Wow, this week I found some really great sites to use in our classroom. While looking for a Web 2.0 tool to contribute to our class's wiki, I stumbled upon a great site called Library Thing. This website basically lets your organize your personal library online. You can tag the books that you add and when you are planning your lessons, you can do a search and see all the books that you have that meet the criteria. Let's be honest, how many time have you tried to organize you books and reach a point where your stumped at how to place a title. Many times I have debated with myself about "favorite character" book (i.e. Clifford, Franklin), whether to group them together or by the topic they cover. Wondering which way would be more useful. Now I can use Library Thing, tag them both ways, and be covered for all lessons.
I also spent some time this week working on my Delicious account and filling it with goodies. Every once in away you can across a really cool website that you just know that you will use in the future, but do not necessarily need it right now. I know quite a few handy sites that are now safely bookmarked for the future in my Delicious account. Among the favorites that I found were some classroom blogs, I always love seeing what "real" classrooms are doing and what is working for those teachers. I also gives me some great ideas for my own classroom website in the future. Another fun site I found was Story Bird. The site lets you pick artwork from a multitude of artists and the pick individual pieces and write your own text to go with them. Awesome new way to write a classroom book and then share with parents on your classroom's website. Those were just a few of the gems I found this week enjoy.
StoryBird
Library Thing
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