6th+grade

__**Weebly website**__ Weebly is a user friendly website maker. The entire process is simply click and drag. You can attach files very easily and editing/updating is fast and easy. I used this for parents and students. I included weekly assignments, attachments to monthly classroom newsletters, a link to our classroom blog, and contact information. [|Weebly] __**Kidblog**__ This is a blog site that allows you to sign in as a teacher and then create different classes. You create usernames and passwords for students to login as. I highly recommend that you take the time to create a different password for each student. This will ensure that you know who is really posting what. I have the setting so that I have to approve each blog entry or comment before it is posted to the blog. [|Kidblog] __**Photopeach**__ Photopeach is a website that is used to create picture slideshows. I used this website to create book trailers (similar to a movie trailer). Students also used this to make a picture show of a research project they did on Australia. This project was a little time consuming for me, only because all of my students do not have e-mail addresses, which is required for using the product. Because of this, students searched for pictures and I had to place them into the project myself. Either way, it was a really fun activity for students. [|Photopeach] __**Digital Book Talk**__ This website was very easy to use, simply search for a book title. IF the book is in the database, a video "book talk" will pop up to use in your classroom. It is a great tool to use when introducing literature circle books. [|Digital Book Talk]