edWeb

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The edWeb is a social networking website that makes is easy for anyone in the education community to connect with peers, share information and best practices, spread innovative ideas, and provide professional development. The edWeb provides an easy and intuitive Web 2.0 platform that includes blogs, discussions, file-sharing, shared calendars, wikis, live chat, messaging, polling, and shared links. Communities (groups) can be created and linked for closer collaboration.

• Teachers and administrators can share best practices, information on what's working, and support each other across schools, districts, states, the country, and even around the world.
• Schools and districts can create professional learning communities and practice groups, improve teacher and principal quality and technology skills, and provide mentoring and support.
• Colleges can use the edWeb to support their teacher education programs and to stay connected to cohorts of new teachers as they move on to their teaching positions and begin their careers. Faculty in any department can use the edWeb to connect with peers anywhere in the world.
• Associations, legislators, and community leaders can discuss research, policies, regulations, and guidelines to break down the silos that exist at all levels of education, and to draw in a wider group of stakeholders.
• Education companies can connect with educators to get feedback on products and services, to discuss the educational materials that are needed to improve education, and to provide continuous, online professional development.

Every teacher could benefit from this site with all the support, resources, and experience that's shared. This is something I defiantly see myself using as I step into the field of Education! 

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Prezi

Prezi is the new and improved presentation tool. It lets your choose between the freedom of the cloud, the security of desktop, or the mobility of the iPad or iPhone. It's a neat way to lead your students through a new journey, project, assignment and more. It makes presentations engaging and exciting with the variety of layouts, templates, frames, and paths to choose from. And because Prezi is 3D, you can guide your audience through a truly spatial journey. Zoom out to show the overview of your prezi, zoom in to examine the details of your ideas, or simply move freely through the prezi and react to your audience’s input.

Prezi tool can be used in meeting to collaborate and present to a number of audiences including parents, colleagues, and administrators. 

Click on the link below to explore a number of Education Prezi's: 

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Google Earth in Education

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Google Maps for Education provides resources to help teachers and students explore, create, and collaborate with mapping tools. Students who are taught geography are better equipped to understand how human and physical systems interact and to make informed decisions based on that knowledge.

You can use Google Maps with your students to:

• Create collaborative maps
• Create a campus or school district map
• Create a family heritage map
• Get walking directions
• Plan a trip using public transportation
• Get biking directions
• Add or edit places on maps for your community
• Compare neighborhoods and communities across the world
• Understand traffic patterns
• Use maps as writing inspiration

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Google Lit Trips are free downloadable files that mark the journeys of characters from famous literature on the surface of Google Earth. At each location along the journey there are placemarks with pop-up windows containing a variety of resources including relevant media, thought provoking discussion starters, and links to supplementary information about “real world” references made in that particular portion of the story.  

The focus is on creating engaging and relevant literary experiences for students. I like to say Google Lit Trips “3-dimensionalize” the reading experience by placing readers “inside the story” traveling alongside the characters; looking through the windshield of that old jalopy in The Grapes of Wrath or waddling alongside Mr. and Mrs. Mallard’s duckling family in Make Way for Ducklings.” 

Classroom 2.0

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Classroom 2.0 is an excellent networking site for educators who are interested in Web 2.0, Social Media, and Participative Technologies in the classroom. The site provides a number of resources to help teachers share links, discuss ideas and implement and use technology. Other features include webinars, workshops, lesson plans, recordings, and key note addresses. The site includes a number of special-interest groups that members can join or create their own.

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Classroom 2.0 LIVE is an opportunity to gather with other members of the community in real-time events, complete with audio, chat, desktop sharing, and sometimes even video.

Click here for more information about Classroom 2.0 Live

GoEd Online

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GoEd Online is a neat site that provides teachers with all the necessary affordable resources they need to create a productive classroom atmosphere. There is an entire section for Elementary school teachers and categorizes the material according to the different subjects including, English, Math, Science and Social Studies. Listed below are the other neat things that the site provides:

1- Educational movie downloads and rentals

2- Educational ebook downloads

3- Educational game downloads

4- Educational presentation downloads

5- Other secret, fun-filled, digital goodies

GoEd also provides links to "101 Websites that Every Elementary Teacher should know about". Listed were a number of other great resources for every subject and grade level. 

click here to visit GoEd Online! 

Visit 101 Websites for Elementary Teachers Here

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Penzu

Penzu is an excellent resource that provides teachers the means of creating classroom journals, managing students, entries, grades and assignments  and sharing all this information with students  parents, and administrations. 

Smart Exchange

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The Smart Exchange website provides a number of lesson plans, resources, and links that teachers can download and use on their SMART board interactive whiteboard. The website is easy to use as it provides organized links to the different categories including grade, subject, and file name search. Another thing that Smart Exchange website provides is a Standards-Aligned link that let's teachers look up standards by grade and subject. 

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Click here to visit the SMART site