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Connect your favorite courses to relevant learning resources. Exchange knowledge and information with other members whose academic interests match yours. Join peers and professors in exploring the newest academic frontier: free online courses. A new public beta version of a web-based college course library aims to help students and faculty find open curriculum content with a search function designed to narrow their hunt for free video and audio lectures. Einztein, a California-based nonprofit, launched the beta version of its library with more then 2,000 complete online courses grouped into more than 30 categories. Einztein's libdrary features a search enging that helps students and educators drill down to the course they're searching for. Users can sort their search by tags, media type, subject matter, and course provider, among other criteria. Students also can see course ratings on the Einztein site. Web sites featuring hundreds or thousands of free online lectures are often difficult to navigate, and students can struggle to find the next in a series of lessons from the same professor in the same course.

Would be helpful for those looking for supplemental information.

This site introduces civil engineering to students. If a teacher or parent clicks on the little green truck to the right of the screen it will take you to a page with information and resources on the site.

InfuseLearning provides a platform by which teachers can seamlessly engage every student on any device. Make informed decisions at the point of instruction with real-time, student feedback.

Thinking Blocks is a suite of learning tools designed to help students solve math word problems accurately and efficiently. Using brightly colored blocks, students model mathematical relationships and identify known and unknown quantities. The model provides students with a powerful image that organizes information and simplifies the problem solving process. By modeling increasingly complex word problems, students develop strong reasoning skills which will facilitate the transition from arithmetic to algebra.

Tons of content in many different subject areas, and you can create your own. Once you choose a topic, you have the option to study the information in 40 different games. Teachers can also create a classroom and import students for tracking their progress.

"Our mission is to save every educator time and money while identifying top-quality resources for schools and classrooms. Big Deal Media is a content-rich collection of print and electronic publications that offer the information and tools K-12 educators need-all vetted through the prism of the curriculum."

Create an online community of your classroom, share inspiration, ideas, reading, thoughts, post discussions, deadlines, homework, create surveys for students, keep parents informed.

The TimeMap of World History submerges you in the entire history of world by placing you on the maps where it happened and then gives you intuitive controls to find the information you are searching for.

"The tools in this Directory fall within 12 categories that support both formal education and training and informal learning"

who knew that learning about history could be so delicious? Very interesting blog about food and history. also contains recipes. check out the right side bar information too!

Kool Jeopardy game using PREZI. Adapt to your needs. Reuse this Prezi and modify the information for your use! Please give Adam Taylor credit!

This Website is designed as an inquiry-oriented format which will provide you the viewer with information on Web 2.0 digital tools that will enable you to create 21st century learning environments. The creator of this portal hopes that the results of this project will inspire many educators to create social networks of learning for classrooms across the globe. Whether you're a teacher or student new to the topic of Web 2.0 or an experienced educator looking for Web 2.0 materials, I hope that you will find something here to meet your needs.

I think placing a survey or poll on your classroom blog or website is a great way to get informal feedback from your students. I usually put a survey on my class blog a week or so before any formal assessment that my students are going to take. That feedback helps me identify the areas that my students need more help and or clarification on. - R M Byrne

Debatepedia is "the Wikipedia of pros and cons". Its mission is to "clarify public debates and improve decision-making globally". Debatepedia is a project of the International Debate Education Association (IDEA), a 501c3 non-profit. It utilizes the same wiki technology powering Wikipedia to engage you and other citizen-editors in clarifying public debates by centralizing them into a single pro/con encyclopedia. This helps you, other citizens, and leaders better weigh ALL the pros and cons, develop positions, and make more informed decisions, votes, etc... And this significantly improves democracy and people's lives.

Welcome to Chronicling America, enhancing access to America's historic newspapers. This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1860-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Want the 411 on Web 2.0 tools? Need help getting started with the Read/Write Web? The 5 can help! Each category features the answers to five basic questions providing information educators should know about a variety of technology integration tools, focusing particularly on Web 2.0 resources. Links to the tools and additional resources are also included.

"Copyright laws can be vague and confusing. We hope that you can find your way with the help of this information. Although this website was developed for North Carolina educators, it should be of use to teachers and librarians everywhere."

Charts and graphs are a great tool because they communicate information visually. On Onlinecharttool.com you can design and share your own graphs online and for free. We support a number of different chart types like: bar charts, pie charts, line charts, bubble charts and radar plots.

Maps 101 appears to not be free but has a trial version. ti appears to be K-12. It includes materials for Spanish language educators and those teaching students with limited English. I couldn't find information on the purchase but I did see that you can request an extension on the trial version.

This site looks interesting and would be a good one to try with the free trial version.

This free software works on a computer that is connected to a digital video camera. The information provided said it takes some skill and troubleshooting, but it is worth the effort.

I will be sharing sites I found in an article called Bring the Word into Your Classroom.