Van Meter

Internet safety, digital citizenship, 21st century skills

Great blog from Leigh Zeitz about keyboarding research and tools to use.

Great collaborative tools for schools to connect and learn in learning network with others around the world!  

"The History Engine is an educational tool that gives students the opportunity to learn history by doing the work-researching, writing, and publishing-of a historian. The result is an ever-growing collection of historical articles or "episodes" that paints a wide-ranging portrait of life in the United States throughout its history and that is available to scholars, teachers, and the general public in our online database."

have students highlight, mark up websites.... Larry F's favorite site to use in his classroom. 

Math and literacy site from UNI

Great list of web 2.0 tools used for slideshows! 

Helps students develop stories!  Great resource!  Teacher, writing and student resources too.  

Create a document using word or pages and upload it into Issuu (pdf files).  Then it can be shared and viewed as an online magazine.  

Great site for internet safety and digital citizenship....Students would love this site.  Lots of great talking points included in this site.  

Great wiki filled with Web 2.0 tools organized into function