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"Book Drum's remarkable range of interactive content is particularly valuable to students and teachers, with over twenty A-level/GCSE set texts already profiled, including Wuthering Heights, The Bell Jar, Frankenstein, Wide Sargasso Sea, and To Kill a Mockingbird. Teachers can create new profiles as class projects, encouraging students to dig deeper into a book with Book Drum's fun, easy-to-use online interface."

"Book Drum is the perfect companion to the books we love, bringing them to life with immersive pictures, videos, maps and music."

Secure Social Learning Network for Teachers and Students

"Screencast: A digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture, often containing audio narration."

"Comments let you apply notes, questions, or observations to a passage on a wiki page - it's kind of like slapping a Post-it note onto the wiki page. Because they're linked to a specific part of the page, comments show you exactly which words they're about (unlike with an email or discussion post). And because the comments can be revealed or collapsed, they let you look at a page as either as an appreciative audience or a critical editor, depending on your needs."

A middle school diigo activity! Easily adaptable.

How to videos

Collaboration site

New Tools for Kids to Create a Book List of Favorites and For Classes or Friends to Share a Book List!

Veritasium is a science video blog which aims to present topics in all areas of science from the simplest to the most complex. The goal is to make scientific ideas clear, accessible, and interesting. Veritas is Latin for truth, and the ending 'ium' makes it into an element - the element of truth.

SnagFilms.com is a website where you can watch full-length documentary films for free, but we're also a platform that lets you "snag" a film and put it anywhere on the web. With a library of over 850 films, and rapidly growing, you're bound to find films that resonate with your interests. We make it easy for you to find a film that shines a light on a cause you care about. You can then open a virtual movie theater on any web site, so any one can watch your favorite SnagFilms for free.

SnagFilms site

AASL launches new lesson plan database http://bit.ly/eeVfbK #tlchat #library #edchat

The Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011 http://j.mp/gwFG9E #edtech

Collection of Google Earth files to view recreated 3-D models of buildings from the American Civil War ( like Fort Sumter ).

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

The K-6 Literacy Learning Activity Types provides a list of activity types along with the examples of technology that could be used for that activity type.

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Festinger, neuroscience - reason vs rationalization, science or lawyering?

A cautionary reminder about (the limits of) the power of reasoning.

This is a list of TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Talks. These could be GREAT writing prompts. Most videos are brief - 15 to 20 minutes. You could share just a few moments of a video. Speakers may share vision, discovery, innovation, the future.