• Kids Space

  Write a story for a picture and read other kids’ stories.

  tags: ELA, ELL, reading, writing, parents

• Character Scrapbook

  “Use this reader’s response activity to analyze the characters in any book. Print and collect your scrapbook pages.”

  tags: ELA, ELL, reading, comprehension

• GameGoo – Educational Games

  Early reading & language skills games.

  tags: ELA, ELL, ESL, reading, early literacy, parents

• Guided Reading and Reading Games with Roy the Zebra

  Guided and interactive reading stories, lessons & games.

  tags: ELA, ELL, ESL, reading, iwb, parents

• Bombay TV2 Subtitle movies

  This site allows students to write their own conversation by pulling down video clips from East Indian movies and writing their own subtitles.

  tags: digital_storytelling, ELA, ELL, ESL, reading, writing

• MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages

  Create your own comic strip.

  tags: ELA, comics, writing, ELL, parents

• News English Lessons: Free Lesson Plans for Current Events

  tags: ELL, ELA, ESL, lessons, reading, comprehension, vocabulary

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• An interactive whiteboard … What next? | Spring 2009

  Great ideas for teachers just getting started with IWBs.

  tags: iwb, How_to, whiteboard

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• United States Non-Denominated postage stamp denominations

  Images of non-denominated stamps and their values.

  tags: Stamps, USPS

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• Forty-One Interesting Ways* to use your Pocket Video Camera in the Classroom

  tags: resources, Video, Flip, camera, technology, storytelling

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• WNY Education Associates » A Web Toolbox for Literacy Coaching

  Extensive list of web-based tools for communication, presentation and more.

  tags: web2.0, coaching, teaching, tools, blog

• http://www.GoogleLitTrips.com

  This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place… and so much more!

  tags: literature, googleearth, google, maps, geography, ELA, reading

• SumoTweet

  “SumoTweet allows you to quickly post a chunk of text or simple blog post to the web.

  You can then share that URL with friends directly or paste it in to twitter. To start, simply enter your text and click ‘Save SumoTweet’.”

  tags: twitter, tools, web2.0

• Fantastic Flexible Foldables

  Fantastic Flexible Foldables is a collection of mini math books and games that you can print out and create with your students. You and your students can create a fraction mini-book, a factors and multiples mini-book, a fortune teller fractor game, a geometry tetraflexagon, an integer infinity square, Flippers (fraction, decimal, music), and lines trihexaflexagon.

  tags: math, foldables, fractions, manipulatives, geometry, elementary, teaching, resources

• MEET ME AT THE CORNER

  “View Dozens of Kid-Friendly Educational Videos or Submit Your Own

  MEET ME AT THE CORNER, Virtual Field Trips for Kids takes you to meet fascinating people from all over the world.

  New educational, kid-friendly episodes are uploaded every two weeks. Included are links to fun websites and our Learning Corner with follow-up questions.

  Check out The Big Apple Book Club filled with video book reviews for kids by kids. “

  tags: teaching, resources, reading, ELL, ELA, parents, Video, storytelling, SocialStudies, fieldtrips, Geography

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• Hoagies’ Kids & Teens: Young Kids

  tags: teaching, web2.0, resources, gifted, games, parents

• 15 Tools to Help You Go Paperless – TheApple.com

  tags: teaching, web2.0, resources, flashcards

• RedKid.Net

  Variety of sign generators such as cake frosting, Walk of Fame, popular characters & more.

  tags: tools, sign, web2.0, graphics

• IRA Podcasts

  Research-based, classroom-tested teaching ideas.

  tags: podcasts, reading, vocabulary, writing

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• Google Holiday Logos: 2009 October – December

  Special Google homepage logos from around the world, including the country, and holiday/significance of the date; links to other years as well.

  tags: google

• fur.ly | shorten multiple urls into one

  Enter multiple URLs and they are combined into a “slideshow” with 1 url; great idea for presentations and gathering resources to share.

  tags: web2.0, tools

• Digitally Speaking / Blogging

  Links to teacher tips and checklists for blogging projects

  tags: blogging, printables, blog, web2.0

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• Personas for Firefox | Dress up your web browser

  tags: firefox, add-ons

• Twelve Active Learning Strategies

  tags: strategies, criticalthinking, activelearning, teaching

• Digitally Speaking / Social Bookmarking and Annotating

  A very thorough explanation of social bookmarking, including an analysis of pitfalls and the importance of the roles members play in the development and maintenance of a viable network.

  tags: diigo, bookmarking, howto, web2.0, wiki

• Online Books, Poems, Short Stories – Read Print Library

  Free online books library for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.
  * Absolutely FREE online books
  * Thousands of novels, poems, stories
  * Easy to read books online

  tags: ebooks, books, booklists, reading, literature

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• Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives

  Selections from american Slave Narratives collected by the Federal Writers Project; includes lesson plans to raise issues of authorship and credibility. Links to additional narratives and readings.

  tags: history, social studies, slavery, lessonplans

• 100 Most Educational iPhone Apps

  tags: ipod, apps, games, education, web2.0

• Five Rules for Writing a Great WebQuest

  tags: webquest, web2.0, research, technology

• Test Tube – Behind the scenes in the world of science

  Test Tube is an award-winning website following the highs and lows of life as a scientist.

