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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.   

Ever got an image from the internet and forgotten where it originally came from or you need to acknowledge the source- just upload the image into this site and it locates it for you.

and it works!! I can really use this one for presentations.

This is a FREE conference open to ANYONE by educators for educators around the world interested in integrating emerging technologies into classroom practice. A goal of the conference (among several) is to help educators make sense of and meet the needs of a continually changing learning landscape.

If you want to take part in a google wave about the K-12 Conference email me or Mark Woolley and we will setup an invite for you. You could also visit http://thebigquestion.edublogs.org/ for more info.

Every Teacher needs to be able to do this. A couple of easy to use ideas "Google-Proof Questioning: A New Use for Bloom's Taxonomy"

What it is: Boy's Life Magazine is a great place to reach those boys in your class that are reluctant readers or writers.  On the Boy's Life site, you will find a Comic Creator where students can create a comic strip.  The Comic Creator is easy to use, offering enough tools for boys to really customize their comics but not SO many that they get lost in the forever search of pictures.  A great balance! How to integrate Comic Creator into the classroom: The Boy's Life Comic Creator is a great little tool to help your boys connect with writing and story telling in a way that they enjoy and understand.  The tool is simple enough to use as a writing station/center on classroom computers.  The comic does need to be created in one sitting, there is no way to save and come back to a comic later.  Completed comics can be printed off and shared.

Great site to grab Science images to share with students. You need to sign up first, but it is free

Great for staff prayer or a parent night: focus is on diversification 

Excellent site to grab movie clips, great search capabilities. Eg can search for characters/ mood/ setting etc. Excellent resource. Need to download clips at home as proxies currently appear to block.

A fantastic article worth reading that explores teacher vs student expertise in ICLT and it's implications with teaching an learning. The interview at the bottom is also worth a listen, it is an interview with Edith, a student in England speaking about ICLT in her learning. She recently spoke at a TeachMeet, and in the interview, explores many aspects of ICLT in the classroom, including wether ICLT should be treated as an integrated, or separate subject.

"Sync.in is a web based word processor for people to collaborate in real-time. When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate with text documents, useful for meeting notes, brainstorming, project planning, training, and mor"

Hi Steve, it looks like its based on the old etherpad code, a great tool until you hit 15 users.

Mark, Even the interface is very similar. PiratePad (http://piratepad.net/) is another alternative Google have now included the EtherPad feature in its new version of google docs (It' still in preview and you need to tick a box in the document editing settngs). I'm yet to try it out with a class. Found that EtherPad also had issues with the 15 users. In a class I would often make more than one pad.

A fantastic collection of web-based math resources. Has a mini review for each site. 

A very powerful animation tool, very flexible and fully featured. Much steeper learning curve than the other options tagged. Easy to embed or download the result. Top end product, very flexible.

AtoZ Free Games is a free online gaming website where you can play a wide variety of games directly in your browser. It offers games in categories like action, puzzle, racing, shooting, dress-up, and more. There's no need to download anything - just click and play. The site is updated regularly with new games and is easy to use for all ages.