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great resource to find good digital tools for K-12

"Adobe® Story software lets you outline your ideas, write scripts quickly with automatic formatting, and collaborate online. Plan and schedule fast-paced video projects, organize production with reports, and leverage script metadata in post-production."

Search for material licensed through creative commons

lots of free resources with creative commons licensing

tutorials for final cut pro X

great resource for production steps

The Six Design Principals of the 21st Century High School

"A collaborative platform for technology educators to easily create, remix, and deliver high quality technology curriculum."

Use Edge Code to live update website. It's open source and it's free!!

"Build software better, together. Powerful collaboration, review, and code management for open source and private development projects."

"Code School teaches web technologies in the comfort of your browser with video lessons, coding challenges, and screencasts."

Adobe's website dedicated to all things html, Adobe Edge, conferences, open source, web platform, and more

Free! THINKING WORLDS is a drag-and-drop 3D scene builder and visual programming editor that allows non-coders to build immersive gaming experiences and simulations. It appears more suited for creating virtual training exercises in large organizations, but with a free developer license it should provide a sufficient challenge for the ultra-techie educator. Beware. This is more of a summer project than weekend quick pick -- just imagine the learning curve if there were Scratch controls for every movement in Sim City. But if you're up to the task, there's still time to join this recently started MOOC on gameification. After all, a tool is only as good as the outcomes it makes possible.

Usability.gov is the primary government source for information on usability and user-centered design. It provides guidance and tools on how to make Web sites and other communication systems more usable and useful.