Student Sites

The ISTE Standards for Students are a good organizing tool and a good way to see if your inclusion and use of technologies is balanced as you work with students.


http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForStudents/NETS_for_Students.htm 

A Few Example Sites:


Creativity and Innovation

Bonomo Online Open-ended Art

Online Interactives
Making Music

Communication and Collaboration

Storybird

http://storybird.com/

Blogs

http://kidblog.org (example: http://kidblog.org/mrslovelysclass/student-blogs/ )

http://classblogmeister.com (example: http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337 )


Wikis

http://www.wikispaces.com  (teacher sites:  http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers)


Examples: http://civilwarsallie.wikispaces.com/

https://monsterproject.wikispaces.com/Mrs.+Valentine%27s+2nd

http://responsibilities.wikispaces.com/

http://terrythetennisball.wikispaces.com/

http://room2-wiki6.wikispaces.com/ 


Skype

Research and Information Fluency

Math Manipulatives

http://www.arcytech.org/java
http://www.matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/vlibrary.htm

Online Projects

http://www.jenuinetech.com/calendar.htm

http://www.toothtally.com/


Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making

Flash tools like spinners and more

Tinkering at Play



Digital Citizenship

http://flockdraw.com/5v1muj  (also embedded here.)

http://pbskids.org/license/

http://voicethread.com   (example here)  

 

 

Technology Operations and Concepts

Font Recognition Resource

Keyboarding - labor and people intensive - my favorite free resource is Dance Mat Typing

Timelines and Video Editing and more

http://www.kerpoof.com


And a few additional Curriculum-rich Sites for good measure:

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/mystorymaker/mystorymaker.swf

http://oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Estimate/estimate.html

http://crickweb.co.uk

http://storylineonline.net/ 

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/WebCams/

http://writingfix.com/

A collection of pattern sites: http://simplybox.com/public/?id=22915

Even MORE cool sites for really young learners: http://simplybox.com/public/?id=27729

 

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