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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 is a kid-friendly site that allows students to publish their own podcasts concerning subjects that matter to them. Each podcast is rated in a way that is similar to the rating system used for video games This is to ensure the age-appropriateness of each podcast. This would be a great tool to use in the classroom for a variety of projects. Students could share their thoughts on classroom topics, current events, or book reviews.

Kid-cast.com is a website for that allows kids to publish their own Podcasts to share with other kids. The website is designed to be kid safe.

Kid friendly on line tool for creating graphs of all kinds. It includes a tutorial, tools, graphing, and various ways to understand graphing in a kid friendly format

This site allows you to easily create Bar, Line, Area, Pie, and XY graphs. When completed the graphs can then either be printed or saved. This site would work much better than excel for many simple student graphs, because of the complexities that excel sometimes leads to.

When I found this website I was so excited! This website makes creating a graph SUPER easy! Whether you teach Math or Science, this is a great website to use for graphing. The students are still responsible to collecting the data and knowing where to put the information. All they have to do is choose the type of graph they want, type in the data, and then the graph is created!

This site enables you to create a speaking avatar. It can be used to teach characterization or for presenting information in which students need to use oral language. The avatar can speak from recording your voice over a phone or typing in text.

A great way to give a daily message to the students. Can have the students record lunch menu for the class to hear each morning.

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.

Bubbl.us is a brainstorming tool online. You can use it to create colorful mind maps online, share and work with friends, embed your mind map in your blog or website , email and print your mind map, and save your mind map as an image. It is free. It would be a good tool for students to use.And it's FREE!

Bubbl.us is a simple, free web application used to create concept maps. The website can be shared in blogs and websites.

Create mindmaps together as a class, or independently. Great for people like me who hate to draw a mindmap because it always turns out lopsided, or you don't make the boxes big enough!

This website is a great tool for reinforcing and explaining regrouping addition. It takes the students through the process step-by-step. The website uses great graphics and makes the problem seem like a game. My students that struggle with this concept have great success with this website. I post it to my port-a-portal, so students can have access to it anytime.

Great site for creating an easy and impressive website. I made one for my classroom. Could easily be utilized by students.

Thanks for sharing, Kim--I've been wanting to know what sites people have been using to create websites!

This website is a great way to make some quick and easy Math worksheets. You can make many different types of worksheets such as addition, multiplication and factorial worksheet. This is a great website to create some quick review worksheets over material that your students may be struggling with.

Great Free Blogging website. Conect teachers, studetns and administrators. no email address required for students. Can even get a Teacher Website.

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.

Fun animation website! Create your own or use someone elses! Requires sign up. Many are free.

This is a podbean podcast hosting website. Our class has created a series of podcasts about the ancient civilizations we study in social studies.

Lookybook is a wonderful website that allows the user to read through a variety of picture books. After reading a book, the site also offers the opportunity to purchase the book through several different companies. The user can also create a "bookshelf" of favorite books to share with other users. This site could be used to do an author or illustrator study and is very helpful when deciding to read or purchase a book.

As more and more students are required to use the web for homework and projects this website becomes more and more useful. It allows the user to design a logo that they could put on their web page or even add to the top a paper or presentation. Free to design a logo and download in a zip file to allow for their own personal use.

Glogster lets you create a glog or an "interactive poster," that is, in effect, a personal Web page complete with embedded media links, sound, and video capabilities. Students can work with Glogster individually or as a group to create presentations, share information, and interact with their peers. Glogster now provides master-accounts for teachers integrating all student accounts. This is a very cool classroom tool.

Glogster is a site that allows you to mix movies, pictures, graphics and words to create a collage for others to view. This site is also perfect for your WIKIs. This link takes you to the educator's version of glogster. This site has educator's master virtual classrooms for using all the tools offered on this website.

Wiggio is a completely free, online toolkit that makes it easy to work in groups. With Wiggio you can: keep shared calendar (with text message reminders), poll group in real-time, send mass text messages, store files in one common folder,setup group conference call, and many others. When you need to work in groups at school, Wiggio helps you organize groups like: academic project groups, clubs, organizations, committees, and more.

Wiggio is a great website that offers many tools to promote collaboration amongst small groups. Wiggio can be used to set up a group chatroom, store files and documents and send messages. It also features a calendar tool to keep track of meetings and/or deadlines and allows group members to create a poll or survey. This site would be an asset to any group project!

Teachade is a social networking site for teachers to access helpful teacher Internet sites, educational resources, and websites for classroom teachers. There is a way to join the site so that it becomes a social networking site. There is also a workspace for you to add information that you want to keep track of, Blogs, and a way to make a group. It only has 35 members so if you like smaller more imitate sites then this is one for you.

I just thought this website was fun for learning all kinds of interesting information. There are so many people online all the time, why not use each other for help with any type of question. It was interesting to read the things that people were talking about and a great way to learn information. I think is also a great tool for using to quickly find information on any information you might be wondering about or may want to start a discussion about.

This site allows teachers, students, or others to create presentations that can include multiple websites, photos, ect. The Flowgram also allows you to narrate throught your project to assist students or give them more information. This would be a great tool for assisting students in research project or a great tool for students to use when giving a presentation.

Internet4Classrooms is a website designed to assist teachers in using the Internet more effectively. The site contains information about blogs, Wiki, podcasting, photo and video management, social bookmarking, RSS resources and Web 2.0 tools.

This site lists resources that answer your questions about technology. It gives the website to go to for just about everything you would need/want to do.