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On this site you can find specific sites that you use all the time and they keep them all as thumbnails for bookmarking. This would be a nice way to organize sites/tools that you have students use.

A great site for younger kids, to get an idea for the size & characteristics of various marine species. Some of the most detailed visualizations available on the web...and the audio recordings are outstanding. This is a great site to display via a projector in a classroom...be sure to turn the speakers up!

A great site for younger kids, to get an idea for the size & characteristics of various marine species. Some of the most detailed visualizations available on the web...and the audio recordings are outstanding. This is a great site to display via a projector in a classroom...be sure to turn the speakers up!

A very interesting educational wiki from Akita, Japan. Currently maintained, and looks like useful information no matter what country you're from! (Site in English). This site would be useful to a teacher interested in seeing how other people groups address instructional technology issues.

A very interesting educational wiki from Akita, Japan. Currently maintained, and looks like useful information no matter what country you're from! (Site in English). This site would be useful to a teacher interested in seeing how other people groups address instructional technology issues.

A site to create interactive posters, or search the gallery for a pre-made poster with the topic of your choosing. Students can use this site for a fact page on a certain topic. Teachers can use it to introduce content vocabulary, would make a great PWIM poster. I used it to introduce myself with links and other images.

A site to create interactive posters, or search the gallery for a pre-made poster with the topic of your choosing. Students can use this site for a fact page on a certain topic. Teachers can use it to introduce content vocabulary, would make a great PWIM poster. I used it to introduce myself with links and other images.

Great example for helping teachers with google site

"Use Sites to Plan club meetings and activities, share info on a secure company intranet, collaborate on a team project, or stay connected with family members

This site allows teachers to have an organized list of brain breaks for kids. The site is interactive and kids choose an avatar that builds as they do more activities.

I am on the Blue Zone Committee for the building, and this looks like a valuable resource for me. Brain Breaks are very useful with 4th graders. Have you tried looking up "Just Dance" Videos on Youtube? I have a collection saved to my personal youtube channel called, "Brain Breaks." http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUN_fyIUtwFrGc-c0f-E7Ai14fW0WTeIk

My students LOVE this!!!

This site is for tweens to connect with each other in positive ways.

This is an interesting site. Is it specifically for girls? I think it would be of value to our school counselor but I am not sure how to use it in biology. I agree, looks like a great way for tweens to connect.

I agree that this can be used in the classroom. However, I see its value as an extension to the regular curriculum. Girls need positive role models just as boys do and this looks like a great forum for girls to receive that positivity. I see this as mostly for students because I doubt that students would comment freely and effectively if they knew their teacher was reading their posts. This is the first resource of this kind that I am aware of. I am not sure of any other site that allows for this kind of communication. Great find.

QR code generator. Has some options other than plain B/W. Pretty cool!

I like QR Stuff so much I have even paid for its use. I like that they keep track of your history in a paid subscription. I've used QR Stuff to create vocabulary scavenger hunts, to make a poster of sites to share with other teachers and post a video of the scavenger hunt to share. I've even made my own audio book recordings through QR Stuff. I see this resource as one to be used by students and teachers. The site has so many options for teachers to create codes for their classrooms. Students can link documents to digital portfolios, QR Creators are popular, but I haven't found another one that offers as many choices in codes and personalization features as QR Stuff. Ben you should look into Aurasma, an augmented reality app that adds a 3D component. And Socrative can be used for formative assessments.

QR codes are great for students, teachers and community members. I would guess many students and adults are familiar with them and if they don't know how to use them, know someone who is. Renee and Ben, I know some teachers use QR codes as a link to their Aurasma pages. I like this site because it offers more than the first-generation QR code generators. I can see many uses - I'd love to try one of the t-shirt or visual AR codes. I'm a fan of Tagxedo, which reminds of of the visual AR codes shown on the website.

Digital Citizenship lessons for students and teachers

Thanks, Mekca! We spend very little time teaching Digital Citzenship. I think it needs to be embedded in every teacher's curriculum. There are so many "teachable" moments that present themselves that could be linked to proper social media usage. This is going to be an excellent resource for me to share with my fellow educators.

