What Is It?

Adobe Youth Voices
http://essentials.youthvoices.adobe.com/
Adobe Youth Voices Essentials is a set of open curricula and resources for educators to create breakthrough learning experiences for young people. Based on the best practices of the Adobe Youth Voices program, the Adobe Foundation's signature philanthropy initiative, these tools help empower youth to "create with purpose."

Center for Media Literacy
http://www.medialit.org/
The CML aims to help citizens, especially the young, develop critical thinking and media production skills needed to live fully in the 21st century media culture. Offering one of the most comprehensive catalogs of videos, books, and other curricular materials related to media literacy, the site also includes a reading room on media literacy issues, FAQs, and more.

Common Craft
http://www.commoncraft.com/
Short, simple, and educational videos designed to explain complex concepts in simple terms. Their focus is on building a library of educational videos that can be licensed for use in classrooms, and interested teachers can also hire them to create videos.

Creative Commons
http://www.creativecommons.org
This nonprofit corporation is dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright.

Digital Literacy Tour
http://www.google.com/educators/digitalliteracy.html
Google teamed up with online safety organization iKeepSafe to develop curriculum that educators can use in the classroom to teach what it means to be a responsible online citizen.

Promethean Planet
http://www.prometheanplanet.com/en/
Labeling itself as the world’s largest interactive whiteboard community, Promethean Planet is a place where teachers can share stories about their experiences using new whiteboard technologies in the classroom and provides many free resources that teachers can use.

SMART Exchange
http://exchange.smarttech.com/index.html#tab=0
Here, you can find lessons plan to integrate with your SMART board and connect with other teachers to share your experiences.

TeacherWeb
http://www.teacherweb.com/
TeacherWeb is the leading provider of template websites for teachers’ use in the classroom and administrators’ use in schools and districts.

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