Tucson High is Reading!
Useful Links
There are many wiki spaces but this is a great one for creating classroom wikis because student accounts can be easily tracked. Also no email addresses are required on the part of the student.
An option for classroom blogs. Easy to set up, and great for the classroom because the administrator can set it up so that coments go directly to the administrator's email address for moderation. You can see an example from the user's end on the bottom of Townsend's Library page http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/jmullet/index.html. All the way at the bottom- I called it BiblioBlog feel free to play- it is set on "moderate" so comments will not show up until approved.
http://voicethread.com/#homeThis is the VoiceThread site we were playing with at the meeting. Many useful classroom applications- try the free version first and then check out the "classroom" link, which is not free but cheap, and gives you convenient classroom options.
Amphitheater School District has a bunch of useful handouts for Web 2.0 online that I will try to get permission to use.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2The federal government offers a treasure trove of teaching and learning resources. Where can you find them?FREE (http://www.free.ed.gov).
FREE organizes more than 1,500 lesson plans, primary documents, science animations, math challenges, and works of art, literature, and music from the Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, National Archives, National Science Foundation, NASA, National Institutes of Health, National Gallery of Art, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and other federal agencies.
See resources by subject (http://www.free.ed.gov/sitemap.cfm) or topic (http://www.free.ed.gov/sitemap.cfm?page=alpha).