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Too much information is a common complaint heard from students and teachers in regards to conducting research online. Check out this website for practical ways to use social bookmarking in your classroom throughout the year or when conduction research.

This educational blog offers a classroom teachers advise and perspective on using social bookmarking in the classroom. Because he has used this tool he offers practical strategies, a rubric for using bookmarking effectively, a step-by-step guide for using delicious.com and at the end there are 3 useful,CONCISE, links to follow which offer even more practical advice.

This resource allows students to create their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (response to literature, pre- and post- writing, science and social studies content, etc). The organizers focus on the key elements of comic strips and allow students to choose backgrounds, characters and props, as well as to compose diaglogue. The Comic Creator can be used by students from kindergarten through high school in any and all content areas. For example, students could create a comic strip in social studies that shows how they can be a good citizen when learning about citizenship. They could also create a comic strip as a retelling response or after after reading a novel as a means of evaluation. They could also use it to illustrate newly acquired vocabulary words. The tool is easy to use and also includes a comic strip planning sheet, which can be printed out for students to use when drafting and revising their work. After students have completed their comic, they can print out and illustrate their final version

ABCmouse.com helps kids learn to read through phonics, and teaches lessons in math, social studies, art, music, and much more. For kids age 2 to Kindergarten. There is a step-by-step learning path that presents the full curriculum in a program with multiples lessons and levels and children are motivated to continue to the next level with a tickets & reward system. There is also a lesson builder feature for teacher's to select activities for individual students. Teachers are also able to monitor student's progress through a tracking system. Parents are also able to gain membership to work on the curriculum at home. This program could be easily integrated into a preschool or kindergarten classroom as a center activity or reading group activity for student-centered independent learning.

Edmodo is a social learning platform for the classroom. The users of Edmodo can post assignments, create polls for student responses, embed video clips, create learning groups, post quizzes for students to take, and creating a calendar for events and assignments. Teachers can use the site as a single platform for outside links as well such as a class wiki. Students can also turn in assignments or upload assignments for their teachers to view and grade. Teachers can annotate the assignments directly in Edmodo to provide instant feedback. For classrooms with 1:1 devices it can be an effective platform for the student-centered classroom.

Blabberize is a photo editing tool that allows talking animations from a photo or other image. It is free and easy to use, and it can be used by teachers and/or students. It can be used to enhance listening and speaking skills, and users may use their own pictures to create talking animations. Blabberize can be used to demonstrate knowledge on any subject area (math, science, social studies, poetry, language arts, etc) and students can search for topics within any content. Students can make history come alive, create songs or poems, incorporate technology into speeches and presentations, etc.