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**Below are Links to Sites That You May Find Helpful in Your Classroom:**


 * **Peter Reynolds:** Constructivist Site
 * **Edutopia's Project Based Learning:** @http://www.edutopia.org/project-based-learning
 * **21st Century Skills Fair:** http://21stfair2010.wikispaces.com/
 * **SlideShare:** @http://www.slideshare.net
 * **Scribd:** @http://www.scribd.com
 * @http://www.bighugelabs.com **Big Huge Labs:** (create all kinds of cool stuff for your classroom--better yet, let the students create some cool stuff that fits with a lesson you are teaching!)
 * @http://www.wordsift.com/ **Word Sift:** A colleague showed me this "mash-up" of a site that combines some great tools in one site.
 * http://www.monoprice.com/ **Mono-Price:** Great prices for headphones, video connectors, microphones, etc. for i-pods and computers, and all kinds of gadgets.
 * @http://taggalaxy.de/ **Tag Gallery:** search and find images that are connected to other images from the Flickr Gallery.
 * @http://www.stupeflix.com/ **Stupeflix**: This site allows you to make videos and for a $3 fee download them for burning on cd/dvd, etc.
 * http://www.wallwisher.com **Wall Wisher:** This site allows you to create "virtual post it notes' and move them around on the wall to organize thoughts.
 * __http://sharetabs.com __ [| Share Tabs:]
 * [|http://aviary.com][|Aviary:]

**Sites and Links from Classroom Conversations:**
 * **PBS Frontline Episode:** Digital Nation (February 2, 2010 broadcast--Lisa Stokes shared this information)
 * **Not on the Test:** http://www.notonthetest.com/
 * **Peter H. Reynolds Web Site:** @http://www.peterhreynolds.com
 * **Blue Zones:** http://www.bluezones.com/
 * **North Star:** http://www.fablevision.com/northstar/

**Other Comic Creators:**
 * @http://www.pixton.com
 * @http://www.comiqs.com

 **Creativity Tools**:
 * **45 Web Sites for Students to Create:** @http://mrssmoke.onsugar.com/45-Websites-Students-Create-Original-Artwork-Online-3442983
 * **Create Block (Wall Size) Posters for Your Room:** @http://www.blockposters.com/
 * **Fun to Read Video**

**Skype Links:**
 * **Skype an Author:** @http://skypeanauthor.wetpaint.com/
 * **50 Ways to Use Skype:** @http://www.teachingdegree.org/2009/06/30/50-awesome-ways-to-use-skype-in-the-classroom/

**Tutorials:**
 * **i-clarify:** great tutorials on Apple products: @http://www.iclarified.com/tutorials/index.php

**Other Links:**
 * **Will Richardson**
 * **Glogster:** @http://edu.glogster.com/
 * **Web 2.0 List of Top Tools:** @http://www.web20searchengine.com/web20/web-2.0-list.htm

**Books**:

**Links Used: ** >> [|Sites simliar to wordle.net]
 * __Material world : a global family portrai__t. by Menzel, Peter ISBN: 978-0-87156-437-5
 * __What the world eats__. by Menzel, Peter ISBN: 978-1-58246-246-2
 * __Hungry planet : what the world eats__. by Menzel, Peter ISBN: 978-1-58008-681-3
 * **Animoto:** http://www.animoto.com
 * **Quizlet:** http://www.quizlet.com
 * **Edmoto:** http://www.edmoto.com
 * **Voki:** http://www.voki.com
 * **Google Translate:** http://translate.google.com/
 * Sample from Ralston Schools
 * **Today's Meet:** @http://todaysmeet.com/
 * Sample room: @http://todaysmeet.com/doane21st
 * **ietherpad:** http://ietherpad.com
 * Link to an etherpad sandbox to play around: @http://ietherpad.com/sBn2ssJ2d9
 * **ustream:** http://www.ustream.com
 * **Google Sites:** http://sites.google.com
 * **Doodle:** http://www.doodle.com
 * **Xtranormal:** @http://www.xtranormal.com/
 * **SimilarSites**
 * [|SimilarSites.com]
 * Find a website similar to another


 * Sites: **
 * **10 X 10 Words and Happenings that Define the Times:** @http://tenbyten.org/about.html
 * **Wordia:** http://www.wordia.com
 * **Google Trends**
 * [|google.com/trends]
 * Shows how often a search term is entered into Google
 * Graph multiple terms by separating them with commas
 * Use quotation marks to see specific phrases
 * **Simple Spark**
 * [|simplespark.com]
 * Directory of thousands of web tools