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One of the wonders of the Internet is that it can bring the world to you instead of your needing to find the time and money to explore the traditional way. The following virtual tours bring opportunities to explore cities, famous landmarks and buildings, museums, college campuses, and even outer space. You can learn how things are made, explore the human body or that of a life-sized whale, and visit ball parks and theme parks. There is even a section of incredible virtual tours that Google Earth has compiled that shares the world in a whole new way.

This site was so cool. I created my own comic story. I was able to play brain buster games I read stories and had stories read to me, and watched videos about how to create a comic.. This site was created by Jim Davis, creator of the comic strip Garfield, in conjunction with Ball State University and PAWS, Inc. It give kids the opportunity to explore, create and connect safely with kids around the world. Jim Davis created this site because he felt there was a need to provide a high-quality, free, and engaging web site that could motivate children to achieve their full potential. The approach is kid-centric and tries to close the achievement gap between what kids seek to do on the Internet and standards-based educational activities. The mission of Professor Garfield.org is encourage children to explore academically sound literacy activities and provide them with tools to express themselves through creative writing prorams. It's an Internet destination that is safe, free and fun! The Professor Garfield and Sparktop sites (both found on this link) provide all kids of ways for kids to shine and showcase their talents and abilities! Students can record their own "talent" for Sparkstage (our American Idol-like competition), arrange music with the awesome music mixer tool, create their own comic strip in the Comis Lab, learn to sculpt, or be taught to draw by professional artists in the Art-Bot section. On Sparktop.org kids safely connect with other kids who knwow what they are going through. They find information about how their brain works and get tips on how to succeed in school and life. And they get to showcase their creativity and be recognized for their strengths. Millions of children from around the world visit the web site every month.

Scientists are continually on a mission to learn more about the world around them, and thus the information available is continually changing as the knowledge grows. Good science teachers understand the importance of staying up-to-date with the latest happenings in the world of science. A great way to do so is by following blogs. Not only can teachers stay abreast of what is happening, but many of these blogs serve as an excellent resource for students, as well.

Multiple choice questions give students food for thought on how other nations eat and share their meals, manners included. Nice for World Cultures classes and maybe even FCS. Drumming may be slightly annoying,

This will tie in nicely with my unit on ettiquette with my Foods 2 students before their formal dinner!

" Calameo Calameo is a free platform where you can publish your magazine, presentations or documents and share them with the world. It also lets you embed rich-media content to your publications like videos and audios. 2- Docuter Docuter is a great tool to manage documents, projects, workflows, shared calendars and many more. You can also use it to store and share your documents online for easy access. 3- Wepapers Webpapers lets you store all your papers, exams, lecture notes and research work in one place, and get organized. You can also use it to share and make your documents available to the world. 4- Share Zoho Share Zoho allows you to browse files based on different file types ( ppt,pdf,doc ) and also collaborate in the form of : commenting. flagging, rating, bookmarking, and chatting. 5- Edocr This is another web tool that lets you lets you upload and share your documents with over 300 web services. You can also connect with other users through private messaging and many more. 6- Scribd Scribd is an awesome online library where you can search for, read, publish, upload and share documents and written words. 7- Eight Free Tools to Share your Slideshows and Presentations This is a post I have published earlier and where I have reviewed 8 awesome free websites where you can share and publish your docs and presentations. Check them out. "

Physics Central - Learn how your world works.

Looks like an interesting site for all ages.

Shmoop, a publisher of digital educational resources, has added pre-algebra to its list of free learning guides. The online Pre-Algebra Learning guides contain hundreds of topics with succinct explanations, diagrams, interactive examples, practice problems, and real-world applications. Pre algebra is Shmoop's first foray beyond its core humanities offerings. At the home page click on the pre algebra tab

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Developed in collaboration between Maryland Public Television, MIT's Education Arcade, and FableVision. When you need a fresh approach to teach math to today-s tech-savvy youth, Lure of the Labyrinth comes to the rescue. A ground-breaking online learning game blends cutting-edge design, graphic novel storytelling and stimulating game play to plunge middle school students into a captivating 21st century learning adventure. Labyrinth's mysterious world unfolds when students encounter animated monsters and challenging math puzzles that deepen students' understanding of critical pre-algebra skills. Math topics: ratios, proportions, fractions, variables, number and operations

AAA Math is a site with a variety of math activities, spelling activities, states of the United States, Nations of the world. Students can learn, practice, play and explore grades K-8.

Bartleby.com looks like a cool site. Has unlimited access to books and information on the web. Feel free to share with anyone who may be able to use it.

CarrotSticks is an online multiplayer game that improves math skills for 1st - 5th graders as they practice and compete with peers around the world! Learn More free

Field trips can be amazing learning experiences. They provide students with the opportunity to actively participate in education, offering learning possibilities that aren't readily available in the classroom. Unfortunately, it isn't always practical or possible to take students on field trips. Tight budgets, location, transportation, time, and resource restrictions can keep your students school-bound. Virtual field trips can fill this void. Virtual field trips have come a long way from the page of links they used to be. Now students can explore the world with simulations that are so realistic, they will believe they have left the classroom. Below are five of the best virtual field trips on the web:

This site has numerous (2,100) carefully selected and annotated resources. You can click on the lobby link on the main page to go to the resources. You can click on the welcome to K12imc.org a t the bottom to go to the instructional media center where there are additional links taking you to specific locations on the site. At the bottom of the IMC page you can click on explore the worlds of K12IMC.org and within the explore page you will be able to link to more resources that are clearly described. Within each of the resource links you will go to a page where there will be a variety of content specific links. This site was interesting. There were lessons for teachers, there was a link on the explor page that will take you to experts in various fields. This is a site worth checking out because a user could, through this one site, find numerous credible and useable resources.

Found this site to be very interesting and loaded with lots of useable resources.

"- Flipsnack Fipsnack is an online flipping book software that allows you to convert PDF documents into Flash page flip  digital publications ideal for publishing students work. 2- Issuu This is another popular website where you can upload and share your students work very easily and for free. 3- Tikatok Tikatok lets you easily create an unlimited books online . You can add author biography, upload images and save them in your persona; image gallery. 4- Mixbook Mixbook  lets you make completely customizable photo books, yearbooks, cards, and calendars and many more. 5- ePub Bud ePub Bud is another great platform that you can use to  create a digital publication and share it with the world. It is easy to use and free of charge. 6- Lulu Lulu is a website that lets you publish print books and ebooks for free. You can also control your work and reach more readers. 7- Other tools Check out these other tools that you can use to share and publish your students work . Courtesy of Larry Ferlazzo Newer Post Older Post Home Twitter Facebook Google+ Pinterest RSS Email Educators Technology Follow On "

"In a digitally focused world, education is getting more and more digitized pushing us, teachers and educators, to re-conceptualize what it really means to be a teacher in the 21st century. Whether you are a technological determinist or instrumentalist, technology has become an essential force shaping much of our teaching and pedagogical practices. It has also placed a number of demands and exigencies on us and to meet these exigencies we need to develop a set of key digital skills. In the chart below, we cited 9 digital skills that we believe are fundamentally important for any teacher. This chart is based on a previous work we published here in the past."

A good break down of easy and free ways to ad images, video, and music to your classroom. It list free sites and software for teachers and students to use to create slideshows with music or videos with music. It also includes a site (Discovery Education streaming) that features videos of student adventures around the world. This article is also accompanied a link to another article that features students exploring story telling of a real life adventure.