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Image Database from University of Washington.

Finding images on the web and documenting them.

Nice find, Vicki!

"A Windowless Room With a View: How Digital Mapping Tools Can Change Our Perspective on Learning"

"If you make a habit of using the four techniques described below, you'll be a much better searcher than 90% of all web-users. It's just four things, and each will provide you with a better net for information catching. "

This article captures significant developments in education: expansion of the world wide web making our teaching available globally, engaging learners in community inside and outside of the classroom, shifts from presentation to participation to name three.

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."

Nice rubric posted on twitter today by @coolcatteacher

Do you need this?

I hope everyone has received this notice from HU and has run the test. THey won't be able to get on, otherwise.

Great World Language and English repository of Free Tools.

Worth a look - Materials and Products.

Using primary source documents, students can use critical thinking to make their own conclusions about what happened in history.

I wonder if this is filterable. Meaning, I wonder if this can be open with the rest being closed? At least it would be a start.

5 criteria for evaluating information on the web.

Line of best fit applet. Plot up to 50 points, you "guess" where you think the line of best fit is, a thermometer shows how well you have done, then you can click to get the line of best fit, get the equation with the slope and the y intercept. Only in the first quadrant though.

Very cool pictures: Earth Science, atmospheric optics. A different picture every day.

50 classroom starters

Not sure what grade level this is for, but it's elementary, certainly. A fun site to begin the discussions about the critters in the woods.

probably 3-5th grade; vocab and concepts a little difficult for primary, but still a great visual representation of forest habitat. Other "walks" are available back at the zoo main page. Also some neat links to live web cams at the zoo.

Virtual tour of Smithsonian - National Museum of Natural History