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Site lets users create interactive maps of any location. Users add pins, then share stories or information, images, etc. Could be a good tool for students learning about historical places, local communities, etc. Also a good tool for writing short expository texts.
we've put together a listing of some of the best sites for elementary teachers and students online, plus a few tools to help you keep everything together.
My first blog --> introduces meshows tools I like & questions I am grappling with
"When I first started teaching and used to imagine how I'd end up, I thought perhaps I'd be helping student teachers learn how to work in the classroom. Now I think that goal may be within reach, but with a different twist, because I'm getting enormous pleasure from helping colleagues -- many near dinosaurs like I almost was -- renew, refresh and re-energize their work -- by letting web-based tools and resources breathe new life into our work.
Described by Mike Bryant as a Web 1.5 for people almost ready to make the leap to web 2.0. Tabbloid gives you a pdf printable neat magazine-type effect for your favorite urls. For people not ready for Google Reader or a more conventional web 2.0 feeder, this just might be the ticket. It's also a great PR tool; take your student's blogs and tabbloid them; then print and sent out as a newsletter. Great creative uses for this tool in education. Summary by RJ Stangherlin.
What most people don't know, however, is just how many useful tools Google has out there than can make everything from tracking a package to creating and publishing webpages a breeze. Here are just a few of the products Google offers that may be worth giving a try.
The Internet has tons of online tools, apps, and downloads with the tech-friendly teacher in mind. This list offers 20 free sites that would be genuinely useful to educators throughout the school year:
Twiddla is a free collaboration tool where you set up meetings using an online whiteboard interface. Twiddla meetings allow users to interact in real time
The ISTE Classroom Observation Tool (ICOT®) is a FREE online tool that provides a set of questions to guide classroom observations of a number of key components of technology integration.