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A fantastic collection of sites targeted at high school students studying maths. Most are US based.

"The Physics Front provides high quality resources for the teaching of physics and physical sciences courses. The Physics Front is a free service provided by the American Association of Physics Teachers in partnership with the NSF/NSDL. " Excellent physics resources for teachers - including primary and middle school!

How many of the movies in this list have you shared with a class? I haven't seen all of them yet, but it seems to be a pretty good list (geared toward high school classes) of movies worth watching with your classes...

"Free Educational Software We find and review high-quality free learning software and websites - mostly for kids, but also for grown-ups". Most of the software is for PC but the sites work. Worth a look, choose a category at the top

Some great science online resources for primary and high school classes

Literature-based word lists for all grade levels (kindergarten through high school). http://bit.ly/9uMY66

Some more info on how a school district in the US is using QR codes in a high school setting. 

Powerful video produced by ACMA sharing an instance of Cyberbullying and Physical bullying in a High School setting - worth a watch

Some high schools in Denmark are beginning to allow students access to the internet during exams. Exciting stuff, and fantastic to see countries looking into more open forms of assessment. I will be interested to see how quickly other nations follow Denmark's lead in this regard. Tools like Diigo would be a fantastic method of preparation for student's sitting these exams.

Super Maths World is good resource offering differentiated math practice. The activities offered on Super Maths World are suitable for students in primary and high school. The progress tracker is a good way for self-directed learners to measure their progress. The progress tracker and scores could also be used by teachers as a means of measuring a student's development. Worth a look!

I was surprised. I learned things from this article. It can be projected in class to teach students also.

Another creative commons search engine, goes one step further than FlickrCC in that A great feature of Behold is that it also helps you to pinpoint the type of image that you require.  For example, when searching for "beetles" you may get images of insects or cars.  But Behold's interface allows you to use a drop-down menu to choose the category of images that best meets your needs.