iSpeech

iSpeech www.ispeech.org Convert documents to audio and your web pages for free - without software, instantly!
Simply enter the URL of the web page or upload the file you want to have read and we will convert it into audio you can listen to, share, embed or download.

This site is so cool! It is great for all grades, but I think it will be extremely beneficial for struggling readers and our special needs students. You can create an account if you would like but it not necessary.
Example of an uploaded file:
Aren't We All Teachers of Literacy
http://www.ispeech.org/documents.php?mid=d5512d23f2941d52ed000d431f63e63b

Plymouth School Webpage: http://www.ispeech.org/documents.php?mid=cf53eceeb44d4df5918763a7fb6633de

***TO STOP THE AUDIO- click on the orange square.

Virtual Legos

Cubescape http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/Cubescape/Ever wanted to create your own isometric pixel picture, but didn't know what the word isometric meant? Well, now you can fulfil your wildest dreams with Cubescape!
Great for your math curriculum! Extremely user friendly- check it out and see how you can use it!

Electronic Posters

Glogster http://www.glogster.com/edu/? is a nifty web 2.0 tool that allows you to add a little ‘glam’ to electronic posters that then can be embedded into your web page, blog, or wiki. Pick a background, drop on some shapes, add links, text, and pictures, and grab the embedding code. You don’t need to create an account to use the tool. You will want to monitor this with students as the site contains others' unfiltered glogs, but don’t shy away from adding your own glitz to your pages with Glogster.
In the education version, teachers can create accounts and they will be given student accounts names and passwords.

Example-Took about 10 minutes without any prior experience.
http://denabud.glogster.com/glog-584/

Inspiration at Home

Inspiration is a great resource, the problem is many of our kids don't have it at home. Check out My Webspiration http://www.mywebspiration.com/

Webspiration is afflliated with Inspiration and lets users create free online accounts. Students and teachers can create diagrams and transfer them to outline form at home save them to their online account and access them at school. It even has the option to download and upload the documents to Inspiration 8.

History Wired

History Wired http://www.historywired.si.edu/#Smithsonian Institution's HistoryWired: A few of our favorite things. This experimental site introduces visitors to some of the three million objects held by the National Museum of American History, Behring Center.
This site is great for history research. Students can access information by year or topic.

Spell with flickr

This site is just fun. You can have your kids practice their spelling words or you can insert the words into a blog or your website like I did below.

Determining Credible Websites

Check out the list on the link and share with your students. http://technologyresources.pbwiki.com/Checking+the+Credibility+of+Websites