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An immersive, extremely well-designed, easy to navigate, self-paced "investigation" of the events surrounding the Boston Massacre. Featuring primary source documents and information that makes students really think about the events that transpired. The rest is up to them! The images and eyewitness accounts are designed to explore what happened from multiple perspectives, challenging students to make up their own mind about what really happened. Do the images and personal accounts match up? Why or why not? Where are the biases? Playing as a "Special Agent," students are presented with information about the massacre, the trials that followed, and five images about the event. This activity is very text heavy, but it's also very easy to use. Students could work individually or in teams, then present their findings. Even if you are not studying US History, this interactive is useful for the analytical approach it brings to the subject. Check it out!

Make your pictures more lively, apply fancy effects and create real eye-catchers with this collection of easy to use photo effects. The picture editor is browser based, very simple to use and all tools can be used either separately or be combined with each other.

Mission US is an interactive adventure game designed to improve the understanding of American history by students in grades 5 through 8. The first game in a planned series, Mission 1: "For Crown or Colony?" explores the reasons for Revolution through the eyes of both Loyalists and Patriots in 1770 Boston.  This website provides information and materials to support the use of Mission 1 in your classroom. Download all the teacher materials as a DOC or PDF.

This site offers a growing bank of imaginative, highly visual teaching-aids developed for use with interactive whiteboards. The resources are designed to be used as rich sources of visually stimulating material, making use of both animations and drag and drop interactivity.

The Digital Dialects website features free to use online games for learning languages. Language resources include games for learning phrases, numbers, useful words, spelling, verb conjugation and alphabets. Games use Macromedia Flash Player.

US History resources.

Video explaining The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education puts an end to copyright confusion for educators who use mass media, popular culture and digital media to promote critical thinking and communication skills.

If you already use Pinterest, here are some ideas to use it for school.

I want to give this a try next year in my classroom and with other teacher in their classrooms. Anyone using it yet?

I am SO not using Evernote to its fullest. Check it out!

Interesting to read comments that students make about their teachers and technology use in schools.

Very easy to use and useful tool to identify the unicode symbol for anything you can draw.

The ability to make changes to the document is an issue for me. We are using Sign Up Genius at Northside. When parents sign up, they provide their email address and they get a reminder a few days before the conference (actual # of days is set by teacher). SU Genius integrates with Google Calendar too! Our guidance counselor used it for her monthly guidance lesson sign up. Participants can go in and change time slots if they need to. I schedule SRI testing with Sign Up Genius. Can you tell I love this site?

Dushare is an incredibly easy way to share files.  Dushare lets you transfer files via a web browser as fast as you can upload.  The site could not be easier to use, just pick your file, decide if you want it password protected to download, and then share the file.  Dushare requires NO login or registration, it really is simple to use!  While the transfer is in progress, you can chat with the person you are transferring the file to over Dushare.  File sharing just doesn't get much easier than this!

really cool online comic creator, the interface is fun to use and very intuitive.  It is obviously geared toward students with a great look and even an embedded music player.  I love the details on this site, including the headline "Reading isn't only in books, it's everywhere!".  Using the Graphic Novel Creator, students can create their own multi-page graphic novels with interesting backgrounds, characters, props, and customized text.  The graphic novels can be saved and printed out.

How to use Google Sites to create e-portfoliios.

Directions on how to make a ScreenCast using Quicktime from Chad Kafka.

Noah is a tool that nature lovers can use to explore and document local wildlife and a common technology platform that research groups can use to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere.

The objective of the GeoGebra Step-by-Step Tutorial Series is not only to teach the readers how to use the software, but also to suggest how to use GeoGebra in teaching and learning mathematics. Most of the tutorials are (or will be) linked to related articles containing explanations and proofs about the mathematics discussed in the tutorials.