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Children's Way - Teaching Kids and Parents Internet Safety
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.
Eco-Bunnies
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?
NSF Scrub Club
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.
SpellingCity.com -
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!
Creative Web Tools For and By Kids / FrontPage
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!
Classroom Hacks
Cool tricks and such that you can use in the classroom. Share yours here. Interesting - -solar ovens made out of pringle cans.
Sony Creative Software - Super Duper Music Looper - Flash Demo
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.
Wee Web Wonders
Enjoyed this page demonstrating a tool I hadn't seen called Moblyng. Who is using this tool?
Wee Web Wonders
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!
Guided Reading and Reading Games with Roy the Zebra
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!
Introducing Mango - Classroom 2.0
Fascinating game for elementary students called Mango from Lorraine Leo on Classroom 2.0. She is doing fascinating work.
The Picnic Basket
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.
Blabberize.com! - Blabberize Your Pictures
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.
Preparing for the new school year - Flat Classrooms
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.
High Techpectations: Survey Results Gadgets
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.
www.panwapa.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.
Adrian Bruce's Educational Teaching Resources-Reading Games-Math Games-Educational Software-Motivational Posters-Line Symmetry-Readers Theater-Art Lessons-Science Lessons-
Cool website from a professional developer in australia with a lot of links to websites he's tested.
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