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• Addictomatic: Inhale the Web

  Instantly create a custom page with the latest buzz on any topic

  tags: search, aggregator, web2.0, news, tools, rss

• Educational Leadership:Multiple Measures:Teaching with Interactive Whiteboards

  “The study results indicated that, in general, using interactive whiteboards was associated with a 16 percentile point gain in student achievement. This means that we can expect a student at the 50th percentile in a classroom without the technology to increase to the 66th percentile in a classroom using whiteboards.”

  tags: iwb, research, teaching, whiteboards, smartboard

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• The Learning Box

  The Learning Box produces hands-on internet activities to enhance your site.

  tags: elementary, interactive, flash, internet, activities

• Elementary Teachers’ Network – An online community for elementary teachers and support staff

  “This is an online community for elementary teachers to exchange ideas, activities and resources. “

  tags: elementary, network

• Technology Toolbox for Teachers – Technology Toolbox for Teachers

  “This Wiki contains links to technology and Web 2.0 resources and tools that would be useful to the K-12 teacher. Classroom integration ideas are also included.”

  tags: technology, toolbox, web2.0, wiki

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• SqoolTube: K-12 Educational Videos

  tags: videos, education, K-12

• 10 Tools for (20)10

  “Once again this year, there are a number of tools appearing for the first time on the list, so in this article I am going to highlight briefly 10 of these new tools that I think are useful, innovative, cost effective and certainly worth considering for 2010. “

  tags: tools, resources, web2.0

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• Powerful Personal Learning Networks PLN

  “Creating and enhancing your personal learning network to empower your profession learning”

  tags: pln, diigo, twitter, rss, Personallearningnetwork, professionaldevelopment

• Mac Create Network

  “The MacCreate Network is your resource for all-things related to creating great works on your Apple devices”

  tags: mac, tutorial, apple, ilife, iwork, iphoto, imovie

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• Check out these Great Reading Websites

  A nice compilation of reading resources for Elementary

  tags: Reading, literacy, elementary

• Eighteen Interesting Ways to Use Audio in your Classroom

  tags: audio, podcasting, classroom, education, web2.0

• 100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School | Online Colleges

  “With classes, homework, and projects–not to mention your social life–time is truly at a premium for you, so why not latch onto the wide world that Google has to offer? From super-effective search tricks to Google hacks specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time.”

  tags: Google, technology, Google Tricks

• Five criteria for evaluating Web pages

  “Five criteria for evaluating Web pages”

  tags: evaluation, webevaluation, website, information_literacy, digitalliteracy

• The 10 best educational websites – Times Online

  “If you bought a computer a few years ago, it would invariably come with a free CD-Rom encyclopedia. At the time it seemed like a life-changer, but after an hour or two spent looking at ancient wildlife clips and a timeline about the Romans, the excitement wore off. Today’s internet equivalents are bigger, faster and more interactive, whether you’re helping youngsters with their homework or cramming for the pub quiz. “

  tags: websites, educational, education, web2.0

• MathSite: An Interactive Source for Seeing, Hearing, Doing Mathematics

  “The exhibits of the MathSite are intended for people of all ages who are interested in or are curious about mathematics.
  No specialized mathematical knowledge or expertise is assumed.”

  tags: math, interactive, geometry, Mathematics

• How to use multiple iPods with one computer

  “Do you want to use more than one iPod with the same computer? You can! In fact there are a couple of different ways you can do it.”

  tags: ipod, ipods, itunes, apple, sync, iphone

• Toy Theater – Addition Scale

  Add up the numbers on the left side of the scale and add a number on the right side of the scale to balance it. Can you get to 15 numbers on each side of the scale to complete the game?

  tags: smartboard, iwb, smart, math, elementary

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• High School Smartboard Lesson

  “Smartboard Lessons created by Longwood Staff (Note: You need the Smart Notebook software installed on your computer to download and use these lessons):”

  tags: smartboard, iwb, smart

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• Free K-8 Educational Videos

  “Free Educational Videos for K – 8 Students”

  tags: k-8, educational, youtube, education, video, videos

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• Overcoming the email obstacle for student Google Docs accounts

  “The problem is that to have a Google Docs account, you need an email address. You need it to verify your Google Docs account. Most elementary and some middle school students don’t have email addresses and their parents may not want them to have one. If a teacher helps a student create an email account and the student uses that account for troublemaking or connects to the wrong people, there could be some liability issues. At least that’s what scares teachers.”

  tags: googledocs, Google, docs, professionaldevelopment

• Play and create free flash games on whosegame

  whosegame is about having fun, sharing ideas and knowledge with others. whosegame brings you the place, the tools, the community to make your projects go online and find their audience. And if it is a success who knows what could come next.

