websafety4kids
Web Safety For Kids, a wiki setup to support presentations for parents about Internet safety. It contains links to a range of resources that parents may find helpful in a dealing with their children's use of the Internet at home.
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Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators
Digital Storytelling Tools for Educators
by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano (Book) in Education & Language
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Kids Saving The Rain Forest
(tags: sjeds-travels-latinamerica Costa-Rica)

These are my links for September 20th through September 23rd:

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Shidonni - Creative fun for kids, bring your sketch pets to life -
ChannelOne.com - Passport: Australia -
Slice and Crop Picture - PICSLICE -
Blogging Rules - * Be safe
* Be mindful of what you say
* Be respectful to others
* Be informative
* Be [...]

If you have followed Langwitches Blog for a while, you know that my elementary school has received a grant to allow two teachers to travel abroad for two weeks each year. The experience is being shared and involves the rest of the school through technology, a year long study of the country and an immersion [...]

We have been having so much fun using our SmartBoards. It is great to be able to witness the teachers becoming more and more enthralled with them. Let’s not even mention how interested and engaged the students are.
Currently we have 3 wall mounted boards and one portable board that is being shared by 2 teachers [...]

These are my links for September 17th through September 18th:

Map Maker - nationalatlas.gov - Features a map maker
Outline Maps - These maps may be printed and copied for personal or classroom use.
CyberChallenge - Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division fact practice
EduWrite: VoiceThread Tutorial -
BBC - Arts - Poetry - Poems to make, watch and hear

These are my links for September 14th through September 17th:

Atmosphir - Free Video Game / Creation Tool for Mac and PC -
SMARTBoards and Pop My Balloon Please -
Youth Travel Programs Are Vital To Our Security -
Photojojo » The Great iPhone Photo App Roundup -
A Walk in the Woods -
Children’s Museum [...]

This upcoming week, we will have a Professional Development workshop for our faculty. The topic will be blogs. We will introduce the new features of the upgraded Wordpress 2.6 version, remind teachers how to sign in and comment on our SJEDS Travels to Latin America blog and mainly how to move from using their classroom [...]

These are my links for September 13th from 12:04 to 12:47:

Tonzr - Truly free MP3 ringtones for the masses - Tonzr is a new web site providing free access to MILLIONS (7,168,988 and counting) of MP3 ringtones, or “realtones”
My MusicRings -
Clipmarks :: Firefox Add-ons -
Clipmarks - What are you finding on the web? - On [...]

Last year at this time, we had created a Wordpress blog for each of our classroom teachers. They were to use it as a communication tool for their students and their parents.
We finally had moved away from a static website, designed in Dreamweaver and uploaded by the webmaster (me) via FTP. Teachers used to to [...]