This article gives you tools to help you go paperless. Thought it could be useful since the amount of copies have been cut, at least where I have been.

This site provides young kids with a story starter to begin writing a story. This site is Story Starter jr. and they also have a Story Starter for older kids. Great site to help students who are stuck and can't think of anything to write about.

This site is an alternative for Microsoft Office and it's free. You have 1GB storage for each user. The best part about this site is that it is online so you can pull up your files from any computer!

You Are Your Words, allows you to add a self portrait of yourself and create a "wordcloud." You can copy and paste previous information you have about yourself or create something new to express who you are. I found it very easy to use!

Canvastic is a site where students can publish their work. It is a graphics and text publishing site. It can be used for Kindergarten through 8th grade.

This site gives you ideas to use comics in your classroom, the benefits, actual lesson plans, tools, selected comics, and much more!

Students create their own character, draw it, read, and follow directions through a mini-interactive story. Students can identify characters, setting, plot, and other literary elements.

This tool allows students to create their own comic strips! Students can upload pictures, search pictures, pick how many panels, layout, colors, and more!

This is an awesome site for personal and classroom use! Create a virtual bookshelf to share what you've read, what you are reading, and what you want to read. Students can join book clubs, review books, and discuss with classmates.

A website where your students can create storybooks and movies. There are also resources for teachers on how to implement it in the classroom and activities are provided.

A site to help students keep track of their schoolwork via email or text messaging when upcoming assignments are due. Students can attach files, add notes, and share with classmates. Something that could be implemented for the upper elementary kids.

This big huge thesaurus is perfect for every day use! It's very easy to use and can be used in your classroom every day! Put it as a shortcut on your desktop to make it more easily accessible! :)

This is my first weeks tech update from the blog I am following. Fun ideas for a day of reading with Tim Tebow. He is reading Green Eggs and Ham on webcast.

I think this is a really cool site because it shows you examples on how to incorporate blogging into your classroom. You can choose your grade level or your subject area and examine blogs from not just the USA, but all over the world.

This article informs you of the problem with bookmarking, what social bookmarking is, why you should use it, and why you should choose Diigo over the others. According to this article, they feel that Diigo is more useful for teachers or students than the many others to choose from. It provides a link to the Diigo Educator Accounts and gives you instructions on how to set up your classroom or group.

This is a great article to give you the basic information you need to know about social bookmarking. It is to the point and gives you a great "overview" about the topic. It's perfect for people who want to briefly learn about social bookmarking.

This article provides definitions from numerous people at EDC.

This artcile is by a Professor at the Open University, Andy Lane. It gives a definition with three important aspects to that particular definition.