LiveJournal.com is a free service for all your journaling and blogging needs, offering privacy controls, photo storage, publishing tools, style templates. You can move your beginning journaling activity online which creates technological competencies from students while freeing up the first few minutes of your class time.

Publication by CMS: "Educating Student to Compete Locally, Nationally and Internationally" This publication explains goals and how to implement these goals to make North Carolina the first state to provide all its students the best education possible by the year 2010.

Gumtrail is a simple behavioral analytics tool that helps you make your site more interesting to your core audience. Gumtrail isolates your most engaged users and tells you what they like the most about your site, allowing you to make improvements that matter. Great tool for watching what your students look at the most on your website, possibly helping you notice their strengths and weaknesses. (This site was originally called GetGum from web2.0)

View lesson plans, booklists, and educational products for children grades Pre-K to 12. Classroom materials include online activities for kids, printables, and author interviews. Connect with other educators.