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Founded by the First Days of School Foundation, run by Rosemary and Harry Wong; this site contains a lot of reading material for teachers, specifically those just starting in the profession. Features articles, books, and links on topics ranging from classroom management to technology use to professional development.

At first, I didn't realize that this was a government website. Users can look just by topics and then look by topics. The main purpose of the website is not just child safety online, but rather overall safety (i.e. avoiding identity theft). When the user looks at the child privacy portion of the site, parents are able to find several helpful and an easy to read site. Overall, I think this would be a great site for the novice internet user.

This is another safety website that I found. I like the left hand column that allows the user to search by topic. I thought that many of the topics (i.e. Is your child at risk) would be very helpful to parents that may not know a lot about internet safety. Overall, the website is kind of busy and contains a lot of unnecessary information. If I were to recommend this site to parents, I would tell them to read the left column by topic.

This has tons of facts about different topics. Kids who like to read Guiness Book of World Records or books like that would love this site.

This site is for younger students and has hundreds of audio books that are free to listen to. What a great site for reading centers. This could be something used everyday in the classroom.

Triptico offers many different activities for reading, math, science, and classroom management. Everything is free. The tools on this site are particularly useful with an interactive white board.

An books are online and read by different actors and actresses. The students can read along or just listen to the stories. The story's picture are in some motion so the students are kept engaged.

Primary language arts site. with interactive stories for kids.

Flash games developed by elementary level technology teacher. Games for keyboarding, mouse skills, math, reading practice.

For secondary students. My eighth graders love Bill Nye. This is a good web site for Bill's daily log and weekly quiz. Students will use their reading skill to follow the interesting science created on this website.

Web site intended for teenagers with information on how to stay safe while surfing the internet. Teens can either read or listen to the information on the website.

Web site with a lot of tutorials on many different diseases and conditions, tests and diagnostics, surgeries and treatments, and preventions. Students can be guided through these finding information such as symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments. The tutorials use images, animations, and sound in addition to the reading to convey the information.

This is a great website full of different culture stories for children to read.

This site was very cool. There are more specific links geared towards Science. The site had links to Yoursky, MyStarsLive, Starlab and NASA. Again, this would not be one that every teacher could use, but the applications could be used in areas like Math and even part of a thematic unit in Reading/Writing. The one thing I didn't like about the site was the advertisements that looked like links to other tools.

This is a non-profit group interested in protecting others through education about safety on the internet. A very professional online manual for parents or students is easy to read and covers a lot of details.

This site is a great resource designed to assist teachers in teaching language arts. It provides a variety of resources from teaching comprehension, poetry to providing author studies. One of my favorite components of the site is the extensive selection of printable Readers Theatre. The author of the site even has a blog!

Funbrain is a website for students (K-8) to play math games and read web books and comics.

Has a great games for kids, and saves their progress. The site is set up to play like a game board which makes kids want to complete.

Many interactive templates for timelines, Venn diagrams, writing and publishing, etc. Can easily be sorted by skill, grade level, theme, learning objective.

The International Children's Digital Library has children's picture books written in English and other languages. The content of the books seems to have an emphasis on fairy tales, folklore, and diverse cultures. From their mission statement, "to excite and inspire the world's children to become members of the global community - children who understand the value of tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas -- by making the best in children's literature available online."

This site was created for English and Language Arts teachers, but can be applied to any content area. This offers templates and examples of different writing activities for students to do as well as professional development opportunities for educators.

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This is a cached version of page two of the online safety report article from eSchoolNews. Because you are required to have a (free) account to finish reading the article, I thought I would save everyone the step and just share the article. To view the cached version in Diigo, just click on the icon that says 'snapshot'.