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Connect with teachers and students from around the world.

This site is a great communication tool for teachers and their students. I think it could also just be used by teacher to collaborate and communicate.

This is a site that can be used to make your own comic books. At the bottom right hand corner there is a link that if for schools, stating, Learning with Comics. This could be a great way to work with elementary readers to create their own interesting storyboards.

HotChalk is a curriculum, planning, assessment, and professional development site for teachers, students, and parents. This site offers videos and other content information. It also allows teachers to put assignments online. The site claims to reduce plan time because of the wonderful resources for lesson planning it offers but I think I would spend some up front time getting everything figured out. The professional development resources are also very helpful. Users can save information in their desk, library, and class. Initial registration was free.

This site has free lesson plans, a learning management system, and lots of other great tools.

Create surveys for your students to take. Surveys could be adminstered to see students opinions or thoughts. They could also be adminstered as an assessment tool after completing a unit. This tool is free and very easy to use.

Our administration uses this all the time. It is quick and easy. You can create all types of information. It is easy to compile results also.

This seems like a neat site that could have all kinds of uses.

This allows a person to express themselves through animation. This would be useful to help the reluctant students who have trouble expressing themselves to others. Students could use this for projects and presentations.

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.

Tikatok is where kids channel their imagination into stories - and publish those stories into books for you to share and treasure with friends and family. Tikatok also has a separate education site. Storytelling comes alive here! First, Tikatok has developed the StorySparks system, a database of hundreds of interactive story prompts that help a child get started in the writing process and get help when they need it. StorySparks help activate a child's natural motivation. Kids pick the topic, choose character names and genders, and always have the ability to modify or ignore any part of the prompt. Second, Tikatok connects kids to a community of passionate storytellers like themselves, but in a safe and parent-moderated environment. Here they can share their books with other kids, collaborate with their friends, get writing advice, and communicate their love of reading and writing in book clubs. Tikatok makes digital storytelling the social activity that kids are familiar with from the playground. Finally, Tikatok can turn a child's stories into real printed books. The physical books, just like the ones on the shelves at the bookstore, reinforce the child's perception that their contributions are valued by their parents and peers. They help create a sense of pride, and of confidence in one's writing abilities, and drive the child to continue writing and creating. The passion for reading and writing that children develop on Tikatok will serve them well as they face more and more advanced educational challenges at school.

Tikatok is a great site that allows the user to create and publish hardback or paperback books. The site is free and the printed books cost about $20.00. This site encourages students to use their creativity to write a story, draw illustrations and more!

This website is another site that allows children to author and illustrate a book online. The books can then be purchased in hardback, paperback, or PDF format. I really think that this site would appeal to students who like to use technology. It's an alternative to the paper and pencil writing that some students really seem to fear and avoid.

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 site provides teachers with suggestions on how to integrate video production into the curriculum. It explores the world of media literacy. This would be a great tool to use with struggling readers needing that extra motivation. After students have completed the task there is even a place where kids can get advice from other kids.

I ran across this website while working on another project! What a cool way to teach a project. Check it out!

This is really awesome. You could collaborate with students from another school--either near or far. I love it!