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Computer Safety
Avast! Free Anti-virus software
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
Housecall Anti-virus software
http://housecall.trendmicro.com
Spybot: Search and destroy
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html
Adware
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Clean Junk Files
http://www.ccleaner.com
Clean registry
http://www.tweaknow.com/RegCleaner.html
Test your hacker defenses!
http://www.hackerwatch.org/probe/
Test your hacker defenses!
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
Test your hacker defenses!
http://scan.sygate.com/
Instructional Strategies
Corwin Press
http://www.corwinpress.com
Eric Jensen (Join the list serve)
http://www.thebrainstore.com
Curry School of Education (Reading Quest)
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/readquest/strat/
VA Middle School Association
http://www.vmsa.org/
VA ASCD (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development)
http://virginia.ascd.org/
Education Ilustrated
http://www.educationillustrated.com/
Virginia Education Association
http://www.veaweteach.org/
ASCD
http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd
Survival Games
http://www.wilderdom.com/games/descriptions/SurvivalScenarios.html
Federal Resources
All kinds of great stuff!
http://www.getsmarter.org/index.cfm
Digital Projects
Copywrite friendly student usage stuff
http://web.rbe.sk.ca/Support/images/default.html
Copywrite issues
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi?activity_id=12605
Create Movies effortlessly
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/videos/create.mspx
Cyberbee (Copywrite)
http://www.cyberbee.com/cb_copyright.swf
Digital Storytelling
http://tech-head.com/dstory.htm
Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/resources.htm#Successful
Free Play music
http://freeplaymusic.com/
Kid
http://kidsvid.hprtec.org/
Lesson Ideas
http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/ilifesearch.php
Manual
http://www.underwaterphotography.com/Video-Editing/Windows-Movie-Maker/Software/tomoveacliponthetimelineorstoryboard.asp
Movie Maker Forum
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Forums/User/UserProfile.aspx?UserName=mariacollie
Movie Maker Forum
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Forums/Search/Default.aspx?SearchFor=1&SearchText=Poohbear
Movie Maker Projects
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001585.shtml
Movie Maker Tutorials
http://mightycoach.com/articles/mm2/index.html
PapJohn's Newsletter: How Tos
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/PapaJohn/Index.aspx
Pics 4 learning
http://pics4learning.com/
Student Examples
http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/movie/list.html
The Learning Page
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/
The National Archive
http://www.archives.gov/education/
The Primary Access
http://www.primaryaccess.org/index.htm
Teachers' Guide to making movies
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=6758
Images
Royalty free images for students
http://www.images.com
Photostory 3
Download site
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx
Beginners Guide
http://www.windowsphotostory.com/
Article
http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.asp?p=363891&rl=1
Video Training
http://itdp.providence.edu/Help/Video.htm
Tutorials
http://www.jakesonline.org/photostory.htm
Tutorials
http://www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/gettingstarted.htm
Tutorials
http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/staff/donnapirog/Story_Movie/use_photostory.htm
Tutorials
http://itdp.providence.edu/Help/Video.htm
Copyright friendly resources
http://web.rbe.sk.ca/Support/images/default.html
Copyright issues
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi?activity_id=12605
Music
http://www.freeplaymusic.com
Images
http://www.images.com
Pictures
http://www.picsearch.com
Images
http://pics4learning.com/
Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/collections/ccindex.html
Cyberbee
http://www.cyberbee.com/cb_copyright.swf
Pod Casting
ipod in education
http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/podcasting/
PodOmatic
http://www.podomatic.com/
Tech Learning
http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=185303670
ipods in the classroom
http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/ipod/lessons/
Podcasting
http://www.k12handhelds.com/podcasting.php
PodCasting in Education
http://chatt.hdsb.ca/%7Emagps/boylit/Podcasting%20in%20Education
Social Studies
42explore
http://www.42explore.com/42exploress.htm
American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Awesome Library
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Classroom/Social_Studies/Social_Studies.html
Blue Web
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/contentarea.cfm?cid=8
Chester the Crab Cartoons
http://www.dailypress.com/extras/solutions/archive_spring04.htm
Civics
http://civics-online.org/
Consumer Jungle
http://civics-online.org/
Crossroads Middle School (Worksheets)
http://eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec4/index.html
EASE History
http://www.easehistory.org/index2.html
Economics Videos
http://www.producingohio.org/lesson/video_production.html
Gildersleeve SOL websites
http://gildersleeve.nn.k12.va.us/sswebsites.html
Middle School SOLPASS
