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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 site is broken down into the five main math standards and from there, it breaks it down into grades. These are excellent virtual manipulatives that students can use online. They are organized neatly and each one has directions on how to use them. Some of them are more confusing than others, but well worth it. My kids love using them.

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!

WiZiQ enables teachers and learners to collaborate through virtual classes, online tests, educational content, and content network. You can set up a free virtual classroom.

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.

This site is designed for use of a webcam. It provides a variety of information about using a webcam with a variety of programs.

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.

Skype is a great tool that allows you to connect virtually everywhere and to anyone. Imagine that you want your students to be able to talk with a famous author in your classroom. Skype can do just that. Skype can visually and orally connect you with others around the world at a click of a button. This would be great in the classroom, professional development meetings, guest speakers and much more.

Skype is such a wonderful resource, in and out of the classroom. At the present time, facebook, cell phones and Skype are howf my family communicate. Tonight I talked to my parents, and two sets of aunts and uncles. One set who were celebrating their 50th anniversary.

A listing of upcoming webinars which provides a synopsis of information which allows educators to select the ones which best meet their needs.