Information is beautiful

This site is great for visual learners.  Lots of graphs and visual tools to explain news items.

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

Collaborative storytelling

Storybird is a service that uses collaborative storytelling to connect kids and families. Two (or more) people create a Storybird in a round robin fashion by writing their own text and inserting pictures. They then have the option of sharing their Storybird privately or publicly on the network. The final product can be printed (soon), watched on screen, played with like a toy, or shared through a worldwide library.  Also good for creating picture books.

http://storybird.com/

Teach with humor

The Museum of Humor has some lesson plans you might want to check out.

http://www.museumofhumor.com/ForTeacher.htm

dotSub

This is a great site that will add subtitles to videos in different languages.  Translate to English or to a different language.  Give it a try.

http://dotsub.com/

Encyclopedia of Life

The Encyclopedia of Life is text, images and videos that can be uploaded by anyone who's interested, and content is vetted by expert curators.

The inventory has grown more quickly than anyone expected. To date, there are pages for more than 150,000 species, with contributions from 250 specialists and 1,200 "citizen scientists".

Members of the public have contributed more than 30,000 images via the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) group page on the photo-sharing website Flickr. Once the identity of the photographed species has been confirmed by an expert, the image is added to the main site.

By 2017, the site aims to have collated information on all 1.8 million recorded species. To help the project push on towards this goal, the founding sponsors today announced a further $12.5 million in funding.

24 things about to become extinct

This may turn into an interesting lesson.

24 Things About to Become Extinct

24 Things About to Become Extinct

24. Yellow Pages
23. Classified Ads
22. Movie Rental Stores
21. Dial-up Internet Access
20. Phone Landlines
19. Chesapeake Bay Blue Crabs
18. VCRs
17. Ash Trees
16. Ham Radio
15. The Swimming Hole
14. Answering Machines
13. Cameras That Use Film
12. Incandescent Bulbs
11. Stand-Alone Bowling Alleys
10. The Milkman
9. Hand-Written Letters
8. Wild Horses
7. Personal Checks
6. Drive-in Theaters
5. Mumps & Measles
4. Honey Bees
3. News Magazines and TV News
2. Analog TV
1. The Family Farm

Tearch training videos

Want to get a quick intro to a new tool?  Check out Teacher Training Videos.  http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/  These videos were created for teachers to help them to incorporate technology into their teaching. Just click and a video will open and take you through how to use that technology. From podcasting to screen capture to wikis to blogs, there's a video for that.