Short video book reports - This website allows students age 11-13 and 14-18 to compete with short (two-minute) videos promoting their favorite books. Prizes (books) are awarded based on performance, script, creativity of supporting materials, technical quality, and knowledge of the each book. For more information, see http://storytubes.info/drupal. To see past videos, go to http://storytubes.info/drupal/node/66.

This site has instructions and illustrations for making dozens of airplanes, boats, flowers, animals, and 3-D figures.

Win $25,000 and the Title of America's Top Young Scientist!

This site is an online reading program with interactive features and games. Students can create booklists, choose books, and take quizzes on books they've read. There are also contests and prizes.

A comic creation website

This site allows students to compose their own comic strips with characters, props, backgrounds, and dialogue.

This site an interactive graphic organizer that gives students several ways to outline and structure their writing - introduction, main idea, supporting details, and conclusion.

This site includes word scrambles, caption-writing, reviews of movie trailers, and tongue-twister games on parts of speech and vocabulary.

helping upper elementary and middle-school students break down reading passages and focus on vocabulary, context, and main idea

ASSISTments is a free online platform that allows teachers to write and select questions, students get immediate and useful tutoring, and teachers receive instant reports to help inform their classroom instruction.

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.

Sir Ken Robinson, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in the development of education, creativity and innovation. He is also one of the world's leading speakers with a profound impact on audiences everywhere. The videos of his famous 2006 and 2010 talks to the prestigious TED Conference have been seen by an estimated 200 million people in over 150 countries.

Dylan 13 years old, and an eighth grader. Through his green your lives initiative and a thinkquestweb sitecollaboration, this 13 year old shows us how he uses tech to improvehis community and the world

The Office of Educational Technology is involved in a variety of projects and initiatives that leverage technology to improve teaching and learning and create opportunities for innovation.

In Gillian Ryan's classroom, students have a good reason to put thought into the answers they share. Their audience is not only comprised of classmates; it is as a broad as the "blogosphere."

In 5-10 years, how will people get things done at work, at home, and on the go? Watch the new vision video

From time to time, we will be featuring a few presentations from the 2011 Conference. Click the links below to check out free recorded webinars from this event. If you have a favorite recording, please share it in the discussion forum. For all presentations, click here.

A broad treatment of computer and video games from a wide range of perspectives, including cognitive science and artificial intelligence, psychology, history, film and theater, cultural studies, and philosophy.

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.