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Where educators, students, and parents are networking the world together. Global COIN allows international connections via the World Wide Web for researching and collaborating with different cultures and their societies. The International Education K ­ 16 website is a collaborative effort at Pennsylvania Department of Education between the Bureaus of Teaching and Learning and Community and Student Services. This website will emphasize World Languages, World Cultures, and global issues. Global Coin will provide materials and resources to students, teachers, parents and professionals. In the future Global Coin will be enhanced and expanded technologically to meet numerous educational needs.

GlobalPost is embarking on a bold journey to redefine international news for the digital age. To get there, we are relying on the enduring values of great journalism: integrity, accuracy, independence and powerful storytelling. GlobalPost follows no political line. We encourage our correspondents to write with a strong voice and to work hard to unearth facts. But we leave opinion on the opinion pages.

" IIME presented by Japan Art Mile is a project of international collaborative learning implemented with a school in Japan as a part of school education. Students of each class research on a global theme, share respective learning using internet, and finally express what they have collaboratively learned in a visible way of creating one mural (a big picture of 5-12 feet) together drawing half by half. Age of participants:6-18 ages, elementary-high school "

"The International Association for K-12 Online Learning's (iNACOL) Director of Policy, David Teeter, recently published "Online Learning: Top 5 Federal Policy Issues Brief," which takes a close look at reforms to improve student-centered, competency-based policies for online learning." iNACOL Releases 5 Policy Reforms for Online Learning http://t.co/YPHJl3Iw

This is an online learning environment dedicated for educators and students to learn how to effectively use Google Apps in an educational context.

Free google apps training.

Google Apps Education Training Center is a new online learning environment designed for educators and students who want to effectively use Google Apps in an educational context. The site offers six modules, including Google Apps Education Edition, apps Mail, Calendar, Docs, Sites, and other tools. The training will cover customizing apps for individual schools; organizing e-mail effectively; creating shared calendars; collaborating with others online; using documents, presentations, and spreadsheets; delivering and collecting surveys, quizzes, and feedback; developing media-rich websites; and setting up internal video portals for schools.

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.

"This Wiki is a compilation of interactive resources and lesson plan ideas that can be used by K-12 teachers when addressing 21st Century and Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS). The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS*S) serve as the framework for this Wiki."

Thanks to Jim for sharing this one! The International Education K ­ 16 website is a collaborative effort at Pennsylvania Department of Education between the Bureaus of Teaching and Learning and Community and Student Services. This website will emphasize World Languages, World Cultures, and global issues. Global Coin will provide materials and resources to students, teachers, parents and professionals.

Find teacher lesson plans and resources for these topics: PA Ethnic History, Philadelphia History, Abolition and UGRR, PA's New Immigrants, Women's History, Japanese American Internment, and National History Day.

doXtop is your own, full-blown virtual publishing house * Manage and publish anything you've written for audience * Author and collaborate freely across corporate and international barriers * Distribute publications via content-rich Web sites, RSS feeds and secure extranets with a click * Engage with colleagues and readers with built-in Web 2.0 functions * Market your published content to any audience

"Wolfram|Alpha is a free online computational knowledge engine that generates answers to questions in real time by doing computations on its own vast internal knowledge base. Our long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. This can be valuable to educators in many ways. "

The UN has declared 2011 as the International Year of Chemistry. Activities on this site throughout the year hope to re-introduce chemistry to people throughout the world - to show that chemistry is inseparable from our lives and from modern society.

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. The principal objectives of the WDL are to: * Promote international and intercultural understanding; * Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet; * Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences; * Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries.

Science NetLinks is part of Thinkfinity, a partnership between the Verizon Foundation and 11 premier educational organizations. The Thinkfinity partners include the AAAS, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Council on Economic Education, the National Geographic Society, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the International Reading Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the Literacy Network.

"Welcome to the Pennsylvania Department of Education free online Act 48 professional education programs of study provided by Learning Sciences International. The free self-study courses are provided for eligible Pennsylvania educators 24 hours a day/7 days a week."

Game that simulates international trade. Great info on economics and advantages of trade agreements.

"From this site you can see live data that is transmitted from the Space Station to Mission Control. On the Educators link it has lesson plans on how to use the data in the classroom." Shared by Jeff Williams.

With a view of travel as an educational experience like no other, the project makes use of digital media to promote an understanding of different culture and customs to students worldwide. The site hosts virtual field trips to England, Jordan, and South Africa that include more than 160 fort films that correspond to the destinations. Each video explains more about the region's food, music, culture, and language. Since 2003, project explorer has counted more than a million visitors to the site from more than 40 different countries. Recently, it won a Parents' Choice Award for "Outstanding Web Programming." The site's developers qre not working to add a fourth field trip--this one to Malaysia--the Project Explorer has lesson for upper elementary, middle and high school. They plan to offer lesson specifically designed for the early grades.

SELECT a subject from the top menu and watch the countries on the map change their size. Instead of land mass, the size of each country will represent the data for that subject --both its share of the total and absolute value. LEARN MORE ABOUT US CONTACT US ADVERTISING TERMS OF USE PRIVACY POLICY FAQ U.S. Census Bureau National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) National Weather Service (NWS) National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) National Association for Regulatory Administration (NARA) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Guttmacher Institute Pew Forum on Religious and Public Life U.S. Department of Agriculture (DoA) Energy Information Agency (EIA) Office of Surface Mining (OSM) U.S. Green Building Council U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wilderness.net Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) U.S Geological Survey (USGS) National Mining Association (NMA) Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) export.gov Realty Trac, Inc. American Gaming Association (AGA) Bureau of Labor Satistics (BLS) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Clerk of the House of Representatives opensecrets.org National Archives and Records Administration (U.S. Archives) whitehouse.gov fedspending.gov Social Security Administration (SSA) Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) NAACP Legal Defense Fund Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Beer Institute U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) Rollercoaster Database Cinema Treasures Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) National UFO Reporting Center PEOPLE U.S. Census Bureau -the federal agency that conducts the decennial census and collects data about the nation and its people National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) -a federal agency t

Choose a subject, i.e. people, planet, politics, etc. and watch the map change based on the data representation.