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The Internet is full of useful information, but it's disorganized and often unreliable. Despite its problems, the potential of the Internet for education is especially huge. Imagine tapping into that potential. Imagine collecting all the best free educational videos made for children, and making them findable and watchable on one website. Then imagine creating many, many more such videos. Just think: millions of great short videos, and other watchable media, explaining every topic taught in schools, in every major language on Earth. Finally, imagine them all deeply and usefully categorized according to subject, education level, and placed in the order in which topics are typically taught. WatchKnow-as in, "You watch, you know"-has started building this resource.

"Google Apps in the Classroom" Links to presentation and documents on Google Apps for education.

Online diagramming application.

Interactive map of education innovations on the web.

"EtherPad is the only web-based word processor that allows people to work together in really real-time."

Sketchpad drawing tool

Can a media specialist do their job now if they are not also a social media specialist? Excellent collection of resources from a discussion about 21st century librarians.

The purpose of this course is to provide "Just in Time" training through an online interface for K-12 educators based on the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). These standards are the basic technology skills every educator should possess. In the process, educators will develop their own skills and discover what students need in order to meet the NETS for Students, as well as the new MMC Online Experience requirement. Participants who fulfill all of the requirements have the opportunity to earn SBCEU's. To learn more about the session, look under the tab "The 21 Things". We hope you take advantage of this unique opportunity.

This is a collaborative project to generate Social Media Guidelines for school districts. The goal of this guideline is to provide instructional employees, staff, students, administrators, parents and the school district community direction when using social media applications both inside and outside the classroom.

Collaborative multimedia presentations enable small groups like teaching teams to work together to: * present knowledge in different and (if you do it right) compelling ways * engage active participation by the entire class instead of broadcasting to it like a passive audience

Simple user's guide to Web 2.0. Very Cool!

The view that Web 2.0 tools bring us back to the way we are naturally wired to learn.

50+ web tools you can use to create your own web-based story

Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.

aMap is short for 'argument map'. The idea's very simple - to promote the art of arguing by mapping out complex debates in a simple visual format.

Create astonishing presentations live and on the web!

New technologies and a closely related culture of collaboration present radical new models of social organisation. This project brings together leading practitioners and thinkers in this field and asks them to determine the opportunity for government.

In the Web 2.0 world, self-directed learners must be adept at building and sustaining networks.