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A Real Solution For Classroom Teachers The Solution Site is filled with K-12, hands-on, problem based thematic units with real world relevance. Invite your students to apply 21st Century skills and tools in your classroom everyday by incorporating lessons from The Solution Site into your teaching.

Share Your Stuff! myFreepath is a network of people who exchange content through playlists created in Freepath. Share your stuff with a private group or a worldwide audience without having to mess with file conversions or FTP gobblygook. Plus, get access to some pretty cool stuff that was packaged up by others.

Karl Fisch reflects on how Web 2.0 is changing the way people can relfect on politics and the political debates in real time.

5 Sources for Free and Legal Images Filed as Guides on October 6, 2008 9:01 am by Jonathan BaileyEveryone knows that almost any blog post is better with images. However, getting them can be a difficult matter. With a maze of licensing and fair use issues

Real World Math is a math learning resource that utilizes Google Earth.

This is an example of a Shelfari page that I created for my students who were working on independent author studies. After students wrote book reviews on their blogs, I added their titles to the shelf. by embedding the widget onto my blog, everyone could immediately see what others were reading.

This manuel is published by the Nebraska Department of Education

From the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, this tic tac toe is designed to meet the various needs and learning styles of students.

Creating these "Personal Learning Networks" (PLN), as they are called, is a skill set for the 21st Century, a literacy grounded in reading and writing and editing and rooted in the best of constructivist learning theory. In essence, when we create our own

This micro-blogging social network resembles Twitter and Plurk, but is supposed to be more appropriate for educational use.

Analyze & track customer insights w/ professional surveys. Free trial www.ConstantContact.com Most Web Polling software are free, intuitive and require no technical knowledge but the only problem is that there are just too many polling services available

Education blog platform. A great article about this platform is here: www://teachandlearn.ca/blog/2008/02 Blog of Proximal Development

Kind of funny... a negative review of Diigo on Mashable.com, wherein Diigo users used the highlighting/annotation tools unique to Diigo to comment about why the reviewer is wrong. But, of course, you would only see those highlighted portions and comments if you were using Diigo...

Storynory is an online treasure trove of audio stories. Here you will find a mixture of new stories, fairy tales, and specially adapted myths and histories. We also have a sprinkling of verse. We have published an audio story every week since November 2005. Storynory has grown and grown in popularity, and now around a quarter of a million mp3 files are downloaded every month from our servers. Our stories are read by Natasha Gostwick and her clear story-telling voice has won a place in the hearts of children and adults all over the world.

Early education math games site dedicated to teaching kids higher levels of math, including algebra and geometry. This is a UK based site.

ZoomIt is screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image. I wrote ZoomIt to fit my specific needs and use it in all my presentations. ZoomIt works on all versions of Windows and you can use pen input for ZoomIt drawing on tablet PCs.

When people are unenthusiastic about social media and other Web 2.0 stuff it is tempting to be a bit sneery and say they don't "get it". Who can fail to see the benefits of publishing without publishers, and organising without organisations? The tools may take a little getting used to, but surely they are worth trying in pursuit of a better world? Maybe for you, but not necessarily for them. It could be people do get it and don't like what they see, because your world view isn't theirs. If they say We can't do that - and they mustn't do it either, it may be a reflection of organisational culture - or something deeper about the way thing work.

Online manipulatives suitable for K-12 students. Includes number & operations, algebra, geometry, measurement, and data analysis & probability. Site made available through Utah State University. A downloadable desktop version is also available.

Just because you build a wiki, doesn't mean they will come. This has been my and other faculty members' experiences in using wikis in the classroom. We all know the feeling . . . the excitement of seeing and then using a type of software that should be just perfect to engage students and to enable community-building. We work during our break time to incorporate this learning technology in our course only to find out that students aren't that excited about it. I think one of the reasons for the lackluster student enthusiasm toward any type of new technology tool is that they need to learn it. I'm not saying that students are lazy . . . it's just that the internal question, "what's in it for me?" probably needs to be answered.

This is an interesting site about the human body.