A FEW examples…(I had a hard time choosing)

Kindergarten: http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=51141
Grade one: http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337
Grade Two: http://2mgems.blogspot.com/
Grade Four: http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=94924
Grade Five: http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=88116
Teacher Blogs: http://chalkdust101.wordpress.com/
More Class Blogs: http://lipskymatthews.blogspot.com/ and http://wwwmrshumphreys3d.blogspot.com/ and http://upperhouse.edublogs.org/

Tools:

Blogger: www.blogger.com
Class Blogmeister: http://classblogmeister.com/index.php

21Classes: http://www.21classes.com/

Gaggle: https://www.gaggle.net

Wikis!
Why? Versatility! They can be anything and do almost anything!

A few examples – focus on different uses

–https://monsterproject.wikispaces.com/Mrs.+Valentine%27s+2nd

–http://responsibilities.wikispaces.com/

–http://terrythetennisball.wikispaces.com/

–http://room2-wiki6.wikispaces.com/

Tools:

–http://www.wetpaint.com

–http://pbwiki.org

–http://www.wikispaces.com

Graphic Organizers

Bubbl.us www.Bubbl.us

Webspiration http://www.mywebspiration.com/

Office-like Tools

Google Docs http://docs.google.com/

Zoho www.zoho.com

Flickr: http://www.Flickr.com

Tools which use Flickr

Flickr Storm: http://www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/

Image Coder for codes of CC images: http://www.imagecodr.org/

Search Flickr by Color: http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr

Make Words with Flickr letters: http://metaatem.net/words
Make cool online picture shows: http://splashr.com/

Generator Tools:

Play with Letters - Add Letters (to signs, shirts etc...):http://www.addletters.com/index.php

Add words and messages to images: http://www.imagechef.com/

Safer Resources for Images

http://kitzu.org/

http://www.pics4learning.com/

http://epod.usra.edu/ (earth science)

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day (Nat. Geo)

http://www.americanheritage.com/picture/ (historical images)

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/ (news pictures)

http://www.w3streams.com/ (a collection)

Online Picture Editing

PicNik: http://www.picnik.com

Screen Capture Software

Screenhunter: http://www.wisdom-soft.com/sh/sh_free.htm (windows only)

Jing: http://www.jingproject.com/ Screen Capture (video and image)

Multimedia

www.teachertube.com
www.youtube.com
LIVE African Safaris (DAILY): http://www.wildearth.tv

File conversion http://zamzar.com/

Voice Tools

Read The Words (it reads the words...): http://www.readthewords.com/

vozMe (embed spoken word - directions perhaps for non-readers in blogs etc.): http://vozme.com

Vocaroo (embed spoken word - directions perhaps for non-readers): http://vocaroo.com/

Podcasting Tools:

• itunes is an obvious source: http://www.apple.com/itunes/

• Great source of educational podcasts http://www.edtechtalk.com/
  

• Gcast - make podcasts from your phone: http://www.gcast.com

• Audacity for sound editing (free download software): http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Other Tools

LetterPop (simple newsletter templates and tools): http://letterpop.com

Moourl (url shortener): http://moourl.com

File dropper (File Sharing and storage): http://www.filedropper.com/

TinyPaste (share snippets of text via link): http://tinypaste.com/

Rubrics and Rubric Maker: http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php