If you are looking for a website where children can interact, I have a great website for you. At the website KidLink, children are able to communicate with other children. The neat thing about that is, there are children from the United States as well as from other places in the world. The site is also written in more than one language with just a click of a button. Have fun and enjoy!

African American History

It is always exciting to share African American History with young children, but especially now with the recent changes that have occurred in the United States of America, there will be a different type of excitement. We now have a new President who is the first African American President - Barack Obama. In the site, The Best Websites To Teach & Learn About African-American History, there are many titles that will assist in the teaching of this subject. For my younger students, I look forward to visiting the site named Kulture Kidz. This site discusses the contributions that different African Americans have made.

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Creating Slideshows

The site http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/05/06/the-best-ways-to-create-online-slideshows/ shows different ways to create a slideshow. Creating a slideshow for your students can be a creative way for students to view their great work. Along with the students great work and pictures taken during the year, can creat a great end-of-the-year slideshow to show the progress of the students and the great time they had the past school year. Memories can last a lifetime, especially in a slideshow.

Reading Is Fun!

Learning how to read can be a difficult task for young learners, especially students who are learning to speak and read English. This site http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/about/my-best-of-series/ has a great topic listing eleven different sites that a early reader can enjoy. The eleven sites can be found at The Best Websites To Help Beginning Readers. I enjoyed number five Leading to Reading, however all of the sites are worth taking a look. This site will read stories to beginner learners and because there is more than one site to look at, it provides a variety for the learner. One of the best things about the eleven sites are most of them are free. Try it out and enjoy!

Information about Web 2.0

There is plenty of information about web 2.0 in the Cool Cat Teacher Blog titled, Basic for Beginners: What is Web 2.0?. If you want to get practice, there is an assignment for beginners.

Twenty Reasons to Blog

Blogging is something new (to me), especially in the classroom. In case it's new to you , there are 20 reasons to blog in the classroom. Take a look and try it out.