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"View more than 57,000 historic videos and 7 million photos for FREE in one of the world's largest collections of royalty-free archival stock footage. Offering immediate downloads in more than 10 SD and HD formats, including screeners in all formats"

Check this site out for historical footage. Share with students as well.

"For years, magazines and newspapers have used photo galleries to tell stories. Photos can build emotion, provide information, encourage a specific action and create great questions. We can have our kids do the same thing by asking them to create Five Photo Stories. It seems like a great way for kids to activate prior knowledge, review information, learn new content or practice summarizing. It's basically an all-purpose graphic organizer! "

Check this lesson out.

A blog dedicated to Ted videos. A collection of Ted Talks for the classroom.

"Brings students face to face with the extraordinary leaders, the visionaries and the pioneers who shaped our world."

Mapping Africa is a five minute narrated overview of the changing map of Africa from the 14th Century through today. The slideshow features explanations of the features of different historical maps of Africa.

map shows the history of poverty from 1820 on.

is a free platform on which teachers can publish packets of information about any academic topic they choose. Packets can include text, images, and videos to explain and illustrate information. Published packets are reviewed and rated by the Sophia community. A green check mark emblem on a packet signifies that the Sophia community has rated that packet as "academically sound."

reverse image searching: http://www.tineye.com/ Find the source of any image on the web! #ITSC11

Good resource to share with students so that photos are correctly attributed in their work

Incredible stats in real-time

check this site out for some interesting stats.

"This site contains lists of heads of state and heads of government (and, in certain cases, de facto leaders not occupying either of those formal positions) of all countries and territories, going back to about 1700 in most cases. Also included are the subdivisions of various countries (the links are at the bottom of the respective country entries), as well as a selection of international organizations. Recent foreign ministers of all countries are listed separately."

handy site for quickly discovering who ruled and when. Good for quick reference.

"Local news is going mobile. Nearly half of all American adults (47%) report that they get at least some local news and information on their cellphone or tablet computer. "

Another great piece on the role of the school librarian.

Some great ideas for collaborating with the library!

Very good post on the importance of the school libary.

Hopefully preaching to the choir here!

Following the fall of presidents of Egypt and Tunisia

"Capture photos, videos, music, tweets, posts, and much more. View and share your entire life online. Create stories of your best memories together with your friends.Explore and search your life and the lives of your friends online."

looks interesting

"Schools continue to deliver new graduates into the workplace lacking the tech-based "soft skills" that businesses demand. Experts blame K-12's persistent failure to integrate technology."

Much to think about in this article. Much emphasis on information literacy and digital literacy

Very good post on searching from the UK

good overview of the search process that goes way beyond searching on google.

Cross between moodle, ning and twitter

This site in beta could have some classroom use. Going to try it out. Will share my thoughts