Copyright free images!

This is an amazing site full of art ideas for grades k-6.

Try the talking photo. Upload a photo and add a voice recording.

You can make anything with a mouth talk! Add your own voice to photos or images.

Amazing tool. Add audio, photos, artwork, and video.

Create a Voki and add audio to it!

Type the text and it will change to audio.

TOTALLY AWESOME!

Add arms, legs, eyes, etc. to a m&m character.

Older students might enjoy this one.

Picture yourself in plastic!

Very popular site!

Mii's just like on the video games!

Create a voki and add audio with phone, microphone, or computer-generated voice.

Animate yourself!

Make avatars like on the Wii.

Each month the integration technology specialists meet at Essdack. We keep track of our notes and ideas on this wiki.

If you enjoyed his book, you'll enjoy his blog.

David has such great insight into education!

Incredible story!

A great list of blogs and podcasts.

Protected blog for students.

Educators' space!!!

This is an article on blogging in the elementary classroom.

Wonderful blogs!

What can I say? This is MY blog!

This is Rosemary's blog!

Great, practical ideas for teachers.

Tammy's awesome blog.

Excellent Blog by KDG

Publish students books in softback or hardback.

Publish your work online. Books can be purchased through Amazon.

These ideas can be used for Christmas.

Recipe cards, calendars, gift bags, and tons more.

Check out the free printables.

Stories, traditions, recipes, printables, and more!

Tammy recommends this page for great ideas!

Great ideas and a tutorial for Comic Life.

Lesson plans for Comic Life, tutorials, and samples for varying age groups.

Ideas for creating a comic for a book project.

Create your own comics online!

Great resources from teachers

Lesson plans for creating comics in the classroom.

Fantastic ideas for using comics in the classroom.

couple of good ideas here

Many comics creators are explored on this blog.

An oral story about taking care of your teeth. For early grades.

Match the healthy snacks. For primary grades.

This site covers cavities, brushing, proper eating and some great experiments.

Find the 20 teeth to build a tower.

This is Bernajean Porter's site. There are many examples of excellent digital stories.

Lots of great videos

Wonderful lesson plans & ideas for using iLife

Wonderful site.

Amazing, fantastic, WOW!

Graph data sets in bar graphs. You can use their sets or create your own. Take a screen shot of the graph. What story does th

Great place to store and share photos with others.

There are several ideas listed here for using document cameras with every subject.

Many ideas for using document cameras at all levels.

free ebooks where you can access legal downloadable e-books for free.

large selection of children & young adult e-books in multiple formats.

comprehensive collection of fiction & nonfiction books

Part of this site can be accessed throguh nypl.org

animated children's books, musical stories, cartoons, and songs.

a web-based juke box of digital books in languages from around the world.

companion site to the television series. Over 70 interactive online stories.

learn to read website

books in a myriad of languages.

the latest news from around the world

Weekly news from across the world with an environmental focus.

Easy to search for pictures throughout history.

Tons of resources!

A webquest on figurative language

A short lesson/review of similes

This is a great idea on using similes and metaphors to create a self-portrait

A list of idioms and their meanings

Interactive site

A list of examples and meanings of various types of figures of speech.

Several links to lesson plans and activities on figurative language.

Fun lesson which includes a list of literature books to use for teaching figurative language.

This is a great suggestion from the poet Bruce Lansky.

This is still a work-in-progress.

Great story for personification

Educational games.

Lots of educational games for students

I love playing Addiction Solitaire.

This game is much like Jeopardy. There are many answers/questions in the game plus you can edit and add your own. This would b

Play sudoko online or print it out. Great fun!

Online checkers!

Enjoy!

A great tutorial!

Great video tutorials - just be patient while they load.

This is a paid subscription so you must have your username, subscription ID, and password. The videos on Atomic Learning are aw

This is a game designed to help children think in geographical terms.

Fun ideas for teaching geography.

This is a free download of a fantastic piece of software!

Many interactive map games.

Students learn the Middle East countries quickly and easily with this interactive map.

Games at Fun Brain to help students learn capitals, states, and countries.

Aligned to the Geography Themes and Standards

A simple little quiz on dogs and their countries of origin.

Some great ideas here.

Lesson Plans, Activities, Maps and more.

This is like an Internet scavenger hunt.

A cyberhunt of places around the world.

