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Punya Mishra's TPACK newsletter. Mentions our project, Teaching Teachers for the Future http://www.altc.edu.au/ttf/

Making the world's knowledge computable Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. Enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and a growing collection of data to compute the answer.

The aim of this project is to produce age-appropriate non-fiction books for children from birth to age 12. These books are richly illustrated with photographs, diagrams, sketches, and original drawings. Wikijunior books are produced by a worldwide community of writers, teachers, students, and young people all working together. The books present factual information that is verifiable. You are invited to join in and write, edit, and rewrite each module and book to improve its content. Our books are distributed free of charge under the terms of the Gnu Free Documentation License.

Quest Atlantis (QA) is an international learning and teaching project that uses a 3D multi-user environment to immerse children, ages 9-15, in educational tasks. QA combines strategies used in the commercial gaming environment with lessons from educational research on learning and motivation. Participation in this game is designed to enhance the lives of children while helping them grow into knowledgeable, responsible, and empathetic adults.

Real Easy 100's of thoughtful features to make creately diagramming quick and natural, its a joy to use. Beautiful Diagrams One click styling, pretty shapes, curvy connectors and more helps you create beautiful diagrams. Team Collaboration Powerful project collaboration, inline commenting, one click publishing and team management. Smart Diagramming Smart diagrams and objects suggests connectors, draws as you type and adds data to your diagrams.

Racial discrimination online test bias

Raises money to purchase laptops for Caribbean children.

Allows capture and markup of screenshots / video

Lerning management system

Kodu is a new visual programming language made specifically for creating games. It is designed to be accessible for children and enjoyable for anyone. The programming environment runs on the Xbox, allowing rapid design iteration using only a game controller for input.

Kodu is a new visual programming language made specifically for creating games. It is designed to be accessible for children and enjoyable for anyone. The programming environment runs on the Xbox, allowing rapid design iteration using only a game controller for input.

This is a great site from the Australian Flexible Learning Framework that has a range of helpful tips for a wide variety of technologies.

"Welcome to Museum Box, This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others. More..."