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"PreziU offers more than just content to consume: you can share your best prezis, ask for feedback, submit your best practices and experience reports as articles and join discussions about Prezi using the forums."

Create simple, one question polls that you can embed in your websitel

The Education Department's 2010 National Educational Technology Plan (NETP) presents a transformational vision for 21st century education, depicting how new technologies can help people learn lifelong and "life-wide" - in libraries and museums and their homes, and through interactions with people in their neighborhood and community.

Interactive times table site offers drag, answer and test modes for learning and practicing math multiplication facts. Would work great on SMART board or interactive white board.

...I've been saying that state and federal legislators should be required to take the standardized tests that they make our students take. They should take them under the same conditions that our students take them and then publicly report their results - and their thoughts after taking the tests and seeing the results...

"Flipping a classroom is not a teaching technique, it is more in line with a philosophy or way of teaching. It involves using technology as a tool, not the main focus, for helping students increase their understanding" Nice blog post on the philosophy of the flipped classroom.

"Remembering Pearl Harbor through audio and images." Great interactive map with event timeline.

A great whiteboard game for teaching about number lines, decimals and place value.

Simple, effective online collaborationMulti-user whiteboard, live audio,image collaboration, text-chat and more

Students create mobile learning game at Hirshhorn Museum using Aris games

This audio archive focuses on Creative Commons music. A quote "This is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons, where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want."

Soundsnap is great for short, easily searchable clips. A quote from the website "Soundsnap is the best platform to find and share free sound effects and loops- legally. It is a collection of original sounds made or recorded by its users, and not songs or sound FX found on commercial libraries or sample CD's."

DigiTales (http://www.digitales.us/) is a website promoting the art of digital storytelling.  If you have students create personal stories about themselves and their experiences, this website is worth a hard look.  Here is an excerpt explaining their mission: "Digital Storytelling takes the ancient art of oral storytelling and engages a palette of technical tools to weave personal tales using images, graphics, music and sound mixed together with the author's own story voice. Digital storytelling is an emerging art form of personal, heartful expression that enables individuals and communities to reclaim their personal cultures while exploring their artistic creativity. While the heart and power of the digital story is shaping a personal digital story about self, family, ideas, or experiences, the technology tools also invite writers and artists to think and invent new types of communication outside the realm of traditional linear narratives." This website provides some great rubrics for grading a number of oral, visual and print activities.  It also provides some great ideas for projects, activities and lessons to support what you are already doing.

Real world data that can be compared and graphed for countries and regions around the world. Use in statistics or World Cultures.

If you are beginning to investigate what a Flipped Classroom is, with the thought of possibly trying some kind of Flip yourself… then this is also the right place. They have researched and tried to find you the very best resources to get educators in all positions thinking about what a Flipped Classroom" really is.

Free online plagiarism checker, detector

A number of services to allow anyone to create their own digital magazine and newspaper. 

great web 2.0 resource site with tools listed by category