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A great website for watching webinars and videos, reading blogs, communicating with other educators. Also, great for staying up to date on technology and what others are doing with it.

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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!

PowerPoints that are already created on just about any area you can think of including library skills. This is a link to the library one, but the home page has PowerPoints for every subject area. (Parts of a Book, Dewey Decimal System, More - Free Presentations in PowerPoint format, Free Interactives for Kids)

Great site! I use this at least twice per week. Power Point presentations, web links, games and activities for nearly every topic in every subject being taught. The work has already been done for you!

Huge collection of free, already made, Power Points in a variety of different subjects and topics.

This site allows you to share the books you have read with others and let them know what you thought about it. It also lets you choose books you want to read and has the capability of letting others tell you what they thought about those books. It is a great social network for all kinds of readers.

Welcome to the Directory of Australian Edubloggers. The password to edit this site is teacher . The purpose of this site is to put people in contact with like minded people. It was set up in 2005 by Jo McLeay, of The Open Classroom. There are some other sites of interest also: the Oz/NZ Educators Group and a collection of resources. I believe this would benefit those who want to reach out and become more digitally literate.

This is a journal article that tells of the impact that clickers are having in schools for teachers and students.

Create a map of your favorite places, travels or destinations. Public, private, or community maps are available to make. I could see using this site in a variety of ways. It could be used as a beginning of the year "Get-to-know-you" activity. It could also be used to focus in on a specific geographical area in a Social Studies or Geography unit.

I enjoy reading Clif's take on educational technology topics. He provides a steady flow of resources and opinions about life.

A site designed to assist people in creating video/audio comments to other webpages. Anyone who blogs would see the importance of an actual video or audio comment.

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

You can use a picture they provide or you can upload a picture that you want to use through their browser button. You adjust the mouth to where you think it best fits on the picture for opening and shutting like a real mouth would when talking, then you do a voice recording either through your computer if it has a microphone or you can call in the recording over the phone. Give your blabber a title, description, tag and save it and you have created your own character that talks with your voice that is telling the info you want to share. Our 3rd graders did this using pictures of famous inventors and pretended they were the inventor and told a little about their life and invention.

Includes tutorials, workshops, powerpoints, handouts, etc. There is a wide-range of information: from how to put a border on your page to create a web page with Netscape Composer.

This website has many tutorials, articles, powerpoints and other tools to help teachers use technology in the classroom

I enjoy learning from administrators that embrace technology in their districts. Bob Lewandowski is a good writer and I appreciate his perspective.

aMap is short for 'argument map'. The idea's very simple - to get more people arguing by mapping out complex debates in a simple visual format. At its heart, aMap is about helping people get to grips with complex (or otherwise) issues and get people thinking. aMaps come in two different formats: Printed pocket-sized aMaps, which you can buy on the eMaps website Interactive personalised aMaps, which you can make on the eMaps website The underlying structuring of aMaps is based around "informal logic" - this is the logic people use to argue in everyday life. Informal logic has a four-tiered structure: - Your position (I think . . .) - what you think over all - Propositions (Because . . .) - reasons that support your position - Arguments (As . . .) - supporting arguments that back up each of your propositions - Evidence (Supported by . . .) - supporting evidence to back up your arguments Although aMaps can be used just for fun, to help students improve and/or develop their reasoning and critical thinking in their essay writing and verbal communication.

This site provides 3-5 daily links to new resources from all over the web.

In these financially tight times, everyone could use a little something that's free! Great technology ideas for free tools.

This blog has links to free technology resources for teachers!

This is a literacy website for preschoolers. It has resources for online activities, children's literature, technology, webquests and lessons for the young child.

Use LetterPop to create eye-popping newsletters, actionable presentations, irresistible invitations, beautiful product features, sizzling event summaries, informative club updates, lovely picture collages, and a whole lot more. You can create items as a class or students can create their own newsletters, collages, etc.

Portaportal is a web based bookmarking utility that lets you store links to your favorite websites online. You will be able to access your bookmarks from any computer and you can organize the bookmarks into categories of your own choosing and you can also alphabetize them.