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This website show different workshops that are educators can attend to help them teach their students.

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"This section of TakingITGlobal contains an assortment of fun and interactive educational games!" (TIGgames, sidebar, 2010.07.23)

The top five search tools for finding Flickr images are designed to help teachers and students locate just the right image for use in any subject area and project. Without these tools finding the right image on this image hosting site is often an impossible, or at least a tedious, task. The value of this site is its ability to provide digital pictures which are often impossible for a teacher to obtain any other way. Like everything else on the internet, trying to find something is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. This where the top five search tools become valuable resources for teachers and students trying to find images comes into play. These search engines are specifically designed to search the more than three billion pictures on the Flickr hosting site.

In the site, you will find a variety of review games, classroom management software, and other miscellaneous tools for educators.

Windows Live Essentials 2011 for Educators

Today's online games based on maps are not only fun but they are very cool educational tools. Kids of today have it so much better with all the edutainment stuff they can call up with a mouse click. Help your kids learn more about the world with these ten online geography games. You too can jump in.

Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites. Moodle.org is our community site where Moodle is made and discussed.

Thanks to Isabelle Jones for pointing out this new site for language teachers and teacher educators

Primary and Secondary Continuity in Foreign Language Teaching multi-national (European) educational endeavor: documents, forum, website under construction (2009.01.07) Project Description: http://www.pri-sec-co.eu/en/the-project/project-description.html

Illustrates what education is about; from Barbara Dieu, Another Beespace, 1st Web Curriculo, 2008.09.30 (http://beespace.net/1st-web-curriculo/), complemented by the adjacent list of themes, skills, and support systems in Barbara's post

I found this in the NECC 08 webcasts and it looks like a great source for educators. The idea is to make a social tagging platform like delicious (or diigo!) but have it only relevant to educators. I can also warmly recommend the webcast: http://www.kzowebcasting.com/necc/ Tuesday 11am - Edtags.org

Heather Johnson's (2008.01.28) selections for the Online Education Database cover a wide range of topics.

Gleaned from Carla Arena's collection - Thanks, Carla!

The Professional Learning Board (PLB) offers a whack of resources to parents and teachers, including this dedicated toolbar for Firefox (Windows, Mac, or Linux), which is also availablle for Internet Explorer 5.0+

The Professional Learning Board deserves a thorough exploration to see what else it has in stock for: "professional development, instructional strategies, classroom management, online teaching and learning tools, virtual classrooms, continuing ed, and school" (2008.07.30).

"Wiki Etiquette for Students - How to act on a wiki" (2008.07.15) provides advice and suggests additional resources regarding personal safety, truthfulness, permission to post, acknowledgements, accuracy, and other issues related to online activities and collective editing.

This page displays a password to enable editing by educators, "but you need to enter the wiki invite key to associate this wiki with your account." I havn't figured out where to get one of those keys yet.

Introduces Diigo: lists suggestions for using Diigo in education from discussion with Clif Mims on why teachers and learners would, should could use Diigo, and diplays annotated screenshots showing how to activate and use Diigo functions