Glogster
Glogster was easy to use and is a great way to gather information for projects online for students. I love it!
http://lindsaybarber63.edu.glogster.com/roaring-research
Delicious
My favorite links via delicious.
Delicious is simple to use for bookmarking links, but I dislike the interface and much prefer Pinterest, which is similar.
Google Docs
Google docs is a quick and efficient way to create online forms and documents that are easy to share. It's a great tool!
Here is a google form I created to use at the beginning of the school year. It is a student profile that will help me learn more about my students. I will keep their responses all year to refer back to as needed.
I have developed a few Pinterest boards that I like to use -- one for pulling inspirational quotes and other handy dandy ideas to use in the classroom, and another one for my daughters, which is full of books that I think they will benefit from reading as they grow up.
I don't have enough words to express how much I love Pinterest. It's a great online tool for collecting interesting things and sharing them with others, or going back to look at what you've found in more depth when you have more time.
Wikis
Wikis are another great tool that is easy to create and use for the classroom. I like having a digital space to keep everything for my students. I also have an Edmodo account that is similar to this that I prefer to use, however.
Digital Storytelling
I used toondoo to create a comic strip based off of something that happened in my classroom the other day. It was surprisingly easy and fun to use. I'll definitely come back to create more cartoons that I can incorporate into my lessons.
Wordle
Wordle is a great tool to pull the main ideas from great bodies of text. Here I used the text of Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience." You can see how this would help a student understand the most important topics in the essay.
Great Teacher Blogs
Here are some great things other teachers are doing online!
http://davisale.blogspot.com/
http://educateinspiredream.blogspot.com
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