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A sensational site from the person who makes  http://www.freetech4teachers.com/ - covers resources/websites available for all areas of web2.0 - a great resource if you're running PD in this area!

ThinkB4U is a new series of web safety videos and tutorials from Google and its partners. Using the "choose your own adventure" aspect of YouTube video editing, ThinkB4U offers interactive videos to educate viewers about things like protecting online reputations, avoiding scams, research and critical thinking, and responsible text messaging. ThinkB4U is divided into three basic sections; students, parents, and educators. Each section addresses nine different topics related to safe and responsible use of the Internet and cell phones. The sections include short videos about the topics, a short written lesson, and some interactive games on the topics of responsible use of the Internet and of cell phones.

Some great sites for talking Children's storybooks!

A great blog post on the rewards of teaching young students to blog. Well worth a read...

A great PDF which outlines some Web 2.0 tools and the subject areas which they can be used in - worth a look!

web 2 tools that provide a URL for publishing sharing etc

Interesting site for tracking plagiarism in assignments etc

Resources for Creating Classroom Website

An excellent collection of Web 2.0 tools to share with your students & staff, sorted into categories. Comments section also has some excellent sites to view/use.

Some of these look familiar and some new ones I will enjoy learning about (and using?)

Top 10 Videos for 21st Century Schools - there's some good ones in here

A wonderful example of passion driven learning incorporating technology in a majority ESL classroom - well worth a look. 

Here are some lesser-known google tools for students & teachers...check them out!

Great site for virtual excursions- has user-submitted videos from around the world. 

Edublogs now has a directory to make it easier to find/follow blogs of a particular category... 

Another vehicle for students to present with ...... I like it!!! Great for those students who are into scrapbooking. Can be embedded into a blog.

A word cloud creator, I would typically choose this over wordle