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"Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. They're often appealing and fun for students to use, while at the same time ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction. Read on to see how you can put wikis to work in your classroom."

"Most educators hope that their teaching touches students in exciting ways so that the information conveyed makes an impact. One sure way to engage students is to make their educational experience fun. New teachers just starting out as well as experienced teachers who could use a breath of fresh air in their curriculum will love all the great tools available on the Internet to help make their teaching more entertaining. Some of the following tools will have teachers and students exploring wikis, open courseware, Twitter, blogging, comics, videos, and incorporating plenty of other tools that will help make learning fun."

Together, you and your colleagues will develop the Foreign Language Teaching Wiki to serve as a resource for yourselves and future foreign language teachers. Pages for: Feedback, Language Choice, Technology, Culture, Grammar, Resources and Tips, and Articles

Teaching English with Technology is dedicated to helping English & Language Arts teachers incorporate technology effectively into their classrooms and is presented by EdTechTeacher. EdTechTeacher and TEWT are led by Tom Daccord and Justin Reich, academic technology trainers, speakers, and authors. Explore TEWT.org and find inquiry-based lessons, activities, and projects. Learn about new and emerging technologies such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, and online social networks, and explore innnovative ways of integrating them into the curriculum!

Curriki is more than your average website; we're a community of educators, learners and committed education experts who are working together to create quality materials that will benefit teachers and students around the world. Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. Our name is a play on the combination of 'curriculum' and 'wiki' which is the technology we're using to make education universally accessible.

Curriki is more than your average website; we're a community of educators, learners and committed education experts who are working together to create quality materials that will benefit teachers and students around the world. Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. Our name is a play on the combination of 'curriculum' and 'wiki' which is the technology we're using to make education universally accessible.

"We have created this wiki to house all of our collective works in 21st Century Teaching and Learning (Classrooms for the Future). This is for your reference and your use."

Curriki is more than your average website; we're a community of educators, learners and committed education experts who are working together to create quality materials that will benefit teachers and students around the world. Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. Our name is a play on the combination of 'curriculum' and 'wiki' which is the technology we're using to make education universally accessible.

Educational Origami is a blog, and a wiki, about the integration of ICT into the classroom, this is one of the largest challenges that I feel we as teachers face. Its about 21st Century Learning and 21st Century Teaching. Marc Prensky coined the now popular and famous phrase "Digital natives and digital immigrants" in his two papers on digital Children.

There are new web 2.0 tools appearing every day. Although some of these tools were not originally meant for use in the classroom, they can be extremely effective learning tools for today's technology geared students and their venturesome teachers. Many of these teachers are searching for the latest products and technologies to help them find easier and efficient ways to create productive learning in their students. More and more teachers are using blogs, podcasts and wikis, as another approach to teaching. We have created a list of 100 tools we think will encourage interactivity and engagement, motivate and empower your students, and create differentiation in their learning process.

This is a viral wiki created as part of the Birds of a Feather, Using iTouch and iPhones for Teaching and Learning, at NECC 2009 held on Monday, June 29, 2009.

his Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (HETL) has been designed as a resource for educators planning to incorporate technologies in their teaching and learning

"This workspace was created for educators to share and categorize livebinders by subject, grade-level, and whatever else makes sense. Please feel free to add binders, pages, and new sections. " A nice wiki with a BOATLOAD of LiveBinders for grade levels, subjects and other technology topics. Amazing!

A nice wiki of ipad apps suggestions and reviews for all levels and subjects.  Nice place to start with ipads in education.

Beginning with email and instant messages and stretching to texting and synchronous video web conferencing, digital dialogue has gradually become a common element of everyday life for today's students-another opportunity to "gather." The kinds of personal relationships shaped on the playground in an earlier era are now developed in MySpace and Facebook. While the format may be different, the purpose remains the same: Our students are crafting identities and are driven to connect.

The purpose of this wiki is to explore the potential of Diigo in our classroom. Diigo is a social bookmarking web 2.0 tool that allows users to highlight, annotate, and share online articles. It's a great collaboration tool for research.

Create audio drop-boxes for your blog, wiki, or website. Students can then enter their name and record audio right on your site.

The tutorials on this page include the "Bloom's Taxonomy - An Overview" and "Bloom's Taxonomy - Designing Activities". REALLY nice animations for learning the new Bloom's

Watch, Learn, Research, Teach. That's pretty much the gist. This is our "View Only" Beta. You can't add nibs yet, but you can watch nibbed videos. (below) We launched Nibipedia to promote OLPC's Give One Get One Campaign. (www.laptop.org). Be sure to tell your friends that they can get the XO now and give one to a kid who needs it. We're working on more features and content in the background.

Integrating 21st Century Tools into Your Teaching Technology Tutorials for Teachers. Tutorials for Delicious, Diigo, Flickr, Gmail, Google: Docs, Presentations, Spreadsheets, Ning, VoiceThred and Wikispaces

Handout for teaching students/teachers how to edit, create pages, add links, images, files and embedding video, in 15-20 minutes