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 * These resources are meant to give you a better overall picture of these tools and strategies so you can begin to envision how to implement them into your classroom.**


 * **Formative Assessment** --Get a good overview of formative assessment from these resources.
 * **Blogging**--browse some ideas for using a blog at Ten Ways to Use Your Edublog to Teach or read more about blogging with elementary students here.
 * **Wikis**--Check out Ways to Wiki for some examples and tips to get you started.You also might start with this "Wiki Walk Through" to show you some of the uses for a wiki
 * **Web 2.0** -- Check out these pages on web 2.0 from Discovery Education or visit my blog at [|www.bagotricks.wordpress.com] to read some detailed narrative and teacher testimonies about implementing some of these tools.
 * **Digital Storytelling--**Read more about digital storytelling in the classroom and see several examples here.
 * **Read Richard Byrne's** How to do 11 Techy Things or [|Google For Teachers].
 * **Elementary Teachers** --might want to check out this recent article about wiki use in an elementary classroom: Wikis: Pulling it all Together
 * **Music Teachers** --Not sure how all this might apply to your classes? Read How Music Teachers Got Their Groove Back: Music Education Goes Digital.
 * **Browse the Pennsylvania Department of Education's Standards Aligned System **pages to find 21st century materials and resources for specific standards. This is a work in progress, but promises to be a useful tool for educators.
 * **Browse the ready made lesson ideas**:
 * Thinkfinity ---thousands of ready to go lessons and resources
 * Promethean Planet -- Find premade flipcharts on just about any content. The set up and design is done for you, just dowload them and customize them to fit your needs!
 * Smart Exchange --the same as the above for your SMART board.