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Great avatar maker that allows you to combine animal parts with your own likeness to come up with a "wild self".

www.buildyourwildself.com - Preview

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Panwapa is a cool place for primary aged kids to come and play. It supports 5 different languages.

www.panwapa.org - Preview

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Another safe social networking site for kids

www.glubble.com - Preview

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The classic social networking site for kids.

www.clubpenguin.com - Preview

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This actually looks really safe. You have to pay for the site - which eliminates the advertising and market profiling - and also pretty much insures that the parent has entered the credit card information. And they have some vehicle for allowing parents to approve others who their children can chat with.

There is always the possibility that someone will send hurtful messages. But they have a complaint process. And it is possible to block people.

www.ekidnaworld.com - Preview

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Welcome to the Kindersite Project for ALL preschool and Kindergarten age children and English learners.

The Kindersite has 1,000s of links to the best games, songs and stories for young children.

www.kindersite.org/ - Preview

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imbee is the first social network for young people.

www.imbee.com - Preview

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Finding kid safe videos on YouTube can be a time consuming process. Kideo Player makes it easier to locate videos appropriate for students in pre-K through second grade. Kideo Player plays a continuous stream of videos for pre-K through second grade students. When a video you like is playing, click on the the YouTube icon and you will be taken to the original YouTube source where you can find out more about each video and grab the embed code. Clicking your keyboard's space bar allows you to skip ahead in the video clips.

Applications for Education
As mentioned above, Kideo Player is a good resource for pre-K through second grade videos. Some of the videos have educational value like the "ABC's" video while other videos are more of a children's entertainment style of video.

kideoplayer.com - Preview

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Creatingmusic.com is a children's online creative music environment for children
of all ages. It's a place for kids to compose music, play with musical performance, music games and music puzzles. Come discover fun and easy ways to make music!

www.creatingmusic.com - Preview

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Great flash based literacy lessons for younger kids.

www.literacycenter.net/ - Preview

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This looks a great site to use with kids on an IWB to just to get them creating stories. Probably geared to younger years but a great tool for kids.

www.kerpoof.com - Preview

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A Site of free educational tools for students and teachers to use online and free.

www.e-learningforkids.org/ - Preview

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