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This site is a really good reference for teacher so they can promote literacy. I know this is a technology class but as teachers we need to make sure our students can read well. Otherwise they won't be able to make use of the technology.

This website and others like it allow you to keep your French skills strong with daily updates about what's happening in the Francophone world.

I forgot to mention why this is so important to me as an educator, but I figured it was pretty obvious--I'm going into language teaching and if I don't maintain my fluency one way or another, my students will get nothing but repetitive and maybe incorrect phrases...short of moving to France for total immersion this is the best way to stay current with the language.

Here's a tip for using the Wii as a whiteboard in your teaching

This is a great place to find top-notch lectures on various topics. I found this when looking up string theory. They have lecture series as well, and frankly, they're really, really cool. This could be great for all teachers, I think!

I found this while I was looking for blogs to follow, but I think it is so cool! Great ideas from all over.

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.

Really interesting video by Kim on illustrating different creative expressions for one word -- "money"

Tutorials from Charles Graham on Google Earth

Tutorials by Dr. Charles Graham for learning moviemaker

FBI internet safety material---for younger kids.

OHSU presentation

For 5 points extra credit, you can view this presentation and blog about it on your blogs, reflecting on what the video teaches, the key takeaways, and what you learned as a teacher.

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If you need to embed an audio player into your Google website, or other website, this website gives some great and simple methods. This could be useful for posting a podcast on your site.

Great example of a perfect class website for our assignment! No leftover stuff from Google!

WordPress theme that seems to make your WordPress blog into a slick, fully featured CMS (like Blackboard, for example, although different).

Really cool presentation tool that seems to have many advantages over PowerPoint for some kinds of presentations. Contributed by Steve.

I've had this site recommended to me for recording and publishing podcasts

another resource for podcasting

An alternative to Nng for creating social networks.

A BYU site for creating learning networks and communities.

A cool self-publishing website where students can write and illustrate books and have them published for as little as $3.