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This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills.

ARGuing will help teachers use the Internet ( see Web 2.0) within language education. The project is funded by the European Union within the Socrates education programme.

Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET project at the University of Colorado.

Song written and sung by 8th graders for a social studies project about urban problems in 19th Century America. Music is from the song "Stop and Stare" by One Republic. "All Alone"

The images in Ookaboo are public domain or creative commons and can be used freely for blogs, web sites, schoolwork, publications, and other creative projects. Ookaboo is a free service of Ontology2 © copyright 2009. Images on this site are licensed under various Creative Commons licenses; Image descriptions and metadata are CC-BY-SA.

Movie making site that has participants write scripts, draw characters, add music, and create movies. 

"Livebrush is a drawing application. It employs an easy-to-use brush tool that reacts to your gesture. By combining simple motion controls with brush styles, Livebrush offers a fun and unique way to create graphics."

Fill up a heart with words you choose. Nice tool. There are links to other interesting tools.

Your technology, your endeavors, your freedoms are all falling to the onslaught of entertainment-industry- funded initiatives that are destroying the future to preserve its dinosauric business models. Get your pitchforks and torches, burn your Sony rootkit-infected CDs, and take to the streets. They've declared war on you and your way of life -- if you don't defend yourself, who will?

This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie.

Art from museums around the world

Examples of student created movies about history

Rubric Creator

"Copyright-Friendly and Copyleft Images and Sound (Mostly!) for Use in Media Projects and Web Pages, Blogs, Wikis, etc."

from J valenza's column - A search on Impressionism reveals 12 large thumbnail stacks of paintings by a variety of Impressionist painters organized by their visual and semantic similarities. Select a stack and the images arrange themselves as a cluster, swirling into view. You can continue to drill down through related subgroups within each cluster in a mapping strategy, reminiscent of Google's Wonder Wheel available in the Search Options panel. Image Swirl searches are currently available for approximately 200,000 queries. - http://u.nu/56bw3