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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.

Jennifer Wagner's great collection of online project resources.

7.) Drop the filters on your internet service. Period. The most simple thing you can do in your school that can have the greatest impact on student learning. Give kids resources. Teach them to use them properly. Hold them accountable when they don't.

Nice podcasting resources.

The social web is an often overlooked resource full of excellent information. Whether you're working on a research project, building your brand, or just trying to find some information, look to social media sites to find what you're looking for. Here, we'll take a look at 100 tips and tools for effectively researching the social web.

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

Good resources on Understanding by Design and what it looks like in the classroom.

This might be a good place for a group interested in podcasting to start.

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.

Good resources from our southern neighbour.

Great tool for handling permission forms. FillAnyPDF.com is a website where you upload your PDF form and link to it so other people can fill it out and sign it online. No software is needed. Any PDF form can be used, even if it's not "interactive", so you can get started right away. You can even invite a group to fill out your forms and track the results. Anyone that collects signatures or filled out forms will find FillAnyPDF.com to be a valuable time-saving resource.

Search tool for finding open content

Chris Harbeck is a math teacher who uses student blogs to enhance his classroom. This is his Math 8 blog hub. It has lots of ideas for different Math lessons.

Details and signup sheet for Challenge 20/20 (a collaborative project with a school in another country to solve the world's 20 most difficult problems).

There are a lot of free podcasts that have been created with the teacher and tech nut in mind. Most of these podcasts are available free through iTunes. (If you don't have iTunes, you can download it for free at Apple.com.) Here are 20 iTunes feeds that would be of interest to tech-savvy teachers:

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.

Search Education lessons were developed by Google Certified Teachers

A great wiki, developed by amazing teacher-librarian Joyce Valenza, which gives tons of options of places to look for copyright-friendly images, sounds, and more.