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"The focus was on how to use technology as a tool for learning to support all learners in the 24/7 classroom." Interactive presentation on designing a digital classroom.

Understanding by Design - A simple guide to help with understanding.

The curriculum is designed to be interactive, discussion filled and allow students to learn through hands-on and scenario activities. Each workshop contains a resource booklet for both educators and students that can be downloaded in PDF form, presentations to accompany the lesson and animated videos to help frame the conversation.

Today is an online fashion studio that gives tweens the creative license and platform to create, showcase and buy clothing they design themselves.

Interactive whiteboard area that includes a great-looking math function editor. Designed for synchronous distance learning. Watch the presentation on this page. Click the banner at the top to go back to the main page

Interactive whiteboard area that includes a great-looking math function editor. Designed for synchronous distance learning.

Create, publish and share ebooks. You can even embed them!

I am a sucker for anything new to explore. I signed up...just don't know how to use it! LOL

With myebook.com, we've made it possible for anyone to upload, or create from scratch, beautifully simple or adventurously complex page designs and covers online, in no time. What's more, you can publish your book with a single button and release it to the world before the (virtual) ink's dry! You can create as many publications as you want. And it's all free.

"If you've ever wanted to paste "Pop Up Video"-style commentary bubbles over your favorite YouTube clip, Popcorn Maker's drag-and-drop UI couldn't be simpler. But you can also add more sophisticated interactivity like Google Maps, live Twitter feeds, and Wikipedia articles just as easily. "

At Google, we support the education of families on how to stay safe online. That's why we've teamed up with online safety organization iKeepSafe to develop curriculum that educators can use in the classroom to teach what it means to be a responsible online citizen. The curriculum is designed to be interactive, discussion filled and allow students to learn through hands-on and scenario activities.

Videos that link designing equipment for olympic athletes.

NBC Learn and NBC Sports, in partnership with the National Science Foundation, explore the engineering and technology helping athletes maximize their performance at the 2012 London Games.

"PrimaryPad is a web-based word processor designed for UK primary schools that allows pupils and teachers to work together in real-time."

links to lots of guides to using Twitter. Designed for teachers. Just posted on twitter today

Microsoft® Popfly™ is the fun, easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, games, Web pages, and applications. Create games, build mashups, design webpages.

Now you can join in on the fun! I created a web-based tool to make it possible for others to create Crappy Graphs using my classic graph design!

A service of drop.io designed for recording voicemail directly to the web, and podcasting. In two clicks you get a custom phone line and record MP3s instantly to the web. You can then share via web (URL), email, iTunes, rss, twitter, and facebook 'outputs'.

A free online drawing and animation tool that runs right in your browser. You can treat it like Microsoft Paint and use it to do just a quick doodle, or take advantage of its layer cloning and vector-based designs to create relatively advanced animations.

Creately is an intelligent diagramming and design platform that is online and collaborative.

Aviary is on a mission to make creation accessible to artists of all genres, from graphic design to audio editing. -Image editor, color editor, effects editor, vector editor, image markup, screen capture, audio editor

"Kidblog.org is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with their own, unique blog. Kidblog's simple, yet powerful tools allow students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs. "

MyFolio is a new online community of artists and creatives. Our website allows users to upload and share their videos, images, audios, files and to also build a personalized portfolio. While MyFolio was created with a single vision of becoming one of the largest art sharing websites, its purpose is anything but singular. Designed by the creative mind, for the creative mind, MyFolio.com is the ultimate destination for creatives and art enthusiasts looking to connect with other artists, prospective employers, and the general public.

"The issues surrounding copyright have never been more visible. But the classroom presents its own copyright-related challenges, for students and teachers alike. How is an educator to know what the rules are? How do those rules apply in the classroom? And how can we make sure that students know the rules as well?"