  Above all, whosegame is about games and fun. Are you more a Creator or a Gamer? Both perhaps. Maybe your focus is graphics or maybe you fancy level design. whosegame makes it possible for you to team up with others to let you focus on the part you prefer.

  How about playing games? Gamers can enjoy the games and give their feedback.

  tags: gaming, game, creativity, gamedesign, games

• PurposeGames.com – Create & Play Online Games

  “PurposeGames.com is host to educational quiz and trivia games created by its members. In just a few minutes, you can create your very own game to share with your friends!.”

  tags: gaming, game, creativity, gamedesign, games

• Make Games at PlayCrafter: a Free Online Game Maker

  PlayCrafter: Games You Create.

  tags: gaming, game, creativity, gamedesign, games

• Teachers Love SMART Boards: SMARTBoard and U.S. Thanksgiving Holiday Resources

  “Here is a list of Thanksgiving Holiday (U.S.) resources for your SMARTBoard:”

  tags: smartboard, iwb, professionaldevelopment, resources, smart

• Elementary Smartboard Resource Blog

  “I created this blog as a place to share SMART Board resources with teachers at my school, the district, or anyone else who stops by. Thanks for visiting, and please feel free to leave a comment.”

  tags: smartboard, iwb, blog, professionaldevelopment, resources, smart

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• Tell A Story

  The Art of Storytelling website was created by The Delaware Art Museum to allow online visitors to engage with our collections in a unique and creative way. Beyond experiencing our rich variety of art works in the traditional museum setting, this online project – the Art of Storytelling – allows visitors to create their own pictures and stories inspired by works in the museum. These visitor creations can then be shared, both as an email to a friend and published to this site as an entry for all to experience. In addition to creating pictures and writing stories, visitors with microphones enabled on their computers can also record their stories for others to hear. Please explore the site, hear and see what others have created and submit your own story on the Art of Storytelling website.

  tags: story, digitalstorytelling, storytelling, writing, stories

• Weebly Launches New Managed Site Builder For Educators And Students

  “Today Weebly is launching a new product geared directly at educators and their students, allowing schoolchildren who may not familiar with the basics of HTML or CSS to craft their own multimedia online blogs and reports with a minimal amount of effort.”

  tags: weebly, website, blogging, blogs

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• TIELab | RIBIT

  “RIBIT is a tool designed to help teachers create inquiry-based learning curriculum using the Internet. RIBIT is easy to use, it stores the IBIs (Internet-based inquiries) that users create and it’s free.
  “

  tags: inquiry, elementary, constructivism

• Animal Habitats for Kids in Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade

  Habitat resources

  tags: elementary, habitat, animals

• Digitally Speaking / Blogging

  “In collaboration with my colleague Mike Hutchinson, I have begun to introduce the tools of the Read/Write web to my students. Specifically, my class is now blogging and podcasting. Blogging and podcasting has allowed me to create a forum where my students discuss current events connected to our social studies curriculum while developing language arts skills like critical thinking and persuasive dialogue. It has also given my students the opportunity to be creators—rather than simply consumers—of online content. Finally, blogging and podcasting have given my students an audience for their ideas, which has increased levels of interest and motivation.”

  tags: blogging, blog, students, school, education

• File2.ws

  “File2.ws is a free website that converts any of your own files into a public online web page. Every converted file to a web page has a unique web address so you can share it with friends, or other people on the internet. This allows information to be shared quickly and efficiently to a large audience.”

  tags: sharing, convert, storage, website, file, web2.0, tool

• Wikipedia for Language Learning – a guide for teachers – AvatarLanguages.com

  “How to use Wikipedia and Wikitravel in Language Lessons

  Wikipedia is well-known and has become a main source for initial research. Yet its interactive nature allows language learners to play a more active role, to gain an online voice and focus on accuracy and quality in their written work.”

  tags: language, worldlanguage, wikipedia, wikitravel

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