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YouTube.com/Teachers as a resource for educators everywhere to learn how to use YouTube as aneducational tool. There are lesson plan suggestions, highlights of greateducational content on YouTube, and training on how teachers can film theirown educational videos. This site was designed/written by teachers forteachers and we hope it's the first step in really kick-starting a communityof YouTube-using educators

Go beyond enhancing an idea or a lesson-transform your students' learning with a tool called ThingLink. ThingLink engages your students and drives curiosity and discovery-and it's free. It's an image platform that converts an image into an interactive experience by letting you connect music, video, text, images, shops, and more from around the web.

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"Pics4Learning is a safe, free image library for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos & images for classrooms, multimedia projects, websites, videos, portfolios, or any projects in an educational setting."

Chatting across the USA is a video conferencing project my 3rd grade students participated in during the spring of 2010. Students in each state researched important and interesting information about their state then taught other 3rd graders across the country using Skype or Google Chat. Information learned about each state was recorded in a 'Chatting Across the USA' journal.

This is an alphabetical list of websites which provide information and/or instruction about a wide range of subjects (ie they are not subject-specific sites). The websites cover a wide range of informational and educational topics and include general reference resources, how-to guides, wikis, how-to videos, podcasts, courses, lessons, tutorials (including open courseware), e-books as well as other reference resources and places to ask questions both online and on your mobile.< The resources are suitable for learners of all ages: students as well as workplace learners and lifelong learners - as well as teachers, educators and trainers.

The American Press Institute is making a number of recommendations to newspapers to create successful new models, and their number one suggestion is: BECOME PART OF THE SOCIAL WEB. Newspaper executives should take it as a personal and professional challenge to participate in social media: Share photos and video online. Follow industry experts on Twitter. Create a Facebook or LinkedIn profile. This is extremely valuable market research. Learn all you can.

Tired of assigning the same old boring PowerPoint presentations again and again? Want to challenge your students a bit more than the traditional tri-fold or poster project? Come learn a whole host of new tools to spice up your students' projects and your lessons. Explore and experiment with a variety of Web 2.0 tools including animated avatars, comic creators, digital scrapbooks, image creators, interactive timelines, logo generators, slideshows, streaming video, and the web resources that will serve as "containers" for the different elements. Check out the pages to the left to navigate through the different elements to learn how you can re-invent your teaching and your students' learning with the use of a few engaging, motivating, and fun resources.