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Art

Art Games - Interactive

Art Games - (Albright Knox)
Learn about famous paintings along with all sorts of different things (must have pop-ups enabled)
Jackson Pollock
Draw on the screen in the style of artist, Jackson Pollock (great for SmartBoard)
Mondrimat
Experiment with space, color and visual rhythm.
Encyclograms
Explore harmonograms, spirographs, & lissajous figures

Paintings

Paintings - Fine Art on Line
Famous painters and their works

Sculpture

Sculpture - Fine Art on Line
African, Egyptian, Native American, & works by Michelangelo

Back Channel

TodaysMeet
Excellent site for online discussion
Chatzy
Backchannel - Color coded
Primary Pad
Monitor multiple online discussions / Color coded

Biographies of Famous People

Famous People Lessons
Can listen to MP3; downloads of Word doc. or PDF; online exercises

Check These Out -- LATER!!

Jane Deyenberg's Blog
Dominican Republic Presentation - Web 2.0
WMnet
Other resources & Links for classroom drill
Exploratorium - Museum of science, art, and human perception
Excellen website - FREE???

Clipart , Photos, Backgrounds & Music

DK clipart
Dorling Kindersley pictures
WP Clipart
Thousands of color graphic clips as well as illustrations, photographs and black and white line art.
Educational Clipart
Awesome Clipart For Educators
Edwardian & Victorian Clipart
Victorian, and Edwardian era clipart website containing images of people, flowers, animals and more
Alphabets & Numbers
Animals Clipart
Flowers, Plants, and Trees Clipart
Desktop Icons
Classroom Clipart
Clipart for School
Gif's
Clipart for All Occasions
Clipart from Discovery Education
Edupics
Can download large image for use with Smartboard & Notebook software
pics4learning
Child-safe images
Photos - (Lovely Images)
Excellent photo site
Clipart - (Phil Martin) (pppst.com)
Clipart geared for elementary - includes various subjects / categories
School Clip Art
FREE CLIP ART DOWNLOADS
Okaboo
FREE PICTURES
Picsearch
Images (cite source)
Veezzle
FREE STOCK PHOTOS
Google Image Swirl
Cite Source
Free Foto Bank
CREATIVE COMMONS IMAGES - CITE SOURCE
Open Clip Art Library
ooo
ICONS: Find Icons
Free Icons
Behold
Free Clipart
Humanline
School Clip-Art
Visual Dictions (Merriam-Webster)

3-D Photos

3-D Toad.com

Icons

Find Icons

Music

Photos - Historical

Historical Photos (Historical Stock)
Free Historical Stock Photos for Emails and Personal Websites
New York Public Library's Photo Collections
Also includes NYPL Flickr collections

Web - Animated Gifs

Animate It
Animated gifs; includes code to embed

Web - Backgrounds

Backgrounds
Background maker using text, gradients & pattersn (Absolute Backgrounds)
Background City
Embossed or themes (Background City)
Free Background Images
Texture Library
Organic webpage textures including: trees, metals,

Computer - General

IE 8

Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit

Computer Tutorials

Computer Tutorials
Home and Learn - Includes Word, Excel, Java,

Computer - Word Processing

Microsoft Word - Tutorials, Lessons, & Templates [Lee's Summit, MO]

Copyright Basics (
The Copyright Society of the USA
Poems & limmericks about copyright
Copyright FAQ's

How to Avoid Plagiarism (e-Notes)
Plagiarism (plagiarism.org)
Documents dealing with plagiarism available to download
Copyright Website (Benedict)
Gives difference between copyright, patents, & trademarks; also court cases
Copyright Basics
Great site for explaining copyright

TEACHER RESOURCES ON COPYRIGHT

Copyright Lesson Plans (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Excellent source
Sample Lesson on Taking Notes

