Storycorps allows users to listen to the weekly interview; share life stories via email, Facebook, and Twitter; get tips for recording interviews on mobile devices.
Teachbook.com is a professional, online community for teachers. When you join Teachbook, you can communicate with your colleagues in a secure, professional online environment. You can create, share, and search a database of lesson plans and instructional videos created by other teachers, as well as find online courses, instructional modules, and other education resources. Managing your classroom and communications with parents and studetns is easy with Teachbook.
ScuttlePad is a social network for kids that allows members to interact online while building language skills. With ScuttlePad, kids express themselves using guided communication to learn how to share information responsibly. Once they're part of the ScuttlePad community, kids can connect with their friends in a fun and safe way.
Web Wise Kids, WILL Interactive, Verizon and ESA Foundation have developed It' Your Call. This online interactive educational game allows children to practice responsible cell phone use and personal safety. Players take on the role of live-action characters in an interactive movie, make decisions, view the consequences, and learn important lessons about cell phone use. It's Your Call is free.
DOGONews is a free online newspaper and Web guide for elementary and middle school students, providing short articles about current events with photos, videos, a dictonary for challenging words, and maps for geographical context. Teachers can create a custom online newspaper for their students by choosing articles and Web sites based on content area. Students can post news or discuss articles with other users in a safe, education-focused environment.
Micrtosoft Corp and the Smithsonian Institution, and Taking ITGlobal will help teachers integrate project-based learning in their classrooms by having students team up with their peers around the globe to solve real-world environmental challenges.
"Student Reporting Labs connect students with a network of
public broadcasting mentors, an innovative journalism curriculum and an online collaborative space to develop digital media, critical thinking and communication skills while producing original news reports for PBS NewsHour
Extra."