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Welcome to X-BLOCK, the place for students to hang out, learn about cyber safety and share their online experiences with others. It is your turn to DRiVE. Make the cyber world your world!

The best app I have seen for creating digital stories with photos in the gallery and adding narration. Easier to use than Photostory on a Windows computer. Limited in sharing product.

Inexpensive scanner that could give teachers the ability to create digital content quickly. The scanner seems very easy to use.

"Bound by Law translates law into plain English and abstract ideas into 'visual metaphors.' So the comic's heroine, Akiko, brandishes a laser gun as she fends off a cyclopean 'Rights Monster' - all the while learning copyright law basics, including the line between fair use and copyright infringement." -Brandt Goldstein, The Wall Street Journal online

This wiki is designed to support the book, Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and other Digital Tools, by Richard Beach, Chris Anson, Lee-Ann Breuch, and Thom Swiss, published in December by Christopher-Gordon Publishers, Inc. 

This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively.  Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for. We provide a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which we not only describe the tool's features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers

A Search Engine for Learning Teachers and students can use Gooru to search for rich collections of multimedia resources, digital textbooks, videos, games and quizzes created by educators in the Gooru community.

"Need to study on the go? Download Gooru Collections to have the best educational resources at your fingertips for free. Discover more than 3,000 collections, which are organized playlists of multimedia resources, for every 5th-12th grade math and science topic, with more subjects coming soon. Enjoy learning interactively with videos, games, digital textbooks, and more! Now the highest quality, teacher-reviewed resources from www.goorulearning.org are available on your iPad for on-the-go learning. This is Gooru's first ever iPad app, and we're always looking to improve. Please email us at apps@goorulearning.org to give us any feedback."