BP5-20100516_web2.0tools

This web 2.0 tool is really great and will work well especially for the lower grades. This tool is http://www.tizmos.com/.  This site is alot like igoogle. It allows you to put links to other sites on one page.  You can gather a list of sites you want your students to be able to explore without them getting distracted on the internet.  If you had a research project and wanted to limit their sources or makes sure they were getting all reliable sources then you can compile them here on this site.

This site is free to use.  It is very easy to use as well.  Simply create on new accout enter your username, password, and name and you are ready to add sites.  To add a site to your page you simply click on the add site link.  Then you enter the website url, add a tag, adn then your done.  Repeat until you have all of the sites you want. You can use this site at home for your own kids giving them access to only the sites you want them to have access to.  It can be used for projects you are working on.  You can put all of the links that pertain to one project on this site giving you one shop access to what you need.  This site is useful and easy to use.  There are so many uses for this site.  Check out my page by clicking on the link below.

http://www.tizmos.com/mboakye