Michael M. Grant's Viral Notebook for Teachers

The homepage for Big6 for kids. Links to age appropriate tools to help kids with information problem solving.

An educational tool to teach boolean search strategies.

Animoto videos--music videos for your images and pictures. With high production value motion graphics synchronized to every beat of your music, Animoto videos blow the doors off traditional slideshows.

FreeMind is an open source mind mapping or concept mapping application.

Mind mapping is a great way to add structure to brainstorming sessions and visualize your ideas. Check out the applications your fellow readers use to do their best brainstorming.

Lovely Charts is an online diagramming application that allows you to create professional looking diagrams, such as flowcharts, sitemaps, organisation charts, wireframes, and many more... For free.

Online Mind Mapping: MindMeister - the first 100% web-based free collaborative mind mapping tool

Mindomo is a Web-based concept mapping tool.

Web-based concept mapping and brainstorming tool. Allows you to share, embed, export and print.

Science Books Online lists free science e-books, textbooks, lecture notes, monographs, and other science related documents. All texts are available for free reading online, or for downloading in various formats.

A kid-safe web browser

Create electronic presentations completely on the Web. Similar to Powerpoint. Zoho Show can import and export Powerpoint, as well as embed a slideshow onto your Web site or blog.

A search engine tutorial.

A search engine that uses Google SafeSearch for kids.

A search engine for children and students using Google SafeSearch. Includes ads.

"For example, in a middle school life science class, students are learning about food webs and the interactions between biotic and abiotic factors in the environment. It isn't enough to just understand what food webs are and learn the terms biotic and abiotic. Rather, it is critical that students are able to apply that knowledge to real-world situations. So instead of simply practicing how to identify the energy transfer among organisms in a food web, students may be challenged to research a particular environment (i.e., rainforest in Peru - http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/Peru), identify unique flora and fauna to that region, and pinpoint threats that could upset the balance of that food web. Additionally, students can use social networking sites, such as Facebook (if over the age of 13), to investigate organizations with environmental concerns and compare their own ideas with those of practicing organizations (i.e., Rainforest Alliance). Instructional rigor is achieved by extending the activity and engaging students in finding potential solutions that would prevent an environmental upset. These types of highly cognitive learning opportunities immediately increase rigor and require students to apply and negotiate their academic knowledge in a solutions-driven environment. The tablet becomes a learner tool as students research the web and collect data that would contribute to the solution-driven activity. In completing the activity, the learner must have or acquire sufficient knowledge of: (1) what food webs are; (2) in what ways food webs are significant to an environment; (3) what abiotic and biotic factors are; (4) which biotic factors contribute to a food web; and (5) how abiotic factors contribute to or affect the success of a food web. Engaging in solution-driven activities with the iPad, etc., goes beyond superficial and lower-level tasks by requiring students to expand their knowledge in context and through active engagement with others."

ThinkTank is an electronic performance support system to help students narrow down research topics and create keyworks and searches to move the research process forward.

Share and embed slideshows on the Web.

Share and embed photos on your Web site. Add text and backgrounds, too.