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CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. As a leading member of the OER movement, CK-12 is using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook." With these free, common core aligned and NSES aligned digital textbooks, CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational STEM content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning through the FlexBook Platform™.

What: Technology & Learning invites K-12 students to participate in the sixth annual digital photography contest. The competition, open to all K-12 students, challenges you to capture-and share-your unique vision of the world. If you have an artistic side, you also have the option to digitally enhance your photos with your favorite imaging software. The best digitally enhanced photo wins a special prize from Adobe. Other prizes include a digital camera, Adobe Photoshop Elements, and more!

The Horizon Report series is the most visible outcome of the New Media Consortium's Horizon Project, an ongoing research effort established in 2002 that identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative expression within education around the globe. This volume, the 2010 Horizon Report: K-12 Edition, examines emerging technologies for their potential impact on and use in teaching, learning, and creative expression within the environment of pre-college education.

Learn how to improve student engagement and build a positive climate for learning and discipline for grades K-12. We've all heard this about students: "If they are engaged, they are managed." And this is absolutely the truth. But we still need rules, routines, trust, and student ownership to make a classroom run smoothly and effectively. This guide will address those practical aspects of managing a classroom, with suggestions and resources appropriate for grades K-12.

CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.

"These are special premium accounts provided specifically to K-12 & higher-ed educators. Once your Diigo Educator application is approved, your account will be upgraded to have these additional features:"

These pages includes free or almost free apps for K-12 teachers and students. The list is by no means definitive.

SchooNoodle is an online social bookmarking community made exclusively for K-12 educators. All your favorite online resources kept in one place…from elementary vocabulary activities to high school science projects. All your best web resources organized and linked to US state standards See the most popular sites from teachers around the country. The best sites rise to the top of the class!

A great list of coding resources for K-12. Add your own if you have more!

Interactive activities for all subjects - levels 7-12, but links to K-6 as well.

"There are many teachers who want to start using technology in their classrooms, but just aren't sure where to start. That's why I got together ten prominent ed tech bloggers, teachers, and school administrators to create The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators. In this book there introductions to more than six dozen web tools for K-12 teachers. Additionally, you will find sections devoted to using Skype with students, ESL/ELL, blogging in elementary schools, social media for educators, teaching online, and using technology in alternative education settings."

"Ning Mini for Educators To power your Ning Networks, Ning is teaming up with the education and technology company Pearson as an exclusive Ning Sponsor Partner. Pearson will make Ning Mini free for eligible North American K-12 and Higher-Ed Ning Networks. Ning Mini is a great way to get your educational institution online. With Ning Mini, you can add up to 150 members, and enhance your classroom, educational institution or your learning group with customized, online, social networking features like blogs, forums and photos. "

Interactive videoconferencing in K-12 schools; schools connect with museums, state institutions, classroom to classroom projects.

Focus on K-12 strives to solve a problem or fulfill a dream using technology. The magazine is for administrators, teachers, technology instructors, technology coordinators and technology managers at individual schools and school districts across the United States. EdTech highlights areas such as one-to-one, tablet PCs, professional development, 21st Century classrooms and lesson plans.

Welcome to Learn360 - the NEW choice for streaming media. Outstanding K-12 content from PBS, National Geographic, Standard Deviants, Slim Goodbody, Sunburst Visual Media™. and dozens of other educational video producers. We provide the resources you need to cover your curriculum.

The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives now has an "enhanced" registration for teachers and classes that lets you use their structured lessons with the manipulatives, use saved lessons from other teachers, or edit or create your own lessons using their manipulatives. Students log in, and their work is saved for teachers to view! Lessons available (as manipulatives are also) range from K-12 (precalculus and trig are the highest level topics listed)

A nice site that outlines standards K-12 and project examples for each.

Microsoft works collaboratively with educators across Higher Education and K-12 to provide software plus services aimed at enhancing the learning environment and streamlining the operations of institutions.

Welcome to our "colossal ongoing discussion about everything." We invite you to join or log in to our site and to become a member of a growing community of K-12 students and teachers who are working together to nurture student-to-student conversations, collaborations, and civic actions that result from publishing and commenting on each others discussion posts, images, podcasts, bookmarks, and videos and VoiceThreads. Oh, and don't forget to check out what's on our minds, right now. Find out What's Up?

Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.