Smithsonian Education offers a wide variety of free resources for teachers, students and parents.

The Gateway contains a variety of educational resource types from activities and lesson plans to online projects to assessment items.

Wikispaces Classroom is a social writing platform for education. It will make it incredibly easy to create a classroom workspace where me and my students can communicate and work on writing projects alone or in teams. Rich assessment tools will give me the power to measure student contribution and engagement in real-time.

Educreations is a global community where anyone can teach what they know and learn what they don't. This website is on a mission to democratize learning by extending the reach of great teaching. I would use this site to find different lesson ideas.

This website has original content, including lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, and articles written by education experts. I will use it for different lesson ideas and ideas on how to integrate technology into my classroom.

I can use this to connect students with free school safe email, participate in learning experiences that encourage exploration and innovation, join collaborative cultural exchange and language learning projects, and explore resources and learning centers featuring content from top brands.