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Terminix has launched an educational website with insect lessons. The website is built around the character Harry, a praying mantis who guides visitors through resources for teachers and students. The educator center provides teachers with curriculum guides and lesson plans, created by entomologists at Audubon Insectarium and Terminix, that correlate with National Science Teacher Association standards.

Looks interesting. Has teacher resources for using the site. Correlated with the National Science Teacher Association Standards.

"Download a story onto your portable music player or stream an episode from your computer. You can also print the free activity pages that accompany each episode."

Cool free site where you or students can download or listen to pinky dinky do podcast stories. In addition, students can create their own podcasts.

Gail Lovely has shared the top 10 web 2.0 tools for young learners.

Think link to The Journal provides a list of 10 top web 2.0 tools for young learners. All are easy to use. If you are looking for ways to use technology with your K-6 students, you will want to check out Gail Lovely's list.

"Jennifer Wagner, creator of ProjectsByJen, has been succesfully encouraging teachers since 1999 to use online projects in their PreK-6 classrooms. Using various ideas, Jennifer will help you understand how online projects will help you make the most of your time in a variety of ways. Winning numerous awards for her creative ways in encouraging teachers to collaborate, her teaching style is very user friendly, creative, and personable."

This site provides project ideas for K-6 classrooms.

"GoAnimate state-of-art animation tools are perfect to complement your teaching and get your students to put learning into practice." "Our Lesson Gallery is a growing database of eductional materials created by educators around the world. A great place to share your practices and experiences.

Go animate provides tools for teachers.

Free Quiz creating tool. Users can create, store and print worksheets, studysheets, exams and quizzes online.

"As a citizen of Whyville, you can: Design your own look Chat and play games Hang out with friends Much more!"

Virtual world for kids. There are quests, pets, games, dress up and different worlds to explore.

Wikimedia commons provides pictures, sounds, and videos that can be used provided the user follows the commons licensing agreement. This is like creative commons.

This site has a variety of resources about history.

This site has numerous (2,100) carefully selected and annotated resources. You can click on the lobby link on the main page to go to the resources. You can click on the welcome to K12imc.org a t the bottom to go to the instructional media center where there are additional links taking you to specific locations on the site. At the bottom of the IMC page you can click on explore the worlds of K12IMC.org and within the explore page you will be able to link to more resources that are clearly described. Within each of the resource links you will go to a page where there will be a variety of content specific links. This site was interesting. There were lessons for teachers, there was a link on the explor page that will take you to experts in various fields. This is a site worth checking out because a user could, through this one site, find numerous credible and useable resources.

Found this site to be very interesting and loaded with lots of useable resources.

Lots of good ideas on how to use your flip cameras in the classroom.

Ideas for how to use a flip camera in the classroom.

"This Classroom Learning 2.0 blog has been set-up as part of the CSLA School Library Learning 2.0 program to encourage all of us to experiment and learn about the new and emerging technologies that are reshaping the context of information on the Internet today."

This is a really organized blog set up for learning about 2.0. Please share with anyone you think might be interested.

Site that allows the user to enter any word and a variety of links will be brought up that relate to that word.

Neat search engine. You put in any word and it goes out to the web and grabs multiple links that connect to that work in some way.

With Google Earth, you can create awesome tours, taking viewers on a virtual trip from place to place. You can enhance your tours with narration, images, videos, text, and other types of information. The tours you create can even be embedded into a website.

How to get started using google earth.

The Googal in Google... Google Can Do that? Part One

For anyone into google.

Google for Teachers Books, Docs, Maps and more is a guide for teachers using google.

Resource for those using google.

Game Classroom is the next generation of homework help! This site has a variety of math and language arts games for students K-6. This would be a great resource to add to any teacher web page as well as one to share with parents who are seeking ways to support their child at home.

Shared by one of my grad students. Lots of topics covered for math and Language Arts.

Math is Fun has a variety of math topic areas for students K-6.

Looks like an interesting site. Please share with anyone you feel may be interested. This is also another site to share with parents via your teacher web page.

Top 5 ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom is an article that shares the educational value of Twitter.