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Amazing digital scrapbooks for student creativity, imagination, and self-expression. Combine images, videos, text, and more Manage students, classes, and projects Collaborate, share, download & print Astoundingly easy to use

This is a fun wiki full of web 2.0 tools that can be embedded into your projects.

Having parents take part in our classroom blog turns the blog into a learning community. Here is the post I use to introduce Family Blogging Month.

"Rewards of teaching young children to blog"

"Rewards of teaching young children to blog" - What great ideas for blogging!

Used by educators all over the world, Voxopop talkgroups are a fun, engaging and easy-to-use way to help students develop their speaking skills. They're a bit like message boards, but use voice rather than text and a have a specialised user interface. No longer confined to a physical classroom, teachers and students of oral skills can interact from home, or even from opposite sides of the planet! Anywhere. Anytime.

"A collection of rubrics for assessing portfolios, cooperative learning, research process/ report, PowerPoint, podcast, oral presentation, web page, blog, wiki, and other web 2.0 projects."

Edistorm is lets you brainstorm with your team or friends to create and discover better information. Your account lets you participate as many brainstorming projects as you'd like. All completely free!

The purpose of the Fizz Flipped Classroom Training Program is to provide teachers the time to explore and ask questions about flipped classroom practice and resources. During this free 40-hour training you will be publishing lecture videos and planning for class time. By the end, you will be prepared to flip 20+ lessons.

"9 Word Cloud Generators That Aren't Wordle"

"The most dreaded word in school reading for students: book reports. Teachers assign them, viewing them as a necessary component of assessing reading comprehension. Book reports can be a contributing factor to 'readicide'. "Read-i-cide n: The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools." http://stenhouse.com/html/readicide.htm. So, how can we as teachers continue to monitor our students understanding of reading material without killing the love of reading? Enter technology. Technology can help bring some excitement and creativity to the traditional book report while still displaying students understanding of reading."