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Vyew allows you to meet and share content in real-time or anytime. Upload images, files, documents and videos into a room. Users can access and contribute at anytime.  This is the best free video conference application I've used; works great for team projects and collaborative efforts!

Digital Learning Day is a nationwide celebration of innovative teaching and learning through digital media and technology that engages students and provides them with a rich, personalized educational experience. On Digital Learning Day, a majority of states, hundreds of school districts, thousands of teachers, and more than a million students will encourage the innovative use of technology by trying something new, showcasing success, kicking off project-based learning, or focusing on how digital tools can help improve student outcomes.

"Today, more and more teachers are looking for ways to integrate their smart phones and iPads (and other tablets) with their physical education and health courses. Below is a list of apps that we've found helpful for Physical Educators."

This is great for Phys Ed Majors

The mission of Web 2.0 Labs is to continue to cultivate, incubate, and grow existing and future opportunities for educators to work with each other, and to promote the personal and collective value of social media projects.  

Animoto can be a great resource for teachers and students in the classroom! You can take your photos and videos to turn them into cool and fun videos. Such an easy way to create new and amazing projects!

As we advance further into the 21st century, technology is becoming more and more integrated into our society. Smart phones are now commonplace, tablets are replacing or substituting for computers and laptops, and social media has become second nature. The rapid and widespread adoption of these technological innovations has completely changed the way we conduct our daily lives, including how knowledge is digested and taught in our classrooms - but is it a positive change? Should we be worried about teachers and students using technology in the classroom? Our mathematics coordinator and NMSI expert, Jeremy Posey, digs deep and shares some knowledge on how technology can benefit your students.

MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. 

"Undergraduate students preparing to be teachers will be users and leaders of technology in classrooms and schools. The Educational Technology Minor gives them one more way to demonstrate their teaching skills. The Instructional Technology graduate degree program creates opportunities in classrooms and in the business community."

Mash your ideas and media together with friends in a dynamic whiteboard wiki. Using photos, videos, and other web content you can instantly create brainstorms, presentations, scrapbooks, and enjoy an interactive chat with more than 50 friends

Fantastic website that has great resources for educators and for those wanting to learn about all kinds of subjects. Includes games for learning math skills, world geography, science, and more.

Great tool for teachers and students alike - especially if you're like me and want to brush up on some of the basics (though this has more advanced lessons as well)!

This website is great for kids, students, teachers, and parents.  IT has so many links for games and activities and other great educational resources.  

6 Science Activities to support next generation science standards. Animal Groups What's In a Tree Re- and De- Natural Resources and Human Impacts Camoufage Countershading and Adaptations.

If the Odyssey has any basis in fact, it describes events of the end of the Mycenaean age. It was composed in the dark ages and/or archaic period, and finally written down in the archaic period as well.

If the Odyssey has any basis in fact, it describes events of the end of the Mycenaean age. It was composed in the dark ages and/or archaic period, and finally written down in the archaic period as well.

"Internet users who upload their own images, sounds and text are increasingly using the Creative Commons license. A Creative Commons license allows a publisher to indicate how and under what conditions some one else can make use of their content. "

Why should cursive be taught at all in this century?

Media commentator Peter Williams argues that gaming can actually help kids learn and engage in their environment more deeply. Williams explains how games as varied as Donkey Kong and Fallout may have shaped his son's education and interests for the better.

The 2011 Global Education Conference will be held November 14 - 18, online and free. Sessions will take place in multiple time zones and multiple languages over the five days. The 2010 Global Education Conference had 15,028 unique logins and presentations from 62 countries.