Curriculum 21 Web

The Curriculum 21 contains a clearinghouse which is an interactive listing of web 2.0 tools which teachers and students have found most useful sorted by topic.  Site also contains news feeds of breaking news from a variety of sources in and about education and resources for curriculum mapping.

The American Association of School Librarians Top 25 Web sites for Teaching and Learning

AASL Announce Top 25 Web sites for Teaching and Learning The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) announces a new resource for school library media specialists and their teacher colleagues. The Best Websites for Teaching and Learning, a list honoring the top twenty-five Internet sites for enhancing learning and curriculum development, is considered the "best of the best" by AASL. The Top 25 Web sites for Teaching and Learning were named so because they foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation and collaboration. All sites are free, web-based sites that are user-friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover. They also provide a foundation to support AASL's Standards for the 21st-Century Learner. Valuable information on each site, including tips for effective classroom use are available at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/bestlist/bestwebsites.cfm

Media Infusion

Media Infusion
A PBS Teachers blog offering strategies and resources to help you create rich, engaging learning experiences with multimedia. Free Resources for Teaching & Learning grades preK-12. Here you'll find classroom materials suitable for a wide range of subjects and grade levels. Thousands of lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, and interactive games and simulations. These resources are correlated to state and national educational standards and are tied to PBS' award-winning on-air and online programming like NOVA, Nature, Cyberchase, Between the Lions and more.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.

SKRBL: Shareable online whiteboard

Did you ever wish you and your students could work online together?

Simple and easy online multi user whiteboard, start skrbl, give out your URL & start working together. Sketch, text, share files, upload pictures all in one common shared space. Use the button and the button to switch between freehand drawing, and text mode. skrbl saves and syncs your whiteboard automatically... what could be easierThere are no new tools to learn, nothing to download, nothing to install. Brainstorm on the simple whiteboard to start thinking together, everyone sees the same screen, everybody gets on the same page. Register for free give out the url to students and you are set to go.
Check out my skrbl at http://skrbl.com/92241901 add to my board to let me know what you think.

The Writing Teacher: Tips, Techniques and Strategies for Teaching Writing

The goal of this blog is to increase the quality of our students’ writing skills by sharing knowledge among experts and practitioners. The authors plan to share theory, practice, and research through articles, feedback from readers, and a numbers of web events. They will have teachers, writing assessment experts, academics, and others write about what they’ve tried, what works, how to implement ideas, and current theories on the subject of writing. They also plan to include lots of ideas regarding ways to get students writing more, since that’s the surest way to improve writing!

ThinkFinity.org

Educator Resources: free, fast, first-rate

Hundreds of teachers use Thinkfinity for free, exciting, top-quality materials that are quick, accessible and easy to use. Content created by trusted experts and leading educators with thousands of standards-based lesson plans .
Register with MyThinkfinity for free to organize your favorite lesson plans, and for access to the newest and most relevant materials.