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Zilladog.com is a web site created by parents for kids. They can stay connected with friends and family with our FREE ZillaMail email service. Kids can play free online games that are parent approved. They can play games from their favorite web sites such as Club Penguin, Neopets, Cartoon Network, Pokemon, Nickelodeon, and play Sonic games with Sonic the Hedgehog. They can also log on to and access their Webkinz pet.

Shidonni is an innovative startup, developing the next generation of creative 'virtual' worlds for kids. Shidonni is providing a safe environment where kids and their parents can create imaginary worlds and animals, play games and interact with friends. Shidonni is based on unique proprietary patented algorithms and using Microsoft Silverlight.

This is a web browser designed just for kids that allows access to 800,000 sites that have been pre-approved for kids.

Search Wiki for kids featuring only safe filtered Wikipedia articles (Simple Edition).

Trying out Blendspace as a way of sharing resources. Here's a collection of tutorials and ideas for using the ChatterPix Kids app in the classroom.

Website made by a grade 5 class in New York studying Canada. Really well done but contains some mistakes...would be fun to challenge kids to find them, e.g. on the BC page.

On Planet Foss, kids upload photos to solve particular science challenges. This site looks very promising!

Simplified weather report site for kids that gives temperature and tells how to dress for the weather. Have to type in code for Canada, go to Need help and look for your location on Yahoo weather...look for code that appears in url, e.g. caxx0054 for Calgary.

Post by Kelly Tenkley includes the story of a doctor who is prescribing ADHD medications to any children who are struggling academically. He feels he has no choice as society has decided it's too expensive to modify the learning environment so we have to modify the kids. The comedic take on this is hilarious but also sadly true.

Great article by Ian Jukes. See page 21 for research showing clearly why we need to be using visual methods with the current generation.

This Prezi presentation shows how student input transformed their library from boring one-size-fits-all to a flexible space that works for kids.

Collection of University of Illinois extension online activities for elementary students. All the ones I looked at were excellent and contained many supports such as narration, captioning, and presentation in multiple languages.

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Awesome TED Talk about a different way to teach math. Are we making things too simple? TED Talks Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. At TEDxNYED, Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think.

Free modeling/animation program very simple to use. kids ready for this about ages 9-11.

$40 program really simple cool tool makes it easy for kids to create newscasts.

Kelley Tenkley reviews the Rustle the Leaf website designed to teach kids about sustainability.

Sqworl is a free app that allows you to create a public page on the web that contains thumbnails of several webpages. You can then share the url. This would be useful for making a custom homepage, lists of workshop resources, or safe sites for kids to browse when doing research. It's very easy to set up...you just name a group and then paste in the url's and a short title or description of the links you want. Sqworl creates the thumbnail pics which you can drag around to reorder.

Great site for kids...history games and virtual tours of many historic places including North Pacific Cannery.