Edudemic is a site that connects education and technology. It has great articles about people and technology. For example, "Reasons Why Teachers Should NOT Share Their Phone Numbers with Students" and Ten Ways to use Mobile Devices in the Classroom.
This site has things to help students in many different areas. From making conversions in measurements, online almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and more. This would be a reference students could use in different content areas.
Skype is a tool that allows people to talk in a way that is similar to face to face. This tool could be used in the classroom to become connected with other classrooms around the world. Students would have the opportunity to learn about other cultures firsthand.
Facebook can be used to stay connected to friends, but it can also be used as a way to collaborate with others. In our class we have created a group where we can talk about different things happening in class and we are the only ones that can see it.
Twitter is a device to not only stay connected to friends, but it also a way to stay connected to what is happening in the education world. Twitter allows you to follow people and see the things they are tweeting about in education.
Instagram allows people to stay in touch through pictures. Taking pictures of different classroom ideas and posting them is a great way to share your ideas, plus get ideas from others.
TeacherTube is similar to YouTube, except the videos on here are meant to be shared with students, where on YouTube that isn't always the case. There are videos, photos, and even groups to join.
This site allows teachers to join an open webcasting community to collaborate on different classroom topics. You could get knew ideas for things or get help with an issue you've been having with something.
Students are able to create stories or reports using Nanoogo. They can put in a picture of a famous person from our past, such as Martin Luther King, and then create a project about him using Nanoogo.
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.
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.
This is a fun way for elementary students to make their own stories online. There are different backgrounds and characters for the students to select. I have used this with my own students and they liked that they were able to share their online book with their parents at home.
This wikispace is full of different elementary wiki pages. It allows other elementary teachers the chance to look at other teachers pages for ideas for different content areas.
This website allows you to make a "word cloud" of important words to make things such as thank yous, a way to intro a topic, a way to introduce a new book, and more.
This is a website where there are constantly new ideas and documents being pinned for just about anything that you are looking for. Whether it be for different room ideas, reading groups, math, it has it all!
