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.

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.

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.

World Atlas: Atlas of the World is an educational resource for world maps, atlases, and in-depth geographical information. Teachers and students can find data, videos and images to enhance understanding of diverse cultures and perspectives. While the site offers a wealth of factual, statistical and geographical data, it also provides students with many lesser known aspects of the country's cultural practices. This site is a must in the classroom as a springboard for history, geography and cultural projects.

Lexile leveled current events, lesson plans, quizzes, assessments for authentic reading tasks in the Spanish classroom. These stories are not your typical, trite textbook created passages meant to review lesson vocabulary. This site finally offers what Spanish language teachers have spent countless hours over their careers searching for, interesting, relevant, current reading texts that are within the students ability range. It is simple for students to browse the site to find an article that interests them or for teachers to search within categories to find text that supports current learning.

Quia stands for Quintessential Instructional Archive, which means that it is one stop shopping for a wealth of activities to engage many different learning styles. There is a $50.00 yearly subscription fee if the teacher wants to have full access to creating activities and assessments and track student usage and progress. It can generate detailed reports for each student and can identify where students are struggling. Quia allows teachers to create specialized activities based on their content and the needs of the students. Teachers and students can use some of the 1000's of created activities (at no cost) so that students can see if their learning can be transferred. Quia offers shared activities in many content areas ranging from accounting to zoology.

Mixbook allows students to present information in a personalized book. Mixbook allows students to express themselves while meeting lesson objectives. Students publish quality books that can be made public, increasing motivation and pride in a job well done. Mixbook is also well suited to collaborative work as multiple users can add to the same project. It can be used as an alternative to other more traditional presentation modes in many content areas. In ELA, students can respond to a work or a particular character or possibly create an alternate ending or illustrate a section of the text. In Math, Mixbook encourages students to turn an application into a story with easy to understand visual tools. For the Foreign Language classroom, mixbook can be used to create stories about when you were young, create a collaborative cookbook or a travel guide highlighting the places that the class would like to visit. The possibilities are endless!!

The 16th annual Symbolic Monarch Butterfly Migration is now taking place across North America. Over 60,000 students in the United States and Canada create symbolic butterflies and send them to Mexico for the winter. Children in Mexico who live beside the monarch's winter sanctuaries protect the butterflies and send them north in the spring. This is just one of the many collaborative (and cross-curricular) science based data collection opportunities available by Journey North. It encourages students to think and act like scientists in a global community; gathering, reporting, tracking and analyzing data.

On the home page of the website a video introduction is presented. The video highlights some of the uses of polleverywhere in the classroom. The teacher can create a multiple choice poll or an open-ended response to enhance not only engagement but to provide feedback on student understanding. This tool is an excellent way to gauge previous knowledge, explore a topic or view misconceptions.