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• ZoomIt is a presentation tool that includes a screen zoom, an annotation tool and a countdown clock. Many of these features are similar to parts of other software for interactive whiteboards, but ZoomIt's portability, simplicity and ease of use separates it from the others. The link here is to a blog post telling about it, providing a video, and a link to the tool.
• PBS Activity Packs An Activity Pack is a set of educational resources focused on a theme and packaged in a widget-format that you can embed in your own class or social media web page. Each pack includes links to PBS websites and a set of activities by grade level.
• WebTools4u2use is a great wiki created by school library media specialists for school libary media specialists
• Welcome to the Web provides a clear, easy-to-navigate format that elementary school students can use to get acquainted with the basics of Internet use. Welcome to the Web is a series of lessons for teaching young students how to navigate the Internet. There are seven lessons in the series although the first lesson is really just an introduction to the site. The other lessons in the series teach kids the basic vocabulary of the web, online safety, and search techniques. The series concludes with a challenge exercise in which students test their new knowledge and skills. Every lesson in the series comes with an optional worksheet in PDF form. The PDF worksheets provide a physical record of a student's progress that teachers can track.
• K-5 Technology Integration Resources from Rockingham County that include links/ideas for science, social studies, math, and English
• Free Technology for Teachers  (a review of free technology resources and how teachers can use them to integrate more technology into classroom instruction)
• Making Teachers Nerdy  (Technology Integration Tips and Web Links to Increase Your Teacher Nerdiness Levels)
• Teacher Tube
• SchoolTube.com is a website dedicated to student video and media sharing for entertainment and classroom use.
• Glogster is a powerful tool for students to use to create online collages that they can share with their friends and classmates. If you're not familiar with Glogster, it can best be described, as Amy Mayer did here, as an online poster creation tool with music. Glogster for Education gives teachers the ability to create accounts for their classrooms. Using their Glogster for Education accounts, teachers can assign to and manage individual accounts for their students.
• Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!
• 100 Free Web Tools for Elementary Teachers
• Podcasting resources and ideas for young readers/writers http://bit.ly/x62Tx
• Jenuine Tech.com offers ideas by Jennifer Wagner to create and collaborate using various projects across the curriculum. State stards are connected, but they're California standards. You just need to see where the project fits NC's standards. Wagner says the website is for teachers created by a teacher who wants EVERYONE to bring fun back into teaching. You will always get useful (and fun ideas) to use with your classroom! The projects are pretty cool. Her Frequently Asked Questions page offers links to two of her Nings and her wiki for these projects. Results of participating classes are posted. Be aware that if you want to share your results with Jen you must complete your project by the scheduled date - listed on her website. Classes worldwide are collaborating here!
• Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. It comes from MIT, where they do some amazing things with technology. As young people create projects in Scratch, they learn many of the 21st century skills that will be critical to success in the future: thinking creatively, communicating clearly, analyzing systematically, using technologies fluently, collaborating effectively, designing iteratively, learning continuously. Basically student are programming in scratch to make images move, animations etc. They do this by clicking block together to manipulate what happens. They have video tutorials which really help you get started. Here's the link to the video tutorials and examples of Scratch's use in the school setting.
• Skype an Author Network  Wouldn't it be great to invite authors into your classroom or library to video chat with students before, during, and/or after you've read their books? The goal is to set up a network of authors who would be willing to participate in short Skype conversations with students in classrooms and libraries. This is a list of authors who will do short (15 min) "Meet the Author" visits with classes for free and longer presentations for a charge.

• Super Teacher Tools is a site with free technology tools for teaching that are quick and easy to download, learn, and start using in your classroom. Here you will find a variety of review games, classroom management software, and other miscellaneous tools for educators.

• Edmodo provides a way for teachers andstudents to share notes, links, and files. Teachers have the ability to send alerts, events, and assignments to students. It is like Twitter for education since it is a private communication platform built for teachers. 

• Great great interactive quizzes to embed in any website/blog

• Podcasting in 5 Easy Steps  Podcasting in education has huge potential, but I feel quite a few teachers are put off because they think it’s a complicated business and that you need to be really good at computers to make a podcast. This video will show you how anyone can start their own podcasts in five easy steps.

• 10 tried and true Internet Tools for Teachers from Technology and Education Box of Tricks featuring animoto, diigo, edmondo, glogster, wordle, Go!Animate, sliderocket, toondoo, voki, and wordpress

• Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

• Twitter.edu: 100 Excellent, Educational Twitter Feeds  Twitter offers a real-world education, right at your fingertips. It is a wonderful tool for collecting information, much of it educational. You can find educators, librarians, museums, and more on Twitter. Read on, and you’ll find 100 of the most educational feeds on Twitter.

• Tools for teachers and students of the 21st century: http://tinyurl.com/cz5s6q From, www.Curriki.org

• Lessons on Teaching Copyright: There's a lot of misinformation out there about legal rights and responsibilities in the digital era.

• If you have to teach kids how to pick out the main ideas of paragraphs or note taking skills, you may want to check out awesomehighlighter.com. 

• http://ilearntechnology.com/ is an edublog about integrating technology in the classroom