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=Welcome to Sites for Younger Students= Finding Web 2.0 sites for students under the age of 13 can be challenging for teachers who wish to incorporate Web 2.0 into their lessons. This wiki will list sites teachers can use that are appropriate for children under the age of 13 or do not require an email address to have an account. If you know of a site that belongs on this list please add it to the list.

Social Networking
====Edmodo: A learning social network site for classroom use. Students can blog, complete and turn-in assignments, share links to websites, videos, files, and other information, a gradebook, calendar, and storage space for students and teachers can store files. The site is secure from outside intrusions and students cannot send private messages to anyone but a teacher. Accounts for parents are available so they can observe student work and communicate with the teacher. Teachers can also network with each other on a variety of topics or you can create your own network. There are apps for iOS and Android devices. (Free)====

Schoology: Another learning social networking site with blogging, assignment turn-in, and gradebook. (Free)
====twiducate Social networking for classrooms: //Connect, Collaborate, Imbed//. Very similar to Edmodo, twiducate's page structure will be intuitive to students using less private social networks (think: Facebook). Twiducate touts itself as a "walled garden" of social networking. (Free)====

Blogging
====Edublogs: Wordpress blogs for teachers and students. Student blogs are theirs for as long as they wish to keep the blog. Free for basic student and teacher blogs and fees for extra features such as adding media to blogs.====

====Kidblog: Wordpress blogs teachers can create for their students' for class blogging. Blogs are tied to a teacher's account and meant for the duration of a class. Users can add media to blogs. (Free)====