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Too much hyperbole, but more or less the direction we are heading with education.

Cool things to add to Chrome to make it a powerful educational browser!

I think that this is a great resource, these poets will help the students to be more interested in their schoolwork.

From THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.

Could the apple watch become a useful tool for education? Intriguing ideas about monitoring student engagement.

7 Cyberlearning Technologies Transforming Education | Good article about transformative technology integration http://huff.to/1QwM1Jz

Are you searching for a way to share documents, presentations, slideshows, or a series of photos or images with your students? Then Voice Thread is the free Web 2.0 tool for you and your students (teachers can register for a free education account).

How to build professional, personal, social, and lifelong learning networks is the focal point of this post.

A collection of all-star educational websites for each subject. I wish it were divided by recommended grade level though.

The top five search tools for finding Flickr images are designed to help teachers and students locate just the right image for use in any subject area and project. Without these tools finding the right image on this image hosting site is often an impossible, or at least a tedious, task. The value of this site is its ability to provide digital pictures which are often impossible for a teacher to obtain any other way. Like everything else on the internet, trying to find something is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. This where the top five search tools become valuable resources for teachers and students trying to find images comes into play. These search engines are specifically designed to search the more than three billion pictures on the Flickr hosting site.

The value of Twitter for helping you and your colleagues stay informed of the latest trends, ideas, resources, and Web 2.0 integration tools has increased tremendously in the past year. A Web 2.0 tool is available for exploiting the every growing information on Twitter to remove barriers and allow you to collaborate with other science and math teachers. This new online tool is paper.li - a source of daily Twitter newsletters in education.

I really love this blog site because it is all about teaching those special students in your classrooms whose needs are quickly met, but who get bored easily with the mundaneness of school. This is a big issue I've struggled with myself--trying to keep my gifted students fully active and participating in everything we do--and I have already found several helpful hints on this site. It includes some neat ideas for technology inclusion, as well. The more educated we are about the diversity of our students and their specific needs, the better we can meet those needs and educate our students with a whole range of abilities.

Strategies are provided for taking advantage of Wikis to provide opportunities for students to collaborate with other students, share what they have learned, and become a centralized online resource for educators.

Students have no risk of embarrassment with respect to their individual answers and are very motivated to actively participate when using the personal response system (PRS). This interactive wireless system produces active learning by providing each student with a simple and handheld response remote. This remote is non-threatening and is in use from pre-K through college graduate education. PRS is often referred to as Clickers, Classroom Response Systems, and Learner Response Systems.

A dozen activities are presented for using an online education technology tool to engage students in classroom activities to develop a better understanding of concepts.

best places to teach yourself for free.

the periodic table of educational technology!

I really enjoyed this article and though it does not specifically deal with education I thought it would be a good article to share.