Field Trip - Virtual Forest

This is a beautiful website that allows students to "walk" through a virtual forest in Finland. As you go on this trip, you learn about how to keep forests sustainable. You will hear the sounds and see a lot of information about forests. I recommend it highly.
UPM Forest Life For those of you that are reading this in email, the address is http://w3.upm-kymmene.com/upm/forestlife/index.html

Math Snacks - Videos to teach Math Concepts

This great site from NM State has videos that can be seen online or games that can be downloaded to the students' Ipods.
"Math Snacks are short animations and mini–games designed to help learners "get it". Each snack presents a mathematical concept, particularly those addressed in grades 6, 7 and 8. Ideal for use in a classroom or on your own, they can even be placed on mobile devices for "homework". The accompanying print materials can assist learners in applying their conceptual understanding to math problems." The website is http://www.mathsnacks.org/
The site shows how to do ratios, scale and proportions and equality. I think that the for some students, this would be a very cool way to learn a new math concept. 

Classroom Blogs

I haven't set this up yet, but it appears to be a great place for students to blog without having to have email addresses. If anyone at my school is interested, I would set up a blog for their students for them. It certainly appears to be an easy setup and the price is right. There aren't any ads and teachers can require that posts be approved before they are posted. I would certainly recommend that you put that feature on if you are using it with students. The name of the site is http://kidblog.org/.
Let me know if you decide to try this.