• How the Federal Reserve Works – Video – TIME.com

  Video explaining Federal Reserve from Time Magazine.

  tags: edtech, economics, video

• Free Technology for Teachers: Five Good Places to Find Math Tutorial Videos

  Check out math tutorials online. List of options here.

  tags: edtech, math, tutorials

• CNN Challenge

  Very impressive news game on the weeks’ events. Three rounds on some tough news questions.

  tags: news, game, edtech, entertainment

• Free Technology for Teachers: Seven Tools for Organizing Web Research

  Tools for researching online. Worthwhile for students prior to plunging into a topic.

  tags: edtech, web2.0, research

• Online Sketch Pad – Scribble… Doodle… Draw.

  Another ad-based drawing sketchpade.

  tags: art, sketch, drawing, edtech

• art.com artPad

  An online place to demonstrate your drawing proficiencies.

  tags: painting, tools, art, edtech

• WebList – The Place To Find The Best List On The Web

  This site looks like it has potential for sharing a group of websites in a bunch. I’ll have to dig into this one and create one for Web 2.0 technologies first.

  tags: web2.0, futureref, edtech

• Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Another worthwhile museum online.

  tags: Art, edtech

• Free Technology for Teachers: Let Your Students Blog!

  Another appeal to teachers to let your students blog.

  tags: blogging, edtech

• Home(page) Movies – QT and Flash to illustrate Biological Processes

  Videos about Cells for the Science Teacher

  tags: biology, cells, edtech

• Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection

  Some stimulating mind puzzles for the genius students in your class.

  tags: logic, puzzle, edtech

• StatPlanet – Interactive Maps and Visualizations

  An interesting attempt to incorporate maps with statistics. Interface could be addressed; a bit chunky.

  tags: edtech, statistics, maps

• the Awesome Highlighter >> Highlight text on web pages

  Another options for highlighting sections of a webpage and then sharing that page with a web link. An alternative to Diigo (my preferred choice), but this focuses on just this feature.

  tags: sharing, highlight, edtech, tools

• The map as history : a multimedia atlas of world history with animated historical maps

  Animated maps may help students better visualize history through geography.

  tags: socialstudies, edtech, maps, geography, history

• GEO Data Portal – The Environmental Database (search | map | graph | download)

  Some free posters for classroom use.

  tags: posters, Environment, edtech

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.