NWESD Summer Institutes

an interactive math site that gives you data on what students have done as well as access to problems they have tried and choices they have made. You can trouble shoot misconceptions pretty easily

Create a persuasive essay on whether to stay home or travel west on the Oregon Trail

Great site for all things Wiki - in education.

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Great website of animated illustrations of motions (linear, rotary, intermittent, reciprocating, oscillation, irregular) and mechanisms (simple and compound) based on those motions.

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. Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab

Using Web 2.0 technology (wikis) to support the integration of Web 2.0 into teaching and professional development. Click on your favorite Web 2.0 technology - or even better, one that you don't know much about - on the left side of the page to find out more information about that technology, and how to use it in the classroom.

Well done video on the use of Web 2.0 in classrooms. (Give it time to load. This is streaming video and is of higher quality than YouTube videos.)

The Monster Project encourages the development of reading and writing skills while integrating technology into the classroom. Using monsters as a vehicle, students exchange written descriptions via this wiki, and then recreate their partner's monster without ever looking at the "real thing". During the project, students create, discuss, describe, interpret, analyze, organize and assess their monsters as well as the monsters of their peers.