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quiz creation service that I recently learned about on Danny Nicholson's blog. Using Blubbr you can create interactive quizzes that are based on YouTube clips. Your quizzes can be about anything of your choosing. The structure of the quizzes has a viewer watch a short clip then answer a multiple choice question about the clip. Viewers know right away if they chose the correct answer or not.

"quiz creation service that I recently learned about on Danny Nicholson's blog. Using Blubbr you can create interactive quizzes that are based on YouTube clips. Your quizzes can be about anything of your choosing. The structure of the quizzes has a viewer watch a short clip then answer a multiple choice question about the clip. Viewers know right away if they chose the correct answer or not."

20+ Flash games centered on typing greet you when you land here. The site lives up to its name. From Keyboard Ninja to the offbeat Excuses Excuses where you have to type just as they appear on the screen and learn a  few in the process for the time when you don't do your homework. Most of the games have an advertisement at the beginning.

Garr Reynolds' post goes beyond his usual guidance on presentation design  and gives everyone a refreshing list of videos by various thought leaders  on educatio

Tour TogetherCounts.com now and see why 70+ million consumers and more than 100,000 educators are already using the resources provided by Energy Balance 101 and the Together Counts program.  Download free lesson plans to bring Energy Balance to life in your classroom. Take advantage of the school-to-home activities and encourage your students to apply what they've learned to their lives at home. Explore our At Home resources and activities that provide today's busy families with exactly what they need to have fun as they stay energy-balanced. 

A GREAT resource for learning new tech tools like Diigo, Mixbook, Mindmeister, Twitter, etc.  

Author loaded this wiki with Apps that have been highly rated and/or that they have found to be successful in supporting the thinking and learning of primary (K-1-2) students.

Ever wondered what happens when you send an email? How does an email travel from your computer to your friend's smartphone across the country or around the world? Take a journey with Gmail and find out. In this short video you will follow an email on its journey to see what happens once you send a message. Along the way, you will learn about some of Google's efforts to minimize its impact on the environment.

Through one of Tony Vincent's Tweets I learned about a wonderful free iPad app from Read Write Think. Read Write Think Trading Cards allows students to create trading cards about people, places, and events both real and fictional. I used the app to create a trading card about Winston Churchill. To create my Winston Churchill trading card I simply selected "real person" from the list of trading card options, uploaded a picture of Winston Churchill that I found on the web, and then filled in the details that the trading card template asked for. My completed trading card can be shared via email, printed, or saved to my iPad's camera roll

a new service for privately sharing videos. Unlike YouTube's private sharing option, the videos you post on VidMe cannot be forwarded without your consent. VidMe allows you to post your first few videos for free, but after that you do have to pay to use the service. Learn more about VidMe here or on Read Write Web.