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Game for Science has to be one of the coolest virtual worlds for kids. This virtual world is dedicated to getting kids excited about science and technology. Students can explore various virtual islands where they will learn about health, aeronautics, genomics, environment, engineering and more. Students can learn more about science careers, what scientists do, play games, learn interesting facts, and explore science photos and videos. Students can play the Game for Science as a tourist without registering, or they can register for an account (this requires an email address with confirmation). This is an outstanding way for kids to get excited about science and technology. As students travel through the virtual world, they can collect neurons (smart stars) by answering questions and playing games. The neurons can be used to purchase items for their avatar.

Thought provoking post about screencasting.   However, how about using screencasts as method of assessing student learning?

"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."

" By now we all know about Google Search and Google Docs... but here are 8 specific tricks you can use with Google to enhance your classrooms. I could easily have created a list of 100+ ways to use Google...but for now, let's stick with these 8 tricks you may not have known about already."

Interview with US Department of Education's Director of Education Technology, Karen Cator to dispell myths about blocked sites.

"School is a time in a students life where they are learning as much about how to be students and operate successfully in a school as they are about how to read, write, and think. But oftentimes, the demand for pure academic instruction and practice can fly in the face for a student's need-at any age-to play, build, interact, explore, and construct their own learning experience. Issues like these can make mobile technology like tablets a boon to learning, as they can allow individual access to the right app-and the right content, creative opportunity, game, or learning simulation-at the right time. It is the collision of the need for interaction, personalization, creativity, and constant feedback that can make video games powerful tools for learning-and the following 38 games, curated by Sam Gliksman-and excellent place to start."

Social collaboration for teens and their education counterparts. Free resource for education to share, create, and connect projects by teens with teens.

This is an alphabetical list of websites where you can find out about anything and everything - whether it be a small fact or a large body on knowledge. The websites cover a wide range of informational and educational topics and include general reference resources, how-to guides, wikis, how-to videos, podcasts, courses, lessons, tutorials (including open courseware), e-books as well as other reference resources and places to ask questions both online and on your mobile.

Video Playlist: Ten Great Videos to Get People Jazzed About Education

Great for elementary science classes when learning about the climate of the earth. Topics include weather & climate, air, ocean, fresh water, energy, plants & animals, carbon's travels and technology. There are videos, games and activities to use in the classroom.

"About Evil Mad Science Auxiliary- This is a public group for anyone to add photos that are (at least marginally) related to posts and projects on our blog, Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, aka www.evilmadscientist.com/. If our web site inspired you to build something cool that you want to show off, please feel free to add it to the pool."

Looking for ways to schedule a lab? How about Transfering ownership or eliminating choices on a Google form if already taken? Check these scripts out.

Differentiating instruction is a time-tested way of thinking about meeting students' needs as they make progress toward achievement or learning targets.  Differentiation is an elegant mindset that suggests to teachers a framework that permits them to engage students while focusing on learning results, and digital technologies offer many opportunities to differentiate instruction in meaningful ways.  However, differentiating instruction takes a concerted planning effort on our parts as teachers and teacher educators. This is especially so as we develop a mindset that differentiation can be effective. In this post, I propose a three-phase approach to planning differentiated instruction: Where do we start planning for differentiated instruction with technology, What are considerations for who we teach, what we teach, and how we plan? How do I put it all together?

This article will get you thinking about the iPad as or not as a creation device.  The author does provide points that make you think twice.