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"One of the wonders of the Internet is that it can bring the world to you instead of your needing to find the time and money to explore the traditional way. The following virtual tours bring opportunities to explore cities, famous landmarks and buildings, museums, college campuses, and even outer space. You can learn how things are made, explore the human body or that of a life-sized whale, and visit ball parks and theme parks. There is even a section of incredible virtual tours that Google Earth has compiled that shares the world in a whole new way."

Exploration of new options to get visitor experts in your classroom or get your kid feet in more doors through the use of web conferencing tools. 

"Join us on Wednesday, October 21, 2009, at noon CDT, for the start of Wolfram|Alpha Homework Day, a groundbreaking marathon live interactive web event that brings together students, parents, and educators from across the United States to solve their toughest assignments and explore the power of using Wolfram|Alpha for school, college, and beyond."

I plan to tune in just to hear the kinds of questions being asked.

"I guarantee that you will find something new that will amaze you as you explore. So get ready to dive into these web 2.0 treasure troves!"

Explore U.S. history using primary sources from the Library of Congress. Kids can discover Americas Story, meet amazing Americans, explore the states. Includes songs, movies, quizzes and short stories about American history.

The National Archives has created a new web site to help educators teach with primary-source documents. The site, called DocsTeach, not only lets teachers explore thousands of documents in a variety of media from the National Archives holdings, but it also includes online tools to help teachers combine these materials and create engaging history activities that students can access over the internet.

Graph functions, plot tables of data, evaluate equations, explore transformations, and much more - for free! theses an easy way to add higher math graphs to tests and assignments. Students can also create graphs and send them. This fits under redefinition for the SAMR model and doesn't fit clean;y into any category of the web 2.0 clusters. My best guess is Infographic s under data analysis and drawing. Any thoughts?

"The intent of this project wiki is to address: How can the TED talks be used as springboards for further discourse, exploration, reflection, and action?"

Their portal for Education. "Wolfram Research is dedicated to the advancement of science and mathematics education. For both students and educators, this educational portal contains a collection of resources spanning all precollege grade levels, including dynamic classroom Demonstrations from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project. Explore the topics below to find Demonstrations for your classroom or for individual study."

The School 2.0 etoolkit is designed to help schools, districts, and communities develop a common education vision and explore how that vision can be supported by technology

Some ideas for tech tools to aid in the writing prpocess.

Explore how technology can be a helpful tool that enhances and supports students' performance with their writing

Great site...Love the comic

Might be some good stuff here to explore!

If you've not seen this page, then you REALLY need to stop in and explore. This does a great job about showcasing and explaining the notion of a Digital Nation

What an innovative, forward-looking principal to embrace technology the way he did! I was impressed that the percentage of students on grade level rose 53% in 3years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW! These are the types of videos our school boards and administrators need to see. This is far more effective than teaching to the test and constant reviewing for PSSAs!

The Center for Civic Education is pleased to announce 60-Second Civics, a new daily podcast that provides a quick and convenient way for listeners to learn about our nation's government, the U.S. Constitution, and American history. The podcast explores themes related to civics and government, the constitutional issues behind the headlines, and the people and ideas that formed our nation's history and government. How much do you know about American civics, history, and government? Listen to the 60-Second Civics podcast, then test your knowledge by visiting the Center's homepage to take the Daily Civics Quiz. To subscribe to 60-Second Civics, visit www.civiced.org. You can also find 60-Second Civics at iTunes or Podcast Alley.

I hope this isn't a repeat site - one location for several Web 2.0 tools. I haven't explored all of them - most of them I haven't even heard of! But a one-stop location for MANY tools!

As someone "new" to ipad, I found this site helpful and plan to explore it and refer to it more often.

This blog explores the idea of using Facebook for education purposes. It always goes over some pros and cons of it. The blog has links to some interesting articles related to this topic including one about a professor using Facebook to teach a class at Penn State. I really found this blog valuable for the debate about Facebook in education. I personally support some of these methods like using it for important notifications in regards to safety alerts.

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.

In exploring for multi-media producing mediums/tools I ran across this site. Lots of potential video creation tools to experiment and play with. This site provides itself as an excellent guide and better yet...all promoted are free! = )