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This is a great site that you can use as an instructional tool or for learning activities for your students.

This site allows students or teachers to create comic strips to enhance a variety of different lessons.

From the Apple Learning Interchange website. It showcases podcasts created by "Apple Distinguished Educators". There is a contents bar on the right side with topics such as Staff Development, Student Instruction, Elementary, Middle, High School, or Higher Education.

This site would be a great tool to use in the classroom (or in a library). A "wallwisher" wall allows everyone to communicate on a "wall" answering a question you have posed. Using sticky notes, those in the class answer on the virtual/visual wall. The wall I built asked the question, "what are you reading and what do you like about it so far?" Students can answer with both words and images. Therefore, it is my hope students will upload a picture of the book cover and give a quick review of the book based on what they have read so far. You can design the color/design of the wall. I found this tool to be lots of fun and it could be used in many ways in a classroom or library. Wallwisher could definitely be used to inspire collaboration and communication.

This is an online notice board maker where you can post announcements, greetings, jokes; just about anything you would want to put on a Post It. I think this would be a great tool for students to use in a note taking assignment. This would be fun to collaborate multiple students' posts and try to combine them randomly to create a funny poem or short story.

A complete source of solutions to all of your computer problems in a simple manner.

This is great for Science or Social Studies! Great video, and can read ahead to what will be on the National geographic!! Great learning tool. It is really easy to access.

Great for students and teachers. You can communicate with other classes in the same grade. The teacher is the manager of the student blogs for it is very safe. There is also advance privacy available. The students can upload text, photos, and videos. Easy and fun!

Teachers can host and manage blogs for your students, use a Class Homepage to communicate with students, review capabilities of entries, and it offers advanced privacy. Students get fully featured blogs to upload text, photos, or insert videos, fun learning experience, customizable visibility and comment settings, and no e-mail address required.

This is a great resource for teachers and administrators. It is packed with bel ringer ideas, current issues, blogs, live chats, forums and many ideas from professional development to lesson plan ideas. What a great resource to keep and it is easy to research.

This site has a lot of possiblities. Vocie Thread allows the user to post images on the web and hold a discussion via the internet. Anyone accessing the voice thread can comment to the information provided if allowed. Imagine the possiblities that this could bring to the classroom- Digital story telling, Lecutre over the web for multiple people to access, Professional development oppotunities.

WiZiQ enables teachers and learners to collaborate through virtual classes, online tests, educational content, and content network. You can set up a free virtual classroom.

PAEC E-Learning Workshops allow educators to have professional development opportunities online. You can view streaming videos for free and collaborate with other teachers!

Superb directory of Web 2.0 tools, many of which can be used in the classroom.

A great site that provides one-stop shopping for the latest Web 2.0 tools. I have found some great sites here.

Really liked this one Kim!

The central education website of the Smithsonian Institution. Educational information, activities and resources for educators, families, and students. Educational materials emphasize inquiry based learning with primary sources and museum collections.

A wiki about everything from videos to widgets, graphing to collaboration

I like that this site is organised so nicely and is very user friendly.

under "Educational Resources" is listed Classroom management, bullying, assessment and rubric websites and much more

Lists of sites under the headings "free digital curriculum", "lesson plans" etc. If Professional Development is typed into the search bar, site listings come up there as well.

The Horn Book magazine features reviews of books for children and young adults. This site includes several Classroom Tips for promoting the love of reading and reading skills. Includes podcasts featuring conversations with authors, illustrators, and editors.

Bringing Scientists, techies, volunteers and teachers together to improve hands on learning.

Thumbs up for an easy to navigate site on the use of SMART boards