21st Century Collaborative

Picked this up via MiddleWeb’s biweekly newsletter- EVERYBODY LOVES FREEBIEShttp://snipurl.com/1vd88You may have visited the Teachers Pay Teachers website in the past.It was started a couple of years ago by teacher Paul Edelman, whoeventually sold it to Scholastic and is now the site’s generalmanager. Good pay, we’d guess. Anyway, you may not know that the sitefeatures [...]

Thanks to Will for the point to Tim Wang’s elearning blog via Twitter. Check this out! First question you should ask yourself is– what in my current curriculum would have nurtured this creativity and innovation in this student? Ok. Now watch! Wiis aren’t just for gaming! I am running and buying extra Wii remotes today! [...]

Thanks to Terri Willingham for the link: http://www.zotero.org/ Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways. An extension to the popular open- source web [...]

Georgia Tech hosted the annual Robo Cup in Atlanta this week. According to Slashdot, "RoboCup is an international robotics symposium and competition whose goal is to advance the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence to the point that in 2050 a robot soccer team can defeat the human world champions. This year, RoboCup is located [...]

TalkShoe is a new podcasting service! I talked with the creators today and it seems to have great potential! Wouldnt it be great to host a radio show style podcast around a particular content area for your students? Or how about a virtual PTA style meeting with panel experts to answer questions. I can see [...]