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Educational LA Stuff for Kids
Reading Practice
StarFall   FREE K-2 interactive books & word games
Roy the Zebra  1st Graders will love this one
  LookyBook  Lots of picture books; no audio
BookPALS Storyline Online Listen to members of Screen Actor Guild read books
NEW! Name That Book  From Reading Rainbow. Match the book to the clue.
NEW! Book Adventure Free - similar to Accelerated Reader

Play with Words
Voycabulary
 Viewing www pages thru this site will allow you to check dictionary & thesaurus info of words
Visual Dictionary Online  From Merriam Webster
Magnetic Poetry Tiles  Move the tiles - or make your own tiles!!
  Fridge Magnet Poetry, Poems, Magnets Idea: sort by nouns, verbs, etc.
Bembo's Zoo   Watch how the letters of the alphabet re-form into animals. How do they do that??
Scribble  Goal: create as many words as you can in 5 minutes using the 10 scribble letters.
Building Language for Literacy  Scholastic - PreK-K interactive
Make a Word  Interactive - Make as many words as you can from the given word
Word Magnets  Use phonics & sight words to create sentences
Zoom Playhouse 40+ complete play scripts  - short and sweet!
  Learning Vocabulary Fun My 5th graders LUV Hang Mouse!
  Quiz Tree Practice words by calling out a word and have students click on it K-3
NEW! Road Hog Spelling  3 letter words
NEW! Word Ahead  HS vocab videos - good for SAT prep

LA Games
ReviseWise English  From the BBC - interactive site with Reading, Writing, Spelling & Grammar & games
Mr. Nussbaum LA Games
GameGoo Interactive
Mortifying Monday  Gr 4-8 Choose your own adventure story From PBS Kids
NEW! Character Scrapbook Interactive reader's response


Writing
Left-Brained Poetry Prompts and Right-Brained Poetry Prompts
Writing Fun Using text organizers 

Read Write Think Interactive tools for reading & writing
Make Beliefs Comix Create your own comics!
bookr Create and share your own photobook using Flickr images
NEW! Magic Pen Story Starters

Spelling
SpellBee  FREE teacher registration. Choose a partner & play a word game. Grades 2-6
Spin and Spell  Choose a picture and spell the word. Grades 1-3
Spelling Time Grades 1-5
Spelling Wizard   Type in 10 words, then make a word search or word scramble
Spelling City Free register, upload spelling lists, send kids to practice

NEW! READ the lyrics as you SING along to some great oldies!
OM Cafe Nostalgia - Forever Music Hits 
OM Broadway - Music from Musicals
OM Classics - Classic Movie Tunes
OM Beatles - John Lennon and crew
Songs that Help Teach Words  Gr. K-2
Bus Songs - lyrics and music  for kids' favorites

Educational Math Stuff for Kids
Tessellation Town   Click & drag to create your own tessellations
  National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics  Long name. Cool site. Interactive virtual manipulatives based on NCTM standards
NCTM Illuminations   More Interactive Math Tools
  Daisy Maths   Interactive Math site for 3-11 year olds
Encyclogram  Explore harmonograms, spirographs, and lissajous figures
The MegaPenny Project   Visualizing HUGE numbers
  CosmicZoom Based on book Powers of Ten -visualizing large numbers
Multiflyer    Online multiplication practice
ReviseWise Maths  From the BBC - Numbers, Data Handling, Shape/Space/Measure, Mental Maths & Games
  Count Us In  Number concept games to download or play online. K-2
Math Drill Assign math practice, then receive graded reports - FREE!
  Mr. Nussbaum Math Games
(My kids love Math Fries and Decimal Place Value Pirates)
A Maths Dictionary for Kids  Animated & interactive
 
