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General

Graphic Organizers
Online interactive resources (Alberta, Canada)
Royalty-free graphics
Microsoft Clip Art
TinyURL
condense long URLs into shorter ones
Fur.ly
Shorten multiple urls into one
Free Website-building tutorials
MarcoPolo - Internet content for the classroom
Typing accent marks in Microsoft Word
Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers
Bubble Test Form Generator
Clip Art
Classroom ClipArt
eHow
How to do just about everything!
Picture Trail
create web photo slideshows
Rock You
create web photo slideshows
one true media
create web photo slideshows
Create online games
Kigose
safe image search
EduPic
Free photographs and graphics for education
Symbols on a Mac
Downloadable teacher forms/letters
Bloom's Taxonomy Goes Digital

$ for classroom technology

Art

English

Connecting books to the Virginia SOLs
Voycabulary - turn words on any website into links to definitions in an online dictionary
Blog writing prompts
Doc Cop
accurate, fast, FREE plagiarism detection
Wordle
create word clouds
Tagul
create clickable word clouds

ESL

Apple ESL
ESL portal

Foreign Language

Spanish Grammar Exercises

Internet Safety

Joe Showker's Net Safety Site

Math

TI-83 tutorial for students
Online graphing calculator/spreadsheet
Algebra Resource Center (UVA's Curry School of Ed.)
Henrico County's Mathematics Course Pages
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Math Forum's MathTools (Catalog of math technology tools)
Test your innate geometrical sense
7-Up
CoolMath.com - An amusement park of math designed for fun
Systems of equations links/games
Neat
Handley High School Problem of the Week
Create A Graph
Equations Plus
Interactive decimal games
Countdown
Utilizing QuickTime movies to develop math skills
nrich
mathematics problems, games and articles
Number Munchers Online
Great for practicing multiplication facts!

Cook/Mills

Explore Learning
Interactive 3D Geometry
Interactive Geometry Constructions
7-Up read your mind game
Goldburger to go
Can you make this machine work?

Probability/Statistics

Interactivate
Interactive probability and statistics activities
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Grades 6-8 Data Analysis & Probability Manipulatives
Fire!
NCTM Illuminations probability activity
Adjustable Spinner
NCTM Illuminations probability manipulative
Probability Simulations
Flash movie simulations
Brain Pop
Probability movie and quiz

Multimedia resources

BBC Motion Gallery
UnitedStreaming
Educational Services' Media Room
Virginia SOL-aligned media hosted by Central Virignia Public Televesion consortium.
SchoolTube
World Digital Library

Science

Roller Coaster Physics
Explainins earth, physical and life science phenomena
Google Earth
Create A Graph
Creating an Excel XY (Scatter) Plot
Equations Plus
MapMachine
National Geographic interactive maps
Learning Science

GIS/GPS

Social Studies

The World Wide Panorama (Pics from around the world)
Google Earth
MapMachine
National Geographic interactive maps

GIS/GPS

SOL Review

Special Education

Primary grades interactive sites

Technology

Vocational

Vocational Information Center

Business Plan

Income Tax

Job Search

Online Room Design

Personal Finance

Activboard

Flipcharts

Promethean Planet
K-12 all subjects
High School Math
High School Science
Spanish & French
Words Their Way (Word Study)
K-12 all subjects - 1
K-12 all subjects -2
K-5 all subjects - 1
K-5 all subjects - 2
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Training