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An excellent interactive site that lets students explore a forest virtually.

Great interactive tool for teachers to implement Bloom's taxonomy

Primary level - the phonics lessons are great!

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.

This spreadsheet shows the use of the Word Search spreadsheet gadget. This gadget creates an interactive Word Search from a column of words in a spreadsheet, with a user-specified number of rows or columns.

Interactive Flash activity explores issues of sustainability and environmentalism

Plus free interactive activities for kids, all grouped by subject area

Mapwing makes it easy to build, share, and explore virtual tours. Use Mapwing to turn your digital photos into virtual tours that include interactive maps, images, and comments. Then, share your virtual tours with friends, clients, or the entire world.

These new readers are starting to get to what we need in the classroom. "The e-reader screen is used with a stylus that can underline or highlight text, take notes in the margin, pull up a blank piece of e-paper for solving math problems, or touch a link for a video of a chemical interaction that is then displayed on the LCD screen." I've heard predictions that even more flexible devices will be developed this coming year.

One of my favorite inquiries is how the brain works with language. This book looks fascinating! "Learning to read seems to be one of the more important changes that we impose to our children's brain. The impact that it has on us is tantalizing. It raises very fundamental issues of how the brain and culture interact. "

Wikis are the most popular Web 2.0 tool being used in science and math classrooms. Based on a survey of readers - 43 percent use them to support their teaching and student learning. A Wiki is appealing, encourages participation, supports collaboration, and promotes interaction by students who love to use technology. By the way - this includes most students today!

interactive graph on the multiple intelligences

The Flipped Classroom - students watch videos of lectures at home, so that the classroom  is used for interactive work, discussions, getting help, asking questions

ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want. Looking for music for a video, school project, game you're developing, podcast or just for listening in your cubicle or mobile music device? Find exactly the music you're looking for - podsafe, liberally licensed - using dig.ccMixter Music Discovery tool.

A great interactive timeline creator which now has accounts for education. 

Art education by Moma for young children.

Many young people use the interactive web, or Web 2.0, in their everyday lives, primarily for socialising and entertainment. Particularly empowering to learning are abilities to produce content on the world wide web, and a critical, reflective, metacognitive approach to using the web. In the face of a growing 'participation divide' between youth who have opportunities to engage in these higher order participatory and reflective literacies and those with fewer opportunities, there is an urgent need for teachers to expand literacy instruction. This article offers examples of classroom practices that draw on social elements of Web 2.0 that are favoured by youth to support less practised usages required for learning. Specifically, we describe ways of using new literacies and new forms of texts for locating and critically examining information, and ways of sharing and building knowledge within the participatory and creative landscape of Web 2.0.

Now days life has become way to fast, people do not have too much time for interaction with others and for leisure activities. In fact in olden times more stress was laid for leisure activities and that was imbibed in children as well by adults. Read more: http://www.ausays.com/2011/08/cheap-hotel-reservation-a-helping-hand/#ixzz1WOVWFJqn