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"Create a free classroom website or educational blog to keep students, parents, and others informed outside of class."

If you'd like to have your own educational website, here's how to get started for free. Please let us know if any of you has already tried it!

Strategies and techniques are provided for integrating podcasts lessons to promote the benefits of greater student engagement and alternative assessment.

Stimulating critical thinking using technology has the potential to create more in depth understanding of science and math content by students when engaged in learning activities which integrate in-class and on-line technology resources. Technology tools support stimulation of both inquiry-based and critical thinking skills by engaging students in exploring, thinking, reading, writing, researching, inventing, problem-solving, and experiencing the world outside their classroom. This is accomplished through learning content through the lens of video to multimedia to the internet (Using Technology to Improve Student Achievement, NCREL, 2005).

videos, reading, etc. about implementing the 5Cs in the classroom

Google Docs is an easy-to-use online word processor that enables you to create, store, share, and collaborate on documents with your science and math students. You can even import any existing document from Word and Simple Text. You can work from anywhere and with any computer platform to access your documents.

100 Free Web Tools for Elementary Teachers

There are new web 2.0 tools appearing every day. Although some of these tools were not originally meant for use in the classroom, they can be extremely effective learning tools for today's technology geared students and their venturesome teachers. Many of these teachers are searching for the latest products and technologies to help them find easier and efficient ways to create productive learning in their students. More and more teachers are using blogs, podcasts and wikis, as another approach to teaching. We have created a list of 100 tools we think will encourage interactivity and engagement, motivate and empower your students, and create differentiation in their learning process.

Suggested uses: extending networks, retrieving lost conversations

Search engine collection by Steve Hargadon (www.stevehargadon.com) "that allows you to search across ALL public Ning networks and other conversation-oriented sites for specific content" (On Classroom 2.0: ... New Searching Site; December 16, 2008). allows you to search across ALL public Ning networks and other conversation-oriented sites for specific content.

A compilation of podcasts that might be useful in the classroom. Brought to you by David Warlick

"A video instructional series on English composition for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 26 half-hour video programs and coordinated books" (2008.07.10)

Thanks to Ronaldo for bookmarking this already. I found it in his recent bookmarks after he'd joined the LwC group.

Wonderful idea shared by Susana Canelo.

Several different courses for teachers to learn how to apply web2.0 in the context of the classroom - all the courses and tools run in a moodle platform.

Website has 3 sections: Math Playground - an action-packed site for elementary and middle school students. Practice your math skills, play a logic game and have some fun! Math TV Problem Solving Videos - Each math problems comes with step by step video solution, follow up problems, an online calculator, and sketch pad. Thinking Blocks - interactive math tool developed by classroom teachers to help students learn how to solve multistep word problems.

how learning happens in global networks and the possibilities for our students to be legitimate contributors in their own right.

educational web strategy + consulting

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