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We want to ensure student safety as well as monitor and filter their online behavior. As Web 2.0 becomes more popular and educational technology online sites replace desktop software, this has become more of an issue. A lot of subscription-based or ed tech sites require a student email address to create an account which can become a BIG issue when dealing with CIPA compliance, because a majority of students to not have a school email account. Here are 20 Web 2.0 sites that do not require a student email address to create an account. This list is in alphabetical order. 

"Powerful and Free Tools for Teachers and Students

Rushton Hurley's resources from the Google Apps for Edu Summit

Great list of various resources from one of the presenters at the Singapore Google Apps Summit Sep 2012

The fuzzy front end of innovation confronts you with a lot of questions. For the new edition of my book Creating innovative Products and Services,  I have posted a question on front-end innovation struggles to innovation practitioners in more than 20 Linkedin groups. The response was massive. I made a list of forty reasons why people struggle starting innovation in their companies in daily practice.

""Student Comprehension of Books in Kindle and Traditional Formats" by Michael Milone, a research psychologist and educational writer at Renaissance Learning, asked students in two fourth-grade classes located in the Upper Midwest to read up to six books from a selected list of a dozen popular fiction titles"

George Couros outlines the Why & How of social media for administrators. Great collection here.

"Below are some of the top web apps for students looking for helpful tools to focus while online, as selected by Google's Chrome Web Apps Guru, Rahul Roy-Chowdhury. StayFocusd - StayFocusd is a productivity extension that helps you focus on work by restricting the amount of time you can spend on time-wasting websites.  You can restrict entire sites or just parts of them for as long or short of a time as necessary. Todo.ly- Todo.ly is an intuitive and easy to use online to-do list and task manager. It helps you get organized and get things done by organizing your tasks into projects and subprojects, adding customized icons and labels, and assigning due dates to your tasks. Read Later Fast - This app lets you save pages to read later - online or offline, and fast. All you have to do is right click and save the page for later to avoid having too many open tabs on your browser. Write Space - Write Space is a customizable, full-screen text editor that lives in your browser. It is designed to minimize the distractions that come between you and your writing.  This app also auto saves your work and works offline. StudyStack - StudyStack helps students memorize anything with millions of flashcards that have already been added to the site or the ability to create your own.  There are dozens of flashcard categories including foreign languages, math, LSAT and GRE. Graph.tk - An app for math majors, Graph.tk is an app that brings the graphing capabilities of your calculator to the browser. It's easy to use and good for plotting graphs based on equations. WordReference - For anyone taking a foreign language course or studying abroad, this extension gets you the translations you need in a fast and easy way.  Since it's an extension and placed right next to the address bar, you don't even have to leave the site you're on for a quick translation. BONUS APP: Panic Button - Ok, this app won't help you pass your class, but it might just come in handy during

A beautiful list of Digital Storytelling assignments. Really good resources here.

"Neuroscience & the Classroom: Making Connections is a self-contained distance-learning course distributed free of charge on the Web. The course is designed by Kurt Fischer, director of the Mind, Brain, and Education Program at Harvard University Graduate School of Education; Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, assistant professor of education at the Rossier School of Education and assistant professor of psychology at the Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California; and Matthew H. Schneps, George E. Burch Fellow in Theoretic Medicine and Affiliated Sciences at the Smithsonian Institution and director of the Laboratory for Visual Learning at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). The multimedia course consists of six units, with an introduction and a conclusion. Each unit contains many integrated videos and sidebars of additional information, as well as a list of resources."

Games by subject. Really good list of excellent games

a list of weekly Student Opinion questions - good for writing prompts or examples of opinion writing

online list of texts that support writing workshop

list of the Google Docs which Tom Barrett has set up for people to add "interesting ways to" ..... [fil in the blank], e.g., use web conferencing in class, use wallwisher in class, use audio in the classroom....

Great list of web2.0 tools worth checking out!

A list of games related to: "The state of health of a whole society, and the policies and actions of government to maintain or improve overall well-being."

A list of games related to: "Issues relating to human activities and the natural environment including resource use, pollution, climate change, energy use, ecology, nature conservation and sustainable development."

A list of games related to: "Wars and military actions between countries or regions spurred by geographic, religious, ethnic or other differences."

A list of games related to:  "The state of not having enough resources to secure basic needs such as adequate food, water, shelter or sanitary facilities. Populations in developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are especially afflicted. "

A list of games related to:  "Universal rights to which every person is entitled, by a moral standard that stands above the laws of any individual nation."

List of places to find CC media