So I'm all about keeping it simple.  I love the new website and blogging platform called teacherblogit.  The site allows teachers to quickly sign up for a subdomain, add a picture and assignment, and have a blog set up for the teacher and students in minutes. Once I set up my portal, I added all my students blogs--all for free And it was super easy to do this--the kids know how to work the blogs--I just needed to add assignments and they were off to the races!  I was paying $9 a month on a different site last year for my student blogs, and to be honest, teacherwebit is easier and faster for students.  The thing I love most about this site is commenting on blog posts--when I want to comment on my students' blogs, I can use the voice command feature on my ipad 3!

Other finds?  Well recently, I have been in love with livebinder.com.  This is an amazing platform for organizing all your technology tools.  Our technology team is in the middle of setting up our own live binder with all the most recent techno tools we can find.  I will add a live link to our binder once it is complete!

And lastly, still my favorite tool of the trade--Animoto.com.  Animoto allows students to make professional looking presentations in minutes (and I already told you how I love to keep it simple).  You can also sign up for a free educators pass so that all of your students can build presentations for free.  (otherwise you have to pay for videos longer than 30 seconds.)  Pretty cool--worth a few minutes to check it out.

And if you haven't been to DonorsChoose.org, you are missing out.  I have already had one project funded--$700.00 worth of Ray Bradbury Graphic Novels--thank you DonorsChoose!

Best! 
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