The official geocaching website.

Practice locating continents, countries, states & provinces

Fun game to see if you can locate major cities and world capitals.

See the other side of the world.

Highest, Lowest, Biggest, Smallest - countries, mountain, rivers and more!

see the cloud cover all over the earth in real time.

gSky allows you to travel the night sky from your keyboard, zooming in on celestial objects for an up-close-and-personal view of

These databases serve static or dynamically updated downloadable datasets for use in a variety of geo-spatial applications.

Lots of ideas for creating layers.

This community exists to offer a place where teachers and students can share and find information about educational topics that

Here's how to add text to places and folders.

Some interesting placemarks to view in Google Earth.

This tutorial will show you how to mark locations.

Tutorial.

Tutorial on navigating Google Earth.

Download layers for Google Earth.

Awesome layers on literature books.

Great tutorials and GE lessons

Brainstorm online

A review of mapping tools.

Graphic organizers, research organizers, lined paper, and much more to print.

online mind mapping tool. This one also offers collaboration with peers.

collaborative, online mind mapping tool

can add sticky notes and YouTube videos to this mind map.

is a collection of both free and for-purchase mapping tools.

there are many graphic organizers here. They are all in PDF's for download.

Jennifer is sharing her albums with us for student projects.

Great place to store pictures, create sets for students, and to get pictures.

A safe place for students to retrieve pictures.

Get ideas from watching Jennifer's videos

Downloads kits for students - these kits might include photos, video clips, and audio clips.

What great resources for your iMovies!

Another wonderful photo site

A good source for music for your projects

A wonderful sound effects resource

The original video sharing site. This is where it all began!

Teachers share videos at this site.

And students share videos here.

Ustream provides live interactive video for everyone

Lots of ideas for using iMovie.

great support for iMovie!

Cereal boxes, candy bars, clapper boards, all kinds of objects are available so you can add your own text.

Search for iMovie lessons in your grade level

Choose the link for information literacy materials.

Ordering & prioritizing items in a list. Really engages higher order thinking.

Amazing tool for illustrating cause and effect.

a visual framework to make claims, identify evidence, evaluate the quality of that evidence

helps teachers create assessments that address 21st century skills and provides strategies to make assessment an integral part o

Coordinate Grid

Number Patterns

Measuring Angles

Telling Time on Analog Clock

Tessellations

Hundreds Chart

Multiples

Estimating area, length, numbers

Spelling

Idioms

Poetry

Grammar

Helpful hints for taking great photos!

Learn how to share your photos.

Here you'll get a great overview of the features in iPhoto.

Ideas on publishing books in the classroom.

Here you'll find answers to some of the puzzling features of iPhoto.

Awesome storage space for pictures.

Great pictures to use for the classroom and many lesson plans.

Free clipart for the classroom.

Ideas for using pictures in the classroom.

Interesting article with ideas for integrating digital photography into your curriculum.

Fun ideas for using digital pictures.

Free online jigsaw puzzles. Make your photos into puzzles at this site.

Great tutorial on different features in iPhoto.

This is a screencast by Jeff Utech on how to get started with flickr.

This is packed full of great ideas.

Here are lesson plans for using your ipod with your students.

Info on voice memos.

Tutorials!

See how to add notes to your ipod.

Here you'll find all kinds of things you can do with your iPod.

Download this to your ipod and you can find the free wireless sites in certain cities.

RSS Feeds on your iPod

Very helpful info here!

The title says it all!

Wikipedia for your iPod.

Great ideas here!

You can download about 30 sets of flashcards for this site.

Tutorials for flashcards, great helps for using the Touch in the classroom.

Great resources

Scroll down a little to see the links to famous Kansans

Short biographies of KS women plus another list of women to research.

Great lists of artists

Several links here for famous Kansans

Digital kits - images, video clips, audio files - created for educators & students. These fit easily into a Keynote presentatio

An example and instructions on creating 'undercover' projects. These instructions are for using powerpoint but easily be adapte

Great photos to use for 'Undercover.'

This is another great resource for photographs to use for 'Undercover.'

Downloadable files for Kidspiration

There are several ideas listed here for each grade level.

Great ideas, including tutorials.

Specify the grade level and topic. You'll find some great ideas for using Kidspiration or Inspiration.

Excellent resources for many grade levels.

