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Join us for Smithsonian Shout Online Conference Series: lively, informative exchanges with experts in science, history, and the arts and people everywhere in the world. Presentations include visuals such as artworks and photographs, maps and graphics, and video clips - all archived for replay any time. The series is part of the ShoutLearning project. Register for the Shout online conference series.

SymbalooEdu  is a very important web2.0 tool . It is a "new way to organize , share your online life and discover that of others".Teachers will no longer need to worry about long urls being broken when copied by students . SymbalooEdu lets you gather all of your favorite websites into a webmix about the topics you teach. These webmixes can be shared with friends, students, and parents.  

Whether you want to be a teacher, principal or even an educational policy-maker, learning all you can about the field and how to be a more powerful leader while you're still in college is essential. These blogs will fill you in on the latest news, provide inspiration, and ensure that you are up-to-date with the latest educational technologies so you can be the best education leader you can be.

Welcome! I am Jeff Thomas and I have been an educator for 30 years, most recently as a Director of Technology at a private middle school. I am currently consulting on edtech integration in the classroom.

A new sort of tools - and a new sort of ethics - are required for the next generation of students to succeed in the face of global challenges. Come explore how social media can be used by educators to effect positive social change. See examples of how teachers have collaborated with colleagues, connected their classrooms to others around the globe, and helped to bring green initiatives to their schools and communities. Discover how students too can use powerful (and often free) tools to tap into their own passions, bring new relevance to their learning, and make a real difference in their world.

Goals/challenges - 30 for 30 days - related to educational technology. A yudu book written by Shelly Terrell.

Ask question from a community of teachers; Answer questions to share your best practices; Join the crowd to vote up great answers, earn reputation for your own, and help run EdCrowd.

Feel free to click on any of these links to explore exciting tools for getting your young learners to love learning a language!

Our goal is to provide examples of differentiated lessons and student activities to inspire you. We post the examples here and provide the source/reference. This is so that we do not loose these wonderful examples because links are no longer valid. These differentiation resources are used in a middle school or high school classroom.

The intent of this project wiki is to address: How can the TED talks be used as springboards for further discourse, exploration, reflection, and action?

20 web 2.0 tools for teachers, by Simon Ward

has been set up to provide an opportunity for students, teachers, administrators, parents, and others to help promote an understanding of the benefits of educational blogging. The menu for the website is to the left. Please explore AND contribute. This website is actually a "wiki," which means that it is hoped that you will contribute to the content of this website.

Links, blogs, and other information related to cell phone use and text messaging in school

These projects are examples of the work that is done at all of the High Tech High Schools. It is our record of what we have done and how to get there. Teachers can utilize this to show off what they have done with their students, and get ideas from others teachers. Students can show their parents and friends the work that they have done, and the community can see how project based learning enables students to do and learn. Please enjoy the projects and videos.

Udemy's goal is to enable anyone to teach and learn online. In less than 5 minutes, you can create your own online course on Udemy. You can upload presentations, videos, host live classroom sessions and write articles. It's fast, easy and free. By making it easy to teach online, Udemy also brings together the best teachers on the internet in an effort to educate the world. That means if you want to learn Multivariable Calculus, you can. If you want to learn Photoshop, you can. If you want to learn more about the metaphor for good and evil as presented by the dark and light colors in Star Wars, you can on Udemy.

Founded in 2003 by Jenny M. Buccos, ProjectExplorer.org is a nonprofit organization (501c3) that produces free, online global travel series. Designed for family and classroom, ProjectExplorer.org provides students with access to peoples and places they may never have seen or knew existed. ProjectExplorer.org's multi-award winning online video series, photos, educational blogs, and lesson plans are provided free-of-charge. ProjectExplorer.org's programs cover multiple subject areas that foster cross-cultural understanding.