Creative Commons

Websites of CC Materials

Current Events

Downloads

FLV player
For playing .flv files

Elem Grade 1

artPad Painting/Coloring
Online painting/coloring website for lower elementary

Grade 1 Language Arts

Mixed-up Sentences
Put the sentence in the correct order by clicking on the words one by one
Word Frog
Antonyms, Synonyms, Homonyms
Chicken Stacker - Short Vowel Sounds
Choose individual short letter sounds
Interactive Activities for Oral Language
Word Wheels
Match pictures w/ beginning and ending sounds
Word Maker
Match words using initial sounds
Spelling City
Enter your weekly spelling or vocab. words for fun activities
ABC Order
Alphabatize - Excellent for SmartBoards
Long Vowel Sounds

Sounds

Picture Match
Beginning sounds, long vowels, short vowels
Rhyming
Words that rhyme

Elem Grade 2

Telling Time (Interactive)

Elem Grade 3

Rounding Off Numbers

Elem Grade 4

Elem Grade 5

Fascinating Egyptial Mummies

Elem Grade 6

Elem Kindergarten

Leaf Creatures
Drawing program using different leaves; set to music; Pictures can be printed.
artPad Painting/Coloring
Online coloring/painting website
Little Fingers
Games - Some preschool level
Interactive Storybooks
I Spy
Interactive - Working with colors
Make a Happy Face
Drag & drop for different facial emotions
Coloring4All - Dot-to-dot
Good for mouse skills & number recognition

Kindergarten - Language

Interactive Language Arts Skillbuilders for Kindergarten

Kindergarten - Math

Interactive Math Skillbuilders for Kindergarten

Elementary Character Education

Webquest - using Willy Wonka & Choc Factory
What makes a good citizen - Lower Elem

Elementary Computer

Create your own webpage
Search Engines
Links to different search engines

Computer - Just for Fun

ASCII Animals (HeartnSoul)

Computer Hardware Instruction

Elementary History

BBC Primary History - WWII
Excellent site for elementary children to learn about WWII, photos, timeline, & teacher resources
Kids History (Kids Sites)
Websites for kids on history

Midieval History

Create a city in Midieval times (interactive)
Excellent site for creating townsite including people and vehicles of the time
Excellen site on medieval europe
Includes all aspects of medieval times and PPT's to download & clipart

Seven Wonders of the World

•Seven Wonders of the World
a lot of activities
Seven Wonders
printables
•The New 7 wonders of the world
Vote on the new seven wonders of the world
7 Wonders Panormas
360 degree panoramas
The seven wonders
Interactive

Elementary Language

Homophones
List of British-English homophones
Bubble Dome
interactive writing adventures and prompts for elementary
Bembo's Zoo
Pick a letter and watch it turn into an animal inthe zoo
K-3 PowerPoint Grammar Presentations
Download PPT's and import into Notebook for use with SmartBoard

Elementary Genre

Elementary Mysteries

Mystery Writing with Joan Lowery Nixon

Elementary Language - General Language Websites

Grammar Slammer (English Plus)
Overall grammar rules

GENRE - Elementary Language

Reading Genre Posters -Troy K-12
PDF posters to download

INTERACTIVE - Elementary Language

LCF Grammar Zone - Adjectives
What is an adjective; possessive adjectives; games & exercises
Study Zone - Level 200
Works with Grammar; Reading, Vocab; Puzzles
Sort It (Mrs. Bogucki's 5th grade class)
(Alphabetical Order)
Rats (Learning Planet)
Interactive game - Nouns, Verbs, Adverbs, & Adjectives

Writing Organizers

Writing Organizers (Jenny Eather)
Good! Shows different types of writing.

