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Create a fake newspaper clipping for a lesson.  It was a great way to introduce a discussion on trustworthy news sources and how to question what we read.

Richard Byrne's list of Blogs to follow...

A site where you can download Flash source codes to put games such as Mathionaire or Hangman with Math words on your classroom site. 

Kinetic City is an interactive science site set up by the American Association for the advancement of science. 

Edheads helps students learn through educational games and activities designed to meet state and national standards (US). EdTechIdeas: Students can learn about simple and compound machines, how to predict the weather,  perform virtual knee surgery, and even create a stem cell line.

Super Teacher tools has a bunch of great teaching tools that allow teachers and students to create games, quizzes, charts and a variety of other useful things for your classroom. The most popular is a Jeopardy Review Game that you can create custom Jeopardy games for your students. EdTechIdeas: I use this site to have my students create review games for other students to play. They must first research a given topic, come up with questions and answers, and then use those facts to create a game

Voki's Lesson plan site. Voki is a free site to create talking avatars to showcase their learning. 

A Blog post of various Valentine's Day sites.

Wise Mapping is an online mind mapping tool. Free sign up, and easy to use!

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Education Place offers thirty-eight free printable graphic organizers for your classroom use. Included in the roster of graphic organizers are templates for word webs, KWL charts, flow charts, story maps, and idea wheels. 

A Google shared Presentation of different ideas for classroom blogging and posting. Great place to start!

Top Documentary Films is a great site for finding all sorts of documentaries. While not hosting these documentaries, it does provide links to them that are found on Google Video, You Tube etc.  Be forewarned that there are topics listed that are not suitable for children - as always, preview and choose from the larger collection before using them.

A great article by Will Richardson about how we need to teach students how to 'brand' themselves on the Internet. While the focus seems to be high school, we can begin that work in elementary. 

A Diigo list of sites for Ipod apps

Apps for the iPods for Kindergarten

A great site with links to games for Division 1 students, under headings such as Community Helpers, Feelings, Letters and Sounds, etc. 

A Site about how to integrate some Web 2.0 tools into Kindergarten. Many of these tools can be used at all grade levels.

A PDF file of a guide for parents with a list of activities  and books to read for each habit. 

Todays Meet allows you to create a virtual meeting room in your classroom. Set up a room and start a live feed of comments from your students.