Websites Used In Workshop Mercer Island School District 8/25/09

Mercer Island School District K-2 Wiki - http://misdk2.wikispaces.com/ 
Tech Teach Updates Blog - www.judiwolf.blogspot.com
Example of a Grade One Class Blog - http://mrspatterson.edublogs.org/  
Example of a Teacher’s Blog About the Class - http://harju.edublogs.org/  
Examples of  Blogs For Teachers To Read:
Ilearntechnology by Ilene Tenley  - http://ilearntechnology.com/
Making Teachers Nerdy by Mrs. Smoke - http://mrssmoke.onsugar.com/
Larry Ferlazzo’s Best Websites of the Day - http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/
Free Technology for Teachers - http://www.freetech4teachers.com/  

Setting Up A Blog Site For Your Students:
21 Classes - http://www.21classes.com/
EduBlogs - http://edublogs.org/              
Blogger (part of Google) - http://www.blogger.com/  
Subscribe to Blogs – Bloglines – www.bloglines.com

Teacher’s Podcasts – The Ed Tech Talk Channel – www.edtechtalk.com            
Examples of Classroom Podcasts:
Radio Willoweb - http://mps.mpsomaha.org/willow/radio/
Our City Project Podcasts - http://learninginhand.com/OurCity/index.html
How To Set Up Podcasting With Your Students
Audacity – Download it at www.audacity.com                   
To Convert to MP3 File - Lame Encoder  - http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/
Other Websites for Podcasting:
Podomatic  - http://www.podomatic.com/
Podcast People – http://www.podcastpeople.com/
An Excellent Tutorial On Podcasting - Casting Your Voice to the World - http://www.slideshare.net/dogtrax/casting-your-voice-out-to-the-world

Examples of Wikis:
Primary Math Wiki - http://primarymath.wetpaint.com/
To Show Lots of Web2.0 Tools - Web Tools 4 U 2 Use  - http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/
How and Where to Set Up a Wiki:
PB Works for the Classroom - http://pbworks.com/academic.wiki              
Wikispaces For Teachers - http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers 
WetPaint  http://www.wetpaint.com/
Teachers First Wiki Walk Through  - http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/wiki/

Using Social Network to Build A Professional Learning Network:
Classroom 2.0 - http://www.classroom20.com/
Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/
Twitter4Teachers  - http://twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/

Keyboarding - Dance Mat Typing from the UK  - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/

Taming the Tedious Teacher Tasks:
Education-World Tools and Templates - http://www.education-world.com/tools_templates/index.shtml
Personal Education Press - http://www.educationalpress.org/
Class Tools - http://classtools.net/
Super Teacher Tools - http://www.superteachertools.com/index.php
Jan Brett - http://www.janbrett.com/
Little Explorer’s Dictionary - http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html
My Award Maker - http://www.myawardmaker.com/
ABC Teach - http://abcteach.com/

Teaching Information Literacy: Exploring Online Marketing Tricks - http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/games/coco/index.cfm
Teaching Online Safety: PBS’s Internet Safety Test  - http://pbskids.org/license/
Privacy Playground
Copyright Issues: - A Fair Use Tale  - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo

Connecting Your Curriculum To The Internet:
Thinkfinity - http://www.thinkfinity.org/home.aspx
Scholastic Network - http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/learn.jsp
PBS Teacher Resource - http://www.pbs.org/teachers/
Eduscapes  4 2 Xplore  - http://42explore.com/ 
KidsKonnect - http://www.kidskonnect.com/
Great Way To Find Broken Links - The Way Back Machine - http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
Tidy Read - http://www.tidyread.com/  
Print Friendly - http://www.printfriendly.com/
I Need To Read This - http://ineedtoreadthis.com/

Connecting Your Students to The Internet:
KidsClick - http://www.kidsclick.org/
Internet Public Library For Kids - http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/
Fact Monster  - http://www.factmonster.com/                                 Education World and Fact Monster - http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/archives/factmonster.shtml
Ask for Kids - http://www.askkids.com/
Delicious - http://delicious.com/

Language Arts Websites:
Starfall  - http://www.starfall.com/
Little Animals Activity Centre - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/words/dgi.shtml
PBS Kids Island - http://pbskids.org/read/
Writing Their Own Story With The Help of PBS - http://pbskids.org/stopandgo/
Game Goo  - http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/gooey.html
Literactive  - http://www.literactive.com/Home/index.asp
Spelling City - http://www.spellingcity.com/
This is Daniel Cook - http://www.thisisdanielcook.com/

Math Websites:
Base Ten Blocks - http://www.arcytech.org/java/b10blocks/b10blocks.html
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives  - http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vLibrary.html
Thinkfinity Illuminations Tools - http://illuminations.nctm.org/
Count Us In Math Games - http://www.abc.net.au/countusin/default.htm
Math Playground - http://www.mathplayground.com/
A Maths Dictionary For Kids  - http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/
That Quiz  - http://www.thatquiz.org/
BBC Math Bitewise - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/maths/
TutPup  - http://tutpup.com/

Social Studies With A View of the World:
Google Earth – www.googleearth.com
Google Earth Lit Trips - http://www.googlelittrips.org/
Google Earth for Educators - http://www.google.com/educators/p_earth.html                  
National Geographic For Kids  - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/

Using Digital Images:
Google Images - http://images.google.com/
Flickr  - http://www.flickr.com/
Image Codr  - http://www.imagecodr.org/
Picasa  - Download at www.picasa.com
Animoto For Educators  - http://animoto.com/business/education/signup
Book Trailers With Photo Story - http://www.homepages.dsu.edu/mgeary/booktrailers/default.htm VoiceThread  - http://voicethread.com/                             
VoiceThread Kindergarten  Example - http://ed.voicethread.com/
Voicethread Wiki  - http://voicethread4education.wikispaces.com/
Capzles  - http://capzles.com/

Using Video:
Teacher Tube - http://www.teachertube.com/
School Tube - http://www.schooltube.com/
Math A Tube - http://www.mathatube.com/
Educational Videos For Students - http://www.neok12.com/
EduBlogs TV  - http://edublogs.tv/index.php

Stories/Audio Online:
Book Pals Storyline - http://www.bookpals.net/storyline/
Mrs. P. Com - http://www.mrsp.com/v1/mrsp.html
StoryPlace - http://www.storyplace.org/
The Little Animals Activity Center  - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/story/sbi.shtml
Lit 2 Go - http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/

The Online Collaborative Project:
CIESE Collaborative  Projects - http://www.k12science.org/collabprojs.html
Global School Network - http://www.globalschoolnet.org/gsh/pr/
Jenuine Tech  - http://www.jenuinetech.com

Other Ways To Make Global Contact:
Epals  - http://www.epals.com/
Download Skype  - http://www.skype.com
The Global Education Collaborative - http://globaleducation.ning.com/
Taking It Global - http://www.tigweb.org/

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Worthwhile Websites for Learning - http://www.wwlearning.ca/
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