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Here is a great FREE resource for teachers - Google for Teachers...Books, Docs, Maps and more

At this site, you can access a teacher's guide to "Google Tools for Your Classroom." You can also see examples of innovative ways that other educators are using these tools in the classroom.

rotate 3-D shapes for viewing from all sides and angles

construct and view 3-D figures from all sides and angles

the media files you use in your story have to be ones that are licensed or shared with permission to re-use; this is the only way you can safely then share your new creation knowing it does not contain any copyrighted material plus it is just darn human courtesy to give credit where creation came from. So just finding a picture via Google is not satisfactory. For each media file you find, as you search, be sure to document the source by title and URL and find a person or organization to give credit. "

This is a great page to show teachers a way to help students find creative commons media.

"Most of our young teachers and all of your students are already skilled with using Web 2.0, but they need you to have the knowledge and the vision to use these tools for educational purposes." p.24 Schrum & Levin Without teachers to explain, teach and enforce ideas like intellectual capital, creative commons, and copyright, students would not be aware of these issues. In fact, I'm wondering as our Millenials get into the workforce, if individuals will still be able to profit from intellectual capital. In many ways, the focus on collaboration lessens one individual's worth and transfers the value to the group as a whole. Will this change the way copyright laws work and the models for compensation that have been in place for years?

I like this post because it goes so well with the ideas in the "Leading 21st Century Schools" book. It refers to the updated Bloom's and gives concrete examples to help teachers shape questions directed towards higher-order thinking.

iRead is a group of teachers in Escondido Union School District dedicated to the idea that digital audio can be a powerful learning tool for all students. This learning community of teachers is using digital audio tools (iPods, mics, iTunes, Keynote, Garageband, etc. and various accessories) to improve reading processes.

Use of iPods to improve reading skills.

Why this hit me like a ton of bricks: This feels exactly like what I am experiencing at the schools I am working at. A few teachers are motivated and interested in technology and consciously apply it toward student learning. These teachers are excited about new applications of technology and diligently scrutinize student data to track student achievement. Often though, teachers think of technology as "one more thing I must do". I have been thinking about how I can best support teachers, including those teachers who are resistant to change. This article gave me some good ideas and some inspiration. I particularly appreciated the mention of school culture and passivity, that it is something that must be addressed. In order for technology to truly be integrated, we must have a paradigm shift in the way we view technology within teaching.

These are examples of "green" cities that have or are building sustainable energy plans. For science, note that most of them are arctic or sub-arctic cities. They offer diverse combinations of approaches to clean sustainability, using resources at hand. Ref.: ISTE student standards 1, 4, and 5. It is great that the new standards recognize the live-or-die mission of today's students. E.g.: Within their global digital networking environment------- they must enact citizenship that will make a planetary environment that is friendly to human survival (and the survival of many other species, too). This web site shows cities all over the northern hemisphere. Students can actually blog, facebook, or wiki or whatever with other kids in those same cities. Think of the science, economic, and social studies possibilities! Plus you could use Google Earth, a photo sharing site, and whatever (Picassa?) program that San Antonio lesson used to make a virtual tour of these star green cities. And of course you would apply all of that to mega projects here in Anchorage. A student network of kids in all those cities could grow into a network of future engineers, designers, and policy makers whose influence could go viral. Voila--civilization saved!