Pattern Blocks Interactive
  Money  Interactive
Learning about Time  Interactive: analog & digital
  Oddball  Interactive logic game
  Base 10 Blocks  Interactive
   Cuisenaire Rods  Interactive
  Fraction Bars Interactive
Rainforest Math   Interactive Gr 4-6
The Same Game  Addicting strategy game
Splat Square  Look for patterns on this 100 square (turn your sound off!)
Odd or Even  Sorting game
Overlapping Shapes
Coin Combo  Click on the falling coins to make the money amount.
The Counting Game Count by 1s, 2s, 3s and more
Math Playground  PreK-8
   Create Your Own Games  Long list of pre-made games, or make you own
Origami Now Step by step videos for creating fantastic origami art
Math Attack Practice multiplication in a gaming environment - free version or buy
NumberNut Memory game based on estimation & rounding numbers
Online Sudoku A new game every day!
Star Gazing  Practice angle measurement from PBS
  Make a Really Big Number - interactive place value
 10 Frame - Practice for counting and addition
  Smart Board activities for Math
NEW! Snakes and Ladders Game Addition skills from BBC
NEW! Count Hoot's Number Games  Addition & Subtraction practice
NEW! Rainforest Math Math games for 2nd-3rd grades
NEW! Add Like Mad Online addition game
NEW! Get Smarter: Math Interactive Math quiz for Grades 3 & 4
NEW! Multiplication Station Timed game
Educational Science Stuff for Kids
How Stuff Works   Hundreds of cool articles
JungleWalk   Tons of audio, video, web sites for jungle lovers
Virtual Fish Tank    Build-Your-Own-Fish online and release them into the Virtual FishTank(TM) exhibit at the Museum Of Science, Boston
Froguts   Online dissection without the smell! $300/year for whole school. Checkout demos.
Switcheroo Zoo   Switch the animals' heads, legs and tails to make new creatures at this surrealistic virtual zoo
ReviseWise Science  From the BBC - Living things, Materials, Physical Processes, Games
Playing with Time  Slow time down in several examples and watch what happens!
Devices of Wonder Interactive site. Cool stuff from the last 4 centuries!
Biology in Motion Grades 7-12 A collection of learning activities,  animations, and cartoons
exZooberance Animal pictures and facts
  Edheads Interactive science activities. Try Virtual Knee Surgery!
Peep Research  Answers to all your 'Peep' questions! Use this site to intro Scientific Method ;-)
Zoobooks  Click on Kids for interesting info on animals
QX5 Computer Microscope Every classroom needs one!  Software update for QX3
Extreme Science  Find the biggest, baddest, best in the world
Build a Solar System  Make a scale model  5th/6th
  Foss Human Body  Human skeleton assembly kit
Planets, Moons, and Their Dark Sides
  BBC School Science Clips Interactive Flash Science activities
Life Cycles of plants, frogs, humans
Learn to Be Healthy  1-6 FREE activities & lessons
The Amazing Food Detective (gr 4-6) Interactive games, lessons, activities - a complete unit
Knowledge Bears
Info about animals, dinosaurs, geography, space, weather, and more. Good place to start research.

Science Clips from the BBC Choose an age level at the left Gr K-7
Planet Science  Interactive activities, resources, lessons
WeatherMaker  Interactive - how weather is made - from Scholastic
Energy Flows  Interactive -put objects in sequence to let energy flow 3-6
Ology  Interactive museum: archeology, astronomy, water, etc.
NEW! Science Splat  From the BBC - online science quiz
NEW! Wild Weather Adventure  Online weather game from NASA for up to 4 students
NEW! Classify This  Put the bugs in the right classification
Get Smarter: Science
Interactive science test for 3rd & 4th grade
Build a Bridge Learn about suspension bridges from PBS
NEW! Science Labs Science interactives, lessons, & quizzes for 6th grade units
Educational Social St Stuff for Kids
Fact Monster   Atlas, encyclopedia, current events, daily facts and more
Ref Desk  A collection of references: encyclopedias, newspapers, language translators and more
Net Detectives  Interactive role playing
Kids NewsRoom   This week's news written just for kids.
dMarie Time Capsule   Plug in a date & find out what music, books, famous people were 'happening'
  Place the State   How well do you know your states??
Growth of a Nation   Free 10 minute movie of the geographic history of the US.
BuzzTracker   Shows relationship between news stories. Great for current events!
Sim City   FREE online Classic version.
City Creator  For the younger kids
MapZone   How to read a map - interactive
Don't Gross Out the World  Cute - International Dining Etiquette Quiz
Mr. Nussbaum Social Studies  Games, maps, history
Interactive Lewis + Clark
CommonCents!  Interactive economics by grade level
History Mystery From Scholastic Gr 4-9
Flags of the World
Lemonade Stand Great way to apply economics
Historic Tale Reconstruction Kit
  World History: Create your own stories
Bayeux Tapestry Activities 
World History: Complete the tapestry, build a Norman ship, etc
GeoSpy  Geography game from National Geographic
Puzzled States  US puzzle from Scholastic
The Road to Revolution - 1763 from PBS
SavingsQuest - Savings & budget game for kids