These are great to listen to and also for ideas for having your students create digital book talks.

Gorgeous reading logs!

This is stick figure drawings of Hamlet.

great page to print out on shortcuts

This has many interactive math games.

This is a site that covers every math standard and all grade levels.

Grades K-5, Templates of Inspiration lessons, hotlists of interactive games and websites

There are many powerpoint presentations here for many areas of math and all grade levels.

This is practically an entire math curriculum for grades K - 8.

Interactive math games so students can learn their math skills. Printable worksheets and online worksheets.

Fun, interactive math games for K-6.

Where the k is in the URL, change it to your grade level to see the emanipluatives that are available.

PowerPoint presentations, algebra, statistics, and interactive games.

Students can use these sites to reinforce what they've been taught.

A game of 10 questions where students identify how much of the pizza is left.

Holt, Rinehart & Winston: Number Theory & Fractions (tutorials, videos, and much more!)

This is great for place value practice.

for Grades K-8

Cool method of multiplication

Fun, timed way to practice division

Fun games to play on the wii and with online players.

Enter data to create graphs. This is for intermediate students.

Manipulatives, videos,interacive games . . .

Interactive math games!

Awesome games to help students understand decimals

Awesome photos of math in real life

Some great downloadable documents.

Links to Interactive math tools and activities

This is awesome! Little teaching videos with worksheets and assessements!

Upload ppts, documents to create an online magazine. Embed it in Moodle or on your blog,

You'll find several tutorials for Pages here. Resources are continually added.

This is a tutorial and ideas for using Pages.

Convert photos into paintings!

Six-minute videos for 3rd - 8th grade. These are great!

These are created by 3rd graders in Omaha.

Search for these on iTunes

Audio recordings of great poems.

Entertaining, thought-provoking science news.

This is a podcast that will teach you German.

Five minute audio podcast that answers kids' questions. Search for it in iTunes.

Great ideas for ESL teachers.

Great place to hang out!

Learn how to integrate podcasting in your teaching.

Ideas for using podcasting in the classroom.

Classroom podcasts &

These students started out with a blog and added their podcasts to it. Great ideas here.

Great idea for having your students describe sites on field trips.

4th grade classroom podcasts

Wow! Click on the iTunes link.

You'll love this!

High School students showcase their poetry.

Great links for music teachers and students.

4th grade portal

Mrs. Meacham has put zillions of resources on this site.

Money, counters, cubes and more.

Manipulatives that match our math standards.

Lots of links to lesson plans, game, and more.

Choose your grade level. This is practically an entire year's curriculum!

Fun interactive games for K-6.

Loaded with lesson plans, downloadable documents, center activities, literature connections, more, more, more!!!!

Each letter of the alphabet stands for a word which is formed from the word.

Free courses

Download flip charts here.

Download these and open them with your Promethean software.

Smart notebooks open in ActivStudio. Great ideas here.

Try My Studio Quiz.

compares Smart w/PC, Mac, Unix

Great tutorials for learning about Smart

Ideas, lesson plans and resources!

Online tutorials for using comprehension strategies, pratice activities for both fiction & nonfiction. Grades 1-5

Great lessons for cause & effect.

Wonderful resources for reading fluency.

Picture cards to download, letter sounds activities, vocabulary activities, and more!

19 strategies

Reading strategies, lots of valuable information for parents and teachers

Links to many great reading sites.

This dictionary is amazing - perfect for visual literacy!

Little activity to test your knowledge of resources.

Must have your subscription code and password.

Use this to teach your students about web addresses.

Learn many features of cities around the US. Add your own information about your city.

Use data from several countries to compare & contrast.

Choose 'Today in Weather History'

Students can enter their information for their bibliography in the fields provided and create a citation.

A grid of what's happening in the news. This will keep you up-to-date!

A wiki created for MACE presentation.

a great visual

Kits of images, sound clips, and video clips can be downloaded absolutely free and on various topics.

This site continues to grow with lesson plans, games, and more to match the Kansas Standards.

This is Annette Lamb's site: Nature Scapes, Literature Learning Ladders, escrapbooking!

Wonderful resources! You must register but it is FREE!

Great tips for many subjects.

Web resources for grades 1-12.

Thematic units with definitions, activities, starting points, and lots of links.