http://www.solpass.org
National Council on Economics
http://www.ncee.net/
Pandy Learning Page
http://www.pandylearning.com/
Reading Quest
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/readquest/
Roger Taylor (Cooperative Learning Projects)
http://www.rogertaylor.com/
SCORE Cyberguide
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
Sheppard Software (Freeware)
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/
SOL Practice and Tutorial sites
http://www.wise.k12.va.us/alted/SOL/sol.htm#SOCIAL_STUDIES
Truman Library Interactive (Government)
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/teacher_lessons/3branches/front.htm
Virginia Poster Studies
http://chumby.dlib.vt.edu/melissa/posters/vastudiesposter.html
Web Quests
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/matrix/6-8-Mat.htm
Social Studies Resources
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/res.html
Lesson Plans and Strategies
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/plans.html
Social Studies for Kids
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/
National Council for Social Studies
http://www.ncss.org/
PBS Teacher Source
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/soc_stud.htm
Yahooligan
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/School_Bell/Social_Studies/
Interactive Games
http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/interactive.htm#Social%20Studies
Ben
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/6-8/index.html
Online Activities from Scholastic
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/index_grades68.htm
Interactive History Games
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/games/
Jamestown Adventure
http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown/
The Orgeon Trail
http://www.historyglobe.com/ot/otmap1.htm
A. P. History Quizzes
http://www.historyteacher.net/USQuizMainPage.htm
Educational Web Adventures
http://www.eduweb.com/portfolio/grades7to8.php
The History Channel
http://www.historychannel.com/
Ken Burn's Civil War Site: make your own movie
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/cwimages/tellingStory/flash.html
Civics Review
http://www.spotsylvania.k12.va.us/sms/Reviews/Civics/2%20Civics%20Review.htm
SOL Practice
http://www.spotsylvania.k12.va.us/sms/Reviews/standards_of_learning.htm
Civics Review
http://www.spotsylvania.k12.va.us/sms/Reviews/civics_sol_review.htm
Quia Games Review
http://teachers.henrico.k12.va.us/TuckahoeMS/wolfgang_k/review.html
Video Conferencing
BCISD search engine
http://www.bcisdvc.org/default.htm
NASA Catalog
http://nasadln.nmsu.edu/dln/content/catalog/
Video Conference Instructional Strategies
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/vidconf/instruct.html
Video Conferencing Cookbook
http://www.videnet.gatech.edu/cookbook.en/
Yellow Pages
http://www.nassauboces.org/dln/videoconferencing/Guide2004-05/FullCatalog.pdf
WebQuests
The WebQuest Page
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/
WebQuests
http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/WebQuests.html
TechTrekers
http://www.techtrekers.com/webquests/
WebQuest - Listing
http://bestwebquests.com/
Kathy Schrock
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/webquest/webquest.html
Thirteen
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/webquests/index.html
San Diego
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/projects/featured/featured.html
University of Richmond
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects/
Manteno School District
http://www.manteno.k12.il.us/webquest/
Teacher First
http://www.teachersfirst.com/webquest.htm
Dr. Alice Christie
http://www.west.asu.edu/ACHRISTIE/wqmatrix.html
Sue LeBeau
http://www.suelebeau.com/webquests.htm
Yorkville
http://www.yorkville.k12.il.us/webquests/webquests.htm
Internet4Classroom
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line_quest.htm
Education World
http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/archives/webquest_orig.shtml
Design Information
http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/webquest.htm
San Diego University - Data Base Search Engine
http://webquest.org/search/
Info Today
http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/oct00/march.htm
University of Virginia (Curry School)
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/edis771/classwebquests.html
Data Base
http://www.lth3.k12.il.us/rhampton/database.html
Webquest Rubric
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquestrubric.html
Dr. Alice Christie Rubric Page
http://www.west.asu.edu/ACHRISTIE/WQRubrics.html
Rubric - Spiders
http://www.ncwiseowl.org/webquest/spider/Rubrics.html
ClassBrain Rubric
http://www.classbrain.com/artteach/publish/article_70.shtml
TechTrakker Rubric Page
http://www.techtrekers.com/rubrics.html
Rubrics
http://www.ncwiseowl.org/WebQuest/Info/rubrics.html
Cool Teaching rubrics
http://www.coollessons.org/coolunits.htm
Scoring sheet
http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/builders/a_430_distance/webquest_scoring_sheet.html
ClassBrain Rubrics
http://www.classbrain.com/artteach/publish/printer_70.shtml
Great Information
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/materials.htm
Civics and Economics
http://resource.sbo.accomack.k12.va.us/itrt/CivicsEconomicsResources.htm
Open Source
Moodle
A free, open source, course managment system. A free alternative to blackboard.
