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This site has tons of information for those wanting to use blogs in the classroom. The blogs are geared specially for anyone in the field of education. You can find tips on how to manage your blogs and how to get students involved.

This is a cool platform for those who would like to experiment with classroom blogs. I liked it for my students because unlike other platforms like Blogger and Word Press, the students do not have to have an email account to sign in.

You may have seen this before, but I thought it would be worth it to look at the site again from the PD perspective.

Designed primarily for Jr-Sr High students, the INCREDIBLE video clips offer a superb look at science theories as applied to the the Winter Olympic sports. The accompanying worksheets and quizzes are too advanced for younger students, however the videos are very interesting for students as young as 3rd grade.

I saw this and thought I was such a great idea!

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

This site is for teachers, parents, and students. It provides a large number of programs and free tools for students in all subject areas. Teachers can join the Discovery Educators Network to collaborate with other teachers around the world. There are also a large number of lesson plan resources for teachers as well.

I use this website atleast once a week in my classroom. If it isn't this it is YouTube! There is usually everything for everyone, except the Chemistry vids are lacking.

Blog designed for elementary and middle school aged students. It is free, simple and teacher maintains the control over the blog. Parents can be invited to read the blog.

Have cell phone? Will VOTE! Sites such as this one eliminate the need for personal voting devices during lectures. The only requirement is that students each have a cell phone, but most high school students do. Regular texting charges apply, so the 'unlimited' plan is certainly best - it WILL come to this though!

This online conference, which takes place in June, will actually feature a panel of students who speak on their thoughts on the future of technology and education. It would be interesting to check it out to see how teachers are collaborating with students on the issue of future 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.

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.

Education Oasis is an online "oasis" for teachers, administrators, and parents to visit to get ideas, information, and inspiration for their students. The site provides graphic organizers, printables, bulletin boards, lesson plans, subject resources, and instructional and classroom management tips and tricks. Links are provided for articles on various educational topics, as well as websites for teachers and students. It also shares book reviews and book lists for children and teens.

This works with google earth. Teachers can create lessons on google earth that are centered around literature. This will take the student to the place on the "map". The teacher can embed bits or bytes of information there for the student to view.

This is not only for the teacher, but for the student as well. Although I am not an art teacher, I do my best to enclude art in the classroom. It allows students to express themselves withour feeling the need to worry so much about getting the entire assignment right on the dot. On this URL, there are activities for teachers to use and for students to use.

Just like YouTube, but educationally based! Great resource for teachers and students to use!

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.

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.