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"The Common Core Learning Standards describe the importance of teaching students how to comprehend informational text. They are asked to read closely, make inferences, cite evidence, analyze arguments and interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text. Primary source documents are artifacts created by individuals during a particular period in history. This could be a letter, speech, photograph or journal entry."

Very interesting site for social studies and primary sources.

Build your own 3D virtual games with this open source software application. 

"Charlie Reisinger, IT Director at Penn Manor High School in Lancaster Pennsylvania delivers a talk on how we can empower students at all public schools with the elements of the open source way."

This new discovery of an open source, cross platform video editor looks promosing.  There is a learning curve with it but a possible option for projects that need time at school and home.

Excellent source of projects integrating technology while addressing Common Core.

"HTML Tidy is a tool for checking and cleaning up HTML source files. It is especially useful for finding and correcting errors in deeply nested HTML, or for making grotesque code legible once more. This online version enables you use it without installing the client tool on your PC. More information about HTML Tidy is available from the original W3C page, and you can download a local copy of it from the SourceForge project page. "

"The iPad's iBooks application supports the standard ePub format as well as books you purchase through the iBooks store. This means that you can use the huge library of free eBooks available from Project Gutenberg & Google Books. You can also read eBooks purchased through other sources such as The Pragmatic Bookshelf. Simply drag any ePub books you download to iTunes and after you sync your iPad, those books will appear in iBooks."

Online citation machine for citing your sources.

This is Microsoft's free open source program that was originally targeted at college students. Now it has been opened to high schools.

"Looking for some rubrics to hone in your students presentation skills ? The rubrics below will definitely be of great help. I came across these materials on Discovery Assessment in an article written by Dona Criswell and I really liked them specially that they cover different grades. However, it should be noted that these rubrics are the property of Bucket Institute of Education, a leading source on project based learning materials and for some reasons the download link Donna provided is not working so I am hoping you will be able to have rough idea of how to create your own rubric based on these samples here."

A Network of Farmers, Engineers, and Supporters Building the Global Village Construction Set