http://moodle.org/
Open Office
A free alternative to Microsoft Office
http://www.openoffice.org/
Scribus
A free alternative to Microsoft Publisher
http://www.scribus.net/
Firefox
A wonderful web browser.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
Hot Potatoes
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sent
http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
Seterra
Learn Geography the fun way
http://www.wartoft.nu/software/seterra/
Selingua
Learn a foreign language.
http://www.wartoft.nu/software/selingua/
Stellarium
Planetarium
http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
Vacabi;ary Builder
http://www.rorokimdim.com.np/
Pdf Creator
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Google Sketchup
A great way to teach math/proportions
http://sketchup.google.com/
Calligraphy images
http://www.inkscape.org/
Dia
Creat flowcharts
http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/
Gimp
A free alternative to Photoshop.
http://www.gimp.org/
Blender
Animation
http://www.blender.org/
Audacity
A great sound resource.
http://www.audacity.sourseforge.net/
C Cleaner
A great program to remove unwanted files.
http://www.ccleaner.com/
Rubrics
Rubistar
The grandmother of them all. A great place to start.
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
Kathy Schrock's guide
A superior site
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html
NCSU
http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/ho.html
Rubrics4Teachers
http://www.rubrics4teachers.com/
SCORE Rubrics
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/trubrics.htm
UW School of Education Rubrics for Teachers
http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/rubrics.shtml
Technology Education
http://www.tcet.unt.edu/START/instruct/general/rubrics.htm
Basic Information
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/teaching-methods/rubrics/4521.html
Unit 1
http://resource.sbo.accomack.k12.va.us/itrt/CivicsEconomicsResources.htm
http://resource.sbo.accomack.k12.va.us/itrt/CivicsEconomicsResources.htm
Unit 4
Civics and Economics
http://resource.sbo.accomack.k12.va.us/itrt/CivicsEconomicsResources.htm
Unit 3
Cartooning
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/
cartooning
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/ngo/cartoons/
Civics and Economics
http://resource.sbo.accomack.k12.va.us/itrt/CivicsEconomicsResources.htm
Unit 5
Civics and Economics
http://resource.sbo.accomack.k12.va.us/itrt/CivicsEconomicsResources.htm
Unit 2
Civics and Economics
http://resource.sbo.accomack.k12.va.us/itrt/CivicsEconomicsResources.htm
Economics
JMU
Lessons
http://cob.jmu.edu/econed/Middle.htm
On-line activities
http://www.cusd.com/calonline/econ/
Economics Education Web
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/K-12/6-12concepts.cfm
National Budget Simulation
http://www.budgetsim.org/nbs/
Foundations for teaching economics
http://www.fte.org/teachers/programs/efl/lessons/
VA Council on Economics
http://www.vcee.org/lessonplans.htm
Virtual Stock Exchange
http://vse.marketwatch.com/Game/Homepage.aspx
Civics and Economics
http://resource.sbo.accomack.k12.va.us/itrt/CivicsEconomicsResources.htm