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new options for converting a wikispace, now called a basic wiki, into an editable website. Can publish a classroom wiki once work is completed to a website to share with a wider audience. Looks like it has lots of potential for classroom teachers.

A wiki created by two teachers with contributions from teachers and students regarding digital citizenship and related topics. Check the page: Student-Created Content

Provide students, teachers, and administrators with a toolkit of reliable information, resources, and guidelines to help all of us learn how to be upstanding Digital Citizens who maintain a healthy Digital Identity (ID) in the 21st Century. Build a collaborative platform for teachers and students the world over to contribute to our ever-growing curriculum collaborations and student-created content.

21st Century Citizenship wiki

Have you discovered the wonderful world of wikis? Check out this blog post for ideas on how you can use a classroom wiki.

I've long said that professors who want to explore teaching with technology should begin with a social media tool rather than a Learning Management System. Web 2.0 tools are simple to use, invite student collaboration, and are usually less administratively clunky and complex than an LMS.One of the easiest and most powerful tools is the regular old wiki. Wikis are simply web pages that can be edited by their users. Instead of only carrying content from the administrator, they harness the power of crowdsourcing to create a powerful communal resource.

How do you choose the right tool?

Thanks for sharing this. I shared it with an online teaching course I am taking. This is a great organized resource.

"The non-profit empowering educators to deliver and share curricula"

A page for each known species

Free Reading Program.. Open Source

FreeReading is a free, high-quality, open-source reading program addressing literacy development for grades K-3. Leveraging the collective wisdom of researchers, teachers, reading coaches, and other education and industry professionals, FreeReading provides a high-quality, cost-effective alternative to static materials. By establishing a foundation of hundreds of research-based lessons and materials that users can download and use for free, FreeReading has created the framework for intervention programs supporting K-6 literacy. The collective wisdom within FreeReading is invaluable and can be more beneficial than any one reading program.

Site full of fab educational links

A collection of Ipad and Ipod apps for the Elementary Classroom.

Everything Web 2.0

"Problem: How do we break out of a linear mindset and develop three-dimensional teaching without getting weighed down by an immense burden of data collection?"

The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You

If you're not an avid follower of #edchat on Twitter, you may be missing out on a great opportunity to learn about some new Web 2.0 tools that are currently being used in classrooms around the world. That's because @chickensaltash posed a simple question to the PLN and there has been a huge swell of support as hundreds of people have jumped in to answer the question about which 5 Web 2.0 tools teachers are using in classrooms.

A lot of these are really great tools to use!

Lots of technology tutorials

KATE, the Kentucky Academy of Technology Education, collects the most innovative and successful technology practices in K-12 education and makes them available to the teachers and students of Kentucky -- the United States -- and the world.