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www.educationcity.com is a great website for elemnetary teachers to enforce in the classroom. Of course you have to subcribe, but relaying the fun of this website to your principal could help spend the extra funds that might be lying around :) This site is standards based and allows the registered teacher to go into his/her class and assign interactive homework and classwork assignments. The teacher also gets a student report on the each child's progress.

http://www.intentionalfoul.com/images/QuizNCAAHelmets.xls
 * If you're as excited as myself about college football season, then this tech tip is just for you! Someone with a large amount of time on their hands put together an interactive quiz for college football fans. You identify the helmet of the college football team and type in your selection (answers are not case sensitive but check your spelling, because they will mark you incorrect for spelling errors!). Needless to say its a great time waster for the college football fan!

PS-The downfall of the quiz is that they don't give you the correct answers. They just identify your answer as right or wrong. A little bit of a bummer...

http://socialstudiesforkids.com
 * I like this site for social studies information and resources for elementary students.


 * Just an FYI because we have so many issues with the problem here. Use your 'my computer' icon to scan any USB flashdrives your students or other teachers want to hook up to your computer for viruses before you open them because there are some bad ones out there that attach to anything that comes in contact with the computer.

www.dictionary.com has a virtual vocabulary game that can be played on the smartboards. My students do this as a get started activity. They love it! They now enter the classroom ready to learn new vocabulary.

[|YouTube] is a great sight for how-to tutorials on various programs like MovieMaker, Rubistar, and Excel. It also offers great tutorials on how to create a blog or podcast.

Another great site for general tutorials like Word, Dreamweaver, and Powerpoint is http://www.edselect.com/tutorial.htm

There are many sites online that offer tips for teachers. [|Tammy’s Technology Tips] is one such site. My favorite tip is how to create a Wordle. I’m not sure what educational applications these have, but they are so cool. I know my students will enjoy creating them to add to their writer’s notebooks.

I also discovered a blog with some interesting tech tips including topics like Google Docs, Teaching Students to be Cybersmart, and Top 5 Free Resources. It’s at http://teachertechblog.com/