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Thinkfinity is the Verizon Foundation's free online professional learning community, providing access to over 60,000 educators and experts in curriculum enhancement, along with thousands of award-winning digital resources for K-12 - aligned to state standards and the common core. Here, educators connect and collaborate through themed groups, blogs and discussions, sharing resources and best practices that support 21st century teaching and learning.

Most of the time, we are not able to take a field trip on the spur of a moment to the zoo. However, at this website, you are able to have access to a virtual zoo visit. Students are able to observe different animal species in real time. Excellent when teaching about habitats and life cycles.

Each summer, 300 students in grades three through eight participate in the National Society of Black Engineers' SEEK camp. Held in different cities around the country, this free camp exposes participants to hands on projects and African American college students working on degrees in STEM subjects.

A web-based provider of original source documents from various archives. This tool merges historical documents with social networking. Students can access primary and original source documents while sharing, communicating and connecting with others.

A Padagogy Wheel that aligns with Blooms Taxonomy and the SAMR Model that gives access to IPod Apps with the click of your mouse.

Online video production tool that allows students to create documentaries from video.

International Reading Association

Website from the International Reading Association with tons of resources and PD opportunities.

Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.

1. Students can collaborate in live time on a class presentation. 2. Teacher can use their Prezi as an interactive presentation on their whiteboard. 3. Teachers can use the notes they have on Power Point and import it into Prezi. 4. Prezi offers more freedom of navigation. Your Prezi can be kept in the public domain and therefore accessed by your students on the Internet. At home, they can navigate the Prezi themselves, observe connections of ideas and visualize concepts. 5. Since Prezi is cloud-based, teachers can present their lessons from your browser, desktop, iPad, or iPhone and always have the latest version of your work at your fingertips. This is the tool I choose for my lesson this week.