Elementary Learning FUN!! Games & More

Game Aquarium
K-6 learning through interactive websites - a little bit of everything -

Elementary Library

Author Studies - Elem

Eric Carle WEB QUEST
Lower Elem Webquest - (collaborative activity)

Read-A-Longs

Beatrix Potter - Tale of Jeremy Fisher
Storyline Online
Books read by members of Screen Actors Guild
Between the Lions (PBS)
Young Children's Folktale & Fables
Storytime for Me
3 Series of stories includes a mouse; a fox; a dragon
Online Talking Stories
Read aloud BUT pages must be turned; many well-known stories

Read-a-Longs - Upper Elementary

Grimm's Fairy Tales
Audio along with text - Great Site!!
Illustrated Short Stories for Children
Well-known stories - includes poetry
Illustrated Classics for YOUNGER Children
Another great site but no audio.

Elementary Math

The Fact Monster on Math
Elementary Math K-5
Create a Square Puzzle
Drag the pieces to create a square
Interactive Manipulatives
Categorized by grade level and connected to standards.
Virtual Manipulatives
Number & Operations (Grades Pre-K - 2)
Visual Fractions
Interactive website to add, subtract, multiply & divide fractions; also gives explanations and includes some games
Super Maths World
Level - Middle School & up
Math Playground
Elementary and middle school level - math skills and logic games.
Math Worksheet Wizard
Hit the Button - WMnet
Math facts - Halves, Times, & Division
NumberNut
Online Unit Converter - (PDF Converter)
Use to convert units including mass, time, area, temp,
A Math Dictionary for Kids (Jenny Eather)

Elementary Music

New York Philharmonic Kidzone
San Francisco Symphony Kids
Classics for Kids
National Association for Music Education
Music K8.com
Dallas Symphony Kids
Sing-A-Long Songs
Kids Songs - Everyday Fun Music
Music Theory Flash Cards
Holiday Songs
America the Beautiful
Music Theory Flashcards
Can Teach - Music Resources & Lesson Plans
Toy Theater Composer
Select notes in a column to make a song; then listen to it
Drum Beats
Listen to the different drumbeats
Jazz
Website for kids linked off the PBS documentary, Jazz, filmed by Ken Burns
Virtual Piano Keyboard - PLAYS CHORDS!!!
Interactive website that will play chords in addition to single notes
Toy Theater Music Maker
Create songs and play them
Toy Theater Piano Puppet
Create music by dragging letter icons for notes and then play what you wrote!
Toy Theater - The composer
Make music, then play it.
Juice Bottle Jingles
Lawrence Hall of Science
Music Sketch Pad - (Morton Subotnick)
Create music - then play it.
Music Pitch - (Morton Subotnick)
Pitch of music - going up or down
Make your own composition (Morton Subotnick)
Make a short song with different pitches, play and guess
The Music Interactive - Classroom Apps FOR DOWNLOAD
Recorder program; Note name recognition; Hand on Math; SoundBoard
Music Quizzes, Games & Help
Music Tech Teacher
Work Sheets for Young Musicians
Music Tech Teacher
Music Education Books
Music Tech Teacher - Books and resources about Music Technology
Drumbeats
Click on different drummers to get rhythm

Lower Elementary Music Sites

Mood Music (BBC - Northern Ireland)
Listen to music and choose a face as to how the music makes you feel

Music Flash Cards

Treble Clef Flash Cards (Beginner Level) - PedaPlus
Beginner Level - Timed drill for treble clef notes - score reported at the end
Bass Clef Flash Cards (Beginner Level) - PedaPlus
Beginner Level - Timed drill for bass clef notes - score reported at the end
Treble Clef Flash Cards (Advanced Level) - PedaPlus
Advanced Level - Timed drill for treble clef notes - score reported at the end
Bass Clef Flash Cards (Advanced Level) - PedaPlus
Advanced Level - Timed drill for bass clef notes - score reported at the end
Flash Notes 2.0 drill (Multiple Levels) PedaPlus
Multiple levels - timed drill
Interval - Drill #1 PedaPlus
Flashcard drill on intervals including major, minor, perfect, octave & unison
Interval Drill #2 - PedaPlus
Flashcard drill on intervals including diminished, augmented, & unison
Music Terms - PedaPlus
Music terms drill
Note Drill
musictheory.net - Can print results - no audio

