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It might sound like a site dedicated to wine theory, but this pedagogy portal is a one-stop shop for the latest educational thinking. You'll find over 1,300 materials, including links, interviews, articles and professional development resources arranged by subject.

Brainstorming goes high-tech. Edistorm allows users to collate ideas in real time, collaborating with others. All brainstorms are saved to revisit later and there are even 'Idea Bots' to help you out if you get stuck.

Travel around the world, discover remote communities and learn about different cultures, all without leaving the classroom. With a mix of videos, vibrant photographs, articles and recipes, Project Explorer aims to create a new generation of global citizens. All material is organized by age group.

If you think Ice Cube belongs in a cookery class, this might not be the site for you. But students will love hearing the week's news headlines summarized in hip-hop form, accompanied by a video. Bling up your curriculum and earn extra street cred.

"FlipSnack can convert your digital publications into stylish and interactive flipping books" which can be downloaded or posted on Moodle

"Teachers can often get caught out when their students start using text abbreviations. Some of us might use them but no where near to the extent of our students. Don't get left out of the conversation - good or bad. Find out the meanings of some of the most common abbreviations"

This is a terrific browser extension for easily downloading YouTube content without having to use an additional downloading service. Works for all browsers and OS!!

"Want to help out students and colleagues with handy tips on improving search results and using popular Google products like Google Earth? Just print out these posters and hang them where everyone can see them."

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.

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.

sources for shared Moodle courses.

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

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.

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.

"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. "

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

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.

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.

" 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!

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