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Home of Brilliant Educational Doodads for Teachers, Parents and Children. Download-able files!

WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world. Experience narrated guided tours from astronomers and educators featuring interesting places in the sky.

A wiki with interview questions for various types of educational technology positions with some links to other sites.

Welcome to a website devoted to the Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling. Click on the links on this page to learn more about watching and creating stories made with digital technology tools.

Free online-only issue of Educational Leadership magazine on Revisiting Social Responsibility.

This site is brought to you by Google - especially for Google Apps educators and students. Come join and help us build it!

Site to help educators make sense of the vast amounts of resources that the Internet has made available. ... help teachers to get connected and enrich their lessons thus providing rich and meaningful learning through student engagement!

Committed to catalog the best free online educational videos from across the Internet in one place. They watch and review each and every video to ensure safety and appropriateness for K-12 kids. They also check the accuracy and content and catalog it under relevant categories and topics.

It's certainly a challenge to engage today's students. Learning theory shows that one of the keys to successful learning is engagement. Using Philip Schlechty's "Qualities the Affect Engagement" as a framework, Tony Vincent outlines 21 technology tools, strategies, and tips educators can use to increase authentic engagement. Learn ways to motivate learners using online tools that are freely available. Examples include polling students, illustrating concepts with crazy cartoons, creating jazzy slide shows, and touring some of the newest coolest sites the web has to offer.

Educational video lessons from TED organized by subject area.

"an online game meant to help teach "American English" to kids between the ages of 12-16 in more than 30 countries. Meant to provide players with a view of American life and culture different from the typical portrayal in movies, "

"Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets."

"A guide to help K-12 educators and administrators leverage broadband technology and develop rich digital learning experiences."

"The Playbook is designed to help K-12 school educators plan for the transition to a rich, interactive, and personalized digital learning environment. The Playbook offers advice and considerations to help schools ensure robust and persistent connectivity to the digital content, understand the perspectives of the variety of device users in a school environment, and plan for the transition to digital learning.