Music Intervals - Audio

Intervals - 2 note practice - Pedaplus
Audio recognition of played intervals - 6 different levels
Intervals - 2 note game - PedaPlus
Audio recognition of played intervals - 7 different levels
Intervals - 3 note practice - Pedaplus
Audio recognition of played intervals - 6 different levels
Intervals - 3 note game - PedaPlus
Audio recognition of played intervals
Harmonic Intervals Drill with Sound - PedaPlus
Listen to sound and identify interval of two notes - minor, major, perfect, octave, unison
Harmonic Interval Drill with Sound #2
Identify intervals - major, minor, perfect, unison, and octave

Music Lesson Plans - SmartBoard

Create a Sound Picture (NFGL - National Grid for Learning)
Includes lesson pack download
Music Theory (Ricci Adams) GREAT SITE
Excellent theory & Interactive - Includes quizzes that can be used individually in comp. lab

Music Lessons

Music Theory (Halifax NS)
Very good - has quizzes also

Music Videos

Exploratorium Music
How music is related to math and science 8:50

Elementary Resources

The Fact Monster - Homework Center
Whyz?
Answer whyzz, whatzz, and howzz questions!!

Almanacs

World Almanac for Kids Online
Website for The World Almanac for Kids
Daily Almanac
Daily almanac from Info Please
Information Please Almanac
Old Farmer's Almanac
Today in history; quote of the day.

Atlases

National Atlas
World Atlas
An atlas of maps, flags, geography facts and more

Biographies

Biographical Dictionary
The dictionary covers more than 33,000 notable men and women.

Other

Yahooligan's Reference
Contains Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, The Oxford Shakespeare, World Factbook and Weights an

Elementary Science

Science News for Kids
Cool Science for Curious Kids
Kids Sites - Science
Yahoo Kids: Science Facts and Videos
Science for Kids
Dr. Bob's Interesting Science Stuff
Official US Time
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Chem 4 Kids
Converting Measurements to Metric
Michigan Tech's Volcano's Page
The Nine Planets for Kids
Tissues of Life
Learn about the four tissue types that make up the human body (UPPER ELEMENTARY)
Low Life Labs
Moving, Sensing, Thinking, Being - A neat interactive website featuring robots and humans. Sponsored by Science Museum of M
Science Videos to Download
Science videos - all grade levels
Interactive webiste for the functions of laboratory devices
Moon Phase Images
Lunar phase images searchable by date from 1800 to 2199 A.D.
Infection, Detection, Protection
American Museum of Natural History
Science Bob
Science fair ideas, experiments, videos, & research help
Cosmos4Kids
Chem4Kids
Biology4Kids
Physics4Kids
Wildlife (E-Nature)
Descriptions of wild life in your area (by zip code)

Upper Elementary Science

Periodic Table - (with pictures of Elements) (Chemicool)
Climates of the World (Climate-Zone)
Click on the map of the world to find the climate of that area
Salks Periodic Table (wiki)
Also includes videos on the elements
3D Toad - 3-D science objects

Elementary Social Studies

Native American Literature Circles
Examines the cultures of Native Americans by geographical regions of the US
Geography4Kids
Symbols of the US - State Symbols USA
Tinymap
Create, save, & embed a map with lines connecting places and text on points of interest

English & Composition

Great Source iwrite
Forms of writing, graphic organizers, glossary of literary terms, grammar handbook
Paper Grader
Paper Rater - Paste your paper & bibliog - Checks for errors
Grammar Checker (Whitesmoke)
Checks grammar & spelling

Bibliography Tools

NoodleBib
Create citations, then copy & paste into your document
Son of Citation Machine
Create citations in either MLA or APA

English Literature

Legends and Folktales
Excellent site for folktales from around the world; audio; (DLI FLC)
Online Novels
20 best novels of the 20th century! Great Site!

