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The interactive reading games below are ideal for developing the reading skills of your pupils. Use the reading games on your interactive whiteboard, or computer, at school or at home. Please register if you intend to use these games. The games below are listed by word level and sentence level activities. To find a game quickly please use the 'quick game finder'.

This is a great geography game for both kids and adults. As fast as you can click as close to the location on the map as possible. The game starts off easy with obvious locations but gets harder as the levels progress. You'll need big scores to be allowed to the higher levels. Good luck

This blog has some great lesson ideas for math, language arts, wrting and technology.  Theses ideas take your students into the higher levels of Bloom.

"Course Builder is our experimental first step in the world of online education. It packages the software and technology we used to build our Power Searching with Google online course. We hope you will use it to create your own online courses, whether they're for 10 students or 100,000 students. You might want to create anything from an entire high school or university offering to a short how-to course on your favorite topic. Course Builder contains software and instructions for presenting your course material, which can include lessons, student activities, and assessments. It also contains instructions for using other Google products to create a course community and to evaluate the effectiveness of your course. To use Course Builder, you should have some technical skills at the level of a webmaster. In particular, you should have some familiarity with HTML and JavaScript."

APPitic is a directory of apps for education by Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) to help you transform teaching and learning. These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings.

Unique Learning System is the ONLY online, dynamic, standards-based curriculum specifically designed for special learners. Subscribers download monthly instructional thematic units of study. Each unit contains 30 lesson plans and downloadable materials that teachers can readily implement into classroom learning activities. All materials are created using SymbolStix graphics. The unit lesson plans define three levels of differentiated tasks to accommodate the diversity of learners with significant disabilities.

"There are as many definitions of gamification as there are books and Ted Talks about it. My working definition (as applied to education) is pretty simple-gamification is the process of taking something students have to do and turning it into something that they get to do. We aren't talking about higher level learning here, but rather a way to take the 'ew' out of 'review.' With this goal in mind, below are four tried-and-true tools to help teachers 'funify' their classroom activities."

Digital Age Blooms Taxonomy along with Web 2.0 tools per Blooms level via Kelly Tenkely on Twitter.

"Lesson The following lesson ideas utilize several of the Lite or free apps available for the iPad. These are basic lesson ideas that demonstrate the concept with specific content areas, but can be applied with a variety of curricular areas and grade levels."

Grockit is a social platform for learning that provides students with collaborative real-time study rooms and content aligned to K-12 curriculum and college entrance exams. With Grockit, schools can: * Quickly assess students' academic skill levels * Focus instruction on areas with the most need * Continuously adapt study plans to each student"

Interactive activity to learn each level of Blooms Taxonomy and what verbs fit those levels.

"With photos, videos, and music files clogging up your hard disk, it's harder than ever to keep it clean, trim, and free of duplicates. Use Fast Duplicate File Finder, though, and you'll be able to find duplicate files with ease, and keep your hard disk in tip-top shape. Fast Duplicate File Finder doesn't merely compare file names or file sizes; it does a file comparison at the binary level. This is particularly important when looking for music, video, and other media files, because you may have files with two different names, which are otherwise identical. It's got plenty of nice-to-have features, such as determining whether to delete duplicates or move them to the Recycle Bin or a custom folder; the ability to preview files before deleting them; and support for removable media such as USB drives. Fast Duplicate File finder is simple to use, goes about its work quickly, and it's free. It's this simple: If you're looking to trim your hard disk by deleting duplicate files, it won't lead you wrong. "

Google Apps lesson plans. Choose by Product, Subject, and/or Grade Level.

Mulitmedia resources for educators at all levels. There are ways to conduct International projects too.

Google spreadsheet providing recommended iPod Touch apps for education by grade level and subjects.

Very nice collection of iPad apps by grade level as well as a variety of different ways to use the iPad.