This website has some pretty cool infographics....it's also biased against the SOPA bill (a bill in Congress which could have an impact on internet use in the US), so I figured that even if it was a biased website it touched on two things we've discussed in class

An entertaining web quest on matter.

Web Quest about rainbows

another web quest about space (probably for older grades)

Web Quest in outer space (probably for the younger grades)

I tweeted this, but I'm diigo-ing it too because exploring space in 3D from the comfort of your couch is amazing!

various tips on how to use Google in the classroom, including stuff about Google sky and Google Earth; from Jan. 2010 so not too old

as the webpage says: "This community exists to offer a place where teachers and students can share and find information about educational topics that has been organized using Google Earth software. Below are placesets that have been created by Google Earth users that may be useful in an academic setting."

Interesting article on multiple ways to use Google maps in the classroom -- possibly a little outdated (it's from 2006)

website (through W&M!) that connects students/teachers to experts in various fields and allows the experts to "telementor" students while they are working on a project

AMAZING resource about Virginia history

Interesting research. If you can't access the article through the link (I think you should be able to) you can get there through SWEM.

Internet safety for kids from the FBI

Resource Guide for Parents on Kid's Online Privacy

Neat blog (iLearn Technology) and neat post (about the website "Children's Books Forever")

Part 2 of the Prensky's 2001 articles on Digital Natives. This one focuses on scientific evidence to back up what he said in part one. It also includes this interesting quote about the attention span of digital natives, which seems to contradict other research on multi-tasking: "Their attention spans are  not short for games, for example, or for anything else that actually interests them. As a result of their experiences Digital Natives crave interactivity-an immediate response to their each and every action. Traditional schooling provides very little of this compared to the rest of their world (one study showed that students in class get to ask a question every 10 hours). So it generally isn't that Digital Natives can't pay attention, it's that they choose not to."

Interesting blog post/graphic about how digital natives use technology and how they might be better suited to using new technologies (& mobile learning) then non-digital natives. Does this mean that non-digital natives are then less able to teach digital natives then digital natives would be?

The article that (I think) coined the term "digital native."

episode from the radio show "This American Life" on how some companies "might be" using copyright laws to make a ton of $$$ off of patents on commonly used technologies

14 ways to teach our students about creative commons (aka 14 ways I taught myself about creative commons)