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Webs: Create a free website with professionally designed website templates, free web hosting, and easy to use free website builder. No coding skills needed!

Make a free website with our professionally designed templates and easy to use website builder. Free hosting included.

This government site has free resources for teaching digital citizenship. You can order free education booklets and other materials for your whole school. Make sure you scan these materials before giving them directly to students, especially at the elementary level. Some materials contain mature content and should be delivered directly to parents, perhaps during conferences. "The Net Cetera online toolkit offers free resources to help you teach people in your community about kids' online safety. Regardless of your experience as a speaker - or your expertise in online safety - this kit has the resources and information you need to convey key points about protecting kids online."

10 reasons why teachers should create a classroom website.

This webpage not only lists different reasons to have a class web page but would also be a good source of ideas of what to put on your web page.

My Big Campus makes it easy to engage students, develop lessons, track and improve academic progress, connect with a learning community, go paperless, and lots more. My Big Campus is a Learning Management System that extends the classroom to a safe and engaging online environment, balancing educational use of Web technologies with network and student safety.

My Big Campus is a Learning Management System that extends the classroom to a safe and engaging online environment, balancing educational use of Web technologies with network and student safety.

This article about Edmodo participating in the Open Education Symposium informs readers about a new tool featured for Edmodo. Edmodo Spotlight makes the communication between students and the teacher more efficient and worthwhile in the process of learning new material.

English teacher and instructional technology coach Brianna Crowley offers practical advice on creating professional learning networks built on intersecting layers of relationships. I chose this article because it showed step by step what we need to do to build those connections.

This site provides information on how to create your own Professional Learning Network including how to get started, how to find other professionals, and how to use it to communicate effectively. It is great to join PLNs but it's great to learn how to create one!

I chose this resource because it gives a brief explanation of what a PLN is. Then it give three specific steps on how to build your PLN and goes into detail about each step.

These are some fun ways to collaborate within the classroom!

Almost all teachers worry about that first parent teacher conference. By having answers to these 20 Questions in advance though, teachers can get a jump start on the conference and ease those pre-conference jitters.

Recently, I was asked why do I use Diigo for my social bookmarking tool. The more I thought about it the more I needed to write about all the great features Diigo is not just for regular ol' users but has some great features for educators too.

Another great site for educators looking into the benefits to what Diigo is able to do in the classroom for your students learning and the educators within your teaching community.

This site is great because it is very organized. It is separated by category which makes it very easy to find exactly what you are looking for.

The apps recognized as Best Apps for Teaching & Learning are of exceptional value to inquiry-based teaching and learning as embodied in the AASL's Standards for the 21st-Century Learner. The apps foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration and are user friendly to encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.

This website gives teachers a look at certain apps and they are categorized so that they are easy to find. They also have links to a website that shows you more about the apps.

This team at Deer Creek Intermediate has wonderful examples of teacher websites as a guide to make our own! They have useful information on their sites with clear and concise details about their personal lives, schedules, calendars, documents, etc.

This site provides teachers reasons why a classroom website can be effective. It offers examples of what the website should include, unexpected benefits that come from a classroom website, and step-by-step instructions to begin.

Weebly makes it surprisingly easy to create a high-quality website, blog or online store. Over 40 million people use Weebly to bring their unique ideas to life. This can be used to make a teacher website for parents and students to access for information that will be helpful for the class as well as to get to know you as a teacher.

Weebly is a website that teachers can use to easily create their own website. It includes easy-to-follow directions and is user friendly. Templates are available so the website may be created to fit the classroom's personality.