Curie Elementary

Students can read and create online books. Expand your library with 2,436 stunning nonfiction and fiction books covering all subjects for K-8. Fountas & Pinnell and DRA leveled books from 24 publishers are perfect for differentiated instruction. Engaging online writing and publishing tool inspires students to write.

Lino is a free sticky & canvas service that requires nothing but a Web browser. I imagine students using this to post sticky notes with questions, comment on what they've learned, respond to a specific prompt, or add words for word sorts.

Resources for free books

Use for brainstorming and mind mapping...and all sorts of things. On the iPads start a popplet and then pass from student to student, adding to the mind map as it goes around

"With VoiceThread group conversations are collected and shared in one place from anywhere in the world...A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). " Endless possibilities...

Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

District resources for teaching ELD

These free math facts games should give your students a fun way to practice their math facts. These online math facts activities should be more fun, effective, and "green" than printed math fact worksheets.

Teaches keyboarding skills. Addresses common core literacy standards. Fee for use however.

Welcome to Animal Jam-a virtual world for kids where they can discover real-world plant and animal facts, plus follow enriching storylines paired with National Geographic's multimedia educational content! Animal Jam features a full spectrum of play that caters to young kids at all skill levels and developmental stages. With constantly evolving educational content, your child can join a community featuring fun activities and games, as well as chat with online friends in a safe and moderated environment.

Self publish books online using Lulu

Here's a site I created a few years ago for my masters. It provides links to various websites that information about the CA indian tribes.

This is Deborah Ford's Blog about library resources

Free resources for teaching. I found some useful comprehension and literary analysis pieces of text (folktales) to use with my class.

Example of how technology is being used in the classroom.

List of websites with California Geography, History, Facts for Kids

Fun way to practice keyboarding skills

From the website: "Pora Ora is a FREE 3D world designed to make learning fun, where primary school children are rewarded for completing educational tasks that are linked to the national curriculum. The educational content is embedded in games and quests throughout the world, so children really are learning while playing. "

107 iPad apps..."Tablet computing and mobile devices promise to have a dramatic impact on education. A growing number of schools across the world are jumping on the digital bus and embracing iPads as the latest tool to teach literature in multimedia, history through games and simulations, and maths with step-by-step animation of problems."

Inspiration and advice for teachers, including how to integrate the arts and technology.