Geocaching (that's gee-oh-cash-ing)
Geocaching   Got a GPS unit? This site will help YOU be the search engine!!
PodCacher   A weekly podcast all about geocaching.
Michigan Geocaching Organization (MiGO)   Discussion forum about geocaching in Michigan
EdCaching  (Educational Geocaching)  Check out the Links and Brainstorms links for ways to use geocaching in your classroom

Way Cool Maps
World Atlas.com   Plug in a date & find out what music, books, famous people were 'happening'
Google Earth   PC + MAC Free download of satellite images + local facts. Check out the minimum configurations before downloading
Google Earth in the Classroom  Tips for using with kids
Earth Contest   Free - Great way for students to USE Google Earth!
Google Earth Touring  Directions for creating your own Google Earth tour.
Google Moon    NOT a download - NASA images + Google maps = pay a visit to the Moon!
Google Mars   NOT a download - NASA images + Google maps = pay a visit to Mars!
NASA World Wind  PC only  Free download lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Takes a LOT of memory - check out  system requirements
Map Machine  from National Geographic
The World Factbook  from the CIA
InfoNation  Compare countries
NationMaster and StateMaster Compare statistics for countries and states
Maps   Outlines of states, countries, & continents
How Far Is It?   Plug in 2 destinations and this site will figure the mileage & give you lat/long.
Maps   Outlines of states, countries, & continents
Gmaps Pedometer Track your walks
TerraClues  Interactive Scavenger Hunts using Google Maps
Map Maker Make your own map from National Atlas
Earth Album  Google Earth + flickr = photos around the world
Google Earth file: Extent of sea ice  downloads directly to Google Earth
Global Temperature Trends for Google Earth Download this set of .kmz files to get data on temperature trends

Educational Fine Arts Stuff for Kids
Pointilism Practice Page   Interactive canvas - paint like Seurat or VanGogh!
SandArt  Create colored 'sand' pictures!
Kaleidoscope Painter  Click and move your mouse for stellar creations
Ceremonial Music Online   Free downloads for educational use from the US Air Force.
PlayMusic  Fun, educational site - instruments, musicians, & more
Incredible Art Lessons  For teachers - Art lesson plans by grade levels (Early Childhood to HS) with categories like Art History/games & ideas for subs & student teachers
The Artists Toolkit  From The Minneapolis Institute of Arts   Explore the tools that artists use - like line, color, & balance - to build words of art.
Destination Mondern Art  Interactive exploration for elementary students from the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.
Color in Motion Animated & interactive - wear your earphones!
Dallas Symphony Orchestra  Music fun games
ZeFrank  Flowers  Fun play area
ArtRage 2  Free or Purchase paint software
Online Etch-A-Sketch Practice using arrow keys
ArtPad  Cool online drawing
Drawing for Children  Free download
TuxPaint  Free download pc/Mac
Mr. PicassoHead  Use Picasso strategies with Mr. Potato Head techniques
Mr. Potato Head The original is now online
Artsonia   Students can have their own art gallery online. Tip: take dig pix of art works instead of scanning!
SketchCast  Create a drawing with or without voice to make a Flash video

A Little of Everything Stuff for Kids
Homework Spot   K-12 articles, themes, field trips, references and more
2 Minute Mystery Club
 A weekly mystery to solve
Paper Toys
  Just print, cut, fold and glue!
Think Tanks   Students (grades 3-8) develop a Research Organizer (a list of topics and subtopics) for reports and projects
SodaPlay  Build your own or just sit back and wonder how they do that
KidsHub  Educational games, puzzles, quizzes, spelling activities, and subject guides
iKnowthat   Click on grade level (K-6) or Curriculum area
Professor Garfield  Click on Knowledge Box & choose a grade level & curriculum area  K-6
Thinking Machine 4  Interactive Chess game
Little Animals Activity Center 
K-2 read-along stories, math practice, music games from the BBC
Kids Know It Network  Games, activities, all FREE


