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I saw this video on the NY DEN Blog - so I thought I’d post it as well.  Dalton Sherman reminds us to ask ourselves…Do you believe??

Here’s to a great school year!!!

Video found on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAMLOnSNwzA

As we prepare for our students to return, just thought we’d share some wonderful resources from our very own NCWiseOwl website and other Back to School sites.  Add a comment and share a great resource that you use!!

http://www.ncwiseowl.org/zones/professional/Featured/august.htm - August Featured Websites

http://www.ncwiseowl.org/zones/professional/Featured/september.htm - September Featured Websites

http://www.ncwiseowl.org/zones/professional/Top20.htm?-db=Websites&-loadframes - Top 20 Professional Websites

Resources from Discovery Educators and Discovery Education:

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/edres.html - Kathy Schrock’s Back to School Tips

http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/digital_storytelling - Joe Brennan’s Back to School Blog Entry

http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/WordSearchSetupForm.asp - Make a Back to School Puzzle with Discovery Education’s puzzle maker

Other Resources:

http://www.vickiblackwell.com/backtoschool.html - A fellow educators Back to School tidbits

http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Back_to_School.shtml - Back to School website

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/back.to.school/ - CNN’s Back to School gadgets article

Some of my wonderful teammates added more web 2.0 resources (Onslow County Tech Facilitators are awesome!)  Check out the newly added links.  Can you think of any more to add?  Post a comment and let us know…

A-Animoto, Audacity
B-Blabberize, blogger, Blackboard, Beautiful Society, Bubbleshare
C-Comics Sketch, Comic Life , Chatzy, chats
D-del.icio.us, Digg, Doodle
E-Evernote, Edublogger, Elluminate, Etsy, ed.Voicethread
F-freesound.org, Facebook, Flicker
G-Google Even More, GoogleDocs, GoogleTalk, iGoogle, Gcast, Google Reader
H-Hotchalk, Humblevoice
I- itunes, Instant Messaging
J- Jott
K -Kerpoof, Kerpoof
I -Levelator, Lively, Linked In
M-Mogulus, MySpace, Moodle, my.9rules
N-Ning
O-Our Story
P-PBWiki, Picasa, PureVolume, Plurk, Photobucket, Picnik, Poll Everywhere
Q-Quizlet
R-RSSfwd
S-Skype, Second Life, Slideshare, Shelfari 
T-Twitter, Threadless, TeacherTube, Trig
U-Ustream
V - VoiceThread, Virb
W-Wetpaint, Wikipedia, WikiAnswers, Wordle, Wordle, wikis
X-Xoost, Xanga, xtimeline
Y-Yelp, YouTube, Yep!
Z Zamzar, Zoomerang

How many of these do you know??

A-Animoto
B-Blabberize
C-Comics Sketch
D-del.icio.us
E-Evernote
F-freesound.org
G-Google Even More
H-Hotchalk
I- itunes
J- Jott
K -Kerpoof
I -Levelator - post production podcast clean up
M-Mogulus
N-Ning
O-Our Story
P-PBWiki
Q-Quizlet
R-RSSfwd
S-Skype
T-Twitter
U-Ustream
V - VoiceThread
W-Wetpaint
X-Xoost - http://www.xoost.com/ a great new search engine
Y-Yelp
Z Zamzar

Many thanks to the California Girls from the National Institute for coming up with this amazing Web 2.0 Tools list.  Also, a great big thanks to Riptide Furse (from DEN Second Life LC) for using those very cool snap shots website previews on his blog….saw them…liked them…used them!