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"It is imperative to teach our students beginning with their first experience online to "read" the web discriminately. Students need to understand that just because something is posted on the Internet, it isn't necessarily true. Teachers should practice the skill of web site evaluation before instructing students. The Yahooligans Teacher's Guide: Evaluating Web Sites gives a good overall synopsis of web evaluation while the Cyber Bee's WWW.CyberGuides rubrics clarify the issues of both content and design. Tammy Barcalow has somegreat suggestions to consider when first introducing website evaluation. Check them out! There are also many alternatives for teaching students how to critically evaluate websites and several links are included below. Kathy Shrock's Criteria Evaluation Survey: Elementary Level is an excellent choice to use with upper primary students. The Schrock criteria are simply stated and appropriate for students starting in about fourth grade. However, the form is bit long and may overwhelm some kids. Since we need to consider the reading level of lower primary students, I have created two checklists specifically for younger children. These alternatives require minimum reading and writing while introducing website evaluation. There is one version for kindergarten and first graders and another for second and third graders . Another good option for our students is this Web Evaluation for Primary Grades. Regardless of the specific tool you use, site evaluation should include judgement about the following areas: navigation and usability, authorship and content validity."

"A place to share e-learning and Web 2.0 tools for education. Computers and laptops in education are important only when used with good pedagogy. Digital content and creation is an important part of the process for educators in the 21st century."

webs 2.0 science tools compilation -2012 article; 

Covers (in detail) a variety of valuable online tools to enhance your classroom.

great contributers collaborate on this helpful book!

"BagTheWeb helps users curate Web content. For any topic, you can create a "bag" to collect, publish, and share any content from the Web. Beyond most curation tools' capability, BagTheWeb enables users to build networks of bags. This way bags can be linked together to provide rich and complete information about any topic. "

Another web tool for digital storytelling! Storywheel allows you to create your own slideshow and tell the story behind the pictures.

A literacy web tool for k5. An elementary parent recommended this to Stony Pt staff.  25 bucks for her home membership and she likes better than other ereading tools.

About A Web Whiteboard is touch-friendly online whiteboard app that lets you use your computer, tablet or smartphone to easily draw sketches, collaborate with others and share them with the world. A Web Whiteboard works on all modern browsers, no installation needed.

"Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work-in the web browser itself. "

a free webinar or conferencing tool 

web-based timeline

12 digital media product ideas that can be aligned with your curriculum: includes directions, suggested tools and examples.

"Organize your ideas, thoughts and documents. Share and find with ease. Save anything and everything that's important to you. Be it the contents of a webpage, an email, scanned copy of a business card or an important pdf file, anything. Take rich notes to save your crazy wild idea or a snippet of your latest code. Add annotations - via sticky comments, highlights, drawings etc, to these klips. Get a unique Webklipper URL for each of your klip. Share it with a small group of friends or with all your followers on Twitter - you'll be in complete charge of privacy settings for all your klips. Find your klips easily whenever you need them - search by klip content, annotations, url etc. "

"Gooru is a free platform for 21st century teachers and students. We offer a powerful tool for discovering complete lesson plans and curating content. Our comprehensive lesson plans made from interactive web materials bring the classroom to life. By offering these standards-aligned classplans and helping teachers find the best materials, assembling lesson plans is no longer a burden. This lets the teachers do what they do best. Teach"

"xtimeline is a free web-based timeline. Easily create and share timelines with pictures and videos."

Little collection of web apps with links and how they are best used instructionally.

another collection of web apps for education

Curate social media from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc. to use as elements in a story you create and tell with this tool.