I highly recommend that elementary and middle schools at least sign up for a school code for woogi world - this is a great tool suggested by Hoover City schools for teaching digital citizenship. My daughter (my intrepid tester of all kid virtual worlds) loves it and says she thinks it is great for kids.
more fromwww.childrensway.com
Travelocity has worked to create a course on carbon offsets and wants help naming their eco-bunnies. This looks to be something fascinating for elementary teachers. Would love to hear what you think?
more fromwww.eco-bunnies.com
For those of you who teach health and wellness at the elementary level, this is a really cool website -- the "Scrub Club" teaches proper handwashing techniques. You can use hand sanitizers all you want, but the best way to prevent disease is still good old soap and water.
more fromwww.scrubclub.org
This is an INCREDIBLE website that NSharoff (http://twitter.com/nsharoff) from New York has shared with me!
It lets you as a parent or teacher create spelling lists, then the kids can have the program "teach" them the words. Then, they can play games like hangmouse and a lot of others to learn the words. I am using this with my son and was so happy when nsharoff forwarded it, I could have just flipped!
more fromwww.spellingcity.com
A project for ages 8-12 year old has sprung up as part of the grassroots movement of teachers to connect their students and flatten their classrooms. If you are interested in participating, join this wiki, fill out the poll, and take it on!
more fromweewebwonders.pbwiki.com
Cool tricks and such that you can use in the classroom. Share yours here. Interesting - -solar ovens made out of pringle cans.
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This program comes highly recommended. Only the pay version lets you save music, but you can play with this flash interface to see how it works for mixing music - recommended for middle and elementary PC users.
more fromwww.sonycreativesoftware.com
Enjoyed this page demonstrating a tool I hadn't seen called Moblyng. Who is using this tool?
more fromweewebwonders.synthasite.com
This is a site built by Jackie Gerstein from Arizona. She told me "I began developing a website to showcase different Web 2.0 tools that students can use. I provided some examples but plan to have my upper elementary students add to it as we explore and use other tools."
She built this using synthasite and it is a great thing to show elementary teachers to showcase some of the best tools out there. Great job, Jackie!
more fromweewebwonders.synthasite.com
This is the location for getting the Mango game that Lorraine Leo recommends so highly. Mango looks like a really cool game to play on those Kindergarten smartboards.
There are a lot of free interactive reading games to use with your interactive whiteboard. Pass this along to your elementary teachers!
more fromwww.roythezebra.com
Fascinating game for elementary students called Mango from Lorraine Leo on Classroom 2.0. She is doing fascinating work.
more fromwww.classroom20.com
Website which will send you free books and asks the school and library professionals to rate the children's books. This is a great opportunity for those who are strapped for cash.
more fromwww.thepicnic-basket.com
A website that lets you make a talking picture. This is really funny. You can create this, then use zamzar to convert it, and then use it in your digital movie.
more fromwww.blabberize.com
Leigh Newton director of IT at a school in Baku, Azerbaijan wants to talk about linking his grade 5 classes of about 30 students to others in the world. There is also a PYP (Primary years program) on the flat classroom ning about this. Some interesting conversations are emerging. If you're interested, join and join the conversation.
more fromflatclassrooms.ning.com
Cool survey results gadgets from Lucy Gray -- very very cool for use with children and to demonstrate spreadsheets and charts. I like the little worms she used on her favorite colors chart.
more fromelemenous.typepad.com
A social network for first and second graders -- this is free. Cheryl says it is a little bit "clunky" -- access is not so fast, however, it is a growing free tool for very young children.
more fromwww.panwapa.org
Cool website from a professional developer in australia with a lot of links to websites he's tested.
more fromwww.adrianbruce.com
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