Kid Friendly Directories
KidsClick!
Enchanted Learning
FactMonster
KidsNet.Au
KidzOnline


Kid Friendly Search Engines  
Ithaki for Kids
Google Safe Search
Quintura   
Ask for Kids  (formerly Ask Jeeves for Kids)   
Kartoo  Visual Mapper    
Grokker  Visual Mapper    
Mooter  Visual Mapper    
Clusty  Clusters relevant results

Kid Friendly Browsers
Firefly
KidRocket

Communication Stuff
Teachers.Net Chatboards   Great teacher resource for all grades, curricula, & interests

CreateSurvey  Create your own surveys
Zoomerang
   Create your own surveys
IncrediMail
 For fun - FREE download program to spice up your email with backgrounds, sounds, animations, etc.
Calendar.Net   Create your classroom online calendar

Assign-A-Day   Create your own online calendar
LoCalendar
   Add a free calendar to your website
Brochure Maker 
From HP - choose a theme, add your own pix & text
LetterPop  Free online newsletter with background templates, click & drag images, copy & paste text. Register (FREE) to save and upload own images.


Keyboarding for Kids
Dance Mat Typing   Free online keyboarding program - great fun!
Learn2Type for schools  Register your class.
Radio Typing   Type to the beat of the music
eLearning Keyboarding Skills  Learn to communicate with an alien!
Nimble Fingers  Free online projgram + resources for teaching keyboarding in the classroom
Free Typing Lessons  Lessons, games, tests, good stuff

Keyboarding Practice for Kids 
Online Bubbles Game   Type the letters as they float upward.
Typer Shark  Free online version
FunSchool's Type Me 
Barracuda
Alphabetic Rain
Word Trees
Fowl Words Play the Timed Game for free
Fowl Words 2
ABCya! Keyboard Challenge  put keyboard keys in their correct place
Keyboard Tutor start hunting letters, then words, and finally sentences!
Type Me from FunSchool
Treasure Type similar to Typer Shark
Super Hyper Spider Typer  Save the spider by typing words
Cup Stacking  Stack & unstack the cups by typing the letters on them
Keybr.com  Open  source practice - shows speed & accuracy
FingerJig 6 minute practice site gives all sorts of data
Typing Invaders - free typing game download
10 Finger Breakout
- free typing game download
NEW! Online Typing Games - register username to keep track of scores

Free Keyboarding Downloads 
Kiran's Typing Tutor
TuxTyping
TypeFaster Typing Tutor

Fun Sites to Help Keyboarding
Fearless Frieda
  Type the words you hear
Fearless Frieda 2 The Big Kahuna  More typing of the words you hear
Phonics and Word Study Center   Great 'keyboarding games': Fish Tanks 1 & 2, Space Station, Field Trip, Sly Pig
Instant Poetry Forms
Word Wonders
Mad Libs on the Web
Type in your words and create a story
eLibs
Create Your Own Adventure  PBS
Wacky Web Tales 
Mr. Nussbaum's Paralaughs

'Mousing' Practice Sites
Learn to Mouse 
Scribble
More mousing practice
Save the Egg  More mousing practice - save the Penguin egg from Nat. Geographic

Teaching Stuff
Language Arts
Webbe books   Create digital books
Reading A-Z  FREE Downloadable Books • Lesson Plans • Worksheets • Flashcards • More
Printable Books For emergent readers
Make your own minibooks Features minibooks for each letter of the alphabet.
Writing Prompts   Enough for everyday this year and next!
Creative Writing Prompts   More daily ideas
Spell-A-Rama   Download, print, laminate this set of cards and let 'em learn while they're playing!
Good Readers  1st Graders SHOW kids how to be Good Readers. A lovely video using REAL kids!
Intervention A for K-1 Reading intervention program for small groups of 1-6 K or 1st students
Free Reading.net Reading strategies for the young group
Into the Book  Excellent reading strategies for K-3
NEW! Young Writers Workshop Story starters and publishing kids' writing
NEW! Writing Rubric  Very kid-friendly!
NEW! Great things to DO with your word wall:
Word Wall Activity List
  