  Each week we feature new videos, showing the reality of life in the lab, from the joys of discovery to the disappointment of funding rejection.

  tags: science, video, youtube

• TeachersAndFamilies StudySites

  Teacher-recommended resources for a variety of subjects, divided by elementary (1-5), middle school (6-8) & high school (9-12).

  tags: reading, resources, science, math, history, arts, currentevents, parents, social studies

• TogetheRead – TeachersAndFamilies

  Not sure how to approach reading with your child? A variety of things you can do before, during, and after sitting down to read will help you and your children be ready to tackle exciting new books.

  tags: reading, parents, books, comprehension

• inudge.net – Nudge

  Select sound patterns, volume, & tempo to create music.

  tags: music, web2.0, arts

• placecalcsmulti.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)

  tags: math, IWB, basic_facts, numberline, elementary, MS, games, parents

• Word Tricks

  tags: howto, Word, tutorials

• Excel Tricks

  tags: excel, howto, tutorials

• PowerPoint Tricks

  tags: powerpoint, presentation, howto, tutorials

• The Best Web 2.0 Applications For Education — 2009 | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…

  In order to make this list, a site had to be:
  * accessible to English Language Learners and non-tech savvy users.
  * free-of-charge.
  * appropriate for classroom use.
  * completely browser-based with no download required.

  tags: resources, web2.0, ELL, ELA

• Know What You’re Doing

  tags: no_tag

  • no one should mistake simple for easy.

• Making Sense of Evidence

  Make effective use of primary sources. “Making Sense of Documents” provide strategies for analyzing online primary materials, with interactive exercises and a guide to traditional and online sources. “Scholars in Action” segments show how scholars puzzle out the meaning of different kinds of primary sources, allowing you to try to make sense of a document yourself then providing audio clips in which leading scholars interpret the document and discuss strategies for overall analysis.

  tags: history, research, primarysources, social studies

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• The 15 Best Technology Podcasts

  tags: podcasts, technology

• Philly Teacher: Parent Night

  Resources for learning about the internet and cyber safety as well as email services for children and families

  tags: parents, technology, safety

• Learning English – The Teacher

  Videos depicting idioms in a variety of categories-sports, food, animals and more.

  tags: ELL, LanguageArts, ELA, english

• FFFBI Home

  The Fin, Fur and Feather Bureau of Investigation uses humor and storytelling to help kids ages 8-13 learn about places and cultures around the world. This is an important first step toward building their global literacy.

  tags: education, science, geography, games, parents

• STRIMKO™ – your streamy logic

  Strimko™ is a recently developed puzzle moving a logic puzzling with numbers into quite a novel dimension.

  tags: logic, criticalthinking, math, games, parents

• 50 Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom | Smart Teaching

  tags: web2.0, technology, education, collaboration, wiki

• EdTech Classroom Podcast

  tags: technology, education, web2.0, podcast

• Center on Instruction

  Gateway to a cutting-edge collection of scientifically based research and information on K-12 instruction in reading, math, science, special education, and English language learning.

  tags: resources, rti, research, reading, math, Science, ELL, special_education, social studies

• Welcome to your notable world | Evernote Corporation

  Use Evernote to save your ideas, things you see, and things you like. Then find them all on any computer or device you use. For free.

  tags: tools, web2.0, productivity

• Kids Games – Play Educational and Fun Kids Games Online! Play Kids Games.

  Play Kids Games provides free online kids games that are both fun and educational. Aimed at ages pre-K through middle school, Play Kids Games offers kids a safe environment to discover their abilities and learn new skills with interactive and fun computer games.

  tags: games, parents, math, vocabulary, social studies, criticalthinking, early literacy, elementary, MS

• 7 Things You Should Know About… | EDUCAUSE

  The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative’s (ELI’s) 7 Things You Should Know About… series provides concise information on emerging learning technologies and related practices. Each brief focuses on a single technology or practice and describes:

  * What it is
  * How it works
  * Where it is going
  * Why it matters to teaching and learning

  tags: technology, web2.0, tools

• K-12 SCIENCE EDUCATION RESOURCES

  tags: Science, resources, elementary, MS, high_school

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