus on education and health care, the Christensen Institute is redefining the way policymakers, community leaders, and innovators address the problems of our day by distilling and promoting the transformational power of disruptive innovation. The Christensen Institute is based in the San Francisco Bay Area in California.

OPTIMUS PRIME wants YOU to showcase your NASA knowledge in a Glog! Your Mission: Search for Spinoffs in your Environment Spinoffs are like OPTIMUS PRIME- they come from Space to solve problems on Earth! That's why we need you to identify NASA Spinoff technology in your world and test your skills at changing an everyday object into something that will make your world a better place! John Lucyk