http://www.californiastreaming.org
CaliforniaStreaming is more than an Internet provider of video and audio content, still images, and print resources in support of classroom curriculum. CaliforniaStreaming is California’s choice as a collaborative tool to enhance classroom opportunities and increase student motivation with student-produced projects, shared teacher tools, lessons, and much more-all specific to California’s needs!
Teachers’ Domain is an online educational service with two related components – collections and courses – that help teachers enhance their students’ learning experiences and advance their own teaching skills. The Teachers’ Domain collections include classroom-ready multimedia resources for use in lessons or independent study, and the Teacher Domain Professional Development courses utilize many of the same resources along with videos of exemplary classroom practice
The IHMC CmapTools software empowers users to construct, navigate, share, and criticize knowledge models represented as Concept Maps. This application is free and is similar to Inspiration.
Mark your calendars:
Lunar Outpost Design Challenge
Challenge: October & November, 2006 (Grades 5-8)
Students will be challenged to design systems too support living and working on the moon. Registration begins in September.
NASA Quest Challenges are FREE web-based, interactive explorations designed to engage students in authentic scientific and engineering processes. The solutions relate to issues encountered daily by NASA personnel.
http://quest.nasa.gov/projects/asec/
The Airspace Systems Education Cohort is a nationwide network of motivated and creative teacher-mentors who inspire the next generation of explorers as only NASA can. Mentors engage students and teachers with quality NASA multimedia products that support math and science education in the context of Aerospace Technology. Look for an ASEC workshop in your area!
Oil In America – Chicago Tribune Report
Traces oil (gasoline) from a gas station in Chicago to it’s point of origin.
(Nice example of web technologies to tell a story.)
http://mse.iastate.edu/microscopy/home.html
Iowa State University – Images of very small objects 
New web browser software, that incorporates your other web tools, such as Flickr.
A digital (web based) locker for uploading, storing, and downloading files. A free 30 day trial is available on the site, and subscriptions are as low as $10 a year.
A tool used in conjunction with Skype to do online whiteboarding and collaborating.
Create custom maps using Google Maps technology.
Post recorded audio messages to your blog via your cell phone. (Free easy to use Homework publishing?)
ZS4 Video Editor, the new incarnation of Zwei-Stein Video Editor, is advanced video editing and compositing software with over 150 built-in video effects. ZS4 runs on Windows, Linux, and OSX and is free to download and use.
Vyew is a browser-based conferencing and always-on collaboration platform that provides instant visual communication without the need for client downloads or installations.
Vyew’s multimedia workspace enables shared viewing of presentations, files, photos and one’s desktop. Included are tools for whiteboarding, annotating, text chatting, and phone conferencing.
