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This site contains free to use interactive games for learning languages and links to study resources. Games require the use of Flash Player. It includes over 50 dialects.

I like this as an option for Google Earth. You can make your maps, link to them, include images, and more.

Great site for podcasts about web 2.0 tools. Also, there is a podcast link in the left sidebar that includes great podcasting tutorials

One of my biggest stumbling blocks as I've switched gears from middle to elementary school is individual e-mail accounts for the students. Back in middle

FlashMeeting is an easy to use online meeting application, it allows a dispersed group of people to meet from anywhere in the world with an internet connection. Typically a meeting is pre-booked by a registered user and a url, containing a unique password for the meeting, is returned by the FlashMeeting server. The 'booker' passes this on to the people they wish to participate, who simply click on the link to enter into the meeting at the arranged time.

This is the official website of SMART. Click on the Educator resources link for activities and lessons to be used with a Smartboard, interactive white board.

This math site contains activities, lessons, standards, and web links k-12. The activities link in particular contains some great interactive activities to help students make sense of math concepts.

This K-12 math site contains activities, lessons, standards, and web sites. The interactive activities are great!

Keep this one handy. Lots of links to excellent tools for digital storytelling - powerpoint alternatives.

A great place to start for finding hashtags for education. Check out the other links at the top of this page, as well.

A great looking scientific calculator. Have the students add this page to their links bar. I wonder if it works on the ipad. Hmmm..

Great site for Web 2.- tools -- Check out the "Click here to see even more resources!" link for a ton more resources.

Great site to check out!

This blog explores the idea of using Facebook for education purposes. It always goes over some pros and cons of it. The blog has links to some interesting articles related to this topic including one about a professor using Facebook to teach a class at Penn State. I really found this blog valuable for the debate about Facebook in education. I personally support some of these methods like using it for important notifications in regards to safety alerts.

Otixo lets you connect your online "Cloud" services to manage and share your files. To add a new provider, select a service on the right where you have an active account.

Thanks Michelle! I saw you post this, and put it on a post it note on my wall. Finally got a chance to take the post-it down, and this is amazing, no more time being taken to remember which cloud system I saved something to. Even sent this link on in my school to other teachers who were highly impressed as well.

Great site with numerous links to Web 2.0 Tools.

Since I am doing my final project as a sociology lesson, I wanted to research technology for sociology education. This website includes links to videos and activities for teachers to use for sociology lessons.

This blog shares an overview of using an iPad in speech therapy, and gives links to other resources to look at to get more ideas about using technology with speech therapy. I went through speech therapy in elementary school and middle school, and believe it could have been much more fun and effective if technology was implemented better. However, those resources did not exist in 2000. This is a good start though for learning more about the iPad technology for this field.

More tools to explore for our group. I hadn't before checked out "techsoup" but this link elaborated on much of what we covered over the last 3 months. Many familiar tools and quite a few similar ones shared.

Great list of Web 2.0 sites.

This article talks about many different resources available to teachers to use in the classroom when YouTube is not available as some school districts block it. The only one I have used is Hulu because I enjoy catching up on television shows online, but looking over this list makes me realize there are many tools for showing videos to students. I think it would be easier to use one of these instead of showing an old video tape on the television for several reasons including you could post the links online so students who miss class can watch them which is not always possible when you use regular videos.

Great lists. I have used a few of these sites. I have watched Ted Talks several times, but I tend to use it for my personal growth rather than in the classroom. How Stuff Works and The Future Channel are both great sites to use in the classroom. I have used both as a launch into a lesson. I have The Future Channel set up to notify me when new videos are available.

I wish the title didn't say "alternatives to youtube" but rather, "47 video sites - OTHER THAN Youtube." Youtube is powerful for its content, most of which is not available on the other sites. This harkens back to when schools would say, "We block youtube but we have teacher tube." It's not about having a 'tube.' It's about the content. Maybe I'm picking too much, but it drives me up a wall! :-)