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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.

How to Make an Interactive Lesson Using Youtube

"PBS LearningMedia™ is your destination for easy, instant access to thousands of classroom-ready, digital resources including videos and interactives perfect for the Interactive Whiteboard, plus audio and photos, and even in-depth lesson plans. You can search, save, and share with ease. Best of all, PBS LearningMedia™ is free for educators. "

Materials and resources include Voluntary Model Curriculum (VMC), incorporating learning progressions, units, lesson plans, and content resources aligned to the Pennsylvania standards in curriculum frameworks for the four major content areas (mathematics, science, social studies, reading-writing-speaking-listening).

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.

Blogs, Wikis, Docs: Which is right for your lesson? A Comparison Table

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.

You can find a great amount of helpful material on these sites, including videos to augment your lessons, lectures to inspire students, documentaries to show them how things work, and loads of additional videos to help you become a better, smarter teacher.

How to make a choose your own adventure

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