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4Teachers.org: Helping Teachers Integrate Technology into the Classroom. This site includes many tools that can be used in the classroom. There are also several links that include helpful information. I would recommend this site to teachers interested in learning more about integrating technology.

This is a website dedicated to help teachers integrate technology into the classroom by offering online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. I think any teacher who wants to teach with the current tools should look at some of the ideas given at this website.

Site about teaching with technology, it has links to great online tools, educational games, professional development, grant resources and technology integration/planning

This is an e-Learning blog. The author of this blog tries to find new web 2.0 tools that would be beneficial to educators who are looking to integrate technology into their classrooms. He describes new tool that he has discovered and shares his thoughts, feelings, and findings about each tool.

Super Teacher Tools has many free classroom review games and classroom management tools, including Flash Jeopardy.

This is a professional development site for educators and librarians. There are video collections, technology tools, higher education learning and lots of great development resources. There are 4 main areas: Technology and Learning, Internet Resources, Libraries and Literacy and Technology Tools.

Bright ideas is a blog where school library staff share ideas on how they can use Web 2.0 tools in their library and in their school. Tons of links and resources for book reviews, collaborative tools, Creative Commons websites, cybersafety, e-books and magazines, e-portfolios, feature use of Web 2.0 tools, and much more. This site was the first runner up in the 2009 Edublog Awards for Best Library Blog.

This is an online tool that will help you manage and cite online sources. This could be a valuable tool in getting kids to properly cite the resources they use.

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 is a comprehensive list of numerous educational websites and tools.

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.

4Teachers.org is designed to help teachers integrate technology into their classroom by offering online tools and resources. There are also tools for student use. Here teachers can discover valuable professional development resources addressing a variety of issues including technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students.

I posted this website because I think it is so amazing to see what types of new tools and resources are available that schools are able to purchase to enrich learning and teaching. I know that most of the tools and technology on this page are not ones that teachers would purchase on their own, but I know our school offers building and district wide grants. Knowing that tools like this exist would be helpful if you ever wanted to rally in bringing new technology to your building!!

What I liked most about this blog is that it is specifically designed for how you can integrate technology into your own classroom. It would be a great tool for teachers to utilize to help them turn their classroom into a 21st century learning environment. This site can also help give the support teachers need when they are trying to integrate different tools and technologies that districts sometimes lack after having taken a professional development course. I found it very encouraging.

A VoiceThread is a tool for having conversation around media. A powerful new way to talk about and share your images, documents, and videos. Viewers can leave comments via voice, text, audio file, or video. Imagine, an entire group discussion on ONE page; digital storytelling made simple! It is free and has an education side to it with a secure network for K-12 students and teachers to collaborate and share ideas with ANYWHERE in the world!

This site helps explain the basics of web 2.0 tools to a technology immigrant. It is a great site that would allow educators who are scared to learn about technology, because it is a very simple site that would teach them about what students are using today.

This is just the first step in making education and technology more engaging for educators and students! Glogster is also a perfect web 2.0 tool for your learning and your WIKIs. Glogster provides master-accounts for teachers integrating all student accounts, which are kept private! Mix graphics, photos, videos, music and text into slick Glogs.

LearningTimes.org is an open community for education and training professionals. Members have free access to a wide range of opportunities to interact and network with peers from across the globe. Member activities include live webcasts and interviews with industry leaders, online debates and discussions, live coverage of industry conferences, and international working groups. The LearningTimes.org community also features free group collaboration tools, such as virtual meeting rooms, a site-wide instant messenger, and virtual office suites, making it a vital place on the web for thousands of education professionals to meet and interact at any time. This would be good for my school and district. It would be a good place to collaborate and interact with each other.

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!

This has a little bit of everything. It has email, online word processor, online presentation tools, online note takers, and much more. These are all offered online so you can access them anywhere. This is a bit more oriented toward business use but would be good experience for the students to use something like this as they may very well have to do it beyond school.

AWESOME site! And FREE!!! Great resource for teaching teachers to use Virtual Field Trips. I especially like the one about teaching student to mummify things (morbid, I know, but this is very easy-to-use steps for teaching students science processess!)....this site has exceptional 'trips' (otherwise known as 'lessons', but don't tell the students that!) on a wide variety of topics!

A library weblog that provides professional development resources. What I like about this blog and find useful is the "130 Tools". Provides links to 130 different web tools.

This is an impressive list of tech tools with a brief description of the tool as well as the link for the tool.