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The Teacher's Desk is a tool that has lesson plans, and writing tasks that would be useful for integrating writing into Math or other content areas. It focuses on 5th and 6th grade - and is language arts oriented, though I would explore this website for ideas on how to integrate writing into my class.

This site provides book reviews for students from elementary and middle grade students. Students are also the reviewers, providing authenticity for other students. There is also school involvement from all over the world and class or student home pages can be created. Students can "read books, engage in book talks, discuss the elements of a book review, read and discuss reviews, write group reviews to practice writing summaries opinions and recommendations, work on their own reviews read their reviews for feedback from their peers, and publish their reviews."

Write, review, edit...place to create and store documents that is accessible from any computer

This website allows you to answer prompts. It would allow students free writes and they could use it to get to know their classmates. You can post these on Facebook and other blogs. This also might be beneficial to get to know people on your team or faculty. It could be a continuos learning process!

Students can write, illustrate, and publish a real book. Teachers can use as a bookmaking project in their classrooms.

If you have trouble with writing because of your grammar this is for you. You send them the paper and they review it and send it back. They make everything more polished. You want what your students are reading to be correct and these people can do that for you.

Chain Reading is designed to cater to those of us who have an addiction to reading. * Let people know what you are reading, planning on reading, and recommend. * Suggest books to your friends. * Browse books recommended by others. * Write book reviews to share your opinions. * Keep track of books that your friends suggest.

A quality educational site offering 5000+ FREE printable theme units, word puzzles, writing forms, book report forms,math, ideas, lessons and much more. Great for new teachers, student teachers , homeschooling and teachers who like creative ways to teach. Join the popular membership section!!

Wikio is a user managed news search engine. It watches, real time, thousands of news sources, gathers hundreds of thousands of stories every day and classifies them by their topics in a multi millions documents database. information classification is based both on its relevancy and on its members popularity who vote, discuss or even write new stories

Safe web space for tweens. They can blog and email each other and play games. These ways of communication could be used in getting students to write about what is going on in class or creating a math blog could be a part of a project.

doingText makes working on a text together really easy: Upload text, share the URL, comment, edit and review. This would be great for doing a group project where you had to write a paper or summary.

TwitterAnalyzer will let you research the way your fellow twitterers behave. For example, you can see which messages they answer and which ones they pay no heed to, whereas you can also learn about the main subjects that person writes about. In addition to that, this solution will let you see the occupation of other Twitter users and realize which ones are actually in your line of work, whilst a tool for analyzing hashtags is likewise taken into account.

This site is the website for a television program TV411. It is focused on adult education in the practical basics of reading, writing, vocabulary and math skills. I found the math lessons tie the use of math in every day problem situations like buying something over time, Mortgage Basics, Using Credit Cards wisely. These are good sources for teachers to show relevency and the practical use of the math they are learning in real life problem situations.

This site offers an online collaboration tool that is simpler than other similar sites. I would use it more for team planning or school event planning where you wish for feedback from multiple people. Similar to a wiki but not that elaborate hence easier to set up and use for instant feedback on a document or write up design ideas, etc

Great site to use for finding prices on items my students already know. Great source for students to use when writing their own word problems.

Buzzword® is a new online word processor, perfect for writing reports, proposals, and anything else you need to access online or work on with others. It looks and behaves like your normal desktop word processor, but it operates inside a web browser, so there's no installation required

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. This would be an extremely helpful tool in the classroom if you were trying to incorporate a relation between math and English.

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.

Google Docs will store documents for access to groups, and also allows students who may not be able to afford nice word processors and spreadsheet creators to use the same tools as everyone else. This would be a great tool for teachers trying to incorporate a e-community into their classroom and would be able to level the playing field for disadvantaged students.

This is a math website that contains many math resourses and websites. It contains websites for math projects and specific math pedagogy. It would be a great site for teachers becuase it contains lesson plans as well as writing guidelines for math.

This site has a compilation of resources. There are resources (such as project conceptualization and information gathering) and interactive activities for students. And lesson development and discipline integration for teachers.

This website for educator and student use is a tool for engaging and exploring math content area reading. Reinforcement inludes book cues, bio-cubes, and animal facts that can be used to make math lessons more fun.