More activities 
    Even more activities 
    Another list
   And a few more
Compact for Reading  K-3 agreement for families + school to help teach reading Great resource! Free download
Paragraph a Week  5th/6th grades A year's worth of writing
Picture Prompt Story Starters for Early El 
Reading Workshop Strategies, tutorials, worksheets for Grades 1-2 and 3-5
Novel Study Guides Grades 3-8
NEW! How to create a Talking Book  Video with step by step directions for using PPT 2003

Research
Noodle Tools: Bib & Quest   Bibliography Composer & Search strategies
NoteStar   Take notes from online sources. Source information for citations is automatically captured
KidzOnline Informative videos on how to search, PowerPoint tutorials, and more. Upper El, Middle School & teacher PD

Math
NEW!   To Excel in the Classroom K-6 Excel projects
Math Quiz Generator
Create your own worksheets
  The Maths Teacher's Toolkit  Demo math tools e.g. Place value calculator, Screen Calculator, 12 hour clock, Sequences, and more.
MathWire Creative themes to teach Math based on NCTM standards
Printable Graph Paper
Virtual Dice  Click to 'throw' or create your own virtual 6, 8, 10, or 12-sided dice

Science/Social Studies
Live Science  Movies, headlines, cool stuff. PREVIEW before sending kids here!
Visual Ranking  Rank and put lists in order - free teacher tool
Seeing Reason  Cause & effect - free teacher tool
Showing Evidence  Analyzing & evaluating info - free teacher tool
eThemes   Internet resources for Gr 1-12
GSN Projects Registry   Find great online projects here, or create your own!
Time for Kids/Teachers  Gr K-6
MythBusters: Results  5 Seasons worth of results
NEW! HSI: Historical Scene Investigation Upper El + MS - based on Crime Scene Investigations, uses primary & secondary docs to re-evaluate history
4 2 Explore  Definitions, activities, the 4 good starting points, and many more links and resources for the thematic topic for over 200 themes.
Anacleta's Spanish & World Language / Cultures Resources A goldmine of resources for Spanish teachers!


Online Timelines
NEW! Dipity Very cool timeline
CircaVie  Online timeline - upload pix Cool!
NEW! LifeHaps  Create a login.

Games
Word Game Boards Free MS Word templates to create your own games (or assign kids to make 'em!)
EclipseCrossword FREE download - create your own crossword puzzles with your words & clues
Waterford Press FREE Science Games, Activities, & Quizzes

 More Teaching Stuff
SmartBoard
Primary Interactive Whiteboard Resources  LOTS of ideas and resources for getting the most out of your interactive whiteboard
Maximizing SMART Board Tips, basic manuals, templates, lessons for K-12
Great sites for Using the SmartBoard K-3 List of interactive sites
SmartBoard web site resources
More SmartBoard web site resources

Organizers
Graphic Organizers  Lots of different kinds of organizers. Just click, print and use in your classroom as hard copies!
Web-Bits  short, learning-based activity that uses the World Wide Web as the resource for gaining information.
Bubbl.us  FREE online brainstorming mind map
Study Stack  FREE online flashcards - use theirs or create your own
Flashcard Exchange Create, study, print, download & share flashcards. FREE registration 
NEW! Graphic Organizers in Doc or pdf formats

