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 tool that allows for quickly and easily designing posters, signs, fliers and more, allowing for a variety of customizations with backgrounds, clipart, and text, while also allowing users to upload and use their own pictures.  My own high school kids have used it to complete one page posters referred to as visual book reports.  Their end products were printed for display purposes in the library, and used for visuals for book-talks done by both the librarians and the students. We even use them in digital frames that loop through pictures at our circulation desk, and students have responded to the "book-reports" created in Poster My Wall by checking out those titles.   The site does not require an account though that is an option, and those opting to use the free version can create professional looking posters and download for printing in minutes.  My school secretary was so impressed with the site she has even used it to create fliers for events and activities at school.   The site is easy enough for even elementary school students.  Like Wordle, my collaborating teachers are finding some very interesting uses for Poster My Wall. Cons?  It is not a replacement to Glogster by any means, but a poster app none the less. (Rec by Cathy Jo Nelson)

"Mathigon provides a series of free, interactive, online courses that are designed to complement 6th grade through college level mathematics instruction. The website was founded by Philipp Legner, who studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge and mathematics education at the London School of Economics. Legner, who currently works at Google, wanted to design a website that enabled learners to examine mathematics concepts by actively engaging in problem solving. Each course explains key concepts and skills through a series of short explanations, helpful visualizations, problem sets, and quizzes. Learners receive feedback as they work their way through each course. Visitors to this website can find courses by browsing through the course library, which sorts available courses by grade level (6-9; 10-12; College, Fun and More) and by topic (Geometry; Functions and Equations; Probability and Statistics; Calculus and Mechanics; Applied Mathematics, etc.)."

Little Space Heroes is a Virtual Universe for kids and families. It's an interactive, onlinemultiplayer game in which kids create their own hero and explore a galaxy full of funand adventure!Rated E for Everyone and awarded the Family Friendly Videogames Seal of Approval,Little Space Heroes is a story-driven online social game that allows players to createtheir own Space Hero and embark on an intergalactic adventure. Featuring characterpersonalization, solo and team gameplay, pets, quests and community activities, LittleSpace Heroes offers an age-appropriate and safe environment for kids to explore,make new friends and have fun online. All that is required to play is a computer connectedto the internet.

Great Websites for Kids (GWS) , the Association for Library Service to Children's (ALSC) online website directory, has been completely redesigned. The updated site boasts a fresh and colorful kid-friendly look and interactive social media enhancements. Clear, bright icons display subject categories and appear on every page, while eye-catching thumbnail images provide a visual preview of each great site represented. Special sections highlight Sites of the Week and Month, Most Popular pages and Top Rated selections. Prompts for each site offer "more selections like this." Visitors can actively connect with the site and further their online experience by rating sites; sharing their favorites on social media sites such as Facebook; and emailing recommendations to friends.

INature is the fantastic factory that makes the building blocks of all our lives-food, drinking water, the stuff we own, and the air we breathe. That's why The Nature Conservancy and its 550 scientists have created Nature Lab: to help students learn the science behind how nature works for us and how we can help keep it running strong. Access Nature Lab resources aligned to The Nature Conservancy's research and designed specifically for a young audience and classroom use.

"The Molecularium seeks to 'excite audiences of all ages to explore and understand the molecular nature of the world around them.' The project's website offers several tools that will be useful to educators. Nanospace, a web-based virtual theme park designed for students between first and eighth grade, utilizes games, activities, and short animations to provide an entertaining learning environment for children to explore the atomic world. In addition, under the Educators tab, teachers will find a Guide to NanoSpace that includes an overview of the games and attractions. Downloadable resources, such as a Teacher's Resource Guide to the Molecularium Project, are also available."

if you need to bookmark a site and want to have a copy of your bookmarked sites accessible from any computer- it's free and very easy to use.  LiveBinders is like having a 3-ring binder for the Web- collect your resources, organize them easily, present them to your students/colleagues.  Your students can access them from the laptops simply by going to the site and searching for your public binder by name, or by logging in with your information.  You can make your binders private or public.  There are hundreds already made that you may be able to use in your classroom (someone else has already done the work for you) - if it is public you can make a copy of it and save the binder in your account!