Search for webquests and trackstars at the R*TEC site.

Organized files of websites for teachers, students, librarians, etc.

She has lots & lots of great resources, many pdfs to download. Great stuff.

A great list of web 2.0 tools

Laura Candler has many science resources.

Great site - covers many topics!

Amazing - videos on how many products are made

Several science modules to explore

Experiments, live cams, field trips, and more.

This is a great site for interactive science.

10 part curriculum guide

Five fun experiments.

Very cool!

This includes a video tutorial and information to teachers for using Skype.

Provides some technical information for using Skype as well as some integration ideas.

Download Skype here.

This is amazing! Primary source documents galore for many historical time periods!

Great site for US History!

This has several spelling games, including proofreading activities. For grades 1-8

Kansas's very own technology conference!

Awesome National Technology Conference!

Wonderful conference in beautiful Copper Mountain!

Illinois Computing Educators

Great videos on consumer-driven economy.

This is an amazing video.

Great video of companionship in spite of differences.

Make your own crosswords to print or to embed on webpages.

K-8th grade vocabulary games

Ordering & prioritizing items in a list. Really engages higher order thinking.

Students can enter their information for their bibliography in the fields provided and create a citation.

Google documents, spreadsheets, translators, and more!

RubiStar, QuizStar, NoteStar, PBL Checklists, great tools for teachers.

Your portal to great tools!

Many web 2.0 tools are listed on our wiki.

Want to draw with a friend? This site allows you and a buddy in another location to share drawing space.

Here's how to have live bookmarks in Firefox.

Lots and lots of web 2.0 tools

Amazing, fantastic, WOW!

Awesome tool for making screen shots for tutorials, plus more!

Collaborative bibliography maker

Visual word clouds

Need help writing a thesis statement?

Make itty bitty books!

Here's a video on how to add students to your class.

A visual thesaurus

Super Ideas!

These newsletters are full of new web 2.0 tools for the classroom.

Some of these can be used in K-12 also.

Great ideas for dealing with change

List of web 2.0 tools

Provides a list of webquests, lessons, and activities.

clever webquest for 2nd grade

2nd grade webquest

Looks at 4 types of bridges, students make models

Search here for webquests for all grade levels and subjects

Awesome!

Good article to read.

Creative way to use a wiki with a novel.

This is the greatest place to learn some advanced features of wikispaces.

This is a tutorial and ideas for using Pages.

This wiki was set up to go with the Harcourt Reading series.

This wiki was created to match the keys that were given to Buhler teachers in August 2009.

Primary Source documents, music, plays, lots more..

This has everything you need to teach writing! Amazing site!

You'll find comparisons here of the developmental stages with writing & art.

Great ideas for teaching writing with picture books.

Scoring guides for 6 Trait writing and writing samples are all available here.

Tons of links to narrative, persuasive, expository writing activities, plus analogies, poetry, and more.

All kinds of cool things here: trading cards, comic creator, shape poems, and much more!

A great place to have your books published, very inexpensive.

302 writing prompts!

Color posters, writing workshop resources, etc.

These are kind of like magnetic boards with kits of words and/or phrases. Students can create sentences or poems using the kits

Amazing! This includes lessons centered around picture books. These are very complete and great!

Wow, this is amazing!

Using Primary Source Documents

This is sponsored by the Library of Congress. This is great internet project where students send postcards all over the United S

Learn about US Geography through postcards for all 50 states. This site is very informational and a fun site for kids.

Lesson plans and reproducibles

Great ways to get started using 6 traits

free grammar lessons

Students can create their own newsnotes on books they've read.

Links to many language arts & writing resources.

Collection of online student materials

Have students write a review for a book they've read.

Have your students write a report on something in the past and then add it to this site to generate an old-looking newspaper.

Check out the KS standards by grade level.

Specific elements that are key to ensuring student success

Wealth of resources for educators who teach reading and writing.

This contains tools to use in aligning classroom instruction and assessment to the KS standards.

Offers resources for teachers who teach writing.

Links to many resources.

Quizzes for students, resources, and lots more matched with standards.

Tons of ideas!

Writing promts, digital photography writing ideas, and TONS more.

Great ideas!

Students can make their own story very easily. This is awesome.

Spin the wheel for 3 different ideas to put together to create a story. Higher level.

Make a picture book very simply.