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Placefy is fun geographic game that teaches you about world cities in pictures, we ask you to identify cities by displaying one picture at a time and if you are correct you will earn points and jump levels. You can tweet and post your score to facebook any time.

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!

Sorry last bookmark prob won't let you in since it is in my account...

The Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an online community of open study groups for short university-level courses. Think of it as online book clubs for open educational resources. The P2PU helps you navigate the wealth of open education materials that are out there, creates small groups of motivated learners, and supports the design and facilitation of courses. Students and tutors get recognition for their work, and we are building pathways to formal credit as well.

Possibly the easiest way to enjoy your favorite online videos and music Dragontape is a collaborative webservice that lets you create 3-hour mixtapes of your favorite YouTube videos. Mixtapes are easy to use, simple to share with friends, and let you focus on having a good time watching videos.

StoryRobe is a free app that students can use to make a Quicktime slideshow/movie in 3 easy steps. Students can select photos and record their voices talking about the photos or narrating a story.

ReelDirector is the first app to bring real video editing to mobile platform.

Pictello is a simple way to create talking photo albums and talking books on your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Each page in a Pictello Story can contain a picture, up to five lines of text, and a recorded sound or text-to-speech using high-quality voices. Stories can be shared using iTunes File Sharing or via WiFi with other Pictello users through a free account on the Pictello Sharing Server

Whether you're planning a vacation on the web, evaluating restaurants on your phone, or helping with homework in front of the family Google TV, Qwiki is working to deliver information in a format that's quintessentially human - via storytelling instead of search.

Through the use of these math applications, students will improve their skills with basic math facts and mental computation.  Used on a weekly basis, this apptivity has shown documented improvement in students' abilities on timed addition, subtraction, multiplication and division tests.  This apptivity is designed to be used as math centers, which the students rotate through in fifteen minute intervals over a 45 minute math period.

The brain is perhaps the most fascinating organ in the human body. It controls everything from breathing to emotions to learning. If you work with children, here are some facts that you might find helpful, from how the brain affects learning to facts about memory to interesting facts about the brain that you can share with your students.

Could replace the purchase of Elmos...could purchase 9 p2vs for the price of one Elmo. Also might be easier to use, since it is connected to the computer.

With PhotoCard you can make dazzling, high resolution postcards on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch, and send them on-the-spot, through e-mail or the US Postal Service. The app is amazingly easy to use. To create a PhotoCard, select one of Bill's nature photos or use one of your own personal photos. Then, flip the card over to type your message. For a fun touch, jazz up your PhotoCard with decorative stickers and stamps. If you're e-mailing your card, it can even include an audible greeting. When you've finished your creation, send it off to any e-mail or postal address in the world!

MathBoard is appropriate for all ages from kindergarten (with simple addition and subtraction problems) to elementary school where learning multiplication and division can be a challenge. You can control the range of numbers you want to work with, the number of questions you want to answer and even assign a time limit per quiz. MathBoard will make learning math fun.

History Tours is a collaborative website that gives teachers access to pre-made Google Earth tours on various topics in American and World history. These tours provide an excellent backdrop for visual learning. They allow students to view people and places of historical importance while the teacher presents essential background knowledge.

This quasi experimental web site is designed to foster visual thinking and creative writing.

If you're like me, you don't have the time to delve into the world of Excel formulas. It's not that I haven't tried. I have. It's just that manipulating the data and then turning that refined data into charts that are actually understandable is, well, I hate it. That's why I was quite thrilled to find Google's answer to this problem: ChartTool.

The hands-on science maps for kids invite children to see, explore, and understand science from above. One map shows our world and the places where science is practiced or researched.