MAIS-TEC

Create free online polls without signing-up. Polls can be embedded into your site, blog, wiki, etc.

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Great film for studying the Constitution Preamble

This site was created to serve as a collaborative, objective resource for educators and administrators who are committed to enhancing student achievement. We invite you to share your knowledge, ask questions, and get expert insight into the issues teachers face each day in the classroom.

.instructions, templates, and best practices for creating a professional educator portfolio

I ran across this today. Youtube has a moderator page on the top of their website to ask Elmo questions. http://www.youtube.com/user/SesameStreet First, how cool to introduce kids to moderator. Second, how cool to embed a moderator page in Youtube Third, I want to know how to customize moderator to be able to embed Youtube videos also :)

New! Google Earth for Educators

a new app my cousins are using to track the activities and development of their first child.

Wordle

"Space Lesson Plans with Google Sky"

tutorial on how to use Diigo - good to send to teachers. excellent example of how to use voicethread for tutorials

iPod & iPad User group wiki

From Microsoft

Currently there is a crazy question on one of the list-serv, if students use Google Docs... how can you make sure they are doing the typing of their papers. I think one of my middle school teachers had this question back in the 90's and didn't accept student-typed data of any kind. It had to be handwrittien. This is a resource sent in reply..... I say start the work in class. You can always check the history of typing... ~~GB

First day of school wiki - ideas on how to teach rules and share syllabus in different classes