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Skype is a free and easy way for teachers to open up their classroom and their students to a world way beyond their campus. With Skype, students can learn from other students, connect with other cultures, and expand their knowledge in amazing ways. Teachers and parents can also benefit from Skype in the classroom. Read below to learn how you can take advantage of the power of Skype in your classroom.

Game Classroom is an educational games website catering to the K-6 market. Game Classroom offers mathematics games and language arts games. Games can be found by selecting a grade level and then a subject area. Both the mathematics and language arts categories are subdivided into specific focus areas. Some of the games are unique to Game Classroom and some are games that are used on other sites.

SOS Classroom offers a directory of free online educational resources for K-8 Language Arts and Math. These sites are submitted by parents and teachers, and they are all reviewed and organized by members of the SOS Classroom team!

a wiki for teachers to connect their classrooms using VoiceThread

As we explore these and other new tools, we must ask ourselves; How do we incorporate these into our classrooms in meaningful and useful ways?

The mission of the Skype an Author Network is to provide K-12 teachers and librarians a way to connect authors, books, and young readers through virtual visits.

organize your home library, would be good for your classroom library

Online Professional Development for teachers who want to use a SMART Board to increase learning in the classroom

Free Collaborative Classroom Tools for creating and sharing personalized Mixbooks. Secure online environment for students and teachers to share and edit privately

using web 2.0 in the classroom in the style of common craft videos

Welcome to the Letters to Santa Project!  This was the very first project conducted in 1985 on our pioneering FrEdMail Network (using Apple IIe and 300 baud modems). It continues to be an annual Global Schoolhouse favorite. Around the world, Santa Claus plays an important role in a multitude of cultures. In the United States, he has become a true American folk icon. When you register for this project, we match you up with a partner classroom with which your students exchange their "Santa Letters:" Younger students write letters "to" Santa; Older students impersonate Santa and send their carefully crafted replies.

'Ideas to Inspire' is a collection of collaborative presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities. They are the result of the collaboration of teachers from all around the world.

a project of the Science Education Center at Glendale Community College and provides games and activities for children around a number of themes including space, living things, energy, and more.  Loads of fun learning experiences can be found here!

good ideas for using Voice thread with students

activities for teens and children explore reading and writing away from school hours