Links

=__Useful Links__= [|www.zillow.com] ~ real estate website [|www.skype.com] ~ communicate via webcam, voice message, or phone line to anyone in the world [|www.twitter.com] ~ social messaging website [|www.flickr.com] ~ store and edit photos to be shared online [] ~ store and edit photos to be shared online [|www.photobucket.com] ~ store photos and videos to be shared online, private [|www.digitalvaults.org/] ~ The National Archives website which stores more than 1200 documents to explore [|www.photoshop.com/] ~ online photo sharing, editing, and hosting resource [|www.google.com/voice] ~ an application that helps you better manage your voice communications [] ~ find and use images online [] ~ turn a really long URL into a small, more usable URL [] ~ group discussion forum [|www.diigo.com] ~ research tool and a knowledge-sharing community [|www.ning.com] ~ create your own social network [|www.doppelme.com] ~ create your own avatar [|www.archive.org] ~ a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form [] ~ online voice communicating website [|www.gaggle.net] ~ network which provides safe, teacher-controlled email accounts, blogs, and message boards for students [|www.audacity.sourceforge.net] ~ make a podcast [] ~ heating up 21st century learning [|www.epals.com] ~ global community of connected classrooms - a resource for finding pen pal teachers/classrooms around the world [] -Free, create cloud pictures with words [] -Free, software that adds visuals to online conversations. The Pro-version has advanced features like posting to YouTube.Not sure of the cost of the Pre version. [] -Free, place to upload, manage and share high quality videos, presentations, documents and images [] -Free, media sharing website [] -Free, customizable Flash templates for creating educational games, activities, diagrams... to embed in wikis, blogs and websites. [] -Free, place to search for photos and other digital media [] - website that lets you make magazine covers, posters, buttons... with your photos. Free unless you order items iwth photos from the website [] -free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics []- collaborative rubric toolkit [] -information about rubrics and rubric maker (need to be a member) [] -teacher-friendly article provides overview for using rubrics and tools and tips for implementing http://eduwikius.wikispaces.com/ -Eduwiki.us Project []- help for creating wiki http://voicethread4education.wikispaces.com/ -wiki for Voice Thread users [] -Info for planning a voice thread [] - Wiki with links to ideas and sample voice threads http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/-Web 2.0 tools []- This wiki is all about web 2.0 tools for children in K-3. The creators of this wiki (Kathy Cassidy and Maria Knee) have both used web 2.0 tools extensively in their classroom, and are eager to share the ways these tools can be used to support and enhance your curriculum content.