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Shmoop is an online resource that provides learning guides and academic resources to help teachers make learning relevant. Shmoop provides free learning guides in seven subjects: literature, poetry, bestsellers, US History, civics, biography, and music. The learning guides are written by experts and contain analysis, interesting insight, questions, and multimedia for each topic. Check out [...]

This past week I finally had a chance to mess around with the curriculum sharing platform BetterLesson, and I thought I’d share my thoughts.
The new social networking site is designed to help teachers create, organize and share lesson plans. Unlike traditional curriculum sharing websites, BetterLesson incorporates a unique curriculum organizing and filing system that enables [...]

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) recently released the organization’s top ten Edtech priorities for 2010. The overarching priority, so to speak, is a definite commitment to improving student achievement through the effective use of technology. According to ISTE, technology must be the “backbone of school improvement.”

TED is a nonprofit firm designed with the purpose of sharing  “ideas worth spreading.” Each year TED hosts important conferences that include world renowned speakers from different academic areas– science, math, business, education, etc. Through their program TEDTalks, the nonprofit provides viewers with free access to hundreds of these presentations online. Most of the “talks” [...]

Over the past five years, the response of most school administrators to social networking sites– YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, etc.– is simply to restrict access on campus.  In a recent piece in Slate, Nicholas Bramble argues it’s time to open access to these sites. Rather than worry about the potential, and often times very serious, concerns [...]