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Publishing & Sharing Resources

These links offer children an opportunity for publishing and sharing on the Internet.

Before You Begin: Safety and Policies to Consider

Communication Tips for Collaborative Learning
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Find helpful suggestions for your students so that they can successfully exchange and gather information whether verbally or with text.
Practice Safety and Critical Thinking
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As students begin the exciting journey of collaboration, the overall goal and objective should be curriculum oriented and should not be a personal information exchange. Collaborative project based activities should be for the purpose of gathering and exchanging information that will enhance the student's understanding of curriculum being taught in the classroom.
Publishing Student Work
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This page will give you suggested guidelines for publishing information created by students as well as photographs of students. Publishing guidelines are local decisions that your school corporation should make.
School Publishing Policies
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Know what your school's publishing policy is for students and teachers.

Chat & Forums (moderated by adults)

KidsCom.com
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Fun and safe site for kids includes a moderated chat area.
Moodle Chat and Forums
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Moodle, a popular open source course management system (CMS), is designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can create your own chat and forum areas for your students with this software. You will need to create a log-in to access this information.

Collaboration

Collaborative Projects
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Here is a hotlist of collaborative projects that will encourage students to communicate with others around the world!
PBS Create Your Own Adventure
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Try these online madlibs to create your own adventure along with Kratt’s Creatures. Fill in the blanks with parts of speech and then read your wacky story.
Poetry Express
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15 Poems You Can Write Now is a great resource for teachers looking for poetry activities. The area for Sharing gives ideas for conversation starters when talking about poetry, the first steps of criticism (at its most positive).
Scholastic Poetry Ideas
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Scholastic provides links to activities, lesson plans and teacher’s guides for use of poetry with primary students.

Publishing Student Work

826 Valencia
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826 is especially committed to supporting teachers, offering services and resources for English language learners, and publishing student work. Several locations offer unique retail experiences as well.
Arctic Observations: A Student Writing Project
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This is an example of how students used the web to publish their observations and impressions of their home place in the Arctic. Included on the site are activities, writing, curriculum supplements, and examples designed to help students and teachers.
Giggle Poetry
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Lots of funny poems, poetry contests and more! Ideas for educators on teaching poetry in fun and interesting ways. Includes an interactive tool that students can use to generate new poems.
Interaction, Games and Puzzles Web Resources
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A list of web resources students and teachers can use to create or publish information on the Internet.
Kid Pub
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With over 44,000 stories written by and for children, this is one of the largest collection of stories on the Internet.
Kids on the 'Net
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Children all over the world send in their writing - poems, stories, articles and reports, opinions, writing about yourselves - whether they write it at school, at home, in a library or club, or anywhere else.
Susan Silverman's Webfolio
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Several examples of student work published on the Internet in a collaborative project.
Think Quest Library
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The ThinkQuest Library provides innovative learning resources for students of all ages on a wide range of educational topics. Featuring over 5,500 websites, the library is created by students from around the world as part of the Think Quest competition.
Wacky Web Tales
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Geared for grades 3 and up, this is a fun way to study the parts of speech! Students create stories using an online "story" generator!

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