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This blog lists 77 eductional game resources.

MathPickle is a site for K-12 teachers. Here, you can get problems that engage a wide spectrum of student ability. Video by grade levels.

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Via @kjarrett -- This is ISTE's list of criteria by which to judge the effectiveness of a training program for potential technology integrators. This could be used to assess tech coaches for how well they are addressing the demands of NET*S at the building or district level.

Via @kjarrett -- This is ISTE's list of criteria by which to judge the effectiveness of a training program for potential technology integrators. This could be used to assess tech coaches for how well they are addressing the demands of NET*S at the building or district level.

Grammaropolis is a fresh, fun, and exciting new way to learn about the parts of speech. When students associate human qualities and characteristics with the parts of speech, abstract and seemingly arbitrary grammatical rules start to make a lot more sense.

Interactive activities that work directly in the browser, broken apart by subject, topic, and grade level. The US history map and the ecology simulator are very good.

Create a Fake Facebook Wall

"The ancient tradition of storytelling meets the digital age. When students create a movie or interactive slideshow to tell their story, learning becomes personal. With digital storytelling, students can: * Improve their writing. * Show creativity. * Have a voice. Digital storytelling projects lend themselves well to portfolio assessment."

"At Mathalicious, we believe that math isn't something to learn, but a tool to learn about other things. Our mission is to help transform the way math is taught by providing you with the best, most meaningful and most relevant math content available. Our lessons are aligned to traditional state standards but, unlike most content, emphasize conceptual understanding through engaging real-world applications."

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Educational games arranged by content area and grade level.

committed to delivering public domain literature paired with high quality audio performances. We pair together great literature and accompanying audio. Putting the text and audio together, readers can learn spelling, punctuation and paragraph structure by listening and reading masterpieces of the written word. Read and listen via your web browser or on your mp3 player. Regardless of how you enjoy the audiobooks (audio books), they are free.

Novels, poems, non-fiction, short stories, children's literature -- read out loud.

Novels, poems, non-fiction, short stories, children's literature -- read out loud.

A 7th grade student gives a tour of her personal learning environment, sharing how she uses Google Docs, blogs, Evernote, Skype, and more in her life science class.

"Help your students children classify ideas and communicate more effectively. Use graphic organizers to structure writing projects, to help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming."

Connect - We invite you to join or log in to our social network for youth voices, where students and teachers work together (see Curriculum and Guides) to create student-to-student conversations and collaborations. We hope that you will make Youth Voices your destination for many different activities in school and out. Comment - Be heard. This is a place for you to engage in discussions. To find something that you may want to comment on: * search with keywords in the search box * choose one of the New/Current Discussions * consider the Popular Discussions, the ones with the most comments * browse by Topics * find posts by members of your school or community groups We encourage you to spend a lot of time writing thoughtful comments back and forth on other students' Discussions. Create - Be known. Show who you are through your creativity and scholarship. At Youth Voices you can post updates many times each day on the microblog, What's up? And you can use your cell phone to post audio. You can also create, revise, and polish three types of Discussions: * audio podcasts * text with embedded media * discussions that begin with videos and VoiceThreads

Visual interactive webs.

"Interactive Science, Math and Language Arts Websites and Games"

"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."

This is a wonderful site! I use it all the time!! A large portion of my students actually used it for their last presentations! The one downfall - you need to verify an email address before you can save anything. I've also found a way around that though... you just have to finish your project in one sitting and it'll finish it and give you a URL that you can post somewhere (for my students on moodle). Great site!! :)

Students can explore Anne's house in a super cool 3D interactive environment. The Secret Annex gives students an authentic feel for the place where Anne wrote her diary while listening to stories of everyone who lived in the hiding place.