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K-12 When approached by parents for the name of a tutor, I am sometimes resistant to recommend. I feel that they ask me because they want to be certain that the tutor is the right one for their child. Beanbag is an online search for tutors. TEnd to your students need for digital literacy and have them explore the page themselves or maybe his enables parents to directly contact tutors and do not have to wait to go through the school. The obvious con to this is that the potential for a inept tutor still exists.

Online book builder.

This site can be used as an alternative to web quests and scavenger hunts. Teachers are able to create instructional books for students which lead to task prompts. This is beneficial because it helps to scaffold student-learning. It also has the potential to translate instruction to languages other than English. You can also add images and audio files. Check out how easy it is to add a coach and think of how it would benefit your students. K-12

Professional- K-12 Teacher resource for writing objectives for lessons. Includes an interactive Blooms Taxonomy table for reference. Classroom Connections: Teachers- use this resource for examples of tasks/activities to use in classroom to meet various objectives according to Blooms Taxonomy

Elementary Grades 4-5 Classroom Connections: This is a screen cast of how to divide two digits by one digit. The site allows you to create screencasts of various topics to explain or talk about a topic. Cons: It easily picked up the background noise while creating a screencast.

Grades K-12 Classroom Connections: There are tabs at the top to direct the viewer to the correct grade level. This site gives easy to read explanations of social studies concepts for kids.

a different take on online communities speaking and sharing their minds on specific topics.

Purpose of the Website: Students and teachers can create collaborative multimedia projects that incorporate video, pictures, and voice. This will allow students and teacher to present materials in a visual way. Grade Level: K-12 Classroom Connection: Voicethreads can be used for a variety of activities, but one possible project could be for student to share their experience on a field trip. Students can take pictures of their day on a field trip and create a voice thread to share what they learned about their experience.

Grades K-8 Interactive science activities for students to go along with science curriculum. This site can be used with students to give them a visual component to different science topics.

Grades 2-5 The Screen Actors Guild Foundation reads stories aloud to children. The site offers writing activities to go along with the stories. This site can be used as a center to help students that have difficulty with fluency.

Grades 3-12 A great resource or tool to learn how to create screencasts. This site can be used by teachers and students as a tutorial of how to create scrrencasts for specific projects.

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.

Purpose of the Website: This informational website is a resource for teachers that help them to develop webquests. All of the components of the webquest are explained to help teachers create their own webquests. There are also links to sample webquests that can be used by students or viewed as samples before you create your own. Grade Level: Professionals Classroom Connection: The resources on this website offer for a variety of different webquests that can be used throughout the year on many different topics. Negatives of this Website: Some of the links have not been updated and are no longer working.

Grades 3-6 An interactive website that offers students story starters to help develop ideas for writing pieces. This site can be used by students that struggle to come up with arting prompts an ideas for writing pieces. Teachers can give these to students for free writes.

Grade level- 7-12 CC- Instead of giving a test, students can be required to a make a comic strip about their understanding of the past unit. Overivew- The site allows a user to make their own comic-book strip Cons- Need some time to get used too.

Grade level- 7-12 CC- Student can use the site to orgnize vocabulary words or phrases when reviewing for a unit. Overview- site allows a user to create a platform for them to see their ideas. Great organizational tool. Cons- Might need some time getting used too.

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

Purpose of the Website: This children-friendly search engine is a wonderful resource in any classroom. Students can type their search subject in the search box. When the search results appear, there are a list of websites that students can access to find more information on the subject. However, the difference between this search engine and others is that there is a space at the top of the webpage that shows words that are connected with the subject that has been searched. For example, if you search for cows, some of the other subjects listed include cattle, mammal, dairy, milking, and many others. These words are generated based on information that appears in the search results. This can help students search with other key words when they cannot find the other information they are looking for. Grade Level: 3-8 Classroom Connection: This search engine can be used when students are performing research on the computer. Negatives of this Website: The websites that are generated by the search are mostly children-friendly. However, teachers should still teach students how to evaluate websites to choose the most appropriate resources.

6-12 Send mass text messages to a group. Teachers can use this to send a mass message to students for reminders. Cons: it can cost money.

Create comics online.

4-12 This site is for students to create original works or would also be great for creating fan-fiction writing pieces. Students have the benefit of choosing their own layout and have many characters and props to choose from. The one con to this site is a biggee. The work cannot be saved, so students must print as they move along. After speaking with the creator, I have learned that he hopes to correct his-realizing how difficult this makes things. Another con (or more of a precaution). In internet explorer and Google Chrome, you are only able to print what is visible in the window. For this reason, it is essential that the strip be minimized to fit in the screen.

Create high-quality videos and give them an online home.

9-12 This tool can be used by teachers to guide students through computer programs-among its many other capabilities. I have recently used this to demonstrate for my colleagues a "how to" for setting up their grade books using engrade. One downside to this -for me- was that it took me a lot of trial and error before I realized how to properly use the software. Check out the video for how to use Screencast on the home page.