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From Free Technology for Teachers: "Using Blubbr you can create interactive quizzes that are based on YouTube clips. Your quizzes can be about anything of your choosing. The structure of the quizzes has a viewer watch a short clip then answer a multiple choice question about the clip. Viewers know right away if they chose the correct answer or not. Creating a quiz on Blubbr could be a good way to develop review materials for your students."

"Our comprehensive Curriculum is designed to empower students to think critically, behave safely, and participate responsibly in our digital world. From lesson plans, videos, student interactives, and assessments, to professional learning and family outreach materials, our turnkey Curriculum provides schools with everything they need to take a whole-community approach to digital citizenship."

Interactive Middle School-aged journey through a set of challenges that teach digital citizenship.

From Explain Everything: "Explain Everything is an easy-to-use design tool that lets you annotate, animate, and narrate explanations and presentations. You can create dynamic interactive lessons, activities, assessments, and tutorials using Explain Everything's flexible and integrated design. Use Explain Everything as an interactive whiteboard using the iPad2 video display. Explain Everything records on-screen drawing, annotation, object movement and captures audio via the iPad microphone. Import Photos, PDF, PPT, and Keynote from Dropbox, Evernote, Email, iPad photo roll and iPad2 camera. Export MP4 movie files, PNG image files, and share the .XPL project file with others for collaboration. Explain Everything has been designed for use in educational, business, and entertainment settings."

Interactive resources for learning languages. Check out #5, Lingt Classroom.

Great new resources from PBS about famous American abolitionists. Includes a variety of interactive links (see the map), videos, and high quality content from a very trustworthy source.

Article that lists 7 great YouTube channels which provide a whole lot of science videos to use for learning. Most videos seem to be interactive, engaging, and right to the point. Good resources for finding ideas for in class experiments and videos that model proper procedures/techniques.

This is a must watch/view resource! A very informative and interactive Prezi Presentation all about ePortfolios which includes helpful visual aids and links to research articles. From the creator: "A short presentation designed for those who are unfamiliar with e-Portfolios. It defines, illustrates and identifies the impact of e-Portfolios on learning with a focus on the 5-18 age group."

From Educreations: "Educreations is a recordable interactive whiteboard that captures your voice and handwriting to produce amazing video lessons that you can share online. Students and colleagues can replay your lessons in any web browser, or from within our app on their iPads. Check out the "Showcase" on our homepage or the "Featured" tab in our iPad app to view some great lessons that other teachers have created with Educreations."

The .kml files allow for exploring the seafloor in 3D using street view. To use them in Google Earth: 1. Download the .kml file to your computer. (right-click, Save Link As, etc) 2. Launch Google Earth, click File-->Open and select the downloaded .kml file. 3.The new content will appear under "Temporary Places" in the "Places section of the sidebar. Make sure you have the "Explore the Ocean" layer checked under "Ocean" in the "Layers" section of the sidebar for these to work.

From Dynamic Geometry (app developer): "Drag, manipulate and animate visual mathematical representations to develop your understanding of fundamental concepts across elementary mathematics, geometry, algebra, trigonometry, calculus, and beyond. Based on the award-winning software The Geometer's Sketchpad®, the Sketchpad Explorer app allows you to interact with, and investigate, any mathematical document created in Sketchpad. With a simple, powerful, multitouch interface, Sketchpad Explorer puts mathematics comprehension literally at your fingertips."

Sketchpad Explorer tips: http://www.keycurriculum.com/resources/sketchpad-resources/sketchpad-explorer-for-ipad/sketchpad-explorer-for-ipad-tips

This is the place to go in order to learn all the specific touch gestures for your new MAC laptop. Includes step-by-step video guides that are very helpful. Additional info from Apple: "In OS X Mountain Lion, you interact with your Mac using your fingers. Tap, scroll, pinch, and swipe your way through your Mac with Multi-Touch gestures, and control what's on your screen in a more fluid, natural, and intuitive way."