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DOGONews is a free online newspaper and Web guide for elementary and middle school students, providing short articles about current events with photos, videos, a dictonary for challenging words, and maps for geographical context. Teachers can create a custom online newspaper for their students by choosing articles and Web sites based on content area. Students can post news or discuss articles with other users in a safe, education-focused environment.

Encyclopedia of the Earth an electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environmetns, and their interaction with society. It is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The articles are written in non-technical language and are useful to students, educators, scholars, and professionals, as well as to the general public.

At a quick glance this site appears to have a lot of information about a variety of science related topics.

This is an interesting article about tools that can be used to manage passwords.

Looking for a tool to keep all those passwords you have to remember, then check out this article.

Article about a Massachusettes teen who hanged herself due to ongoing bullying.

Teaching our children about internet safety and anti-bullying is critical. This is a sad story for all involved.

Fact Monster is a reference tool with fact-filled articles for elementary school students. It combines an almanac, atlas, dictionary, encyclopedia, and a homework helper. The site is owned by Pearson Education, the largest educational publisher in the world.

Article has a variety of apps for K-12 students. Some are for secondary and others are for elementary.

Plus magazine opens a door to the world of maths, with all its beauty and applications, by providing articles from the top mathematicians and science writers on topics as diverse as art, medicine, cosmology and sport.

This article lists the advantages of iOS7 for education.

Article and video about how a 1st grade teacher uses twitter in an elementary classroom.

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

This free site provides the user with the tool needed to create a live online binder around a specific topic. What a cool way to organize content, information, articles, recipes, professional development training materials, etc. Lots of home and school uses for this tool.

This is a very cool tool.

Article on 10 steps to a better web research.

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.

This site contains links to a variety of cyber bulling resources.

This is an alphabetical listing of links to sites A-Z on just about any topic you may be interested in.

Studyblue is a free tool that allows users to create flashcards, quizzes, and lecture notes and share them with others. Teachers can set up a "class" and give students a code, and everyone with the code can create collaborative study materials. There are mobile phone apps that the students can use to take their flashcards and notes anywhere. They can access their files offline. StudyBlue also sends helpful test and study reminders via email and text message.

I learned about this tool from an article in Learning & Leading with Technology, August 2011. An educator shared how her students use it.