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This a great site that allows users to create multimedia presentations that include pictures, text, and music.

This is a pretty cool website. It is a nice change from using Microsoft Office all the time. Different is good.

Google Maps is a valuable resource for many reasons. It will allow users to find specific addresses and view the satalite images. Users can click on the yellow person on the screen and drag it down to get a street view of the specific address if the image is available. Google Maps could be used across the curriculum to view many different monuments and other areas around the world.

This is such a useful tool! Both the regular google map perspective and the street view perspective can be helpful when learning about maps. (especially with young students who do not understand the concept of perspective)

Google Maps is the best site out there for getting directions. Their maps are always up to date and the routs they give are easy to follow. The street view is particularly helpful if you don't know where you are going. You can know what to look for when trying to find a new place. This could be very helpful to students learning to drive.

Great for ELLs, and they think they are just playing a game.

Great resource, Torey! I think I will try this out next time we go to the computer lab.

Bogs are a great way for students to collaborate on a subject. They can work together to create a blog or use the teacher created blog to ask questions and comment on specific topics.

Great resource for teachers! Features lesson plans, archived videos, and much more that can be useful in the classroom!

I had never checked out this site before. After looking around on it a bit, I am very excited to take advantage of it. I noticed that they have archived a bunch of webinars. There were many that interested me, and I'll be checking them out more later. I also loved that you can ask questions and respond to other teachers. What a great way to get new and fresh ideas!

Very nice resource. So many great aspects to this site.

PDP writing and reviewing

Keep yourself, and you students, current on any exciting events or contests going on at the public library, one of our community's most valuable resources.

Use this site to find a literacy lesson, or share a gem of your own.

A plethora of images to be added to presentations or documents--free and legal!

This is a nice way to get a picture or image suitable for a specific topic and not have to worry about copyright infringement.

Greg, I will use this to make my rubrics kid friendly!

A great word puzzle activity page. There are hundreds of rebus puzzles on this site. Students can check to see if they have gotten the correct answer simply by using a pulldown bar. It can helps students use word and picture clues to enhance critical thinking.

Great for showing weather statistics and averages.

This is a great website to use while studying WWII and the holocaust. The website has many different activities for students and teachers.

This really is a valuable site. I know that I'm planning on doing a mini-holocaust unit this year, and there are so many great resources here.

Part of the Newseum website, this link will give you access to the front pages of more than 800 different newspapers from around the world. You can search by name or region. You will even find several newspapers from Wisconsin! Copyright laws still apply.

Very cool. This gives me a great idea about how to show students that are major issues are not always viewed in the same way in different parts of the country. You have just helped me create a much stronger persuasive essay unit. Thanks,Greg.

Hundreds of reproducible worksheets covering many different topics in the areas of math and language arts.

This is a great site to introduce to new teachers who have few resources for student practice pages. I've enjoyed using this site as I build my fourth-grade resource library.

Students can make online, multimedia posters. The website description: * A creative, dynamic, and innovative digital outlet that captures learner's excitement for online creations, keeps learners engaged in course content, and makes teaching and learning more fun. * A private and safe platform, monitored directly by teachers. Teachers control all the activities of their learners. * A valuable teaching tool that integrates diverse core subjects including math, science, history, art, photography, music and more for individual learner portfolios, unique alternative assessments, and differentiated instructional activities. For Learners: * A fun, imaginative, and powerful learning experience which fosters independent creative self expression, positive learner-teacher relationships, and teamwork on collaborative class projects. * A vibrant, multi-sensory learning experience which integrates learner's knowledge and skills into traditionally text-oriented subjects and motivates learner's desire to explore topics in which they may previously have been less interested.

Students really do enjoy using Glogster. I do think that it is gret that the students have so many different ways in which to show their knowledge and mastery of the material. It also does give them the opportunity to use some cretivity when designing them.

The Fact Monster website provides elementary students with an online almanac. It contains similar resources found on the Info Please website, but Fact Monster is more suitable for elementary students. The site provides fun, engaging games and quizzes as well.

I am excited to try this with my students. I sometimes struggle to find informative sites that are kid friendly so this will be a great additon to the worldbook online.