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Not everything about education of 50 years ago is irrelevant today. But the thrust of this article is right.

Search Education lessons were developed by Google Certified Teachers

Education blogs, by discipline

NASA now offers easy access to a rich array of its educational resources--including websites and video--through its Find Teaching Materials search tool. The database is searchable by keyword, and may be filtered by: * Grade Level * Type of Material * Subject NASA allows offers a browsable A-Z List of Print Publications in pdf form.

The PBS Digital Learning Library is a public media system-wide repository of digital media learning objects, including videos, images, interactives, audios and documents. The PBS Digital Learning Library content will be easily searchable, tagged and correlated to state education standards.

The PBS Digital Learning Library is a public media system-wide repository of digital media learning objects, including videos, images, interactives, audios and documents. The PBS Digital Learning Library content will be easily searchable, tagged and correlated to state education standards.

National Educational Technology Standards for students, teachers, and administrators.

Digital Storytelling is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. Digital stories can vary in length, but most of the stories used in education typically last between two and ten minutes. And the topics that are used in Digital Storytelling range from personal tales to the recounting of historical events, from exploring life in one's own community to the search for life in other corners of the universe, and literally, everything in between

School Library Journal is the earth's biggest review source for books, multimedia and technology for children and teens --- along with news, features, and hot topics for librarians and educators.

Euan Semple on Social Media in Business; educators can draw out important ideas for our profession.

The purpose of this forum is to discuss how to encourage faculty members to expand their range of instructional strategies and enhance them via the creative use of educational technology.

Members of an internet safety task force on July 8 suggested several ways to improve cyber safety for children, focusing on three key areas in particular: education before a child gets on the internet, control while the child is online, and having set procedures if problems arise.

Extensive list of educational blogs. Includes students, teachers, classroom, and administrative blogs. Use left sidebar for great blogging resources.

An incredible repository of tools and ideas reagarding 21st century learning. Organised according to the stages of Blooms Digital Taxonomy.

An incredible repository of tools and ideas reagarding 21st century learning.

Good history and description of major Web 2.0 tools. Sections 2, 3, and 5 are the most applicable parts.

Intrnet Safety-Keeping children safer online. An educational resrouce blog for parents, teachers and law enforcement. Discusses cyberbullying, electronic harassment, sexual predators, teacher resources, videos and more online safety information.

A wiki where I've been compiling free, web-based tools that I think would be useful to educators.

Poll-based list of web apps for edcuation

Poll-based list of web apps for edcuation

Good example of policy and sensible use of web for students and school staff, with an eye to both duty of care and keeping the web open

Good example of policy and sensible use of web for students and school staff, with an eye to both duty of care and keeping the web open