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This site provides a directory of Web 2.0 tools. It claims to be the "Complete Web 2.0 Directory." This can be used as a directory to explore all the Web 2.0 tools that are available.

This is a great directory, but there are so many that it is hard to get through them even if you break them down into more specific tags.

This is a great site to access a multitude of Web 2.0 Resources. It even gives a short description of the link when you put your mouse over it.

Found many useful web 2.0 connections here.

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.

I have used this for my 5th graders. We have our own web page, and I can put links and assignments on it for them to access. I actually have it set as the home page on all of the desktops in my classroom.

MLA Citation Maker - easy on-line tool that leads students step by step in how to cite resources. This is a handy tool that helps students remember how to do citations accurately.

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.

ReadWriteThink is a collection of lesson plans and interactive student tools that support K-12 literacy learning. These resources are a fantastic opportunity for students to use technology as a tool to learn. These are great activities for students to use as Reading Responses. If you have one or two computers in your classroom, use one of the activities as a Center and rotate students. If you have access to a mobile lab or computer lab, each student can spend more time with the activities.

Links to lots of different sources on the web. I looked specifically at the Spanish sites and found quizzes, rubrics, and lots of resources.

Fatburgr provides nutrition information for many of your favorite restaurants. Calories, fat grams, carbs, and fiber are all listed for menu items from restaurants such as Schlotzsky's, Chili's, McDonald's, Panera Bread, Krispy Kreme, and many more. With the focus on childhood obesity, this is a great site for kids (and adults) to compare menu items and learn how to make better choices when eating out. This site could be a fun resource for a health, or maybe even a math, activity.

This site captures history in numerous ways, videos, posters, photographs, historical documents, and more. What they are calling "digital vaults." However, this site goes much further than that... You can create your own posters or movies and many more creative historical items. They provide numerous photos, videos, and other things needed to create these items. You can also upload your own from your computer. There are lesson plans provided for educators using these resources.

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.

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.

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 lets you collect, manage and cite your resources. It has flexible notetaking with autosave. It also runs right from your browser.

This one is sort of a work in progress for me. I had worked with think.com before and now it has joined with ThinkQuest. I am trying to get enrolled through my school which is already registered. So I'll have to report back on how that goes. But, I did find some resources that were in the "library," which didn't require being registered. I even found a website with an activity about our friend, Mr. Dewey! :)

This is a really easy tool that Teachers can use to keep track of the homework they assigned. You can type in the different subjects that you teach. Click on the date and enter the assignments and their due date! Parents can access the Teacher's calendar by typing in the Teachers ID. This is a great way for parents to keep up-to-date with their child's assignments!

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.

Discovery Education has an AWESOME website that provides lesson plans for almost every area of teaching K-12. Once you click on a lesson plan that you like, you are provided with the objectives that are covered, materials needed, procedures on how to teach the lesson, evaluation over the lesson, and vocabulary! WOW!!!!!

Great interactive studying for vocabulary in all subject areas.

Sumans, Inc. developed animated tutorials for secondary students in numerous scientific disciplines. Examples of animation include mitosis for Biology, moon phases for astronomy, and the Greenhouse Effect for environmental science and many more.

Free video chat site. Would be great as an alternative to old fashioned pen pals!