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Radio WillowWeb is a podcast for kids and by kids from the students at Willowdale Elementary School in Omaha, Nebraska. Each new show is called a Willowcast. Each Willowcast can be heard on WillowWeb as an mp3 digital audio file.

Just as a stormchaser uses available technologies, knowledge and skills to pursue and document an impending thunderstorm, storychasers use their tools and abilities to document stories of local, regional, national or international interest. In our classrooms and after-school programs, as educators we can empower learners of all ages to become digital witnesses and responsible citizen journalists as storychasers. Whether on a school field trip, conducting research for a class project or school journalism assignment, or interviewing local residents to share about their lives and experiences, storychasers can and are utilizing a rich array of new media tools to create, communicate, and collaborate. Come learn how to join the storychaser's communication revolution, and catalyze the development of a diverse array of 21st century as well as traditional literacy skills with students in your local community who can become empowered storychasers!

Examples of classroom instruction.

In Conquering the Paperwork Mountain, two schools show how they have implemented new strategies in dealing with overwhelming admin, and demonstrate how schools can take the load off their staff, allowing them to get on with what they do best - teaching!

Some new and some common education resources.

Are you a Flubaroo user? MCQ your choice? Watch this video on a new Google add-on named "Super Quiz". This may be the next best option for Google Forms.

Google Ideas explores how technology can enable people to confront threats in the face of conflict, instability and repression. We connect users, experts and engineers to conduct research and seed new technology-driven initiatives.

"Rubrics make grading quicker, clearer, and more objective. They are one of the most helpful tools that teachers can have in their bag of tricks. You will find our site to one of the most extensive teacher resources for rubrics on the Internet. You will find tools that help guide you through the process of creating these assessment tools for evaluating student performance. You will also find over five hundred printable rubrics on our web site. If the concept of rubrics is completely new to you, you will want to read this article for a complete explanation."

"Display resolution versus pixel resolution Those figures both refer to pixel resolution, a stat that until last year generally didn't differ from display resolution. The difference is important, and I continue to be annoyed that neither Apple nor Google make it easy to understand what display resolutions their screens show. The difference between the two can be summarized like this: Display Resolution: How much can you see on a screen Pixel Resolution: How clear or sharp the image is that you see Display resolution: how much you can see 

Very interesting and resource rich visual search engine. It will even filter searches. 

Integrate video within a video using Adobe Spark. Cool examples on this page as well.