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The Newseum - a 250,000-square-foot museum of news - offers visitors an experience that blends five centuries of news history with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on exhibits.

The Website is a newspaper clipping generator. Students type in their "news story" on the computer, create a name for the newspaper, create a headline, and add a date. They type in their news story (it can be a brief, couple of paragraphs) - click the generator button, and an authentic image of a newspaper page appears with their news story.

iCue, brought to you by NBS News, stands for Immerse. Connect. Understand. Excel. It's a social networking site that integrates news stories and education. Pretty cool.

Writers in today's market, whether they write fiction, news stories, blogs, or just for fun, are online during much of the day in search of ideas and gigs. Organizing job posts, favorite reference sites and new searches for various pieces can get overwhelming, even with the efficiency of the Internet. To help you stay more focused, organized and productive, we've compiled a list of 50 must-have Firefox extensions that all writers need to check out.

The Web 2.0 Projects book contains nearly 60 projects using Web 2.0 tools, organised in age groups. If you downloaded your copy of this booklet before 6 July 2008, please download it again, as it has now been revised. Thanks to Peggy George, who kindly pointed out some typos and formatting errors which had escaped my attention. Coming of Age: An Introduction to the NEW Worldwide Web (1st Ed) is a great introduction to Web 2.0 in education. This first edition was downloaded 60,000 times before I lost count!

Portable Professional Development (PPD) is a collection of podcasts which demonstrate ways that teachers have integrated technology into their classrooms and to publish them for others to view. PPD podcasts may include introductions to new applications... and PPD podcasts may include clever ways to integrate technology we've been using for years!\n

Website and organization devoted to anytime, anywhere learning that is full of news, events, resources and more.