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CK-12 Foundation provides a library of free online textbooks, videos, exercises, flashcards, and real world applications for over 5000 concepts from arithmetic to history

Thinking, rethought. Coggle is designed to help you make sense of complex things - it's a shared workspace to help your team work more effectively together

Welcome to Prezi, the presentation software that uses motion, zoom, and spatial relationships to bring your ideas to life and make you a great presenter.

The Chandra Astrophysics Institute was a program held on the MIT campus for students in grades 9-11 to train for and undertake astronomy projects. The program is organized into six different investigations, and we have published lesson plans, assessment ideas, teacher tips, videos, and image galleries for you to explore.

Canvas is the trusted, open-source learning management system (LMS) that's revolutionizing the way we educate. Take Canvas for a test drive with our free, two-week trial account. Sign up now! Call 800-203-6755.

Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.

The most creative community for kids in the galaxy. Use DIY to learn new skills and keep a portfolio.

Among the stats - 500 Billion minutes/month spent on Facebook - and it's only been in existence for 5 years.

What implications does this have for Education? For us?

and we are already hearing about "Facebook addiction" For education, FB or a site like FB would be like one stop shopping at Wal Mart. Announcements, pictures, email, video, games. I prefer getting and sending messages in my FB mail than having to go to my yahoo mail and for posting videos than using my youtube account- I can do several things in one place. It is a lot easier to post pictures on FB then to send through email, especially a large group of pictures.

I would agree that for colleges and adult learners it might be, but I'm not convinced that the same holds true for K12.

Learning has to occur in a community, eh? If that's true, THEN can we get twitter, skype, Flickr, youtube, Diigo, etc unblocked so we can take advantage of that community?

VERY significant, don't you think?

Funny (and appropriate) Monty Python video clip to teach students some fallacies of logic.

I used to have this entire skit memorized. My all-time favorite!

Super video!

Your school can get it's own channel here, too.

Your school can get it's own channel here, too. Since someone bookmarked teachertube I thought you should also see this one. It's fast and I love the idea of getting your own channel.

Using Google Earth to discover Incredible Journeys!!

While a bit involved to get set up, this is a great resource to either provide background knowledge of the setting of a story OR as a review of what happened in the text. Limited text selections but could very well be an inspiration for you to make your own Lit trip!