Teacher Tools
Homeworkopoly
   Directions for creating a monopoly-like game to encourage homework
Teach With Movies   Discussion questions, bridges to reading, projects and links to the internet for 1,000's of movies
K12 Online Conference 2007 Stay tuned for next year's conference
Teacher's Domain Public tv content for K-12 teachers  
Homework Service from UTexas  Free!  Assign each student different problems - automated system will take care of grading & bookkeeping for Grades 5-8 Math, Algebra, Precalculus, Calculus, Biology, Chemistry, Physical Science, and Physics
The Classroom Flyer  A daily email newsletter that contains teaching resources and tools. Sign up for a level specific newsletter to come to your email box weekly, or view today's newsletter, or explore the archives.
Teach-nology    Lesson Plans, worksheets, teacher resources, rubrics & Motivators
Rubistar    Make your own Rubrics!
Rubric Builder   Make your own Rubrics!
Project Gutenberg    Complete etexts to pre-1923 books.
TWICE   VideoConference field trip database - connected to Michigan Frameworks!
MEAP Lesson Plans   Locate lesson plans based on Mi Curriculum Framework Benchmarks
NEW!  Michigan Educator's Resources  Michigan curriculum standards, benchmarks, aligned with resources plus lots more Michigan info

Using PowerPoint
NEW!  Parade of Games in PowerPoint

Pete's PowerPoint Station  Free ppts , templates, clipart and more
PowerPoint Palooza  Free ppt slideshows to use in your classes 9-12
Free PowerPoint templates (complete with sound!)
Just download & add your own questions & answers
Internet Safety
Disney Surfswell Island K-6 Covers privacy, viruses, and netiquette
NetSmartKidz 
Internet safety thru songs, characters & interactive games
Safety Land
Answer Internet safety questions to help a super hero catch a bad Internet character
Privacy Playground  Gr 3-5 Cyberpigs help teach how to spot online marketing strategies, protect personal info, and avoid online predators
ConnectSafely  Especially for kids who are involved in social networking
CyberSmart A complete K-8 Online Safety curriculum

Put your Curriculum Online Stuff
TourMaker   A sequence of Web pages on any subject with simultaneous commentary.  Trial version to build your own tour
Filamentality
   Guides for creating hotlists, scavenger hunts, webquests, etc
Trackstar   Collections of websites organized by theme
Hot Potatoes   Create interactive quizzes to post on the www
Quick Topic   For group discussion.
Quick Topic Review   Gather comments on any MS Word or html  document .
Viewlets   Create animated online demos
Bravenet   Free web page hosting plus lots of extras - counters, guestbook, message forum, email forms, mini poll, clip art archive, guestmap, password gate, mailing list, and more
Project Poster   For students who wish to publish projects and reports on the Web for 3 months after last edit.
MatMice   Free homepages for kids sponsored by Scholastic
CRAYON (Create Your Own Newspaper) A news page customized for you with the daily information that you are most interested in.
Quiz Master   Create interactive web-based games - use a template to enter your own curriculum
HotChalk FREE Online classroom  w/gradebook
Weebly Free online web newspaper
Polldaddy Create a poll or survey to post on your web site - free!
Class Marker  Create online tests & quizzes FREE
My Studiyo  Create online quizzes FREE

Online Bookmarking sites
BackFlip   Save your bookmarks to the www
Save This!   Free web space to save & share bookmarks
iKeepBookmarks   Simple Web-Based Bookmark Manager
Portaportal
del.icio.us  Social bookmarking
Trailfire A different sort of bookmarking site - create a 'trail' of sites on one topic

Make a classroom website
Web Worksheet Wizard  Simple way to get info online - post an image, text, links for 1 year
Moodle   Create an online classroom  FREE!
NiceNet    FREE online classroom  (can renew for Free)
FreeWebs FREE web page creator
Blogger Create a classroom blog or web page FREE! 
ProtoPage Free personal start page
Pageflakes Free personal start page
Google Pages Easy free web page
NEW! Webster's Classroom  Free classroom web site


Anti-Frustration with Technology Stuff
WebWasher   Remove ads from websites - FREE!  
Pop Up Stopper    Stop those annoying pop-ups - FREE!
Wayback Machine
    Displays the Web as it looked on a given date. Locate old web pages here
Ad Aware   Detect and remove spy ware - FREE!
Spybot Search and Destroy
   Stop transmitting information about your surfing behaviour to the 'Net  
Old Version  NOT the newest software - original versions of old standbys

