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Here are my notes - please edit to make more clear! ~michelle I added live links and expanded on ideas- [|Kelly]

Proteacher.com: teacher blog that is a great resource

Goanimate.com or animoto or [|kerpoof]or skitch.com for drawing or Screenium screen cast, shidonni as KidPix replacements

For elementary students I like to use [|www.kerpoof.com] for digital story telling (they can create a story, a picture, or movie with school appropriate images). Shidonni is an excellent creativity site. [|www2.shidonni.com]

Use PhotoBooth (Mac only) for digital storytelling. Students can draw their own picture with a computer drawing program (skitch, tux paint, kid pix) and then use as background for PhotoBooth movie. Record students reading their own story.

ikeepsafe for internet safety for “Internet safety license” Talk to elementary students about the rules of the "Internet super highway" similar to the rules of the road, they are in place to keep us safe. I have the students take an Internet safety test to get their "Internet license" If they aren't following the rules of the Internet, they can have their license taken away. The license expires at the end of each school year. Good resources for elementary students Internet safety are http://ikeepsafe.org http://netsmartzkids.org

skype with a 6th grader about book or about middle school

Boys and graphic novels for reading

[|Think.com] for blogging in the elementary classroom, can have a closed or open blogging platform. Start an online reading group with students where they can discuss books they are reading together.

Boys book club

[|Worldmathday.com] math facts- World Math Day is March 4, 2009, students can practice their math facts (k-12) against other students around the world live. They can see their progress against other students progress.

Google earth and settings.

I am just adding my notes on. Feel free to change if things don't seem clear. Thank you for all the wonderful ideas!

proteacher blog – great ideas skype video conferencing or ichat

grade level teacher wiki primary wikis-[|voice thread.com]

storytelling-podcast with voicethread or keynote, photobooth (with video)…scan pictures and put backgrounds (chromakey) goanimate.com – cartoon creator animoda or kerpoof – precreated pics. Can create a story or animated movie

shidonni.com – draw an animal and create world

or do pictures with [|skitch]

miniclip club penguin webkinz

[|worldmathday.com]

[|delicious.com] – bookmarking site to have your bookmarks no matter what computer you are at

for digital storytelling…use google earth to find the places a character goes. Tag the places and look at the details to help kids with ideas about settings

to make visual directions for a lesson for younger kids…cut out and laminate keyboard and icons that they will have to click on during the lesson.

firefox spell chekcer