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I know what you're thinking... How can I join my love of ABBA with Henry VIII? At this site two history teachers sing about history topics to the tunes of pop classics. See the lyrics, hear the songs and watch the YouTube videos -

What do you think about homework?

Thanks to Holly for sharing this!

I don't think we have this problem in Milton...

Something to think about how we teach...

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!

Encyclomedia is a video encyclopedia that is great for searching for articles and videos on any given topic (think United Streaming). What separates this from just any other search engine is to then take those results such as video and then share it w/ others via an embed code.

How do we get students to realize what they themselves value? How do we get students to think about their blogging as something other than work for a grade?

BestWebQuests.com springs from the fact that people have been creating "WebQuests" since 1995. Somehow this term has become a buzzword in the world of education. Couple "buzzword" with "time" (as measured in Web years) and you've got an exponential number of WebQuests. Or do you? Many educators have expressed frustration that some "WebQuests"... aren't. Because time is always in short supply, teachers wanted a place to go where they could know for certain that the WebQuests listed, not only involve some higher order thinking, but require students to "transform" what they have learned.

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.

Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

Simple and easy online multi user whiteboard, start skrbl, give out your URL & start working together. Sketch, text, share files, upload pictures all in one common shared space. There are no new tools to learn, nothing to download, nothing to install. Brainstorm on our simple whiteboard to start thinking together, everyone sees the same screen, everybody gets on the same page.