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Start you own book club. You can invite your friends. Have discussions online or in person. Find other people with similar book interest.

This is pretty cool. What a great way to share what you are reading with your friends. What a great way for kids to discuss their books. Wouldn't it be cook if a teacher could set up a club and invite their students to it to discuss what they are reading online. I would love to set one of these up with my own mystery lover friends. Wouldn't this be a great way to share educational professional development readings.

Story Jumper is an excellent site for digital storytelling that has lots of educational resources for teachers. It also has a parent link and would be a good site to share with parents.

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A fun site for creating animated slide shows that has lots of content to choose from. This site will let users create amazing slide shows and edit and share photos.

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Splashup looks like photoshop and is agreat way to edit photos and manipulate layers and effects. It allows you to share with picasa, flickr, facebook

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Middlespot is an innovative web site for social bookmarking that allows users to collect sites in a visual way. This would be a great tool for teachers to organize content appropriate web sites and then share them with their students.

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Free spelling games at gamesgames.com. This site is worth checking out there is such a variety in the games. There will be something for everyone. Great site to share with parents or add to your web page.

"TheHomeworkZone provides teachers with a FREE, simple-to-use and \neasily \neditable classroom web site\n. Quickly post assignments, test dates, study \nguides, printable worksheets, events, announcements, and custom web pages to the \ninternet."

A way to share homework information online.

"JumpStart is a magical online world packed with friends, games and adventures! From training dragons to exploring lost islands, JumpStart.com includes thousands of games and activities for kids ages 3-12. But what really sets JumpStart apart is our commitment to education. We believe that learning should be an adventure, not a chore. That's why the games at JumpStart.com are specially designed to make math, reading and critical thinking fun! After all, there's no stopping a kid with a JumpStart!"

Looks like a great virtural site for kids ages 3-12. One to share with parents.

"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.

Fun interactive site to teach students about advertisement and the many forms of advertisement that they will see throughout their community.

Tony Angelini shared this site. I checked it out too and it is a fun interactive way to teach students about advertisement.

Shwup is a site that can be used for making collaborative slide shows.

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"Arcademic Skill Builders are free research-based and standards-aligned educational games! Engage and motivate students with our multiplayer and single-player games."

Sharing this again as there have been some additions to that that I think will be very helpful for teachers grades K-8.

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.

This is a livebinder all about wordle. Very helpful for anyone who wants to know more about wordle and see an cool example of how a livebinder can be used to provide professional information for educators.

Great example of a livebinder organized to teach about wordle. The tutorial tab is a great place to start to see how useful Wordle can be in the classroom.

Lots of web tools for K-12 classrooms. Like the fact that all the information is in this one resource.

Thanks Joy Weikert for sharing.

Check out this link for screencasting options.