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"Social media offers some great opportunities for learning in the classroom, bringing together the ability to collaborate, access worldwide resources, and find new and interesting ways to communicate in one easily accessible place. Teachers around the world have found innovative ways to use Twitter as a teaching tool, and we've shared many of these great ideas here with you. Read on, and we'll explore 60 inspiring ways that teachers and students can put Twitter to work in the classroom."

"This section includes resources to help you facilitate the Challenge and provides a variety of enriching tools to integrate into your classroom instruction. Please take a look at the lesson plans, videos, reading passages, e-books, and more. The use of these resources provides students with tangible opportunities to apply many of the core areas they are learning each day in the classroom to the Challenge process. For example, this may include reading and summarizing non-fiction texts, gathering data from explorations, and developing and organizing their ideas through writing."

presentation on apps and ideas for the classroom

"Lessons Sorted by Subject Kidspiration Templates for all subjects http://www.inspiration.com/community/lessons-and-ideas SOL Inspiration Templates grades 6-8 http://teachers.henrico.k12.va.us/fairfield/marshall_g/INSPIRATION/Inspiration.htm Inspiration Templates for all subjects http://www.spart5.k12.sc.us/TechTraining/InspirationMatrix.htm Inspiration Video Tutorials http://www.inspiration.com/videos/Inspiration Language Arts | Math | Science | Social Studies | Inspiration Search Engine"

Lessons and ideas on Skype in the classroom.

article on ideas that support our 21st Century learners.

Great ideas on how building deeper understanding of readers and writers in order to by analytical thinkers.

Ideas on how to create excellent lessons and learning envirnoments

Ideas on implementing technology in instruction.

"Subtext is a free iPad app that allows classroom groups to exchange ideas in the pages of digital texts. You can also layer in enrichment materials, assignments and quizzes-opening up almost limitless opportunities to engage students and foster analysis and writing skills. Watch video »"

21st Century ideas to help facilitate good teaching and learning.

This site, "dedicated to the idea that information will be the raw material that drives the 21st century, and that today's students should be learning to build with information," offers free Web tools for integrating the Internet into the curriculum in a meaningful way. The tools include a rubric maker, citation machine, permission template, and digital index card, as well as Web site and WebQuest creators.

"Make poster-sized collages Use your or friends' Facebook photos Use free poster backgrounds or upload your own Get big, high quality posters up to 3 feet tall Free downloads, prints from $7.50 + shipping" Saw it used to create posters of quotes that can be embedded in powerpoints. Great for exhibiting ideas.

"To ensure App Ed Review is the highest quality educational app resource, its essential features have been vetted by scholarly journals, such as the Journal of Information Technology Education and the journal of Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education. Using research as its guide has resulted in App Ed Review developing: An organizational system that supports teachers finding the apps they want quickly and efficiently Two research-vetted app evaluation rubrics A system for classifying educational apps based on their purpose and function 3-5 instructional ideas or classroom applications for each app reviewed"

Tons of great ideas and tools to help integrate technology into the classroom and curriculum

Create audio recording directly to the web and have them embed instantly. Neat idea to have kids create instant podcasts from phones or uploaded files.

The California K-12 High Speed Network (K12HSN) is offering a comprehensive set of tools to support teaching and learning in California classrooms. Calaxy, this free suite of tools, includes blogging, videoconference scheduling, wikis, an asset management module, as well as Moodle-an online course management system and a file sharing system where educators can upload videos, podcasts, images and documents. Thousands of Thinkfinity resources are also available in Calaxy. Calaxy is an excellent tool to share lesson ideas, upload student learning objects, disseminate best practices, and more! Messaging and social networking functionalities help you connect with other educators in the K12HSN Trusted Community. Make sure you take advantage of these free resources provided by the K12HSN and the California Department of Education.

Maps are one of our oldest forms of visualizing data about the world. One might say we'd be "lost" without them. flickr creative commons photo by [martin] From the early web-based Mapquest versions and later when Google Maps came onto the scene followed closely by Google Earth, online mapping and the use of maps by the general public has exploded.  Maps are now a mainstay for mobile computing and other endeavors online line that have a spatial component. The capability enabled by GPS  (Global Positioning System) allows our devices to know where we are in the world, what/who is nearby, and what information is available about places. We see many ways people use maps for personal use and are interested in knowing more about that and your ideas on how mapping tools might also be used for learning.  

Great site for finding activities to do with the kids. NO all technology. But gives you great paper and glue ideas.

Custom Thumbdrives that are very odd. Great site to get ideas on what you might want to build. They can create custom URL's