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Here's an excellent website for teaching kids creativity, literacy (storytelling and spelling) and technology! Check out the make a movie feature, where kids as young as kindergartners can learn the basics of basically Flash, by learning about objects, timelines, and actions. Very cool!

here's a gadget that lets you preview other gadgets in real time so you can make adjustments and preview them.

This website provides free study guides for many subject areas, including Literature, US History, Poetry, and Civics. I am way excited about it, because teachers need study guides sometimes, too! It would be a great way for students to find a compilation of information to use for projects or to study for tests.

THis is a great website with ideas and lesson plans for teaching students how to create instructional videos. Good ideas on storyboarding activities.

If you are interested in podcasts, this website lists several educational podcasts according to their subject area.

This website has lesson plans, but especially it has tons of web resources. One of the coolest ones I found was http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/, where there are so many resources to use if you were teaching a unit on Japan. That's just one example. There are tons!

This website has some neat activity ideas about how to show videos and use them for educational purposes.

This website has lesson plans, worksheets, rubrics, and tons of other stuff!

This is a pretty popular website for internet safety

This came from one of the blogs on my google reader. I love how this article takes a current event and compares it with a historical event in order to further discuss and clarify what is happening today. Sharing things like this with your students can help show why history is relevant.

I appreciate being introduced to the HNN website. They have a lot of cool stuff!

This looks like a great website about internet security, especially phishing and protecting your identity.

Interesting website where you can see interactive history timelines.

A student found this website. As long as you focused on the content, and not just the animations, it could be a fun way for students to represent things they have learned in much the same way that they normally give presentations.

State testing requirements

I don't know if anyone else has had trouble finding out what you need to do if you are planning on teaching in another state. This site is the test that Utah uses, but it also lists the requirements for other states' tests and has links to their licensing websites.

I found this website that offers free graphic organizers for teachers to help them provide a varied, exciting curriculum. These GOs can be used in all subjects. I think it is important to include organizers such as these in our curriculum to especially assist in students with special needs and culturally/linguistically diverse individuals. Enjoy!!

I love videos! Even students who do not claim to be "visual learners" enjoy a video because it keeps their attention and helps them remember the information they are viewing. I have used this website multiple times when teaching lessons in various schools and they have always gone over well. Plus, not only is it a great resource, but it is also allowed in internet filters. YouTube, on the other hand, is blocked in the majority of schools.

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