FCS

Costume

Costume
Period costume from the Middle Agest to the early 19th Century
Victorian Fashion
Detailed website showing fashion history from 1837 to 1901
Fashion Era
Contains 695 content rich, illustrated pages of Fashion History, Costume History, Clothing, Fashions and Social History
Fashion Fantasy Game
A game to create shirts, dresses & outfits & become a designer or store owner.

Textiles

Fiber Arts
Fiber Arts from Americas and other lands

Flip Video

Tutorial
PDF file to save or print - 19 pages w/illustrations
Flip Video - Tutorial - Movies
Four short how-to videos
Webpage Tutorial (Overclockers)
Tutorial with pictures & text on Flip Video cameras.
I Love My Flip
Blog which deals with how-to's of Flip Video
Specs of Flip Video camera
Specifications of & ideas for using Flip Video cameras.
Flip Video Basics
Tutorial videos & text (VG)

Video - Elementary

Kid's Vid
Scripting, making, editing, & showtime!

Flu Pandemic

Flu P{andemic of 1918-19

Fonts

Fontsquirrel
Free fonts that can be used commercially

Google Apps

Google Forms

Creating a test / quiz that will grade itself
"How to"

Grants

Graphic Organizers

Webspiration
Online version of Inspiration
Graphic Organizers to download

Guidance Counselor

School Counselor Resources - Jefferson County Schools
Using Technology in School Guidance Programs
Everything You Wanted to Know About Your Guidance Counselor But Were Afraid to Ask
No Name Calling Week -
Ideas
Character Education Ideas -Goodcharacter.com
Character education ideas and materials
Character Counts
More ideas for character education

Health

Safety Videos (SqoolTube)
Include bicycle, fire, electric, seat belt, water, weather, & handwashing safety videos

Internet Safety

ConnectSafely -
Current updates; PDF downloads
A Thin Line
Beat Bullying
Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre
Childnet International
Commonsense.org
Connect Safely
Cyberbullying Research Centre
Family Online Safety Institute
NetSmartz
Onguard Online
Truste
UK Council for Child Internet Safety
Web Wise Kids
Wired Safety
Stop Cyberbullying
Teen Angels

Cyberbullying

Digital Citizenship

Digital Citizenship Wiki
Excellent site - Also covers Internet safety.

Keyboarding

Keyboarding Chart - [ThinkQuest]
Teaching Keyboarding - When? Why? How?
Education World
Fun Activities for Teaching Keyboarding
Mrs. Peters' Keyboarding Rubric
Tongue Twisters to Type
Exkplanation of keys on a keyboard
Kenboard Layout - Explanation of the keys (incl. "F" keys) - GCCLC

Keyboarding Worksheets

Finger / Key Quiz Template
Change the letters to to match the current keys being learned.

Library Skills

Boolean Searches

Boolean Operators ( Bowling Green U)
Excellent visual source of Boolean operators

Evaluating Library Sources

Evaluating Print Sources (Bowling Green U)

Truncation

Truncation & wild cards in searching (Bowling Green U)

Math

Tangram - Ancient Chinese Puzzle
The Tangram, an Ancient Chinese puzzle is made from a square cut into seven pieces.
Math
Everything about math
Mathway
An online tool that will help solve your maths problems.
SpeedCrunch
A very powerful desktop calculator
Scientific Calculator - Web 2.0
great tool for highschool math teachers with an interactive whiteboard
Displayer for Simple Math Equation
Khan Academy
videos explaining math processes
60 Minutes Video on Khan Academy

Microsoft Office 2003

Excel Templates

Excel Templates [Math 'n Tech Salad Bar]
Excel templates to download for math

Miscellaneous Activities

Icebreakers
8 ideas for journaling / keyboarding / etc.

