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"Today students have the ability to view and read historical documents first hand, 'interact' with historical characters, and observe the events of the past through the eyes of the children who lived it. Thanks to technology, students can be truly engaged in the stories of history. "

PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools.

It's important to match the tools used to teach information literacy with the level of the students. Developed by educators, the Big6 includes many tools and lessons for the teacher. Written by librarians at Cardiff University, the Handbook of Information Literacy Teaching or HILT has many helpful tips, handouts and lesson plans. The 21st Century Information Fluency portal has created online games and tutorials for many different level of student.

Not Even Past provides current historical writing to a popular audience. For history buffs who want reading recommendations and short, interesting, digestible stories every day, the website offers a meaningful, dynamic, and ongoing conversation about History in the form of text, audio, and video histories on subjects that span the globe. The site is designed for anyone who is interested in history, from an avid reader of history to a history film aficionado

"TeacherPlus Account A single teacher account gets unlimited access to all GoAnimate4Schools features, The teacher can also post animations to GoAnimate4Schools public gallery. Students accounts have access to following features: - Make animation up to 2 minutes long - Upload own music - Text-to-voice and voice recording "

resources for teaching on-line

11 good foreign language resources to try in 2011 (a couple of ESL/EFL resources in this list).

researched-based guide to teaching online.

Student created site for easing the process of taking notes in class Can be read on mobile devices

collection of resources for differentiation in a WIKI, general understanding with MANY resource files

" many of us (educators) are clearly impressed with the brilliance exhibited in the TED Talks, but have trouble sorting through all of the material to discover something appropriate for our disciplines." "the following list based on disciplines (organizing knowledge or research by discipline is, it should be pointed out, in stark contrast to the real objective of TED Talks in general)."

Please watch/download outside of the school day - these are a great resource!

a portion of the Annenberg Public Policy Center's FactCheck.org site devoted to materials for the classroom, focused on media literacy and research skills directed at identifying factual information. Includes lesson plans.

explore the various features of Diigo. Become educated and informed on the powerful use of Diigo for student learning. Learn how this research tool can enhance classroom instruction and promote higher levels of student collaboration. As you navigate through our site you will see examples of valuable lessons and resources, all displayed for your use. Set up your account now. This research tool is every educator's dream.

Collection of excellent resources, some print resources, some lesson plans & activities

"The terms invisible web, hidden web, and deep web all refer to the same thing: a massive storehouse of online data that the search engines don't capture. That's because terabytes of information are buried in databases and other research resources. Searchable and accessible online but often ignored by conventional search engines, these resources exist by the thousands. Known in research circles as the invisible, deep, or hidden Web, this buried content is an estimated 500 times larger than the surface Web, which is estimated at over four billion pages. "

TubeChop lets you create video clips from YouTube videos so you can share them safely with your students. Sometimes Youtube videos contain commercials or surround the useful information that you want to share with irrelevant or inappropriate material. With TubeChop, this is no longer a problem. Now you can access the useful clips of Youtube videos without having to wait for commercials, or worrying about showing something that might be inappropriate, with TubeChop.

using video in PowerPoint * Insert your video into a slide. * Trim your video right in your presentation. * Reduce your video file size for email delivery.

" you should be knowledgeable in what each of the following technology is and how it could be/might be used in a classroom.(\"

Aviary is a free online suite of extremely powerful multimedia tools that can be used by learners to help gain 21st century fluencies. The suite includes a sophisticated image editor that can be used to create from scratch or for modifying exiting images, a vector editor, an effects editor, a color editor, an image markup tool for screen captures, a Firefox extension for doing quick screencapture, a versatile audio editor, and even an amazing music creator.

search-cube offers a straightforward search box for entering search terms. The search results it yields, however, are images of home pages. These home pages are arranged on the six faces of a cube, with 16 sites displayed on each face. It's easy to rotate the cube with the arrow keys on the keyboard, or by holding down the shift key and dragging the mouse. Rolling the cursor over an image on the cube brings up a larger image beside the cube, along with a little more information about the linked website.