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This site is sponsored by SMART Technologies who produce the SMART Board. The site offers a variety of videos featuring SMART Board lessons and tutorials and you can even post your own videos to the site.

This is a great compilation of SMART board lessons. Why reinvent the wheel? Teachers have alread created some great lessons to use.

This is awesome! Thank you! I am a new SmartBoard user and these pre-made lessons will be awesome for a beginner like me!

Even without a Promethean Board (interactive whiteboard), teachers can download tons of lessons (called flipcharts) and, using an overhead projector, can operate them from their computer. You do have to 'subscribe' but one version of the subscription is free. You can search for lessons by state, subject, even the standard being taught.

This is a great site for any classroom teacher. The site is intended to link curriculum with computers to engage students. The curriculum is K-12 and all subjects. The site has ready to use content and works well with any Interactive White Board. This site does cost around $50, but has a 30 day free trial to make sure it will be useful to you.

This website highlights the uses of Google Earth which is a free download for anyone to use. There is a community message board you can join and check out. It features many of the resources Google Earth has as well as important topics facing education and our earth. There are also features that allow people to stand up for their own causes to help preserve the earth and it's resources. It's a great website to share with colleagues, students, and friends.

Advanced Education is a online professional development site that provides information and training on the latest 21st century technology that is used in the classroom, such as the SMART Board. Lesson plans for these technologies are provided, as well as links to other helpful educational resource websites.

Education Oasis is an online "oasis" for teachers, administrators, and parents to visit to get ideas, information, and inspiration for their students. The site provides graphic organizers, printables, bulletin boards, lesson plans, subject resources, and instructional and classroom management tips and tricks. Links are provided for articles on various educational topics, as well as websites for teachers and students. It also shares book reviews and book lists for children and teens.

Thumbs up for an easy to navigate site on the use of SMART boards

Education Week is great to follow with daily articles on educational topics, as well as discussion boards, events, and blogs. Don't worry if you miss a daily article they have an archived section too. This site would be beneficial to both teachers and district personnel.

This is a great resource for the introduction of wikis. It describes possible ways they can be used in the classroom, a list of quality educational wikis already in existence, and it has a discussion board to post comments or questions.

Teachers can share ideas, ask questions, and learn from each other through blogs and message boards. Teachers can find lesson plans and post plans to this site.

An educational blog that connects teachers of every level. Lesson plans, tags and several links to other great resources.

Blogs, lesson plans, and other teacher resources available.

This site would be a great tool to use in the classroom (or in a library). A "wallwisher" wall allows everyone to communicate on a "wall" answering a question you have posed. Using sticky notes, those in the class answer on the virtual/visual wall. The wall I built asked the question, "what are you reading and what do you like about it so far?" Students can answer with both words and images. Therefore, it is my hope students will upload a picture of the book cover and give a quick review of the book based on what they have read so far. You can design the color/design of the wall. I found this tool to be lots of fun and it could be used in many ways in a classroom or library. Wallwisher could definitely be used to inspire collaboration and communication.

This is an online notice board maker where you can post announcements, greetings, jokes; just about anything you would want to put on a Post It. I think this would be a great tool for students to use in a note taking assignment. This would be fun to collaborate multiple students' posts and try to combine them randomly to create a funny poem or short story.

This is a site you have to pay to have access to, but I think some of the courses have real merit for classroom teachers. This would be a neat way for teachers to inidividualize their professional development time.

This URL provides multiple math practices to be used by student in the classroom. The tacher can also use them as a way to show what is to be done on the board.