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Here is a growing list of interesting sites to explore for elementary school students. Please add any favorites of yours in the comment section.
Elementary Learning Sites

Learning your Alphabet
Help a monkey shake coconuts out of the tree
Count Us in Games
Games designed to help children understand basic number concepts
Between the Lions
Get Wild about Reading
English & Math & [...]

Here is my Top Ten “Learn by Playing Sites list for Elementary School age kids. No particularly order. They include links from categories, such as drawing, simulations, digital storytelling, programming and puzzle solving.

http://langwitches.glogster.com/LearnByPlaying/

Kerpoof
Linerider
Scratch
Fantastic Contraptions
Virtual Knee Surgery
Art Pad
Wildlife Film Maker
Tinker Ball
Glogster Edu
YOUR favorite “Learn by Playing” Site

As you may have noticed, Number 10 in this list [...]

I got this list from Chrissy’s blog To Argentina and Beyond.
You’re supposed to bold the things you’ve done… I wonder who came up with this list? How culturally bias do you think a list like this is?
1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. [...]

Directly skipping over the debate, if it is really necessary to dedicate specific (precious) time to teach AND practice keyboarding skills during school hours… our tech team was asked to “teach” keyboarding at our Elementary School.  Parents “demand” it, since it is something “visual” for them to understand that they child is “getting” technology instruction. [...]

I have briefly highlighted a few screen capturing tools and keyboard shortcuts on Langwitches before. Here is a quick run down, links to original posts or links to the software website:

Windows Keyboard Shortcut

Capturing the entire desktop: Use the Print Screen button on your keyboard to place the image on your clipboard, then past (CTRL+V) the [...]

I must confess, that I love Image Generators. There are many cool sites out there that let you and your students easily upload one of your images and/or type in some text that will generate a new image for you to download and use. Students have absolutely loved playing with several ones of them and [...]

My father gave me my first version of Adobe PhotoShop in 1993 and I was hooked with image editing.
The online web-based image editing sites and tools have been exploding in the last few months. It seems that every few days, I can add another cool tool to my growing number of options when I want [...]

I was simply blown away by Larry Ferlazzo and his amazing resource list of
The Best Ways For Students (And Anyone Else!) To Create Online Content Easily, Quickly & Painlessly
He found his niche and is THE LISTMASTER ! Hats off to him and keep those lists coming Larry.
The following list is the collection of resources [...]

Inspired by Teaching Sagittarius, I decided to start working on a post about Flickr. Since I am planning on introducing Flickr itself and its many mash-up programs to my faculty at school soon, this is a good time to compile resources I have been collecting on my del.icio.us account, tagged flickr.
The first question I will [...]

Here is another list as promised. I wanted to point out my Top Ten Videos of 2007. I have placed these in my favorites on YouTube and have used them in the classroom with my elementary school students or with teachers during professional development opportunities. Here they are in NO particular order.

A Vision of [...]