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Great website for educators to share slideshow presentations in all content areas of education. Share you own shows or download slides already created. Don't reinvent the wheel or hesitate to share something of your own.

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 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.

A host of information and links for connecting librarians. This site contains lessons, units, handouts, rubrics, presentations, and teaching tips. A great place to share and learn.

A wiki just for librarians to take from others and share their own ideas and insights.

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.

Connect with other educators to share ideas and resources. Scholastic provides teachers with so many great tools. I haven't used TeacherShare yet, but I could see it beneficial for all teachers because you are able to connect with great teachers all over the world. There are so many great ideas!

Great site for sharing your book reccommendations with students, parents, and colleagues. Kind of like Facebook for book worms.

This is an awesome site for book lovers! It allows you to browse through popular books, which I love to do, just to see what people are reading for an idea of what to read next. Then you can put books that you own on your "shelf". You can then have friends and share actual books with each other, if you live nearby. It is also a great place to read ratings on books. It then links you to Amazon and other libraries where you could check our or buy the books! You can also put your "bookshelf" on a blog to show off your interests to all your friends.

This site was created by a technology integration specialist. She shares her thoughts, ideas, and projects. Almost daily she adds new sites to her blog. She has a lot of information about digital storytelling. If you are looking for technology project ideas this is a good place to browse.

The article on Gen X parents was the most insightful and helpful of anything I have read on this sharing group site. I am sharing the article with MANY others!

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.

This site is devoted to literacy education. Their goal is to reach children to share the love of reading and writing. The site includes seminars, webinars, video conferences, blogs, and podcasts. This site would be helpful to any teacher devoted to teaching reading and writing.

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.

This online conference site is used to share your expertise, experiences, and knowledge relevant to the use of information technology in learning, teaching and academic services.

This is a free private journal on the web. How much fun would to use the web to keep track of your daily journal entries at school. These entries can be shared with others ONLY when you allow them to be. Images can be added on entries as well. Those who keep a journal are known to have a better "working memory." Keeping a journal also improves the writing process and aids in creativity. No more pen and pencil for journals after today!

The purpose of this site is to provide professional development for educators by sharing resources, lesson plans and files for classroom use. There are even podcasts that you can listen to. This would be great for me personally to get to see others lesson plans and files.

Nominated for two Edublog awards in 2009, David Truss shares his reflections on education, technology, and learning. A great sense of humor and excellent writing skills make this not only a thought-provoking and informative blog, but also an entertaining one.

Thanks for the site. I really enjoyed this one!

Self-described as "the online workplace of an international community of education professionals," this is a great site for K-12 teachers, librarians, and administrators to collaborate, share, and support one another. Membership is free. Build your own safe, online learning community for your students and/or your colleagues.

This is a professional networking site where educators can learn about what is happening in technology in the classroom by following the latest news in Ed Tech, sharing content such as favorite webpages, lessons, video, audio, and written content. Visitors are encouraged to join in and add content.

A great resource for personal learning. I enjoyed listening to several podcasts.

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.