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This is a fun online timeline creator, which can be shared with others online. A valid email is needed to create a timeline, but that could be set up by the teacher or LMS. It's very visual in learning about time.

WePapers helps students and others share and expand their knowledge for free. You can find and download papers and documents you need in a matter of seconds, discuss them with others, or just mess around. WePapers is where you find the kind of quality information you wouldn't find anywhere else on the web, the kind of papers you'd have to dig for in dusty library basements and still not find what you're looking for. WePapers is one big study group! Universities are even using it for class-notes and articles. I could see using this in a classroom situation for research papers and the such. Students would have the opportunity to connect with others around the world, get help, and feedback from others just like them.

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.

This is a blog about professional development and Web 2.0. You might use this site for your district for ideas for professional development topics.

This is a great site for any classroom teacher. The site is intended to link curriculum with computers to engage students. The curriculum is K-12 and all subjects. The site has ready to use content and works well with any Interactive White Board. This site does cost around $50, but has a 30 day free trial to make sure it will be useful to you.

A tutorial that was designed by the California School Library Association (CSLA) 2.0 Team. You will learn the tools of the new Internet: Web 2.0 tools that are bringing our kids in touch with the entire world through social networking, wikis, video, podcasting, and gaming sites. One of the links is for the classroom; the other is specifically for librarians!

A tutorial that was designed by the California School Library Association (CSLA) 2.0 Team. You will learn the tools of the new Internet: Web 2.0 tools that are bringing our kids in touch with the entire world through social networking, wikis, video, podcasting, and gaming sites. One of the links is for the classroom; the other is specifically for librarians!

This site allows you to search for copyright friendly images. This site helps you to understand what type of copyright license the image exists under and how you can use it. The site allows you to explore through different tabs (Google Web, Flickr, Yahoo, etc.). My favorite is Flickr because of the images and the easy-to-understand copyright symbols and explanations.

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.

Elluminate goes beyond web conferencing with best-in-class web, audio, video, and social networking solutions that help you create a 21st century teaching, learning, and collaboration environment

This is my site for all the web 2.0 tools I have learned about investigated and shared.

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!

This website offers free webinars throughout the year. All you need to do is sign up and you can watch them free. The webinars offered vary on topics, but everyone is bound to find one topic that interests them.

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 amazing book. Wow what a resource!

On GoAnimate you can make your own animated characters, direct your own cartoons and watch others' creations. It's easy and free! I think this would be a fun way to allow students the creative freedom to construct graphic-novel-type book reports or fictional stories. This would also be a wonderful way for students to retell the plot line of the story for the class.

With Geni, you can build your family tree, invite relatives to collaborate, preserve your family history, discover new relatives, share family photos and videos, and remember birthdays and anniversaries. Geni is private and secure. Only the people in your family can see your tree. I think this would be a wonderful tool to help teach research and organizational skills in a very secure and controlled environment.

The directions are easy: Upload your files from your desktop, edit and view your docs from any computer or smart phone. This is a great resource for teachers and students as the students can work on an assignment from their computer at home and the teacher can access it and see how they are doing.

Social networking at your fingertips! This site allows you to set up, create, and personalize your OWN social network. It's yours. Your brand and visual design. Your choice of public or private. Your very own members. Everything is created by YOU for YOU! Imagine the possibilities with Ning in Education!

I wondered what Ning was! Thanks!

Create and discover social networks for your interests. Connect with people that have the same ideas, beliefs, concerns etc. Create a page that centers around you. This could be used in education to connect to your students and incorporate technology into the classroom. This site could be used in multiple ways within your classroom and district. This would be a great way to connect with your students. I believe that allowing your students to chat on a site like Ning would make them more likely to participate in classroom discussion. Sites like these are the things that our students do everyday.

You can choose your own avatar (virtual person/character) and upload a recording to it, allowing it to tell what you want people to know. Our 6th graders did this and gave a brief teaser about some books they have been reading.

Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages. I personally have two of them on my teacher website. Sometimes you have to spell phonetically in order to get the Avatar to pronounce things correctly, but other than that, it is a blast creating them.