Inspire My Kids - Inspiring Videos and Pictures

Inspire My Kids is a neat website featuring stories designed to inspire kids to positive actions. Inspire My Kids uses videos, pictures, audio, and text to tell the stories of inspiring people and groups of people. You can find stories on Inspire My Kids by browsing through the list of values and topics. You can refine your story search by age appropriateness.

Applications for Education
If you're looking for some stories to use in a character education conversations with students, Inspire My Kids could be a good place to find those stories. The stories should spark some good discussion within your classroom.

Ideas to Inspire - Curriculum Ideas and More

Ideas to Inspire is a collection of ideas for using software, hardware, and online tools in the classroom. The ideas are presented in a style of suggestion rather than how-to. All of the ideas are presented in a slideshow format using Google Docs presentation. As all of the slideshows are Creative Commons licensed and in Google Docs, you can share these ideas with your colleagues on a district or department website. Ideas to Inspire was created by and hosted by Mark Warner.

Applications for Education
Not being a video game person (the last video game I played was on Coleco Vision) I found the section on using Nintendo DS in the classroom to be very interesting.