Media Convert Convert movies, sounds, images, documents, and more
TILT Teachers Improving Learning with Technology: Free how to videos
Zamzar  Free online file conversion
Zamzar Button Add this link to your toolbar for a shortcut to online conversions (save a YouTube video to view at school!)
How to clear your browser cache  Directions for any browser
Make your Life Easier Stuff
Yahoo Briefcase   Save to your Free "briefcase" at school & open at home!
NotesHolder Litepc freeware 
Desktop note holder that is unobtrusive
MS Office Template Gallery   Why re-create the wheel???
You Can Handle Them All
  Suggestions for handling over 100 different misbehaviors
Teacher's Pet  Free MS Word download to help you create flashcards, word-jumbles, multiple-choice questions, vowel remover, and more. Great for LA classes!
Bookmarklets  Cute little FREE java script you can drag to your browser toolbar. Click on one and you can place a bookmark in the middle of a web page, find out when the page was last updated, etc.
GabStopper for PC only.  $9.95 to download. Run on a pc with a microphone and it will track the noise level in your classroom!!
Mail2web  Pick up your email from ANYWHERE!
Screen Timer  FREE download - Countdown timer
Online Stopwatch Counts up and down. Bookmark this one!
Random Number Generator  Click Refresh and get a new number from 1-30
Super Teacher Worksheets  Free!
NEW! Create Your Own WordSearch   

You Send It  Send files up to 100 mb over the Internet without bogging down someone's emailbox!
DropSend Send files up to 1gb
4Shared 5gb of online storage for free!
Box.net Share large files online

Pixel2Life Collection of software tutorials (e.g. Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash, Gimp, MS Word, etc)
Easy Test Maker    FREE online test generator to help you create your tests.
NEW! QuizEgg  online quiz maker - create a quiz & it will correct it for you!  3 quizzes are free, small charge for unlimited quizzes
World of Teaching   FREE PowerPoints submitted by teachers  Biology Chemistry Math English History Physics Geography Spanish 9-12
Classroom Architect   Plan out your classroom floor plan without hauling desks around
Mailinator Free temporary email address for  when you need an email address to register for a site

The Free Mac Classroom  Free software for Mac computers
Kathy Schrock's Directions for determining Readability
Worksheet Library For fee (reasonable) with 500+ FREE worksheets K-6
Atomic Learning tutorials for Google Docs  - Free
 
Oo La La Stuff
Making Friends Paper Dolls   Print, color, cut. Glue on student's digital picture for even more fun - then use as a story starter!
Papercraft  Free downloads to print, cut & fold. Make animals, buildings, toys, origami, scenes from around the world.
WeatherBug   pc only
Your own weather station on your desktop
Did You Know?   Quick quotes, interesting facts, and lots more here. Great for 'Fact of the Day. Also has  variety of similar pages devoted to animals, history, literature, etc.
The Best of Hubble    Way cool slideshow of Hubble pix. Turn up your volume!!
Undercover    Free PowerPoint template similar to Concentration, in which the students test their ability to identify an event, person, place, or any image as it is uncovered.
TuxPaint   Free drawing program for kids  with drawing and text tools, rubber stamps, and more.
Squeak  Free media authoring tool.
PowerBullet  FREE download. Create a FLASH movie to post on the web - easily!
OFSET: Organization for Free Software in Education and Teaching  FREE programs to use in your classroom
The Open CD FREE source of open source Windows software to download.
Tool Thyme for Trainers  Where else could you find 'Brain Floss' and a Magic Light Bulb?
The Hat   Handy little utility that offers a fun & easy way to automatically determine a random order from a list of any amount of names
Honda ad All sounds created by a choir




