One of the advantages of technology is the ability to review content over and over again. The Khan Academy’s Channel on YouTube gives its’ students the opportunity to watch tutorials of complex subjects explained simply. There are more than 800 videos ranging from Algebra to Venture Capitalism. Are other schools producing similar videos (perhaps on TeacherTube or iTunes) to share?

BBC – CBBC – Me and My Movie This site, sponsored by the Children’s BBC, is an online filmmaking community. Kids can make their own films, and watch and rate their peers.

Earlier I had written about an experimental feature from Google to allow users to work with Gmail offline. Now I find (and I may have just missed it earlier) that I can also work offline with my Google Docs. To do so, Google uses an open source browser extension called “Gears“. To work offline, you must first install Gears first and then synchronize your documents while online. Once that is complete you can access your [...]

If you haven’t visited this web site, make some time to do so! The free federal resources are organized by subject areas – Arts & Music, Health & Physical Education, History & Social Studies, Language Arts, Math, and Science. Content for these areas includes animations, primary documents photographs and videos. Want to know which agencies contributed to the site? Find out! Did I mention these resources are FREE?!

A colleague sent me a link to this video from the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference in February. Wow! Siftables are small computers that can be manipulated like children’s block. When you move them, sort them, stack them, turn them, they interact with each other to do amazing things! While watching the kids play with the “blocks” I couldn’t help thinking of my children and exciting technologies that will be a part of their generation. [...]

Announced yesterday afternoon on the Gmail Blog, users can now view PowerPoint and TIFF files online, directly in your browser. Using the same viewer that allows users to see PDF files, you no longer have to download files to see them or open a special application. Visit the blog to learn more about this feature. Just another compelling reason to move to Gmail if you haven’t already.

In her April 19th post on The Edurati Review, Kelli Hines reminds us that education is not about the technology. She lists four things that teachers must recognize to impact students in this generation: Teachers must be learners. Learning and Teaching are not the same thing. Technology is useless without good teaching. Be a 21st Century Teacher without the technology. Take a few minutes to read her post. I think it is worth the time. [...]

Discovery Education | Siemens Science Day Teachers, engage and amaze your students. Here you’ll find videos, tools and revealing hands-on activities for students in grades 4 through 6 to help reinvent your science class. New, original experiments with intuitive directions, materials lists and home extensions. tags: science, education, interactive, resources The Partnership for 21st Century Skills The leading advocacy organization infusing 21st century skills into education. tags: education, technology, curriculum, teaching, standards, 21stcenturyskills Code of [...]

At the end of January, Gmail Labs released an experimental feature that allows you to work with Gmail even when you are offline. If you are a Gmail user like me, this might be one to try. I know that I have come to rely more and more on Gmail to aggregate all my email accounts. Basically, it works this way. If you lose your network connection, and we all do at times, Gmail then [...]

Awhile back I wrote about EtherPad, a web tool that allows for simultaneous, realtime text editing. At the time, accounts for the service were being restricted due to overwhelming popularity of the tool. I revisited the site recently while working with a group of educators and and was pleased to discover that accounts are not required anymore! They have made it so easy now that all you have to do is click a button and a [...]