This is an excellent source for me to use in my Teen Insights classroom. We started with a unit on bullying... then cyberbullying... I think we're missing the point- students just need to learn to be good digital citizens! I will use this source to build my curriculum. I appreciate that the curriculum is geared towards students but that it gives teachers and parents good background as well. Parents are a huge part of cyberbullying problems. Much of the conflict we have in school has to do with something students do online at home and then carry those hard feelings with them to school. I do not have resources similar to these. The video that my curriculum used to show warned students to avoid chat rooms and to only choose names that gave no indication of their age, gender, or location. It's good for students to stay safe, but the world has become much more familiar and personal with technology. Our curriculum needs to adapt to keep up.

Educators rate and review apps, games, websites, etc and explain how they are using them in the classroom.

Abby - This looks like a nice teacher site. It's nice to read a quick blurb about what the sites are along with the rating. I liked that there was a section of the site to connect apps to common core standards. This could be very helpful and I appreciate that I can start with the standard (objective) and connect it to the technology. I think sometimes teachers start with a cool piece of tech and try to make it fit in their curriculum and it becomes more of a bell and whistle than a purposeful use of technology.

Sarah I agree! I will admit that sometimes I see something so cool that I want to use, but am not sure it really fits.

This site allows you to read an online document and highlight the information you are reading. It also allows you to take notes.

I really like this website! I use my SmartBoard often in class to highlight text to demonstrate main idea or important details. I would like to see what this looks like for students. It would be a great teaching tool for students to find main idea or practice researching for a paper. It would be very beneficial for teachers to see how students are highlighting main ideas in texts while also taking notes. Have you used this before? And how successful was it for students?

Sarah - I am new to using both Diigo and Scrible, so I did not realize all of the similarities between the two. I really like how you can highlight things with Scrible. Are you able to do the same with Diigo? Those were some of the same reasons I thought this would be a useful tool as well.

A list of 15 popular Social Networking sites and links to them.  

Middle school (grades 4-8) teachers, this is a site for you. Not only are there blogs with the middle school focus, but there are units and other resources too.

Middle school (grades 4-8) teachers, this is a site for you. Not only are there blogs with the middle school focus, but there are units and other resources too.

An inspiring website for teachers. Krissy is a director of a gifted and talented charted school, but offers inspiration for all who need it. Go visit her site on sad or bad days, or just browse her image gallery until inspiration strikes.

An inspiring website for teachers. Krissy is a director of a gifted and talented charted school, but offers inspiration for all who need it. Go visit her site on sad or bad days, or just browse her image gallery until inspiration strikes.

Course Sites is a free Blackboard platform to use with a group of students. 

A good site to get started with creating a wiki for class projects

A good site to get started with creating a wiki for class projects

Great site for editing a youtube video

Great site for editing a youtube video

This would be a good communication tool to use to keep parents and students updated on a variety of sites/media without having to post to multiple locations.

This would be a good communication tool to use to keep parents and students updated on a variety of sites/media without having to post to multiple locations.

This wiki provides educational tutorials and web 2.0 tools for me as an educator to use in my classroom and with my students.

Ben - I also agree that this is a great site for educators to use with their students. I have looked through this site for different ideas of tools. I have found it to be most helpful in my search for things. I can see it being useful for both students and educators. I haven't found any other site that has different web 2.0 tools broken down into different categories.

Holy cow this tool is awesome! There are so many tools listed that I have never herad of. Thank you so much for sharing this. This will be extremely useful when looking for new and engaging ways to enhance student learning. This tool could be used for teachers mainly, but if students are looking for a new way to present something, they could use it as a resource. I have seen similar "lists" of tools to use in the classroom, but none to this extent. Thanks for sharing! Do agree or disagree that the resource can be used efficiently in your own future classroom? Explain why or why not. Do you believe the resource is mostly for teacher use, student use, or both? Explain your perceptions constructively. Are you aware of any similar resources that should be considered? If so, what are those resources.