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Latest update 4th June 2013 - These are some of the best free internet resources for education. This page is constantly updated; every time I come across a new piece of software or an exciting website, I list it here. This list is not exhaustive in any way.

This site is amazing...so much potential in a social studies or science class. I've used it in the library, but just as means to show the site to students.

The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells as illustrated below.

Thank you for sharing this. I am going to pass this source along to others in my district. I think it will come in handy when it is time to write PDPs. Many teachers are writing PDP goals that incorporate more technology into the classroom. I think this will help them define their steps and create a plan. Thanks!

Great way of comparing/explaining to students the importance of reliable sources, gives great tools and explains Wikipedia (is the McDonald's of resources)

Great way of comparing/explaining to students the importance of reliable sources, gives great tools and explains Wikipedia (is the McDonald's of resources)

Great way of comparing/explaining to students the importance of reliable sources, gives great tools and explains Wikipedia (is the McDonald's of resources)

Great video explaining CC

Great video explaining CC

Great presentation tools for schools. Online learning resources.

Great presentation tools for schools. Online learning resources.

Great presentation tools for schools. Online learning resources.

Common Sense Media offers a free Digital Citizen curriculum. It is but together in an iBook that includes quizzes and other interactive pieces.

I have used Common Sense Media! There are some great ideas to be found here. Awesome find!

Google provides lessons and PowerPoints to teach the most effective and efficient ways to use a search engine.

Over 750 free online college courses and lectures are available from MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Berkeley and more. A world of learning is just a click away!

This is on the higher end of education. I was asked to review the history offerings just a few months ago. It is, I guess, a landing place for a whole lot of open education classes from across the web.

To help states, districts, teachers, and other users determine the degree of alignment of OER to the Common Core State Standards, and to determine aspects of quality of OER, Achieve has developed eight rubrics in collaboration with leaders from the OER community. To allow users to apply these rubrics and evaluate the quality of instructional resources, Achieve partnered with OER Commons to develop an online evaluation tool.

An educator's guide to open educational resources (OER), including online repositories, curriculum-sharing websites, sources for lesson plans and activities, and open textbooks.

OER, a part of the global open content movement, are shared teaching, learning, and research resources available under legally recognized open licenses-free for people to reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute. Why are OER important? High-quality OER can save teachers significant time and effort on resource development and advance student learning inside and outside the classroom.

World History for Us All is a comprehensive model curriculum for teaching world history in middle and high schools One of my favs!

Newsela offers teachers and students alike access to a ton of current event and news articles. All the articles are offered in three different reading levels and Common-core aligned.

Contained in this source are a variety of tools to use when wanting to implement digital storytelling into your library/classroom. I like the variety. Aside from this source, I have used Mystorymaker with students. I also like the animation factor associated with this source.

With CCSS coming down the pike, I think that any source that can help educators integrate these new standards is worth checking out. If I were to introduce this source to educators, I would give it a quick introduction. I think that sources like this deserve time to be picked through. If this was not an option, I would possibly give teachers an already made lesson and ask them to assign CCSS to the lesson. Thoughts?

This source would make a great reference to those looking to introduce the concept of a flipped classroom. I find the concept of a flipped classroom to be perplexing. Personally, I work in a district with a high poverty level. Students don't always have access to the materials needed to implement such a concept. Any resource to help the ground running or help you work out the kinks is worth the time to read it.

This could be used by science teachers in the building for our honors and ap biology classes. There are labs that our teachers could build off of and teachers could show the students what a college syllabus looks like. I feel like this could be a great conversation about high school expectations and what's next to come.

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) or BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology) is gaining popularity in many schools as a way of increasing access to vital technology without the costly burden of purchasing a device for each student.

I really like this open resource because there are a variety of subjects. I stumbled upon this lesson plan on money management and spending and I like it because it's very interactive. It has great graphics and holds the attention of the student. This could be used at the high school level in many classes such as psychology and business courses.