This site provides an extensive collection of free resources, math games, and handson math activities aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. Our math printables are suitable for use in math centers, small group or whole class settings. Instructions for each activity are presented in large print on a task card in child-friendly language to enable students to work on tasks independently after a brief introduction to the task. All materials and activities on the site are designed to support the Common Core State Standards and are based on the belief that effective mathematical learning is best achieved when students are given frequent opportunities to develop their own problem solving strategies, to pose questions, and to engage in mathematical inquiry through the use of open-ended tasks.

PBLU is an online social network of educators who continually learn and share how to do Project Based Learning. PBLU provides free online two-week classes and Common Core aligned projects that teachers customize and implement while receiving tips from an experienced PBL facilitator and feedback from the online community. PBLU launches the summer of 2012.

Teachthought describes this as "While the site is simple a crudely interactive graphic with links to videos, it has, in one fell swoop, creatively curated some of the most compelling and engaging "problems" in mathematics. From Benford's Law to French Numbers, to whether or not zero is an even number, it frames the content area of math-which is often riddled with rote practice of very traditional arithmetic and formulas-in a problem-based learning kind of approach. Fantastic resource for bell ringers, test questions, math project-based learning ideas, or as a model for students to curate their own curiosities about the incredible-and poorly marketed-world of mathematics."

Weebly is a San Francisco, Californiabased company that was founded in 2006with the mission to help people put theirinformation online quickly and easily. Wenow enable 3 million people to easily createpersonal sites and blogs or establishweb presences for businesses, weddings,classrooms, churches, artistic portfolios,and more.Several teachers in Warren are using weebly for a class website.

Hotlist on Persuasive Writing rec. by Shannon Saul " I especially like the advertisements which go along with the 3rd lesson in the 5th grade writing unit, and the True Story of the Three Little Pigs, and the Hey Little Ant one.  Cheerios commercial and cooking with insects looks interesting also"

Pages and pages of resources and tools that you can use. For example, the language arts teaching tools page has many graphic organizers and other useful sites.

free service for creating and sharing collections of your favorite videos from YouTube, Vimeo, VEVO, and Hulu. Chill is kind of like Pinterest for videos. Using Chill you can add videos with your comments to categories that you create. Your videos appear like sticky notes on a wall. Chill allows you to follow other Chill users to discover and share new videos.

I found this website that has multiple activities with fractions.  It includes the materials needed for the activities and instructions.  It lists extensions and assessment ideas.  It also has a listing of books about fractions.  It even contains links to other websites where students can play fraction games.  (And I only had trouble accessing one of the links.) From Heather Johnson

Great list and explanation of hashtags and chats.  I didn't know about @HideChat and @HideTag

Good teachers have always known that puzzle games are some of the best ways toget old and young alike well on their way towards mastering a subject area. ProProfsis dedicated to the mission of combining education and entertainment, providing freeonline puzzles, brain games, and other fun resources to get people actively involved inthe learning process.

The Math Forum was awarded a generous grant from the FINRA foundation to supportthe work of connecting math teachers to each other and to useful resources to includefinancial content in their math classrooms. This website is the result of prior and ongoingconversations with teachers, financial educators and Math Forum staff.

These questions deal with everyday phenomena that we often take for granted, but each can be explained scientifically. Everyday Mysteries will help you get the answers to these and many other of life's most interesting questions through scientific inquiry. In addition, we will introduce you to the Library of Congress' rich collections in science and technology. All of the questions presented on this Web site were asked by researchers and answered by librarians from the Library's Science Reference Services.

Detailed article from Alfie Kohn, complete with many suggestions and examples. Includes bibliography and links to research.