CVSD Elementary

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.

Jott can be used by students to help keep themselves organized. The voice-to-text services enable users to call in reminders to themselves, send e-mails or text messages to group sof people, create posts, create a schedule on a google calendar, listen to their Google calendar, listen to their e-mail, and even listen to podcasts and webpages on the go. http;//dial2do.com will work very much the same as Jott.

Flickr allows students to take pictures and send them to a private space online. For example: A homework assignment for 4th grade mathematics students requires students to take pictures of different polygons they see in their everyday lives and instantly send them (along with a short text message describing the type of polygon) to a private space online. The next day in class the teacher can open the private space and use it to illustrate polygons and their connection to students' lives, leading to a lesson on how to measure these polygons. Both flickr.com and photobucket.com are sites that would allow this type of sharing. Both have a private mobile address that can be used on any mobile phone; the teacher just needs to set up the mobile account and give the students the address.

Kidblog.org is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with their own, unique blog. It is safe and simple, yet powerful enough to allow students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. The teacher maintains complete control over student blogs. Teachers can set up their class with no student email.

I have heard good things about this site. I like the fact that the classroom teacher controls the student blogs.

Site for students with sites approved by educators.

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

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Quintura for Kids is a search engine for kids that acts a bit like a tag cloud in that results can be embedded in a site.

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This is a user-friendly site for digital storytelling that allows users to record their voices for narration. FREE

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This site includes free presentations in PowerPoint format and free interactive activities for kids.

There is a free trial version of the materials in the National Library of virtual manipulatives. Math topics Numbers and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement and Data Analysis & Probablity are covered. I did not come across anything asking for money so I a not certain there is a cost. There are tons of manipulatives to access from each of the above categories. This site is associated with the Uta State University.

Allows teachers to turn basic cell phones into classroom performance clickers at no charge. Studetns can send poll responses and ideas achieved through bdrainstorming directly to an interactive webpage. An example of the use may be that when the students walk into class the teacher has a question on the IWB that students will need to respond to as their activating strategy for the lesson.

The easiest and most entertaining way to collect feedback from your audience: project polls or message boards on a large screen, have everyone send their input via their cell phones and see results instantly!

Great site for elementary students where they can sign up to play games that teach them cybersafety, cyberethics, cybersecurity, and cyberhealth.

Youtube video that talks about Digital Dossier describing all the digital records that accumulate about a typical person from conception to death. Use this to make students aware that all mobile messages, media uses, and calls are part of their permanent record.

"AwesomeStories is a gathering place of primary-source information. Its purpose - since the site was first launched in 1999 - is to help educators and individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, useums, historical societies and government-created web sites"

Interactiaves British and Metric Conversions

This site has a variety of science and math related topics for students to click on and learn about.