Picture Stuff
Easy Thumbnails pc only
FREE software for creating thumbnail pictures.
JigZone.com   Free online jigsaw puzzles. Become a member (FREE) and  use your own photos
EarthCam for Kids   Cameras let you view activities around the world
Mondrimat
   Create virtual works of art. Based on the art of Piet   Mondrian.
Design Gallery Live   Searchable clipart collection
Web Picture Creator   Free software for resizing images, making thumbnails, copying images and creating Internet photo albums.
SURWEB (The State of Utah Resources Web)  Create multimedia presentations in minutes using images, sounds & movies provided by SURWEB or other digital sources
Irfanview   FREEware for Windows - photo editing, thumbnails, slideshow, effects & more 
PhotoPlus  FREE download for Windows - great for beginners!
MovieTone Portraits  Great  for history classes - small movies about entertainers, lifestyles, travel, and personalities.
Picasa2 FREE find, edit, share pictures on your computer
Picasa in the Classroom suggestions for using Picasa with kids
Hello  FREE Share your photos with friends without huge email attachments.
BubbleShare  FREE Share your photos with friends as a story album
Digital Movie Creator 2.0  Simple digital video camera for elementary kids
Pure Point & Shoot Digital Video Camcorder  Sweet!
The Futures Channel Math/Science movies connecting learning to the real world
Cute PDF Create and edit PDF files for free
Photo Gadget Pro Resize, rotate, crop, rename, stamp, frame, convert images - pc
MS PhotoStory 3
Create slideshows with photos FREE
MS PhotoStory 3 Tutorial Step by step video
Flickr  Photo sharing - don't send students here unchaperoned!
Spell with Flickr  Safe place to send kids who are looking for alphabet images
GIMP  Free image editing similar to Photoshop pc/Mac
Qlipboard Download to animate your photos with simple drawing tools and/or your voice PC ONLY
flauntR Free online photo editor. Add a border, and more
Anne's School Days Gifs 
Free images to use in your classroom
School Related Background Sets & Clipart
ClipArt Etc. Free clipart for teachers & students
Bookr Online photobook + flickrSLiDR Online photoslideshowMixbook  Collaborative online/print book
Blabberize Upload an image, trace the mouth and record - what fun! BEWARE - some 'blabbers' may not be appropriate for students!
PicResize  Free photo editing - blur, sharpen, resize, add text, crop, etc.
BigHugeLabs (flickr Toys) - fun things to do with your pictures

Video Stuff   NEW!
Mr. Needleman's Video in the Classroom  Way cool samples
Bombay TV Create your own video with 70's East India movie clips
Animoto Upload your images and Animoto creates a cool music video FREE PREMIUM SERVICES TO EDUCATORS
Teacher Tube
My Learning Tube
School Tube
That Ain't Gonna Hold Us Back, Girls!
video




Great Blogs
NEW!  Blogging is Elementary
How to get started
The Tech Savvy Educator 
Blog for teachers
Blog2Learn  A wiki with how to blog + lots of cool examples of classroom blogs
WWI: Experiences of an English Soldier  posted 90 years to the day events happened

Make your own Blog
Edublogs  for teachers & students
Blogger  Easy to use template
Blogger in the Classroom  How to use a blog
Bloglines  Search, subscribe, create news feeds (RSS)
imbee  Secure site for kid blogs



Make your own Podcast 
NEW!  phone.io  Simplest way to put your audio online
VoiceThread Add converstation to your images
What is Podcasting  Everything you ever wanted to know about making your own podcast
Learning in Hand: Podcasting from Tony Vincent. Check out the Create Podcasts page
Audacity Free download for pc - audio editing software
Kid-Cast Podcasts for an by kids - a safe place to post your 'casts.
vozMe Type in text & voxMe converts to mp3
Internet Safety Podcast  Good parent resource

Copyright Stuff
Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers   Great chart that puts classroom copyright issues into perspective
Copyright Bay   Self-guided 'tour' of copyright issues
Copyright for Kids    Easy to navigate
Movie Licensing USA    Keep it legal!
EasyBib    MLA format free - APA $5/year
QuickCite  Quickly generate an MLA-style citation for a single source (simplified for younger students).
Citation Machine  Creates MLA and APA citations.
Crash Course in Copyright 
Copyright and You  Very nicely put-together tutorial
A Fair(y) Use Tale  Humorous movie that reviews copyright terms


Free Music Resources
Free MP3 Downloads
FreePlayMusic  Free downloads

Just for listening:
Pandora  Free streaming music - select your artist or album and do some chair dancing!
Magnatunes  Free streaming, option to purchase
SoundSnap  Looking for a sound snippet? You'll find it here!


Make your own Wiki
Wikispaces  Free templates
PBWiki "Easy as making a peanutbutter sandwich"
Twiki Issues  Suggestions to avoid tricky situations
WetPaint  No ads for educators
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Last updated April 15, 2009

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