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Grade level- 7-12 CC- A student that is on home tutoring or absent can get missed worksheets and other important documents from class to stay up to date despite missing class time. Overview- This site allows a user to save their important videos and other imformation online to be accessed by whomever the creator allows. Cons- Need district and parents permission

Purpose of the Website: Screencastle is an easy tool to create screencasts using the Internet. The user can record animation on their computer and view it back in a video format. All you have to do is select the area of your computer screen that you would like to record and decide if you would like to record from a microphone as well. Grade Level: 7-12 Classroom Connection: Some way that this tool can be used include: - Offering an orientation to a new class - Presenting lessons to the class - Provide feedback for student work - Allow students to share work Negatives of this Website: Java is not working properly on all classroom computers in the district so there is some difficulty with this website since it is Java based.

K-12 Great for a class/ group collaboration in and outside of the classroom and great for personal use! Con: District permission, public to everyone, anyone can add or delete information.

Purpose of the Website: This website is a safe surfing website for children. The website was created by an elementary school teacher who wanted her students to have a safe place to gather information on the Internet. There are over 400 pages of information on various topics that students can explore. The information is easy to read and navigate. Grade Level: K-5 Classroom Connection: This is a great website for students to use when gathering information for homework, or small amounts of information for class activities.

Purpose of the Website: This website is a tutorial created by a librarian at SUNY Albany. The tutorial is an introduction to using the Internet. The readability of the website allows for use by secondary students. The information covers topics such as domain names, programing language, how to search, applications, etc. Make sure you read the "About" section to see what the permissions are for using this website in your classroom. Grade Level: 9-12 Classroom Connection: This website would be great for a library or computer class in high school. Librarians or computer teachers can use this as a reading assignment for students and create an application based activity to go along with it. I am not very comfortable with which kind of activities would be appropriate for a secondary level students since I am an elementary teacher.

Purpose of the Website: The possibilities that Google provides for teachers is endless! There are so many applications that Google creates for classrooms to be used by students and teachers. Some of the programs include: - Google Earth - Doodle 4 Google - Gmail - Google Reader - Google Docs There are also classroom lesson ideas available for teachers on this website. Grade Level: K-12, Professionals Classroom Connection: One example of how Google can be used in the classroom is by using Google Earth. When teaching your students about communities, you can take your class on a virtual field trip of your town. You can pinpoint different community buildings that are important for your community to run and show students where these buildings are. Negatives of this Website: Some of the Google applications do not run correctly in my district. I have had trouble saving virtual field trips that I have made in Google Earth and there have been times when Google Docs have not opened correctly. So this may be a program that you will have to test ahead of time.

Grade level- 9-12 CC- A student can create their own social networking group to collaborate on a class and community project for a Project-Based Learning assignment. Overview- A user can create their own social networking group to their liking and control how it operates. Also it is free. Cons- Needs district and parent permission.

Grade level- 7-12 CC- A student can post a comment on the discussion board about the class debate on Islam to furher ehance their undertanding of the topic. Overview- This facebook like site allows a teacher to create a safe place for students to collaborate, discuss ideas, and enhance their learning by socializing over the computer. Cons- Needs district and parent permission

Grade level- 7-12 CC- At the beginning of the year, each student can make their own stixy to introduce themself to the class. Overview- This site allows a user to create their own bulletin site that can display important information and be can be designed their liking with different colors and pictures. Cons- Might need some time to get used too.

Purpose of the Website: This website is a tutorial that students can follow through to learn how to access and navigate the Internet. Each section, or lesson, has worksheets that help students navigate through the information and to assess students understanding of the tutorial. Some topics include The Beginning, Getting Started Online, Staying Safe, Using Your Browser, Searching Online, Trying Top Tricks, and The Welcome to the Web Challenge. Students learn things such as what the Internet is for, what links do, how to use the toolbar, etc. Grade Level: 4-8 Classroom Connection: This a wonderful resource to use with upper elementary and secondary students at the beginning of the year to help them review information they already know and introduce them to new information about the Internet. This can be completed independently in class or as a homework assignment. Negatives of this Website: Some parts of the website have a lot of information and is not extremely easy to navigate, therefore might not be used by younger students independently.

Purpose of the Website: This website offers hundreds of different podcasts that are appropriate for use in classrooms. Using the directory, you can search by grade level and subject to find podcasts that work well for your class's needs. Grade Level: K-12, Professional Classroom Connection: Students can use podcasts on a weekly basis to help develop their listening skills. One way this can be used in a classroom is possibly listening to weekly current events and having the students create a class newspaper sharing events that are happening around the country or around the world. Negatives of this Website: A lot of the podcasts available of the website are created by students and schools. It might be a great idea to include some podcasts that are professional created and approved by teachers.

K-12 Secure online class forum for teachers and students to extend learning outside of the traditional classroom. Con: Probably need your district's permission.

K-12 Similar to YouTube, but teachers and students can search for school appropriate videos to show in class.

3-12 A virtual sticky note wall for teachers and students. Teachers can post updates for a class or just allow students to use it for collaboration. Cons: must monitor student activity.

K-12 With budgets becoming a henderience on field trips, efieldtrips allows teachers to take their class to places they never thought they would see. Con: Not all places are available.

Grades 3-6 Interactive animal study graphic organizers- broken down by facts, babies, interactions and habitats. Classroom Connections: *Whole group practice: Interactively fill out organizers using SmartBoard and class set of animal books *Independent practice/assignment: students fill out online, or graphic organizers can be printed out for students to fill out at their own pace- based on their independent books.

Grades 3-12 Tutorial on doing research, Finding appropriate print resources, taking notes etc. Includes printable form for evaluating print resources. **note--tutorial does not allow teacher to pause for explanations or questions :( Classroom Connections: * show tutorial- explaining what students should look for when choosing print resources for doing research * Whole group practice- interactively fill out an evaluation form on a book reviewed as a whole class * Independent practice- have students fill out an evaluation form on a book they chose for research project

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Grade K-3 Provides educational movies, homework help, leveled quizzes, games and activities for kids. This site offes great visual aides and activiites to go along with many different topics across all subject areas. Teachers can use this site to introduce concepts to students as well as reinforce ans assess students understanding of concepts.

This is a good resource for the teacher who would like their class to create a video slide show of various images. This might be a better option than using Windows Movie maker for some teachers. Students can access their video at home whether they have a PC or a Mac.

This is a web-based thesaurus that provides a physical representation of synonym and antonyms.

This works really well in an ELA class for choosing character traits or crafting a writing piece. There is a limit to how many times it can be accessed without a subscription, but it's workable. You simple go back a page and start again. What I like best about this site is that the site will provide you with relatable words to what you're looking for and they don't have to be exact matches. By illustrating them at a distance, it is communicated that this is the nature of the connection. 4-12