Westport Public Schools - ITL

"These eight online games teach you the chemical elements, periodic table, and more. Just click to play and learn!"

"May 1 - 7, 2011 will be the second annual Choose Privacy Week sponsored by ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom. Choose Privacy Week is an invitation to be aware of and talk about privacy rights and choices in libraries and in life. For school libraries in particular, Choose Privacy Week is an opportunity for librarians to promote discussion about this issue beyond standard internet safety lessons."

project display ideas, science showcase, etc

"Old Time Radio Programs, Complete Broadcast Day, D Day, June 06 1944"

Teacher rubric for evaluating a game for inclusion in curriculum.

"SweetSearch Web Research Tutorial Dulcinea Media Announces Tutorial for Teaching Web Research Skills"

"Visual.ly: The Future of Data-Based Infographics" detailed blog post @ Visual.ly

"Welcome to Soundzabound™ - the ONLY royalty free music library which meets all the licensing and technology requirements needed for education! Soundzabound Music Library offers a wide variety of music, audio themes and sound effects for grades K -12 and universities that ensures your copyright safety. Perfect for podcasts, PowerPoint™, videos, news shows, video yearbooks, digital storytelling, presentations, TV broadcasts, web design and more!"

nice long list, categorized

This tool features a problem-solving activity in which you must transfer blocks of different sizes from one tower to another. The activity is based on a game invented by the French mathematician, Edouard Lucas, in 1883. The rules are that you can only move one block at a time and that a larger block may never lie on top of a smaller one.

FunBrain will show you a periodic table that contains the elements' symbols and their periodic numbers.

"But some new tablets do get you jazzed. And one deserving recognition is the alluring Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime that I've been testing. Available the week of Dec. 19, it vaults to the top of the list of available Android tablets. Why the lust? Asus has produced a tablet that is fast, beautiful and generous with power. It costs $499 for a version with 32GB of internal storage or $599 for 64GB. Asus is throwing in a year of unlimited Web storage for free. Machines are Wi-Fi only."

"This activity can be used as an introduction to the March on Washington during a unit on Civil Rights. It could also be used to illustrate First Amendment rights according to the United States Constitution. For grades 5-12."

"Learn to code Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. It's interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends." And it's free!

"Welcome to this first in a series of PBL Mania Posts. For the next few weeks I am celebrating Project Based Learning by hosting a webinar at Edtech Leaders Online, and by presenting a PBL session at the NICE Conference in Chicago. In this post I will introduce you to some awesome places on the web containing some of the very best PBL resources. Before reading, please take a moment to subscribe to this 21centuryedtech Blog by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans. "

short video tutorials on shooting & editing videos

learning activities elem and middle

"Open. Connect. Share. Introducing media:scape - furniture and technology merged to help teams access and share information, to be more creative, innovative and effective when meeting with others. It's simple; just open, connect and share"

"Teaching kids to be 'digital citizens' (not just 'digital natives')"

"90% of users are the "audience", or lurkers. The people tend to read or observe, but don't actively contribute. 9% of users are "editors", sometimes modifying content or adding to an existing thread, but rarely create content from scratch. 1% of users are "creators", driving large amounts of the social group's activity. More often than not, these people are driving a vast percentage of the site's new content, threads, and activity."