Music

The Classical Archives
Subscription website but many files are free.
Jazz
Website of the documentary film, Jazz, by Ken Burns; aired on PBS
Virtual Piano Chords / Scales
Good Website for visualizing chords on a piano keyboard

North Dakota

Theodore Roosevelt Roughrider Awards
Award recognizes North Dakotans who have received national recognition. Portraits are on display in the capital.
North Dakota Eskers
Glacial deposits found in North Dakota
Esker at Dahlen, ND
Geology of Nelson & Walsh Counties
Author - John P. Bluemle; 1973
North Dakota Wind Resource Map
Map shows wind speed estimates at 50 meters above the ground in state of ND.
North Dakota Wildlife Federation
Battle of Killdeer Mountains
North Dakota
North Dakota facts and info including the state hymn
North Dakota
Facts and info on ND from Infoplease Almanac. Includes current officials
North Dakota Legendary textbook
Resources for teachers to use in North Dakota studies

Office 2003

Word 2003 - EduTech Wiki
Microsoft Education Lesson Plans
Covers all MS progams

Excel Tutorials & Instruction

Excel Tutorials
Internet for Classrooms - Excellent
Spreadsheet Lesson Plans
About.com - Excellent lesson plans
Classrooms that Excel Resources
Guides, Tutorials, Applications and Lesson Plans -(Sabine, LA)
Excel Workbooks to Download
Activities in a spreadsheet to download (Internet for Classrooms)
Excel Lesson Plans and Ideas
Includes ideas for element incl. K-1. (Integrating Spreadsheets in the Classroom)
Create a Graph
Excellent for Middle School intro to graphs

Word Tutorials

Autoshapes & Clipart Drawing Activity

Office 2010

NORTHSTAR DOWNLOAD: Menu to Ribbon References for MS Office 2010
Format in Excel workbook file - Microsoft website
NORTHSTAR DOWNLOAD: What's New in Microsoft Office 2010
(UITS - IT Training and Education)
ATOMIC LEARNING - Office Suite 2010 - What's New?
New features in Office 2010; major changes in Word, Excel & PowerPoint

Excel 2010

ATOMIC LEARNING - Excel 2010 - INTRO
Basics; working with cells; formatting cells; columns & rows; styles, themes & tables; views & page set-up; printing

Word 2010

Basic Tasks in Word 2010
Microsoft website
ATOMIC LEARNING - Word 2010 - INTRO
Covers basics; text; paragraph & page formatting; autocorrect & autoformat; printing; find & replace

Online Books & Stories

Grimm's Fairy Tales
Fairy Tales containing witches, goblins, trolls, & wolves
The Arabian Nights
Stories include fairy tales, fables, romances, farces, legends, and parables
Hans Christian Andersen stories
Andersen, Danish author and poet who became world-famous for his fairy tales
Just So Stories -- Rudyard Kipling
stories written at the very beginning of the twentieth century
Legends of King Arthur
UDL Book Builder
CREATE YOUR OWN - then read, and share engaging digital books that build reading skills for students

Audio Book Podcasts

Robinson Crusoe podcast
Written by Daniel Defoe, the adventure of a shipwrecked young man marooned on an island.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm

HS & Middle

Read Print
Major authors and classics - Books & short stories
Lit2Go
MP3's of major books and stories to download

Online Drills & Games

Free Rice
Drills on Art, Language, Chemistry, Math, English & Geography

Online Storage

Anyhub
Upload files up to 10 GB for free

Other PortaPortals

Manassas City Public Schools (mcpsteach)
Fairhope
Paula Word's

Photography

Camera Sims

Elements of Composition

Depth of Field

Depth of Field - To blur or not to
mir.com

Elements of Composition

10 rules of Photo Composition and Why They Work
digitalcameraworld.com

Elements of Design

f/stops

Tedious Explanation of the f/stop
Matthew Cole / The Cole's Home Page
Lens Photo Length Chart
Printable Sheet of 1/3 Stop Increments
F Stops & Light
Matthew Coles
f/stops Explained at Last
Prophotoman.com
The Sim Cam
f/stops & Shutter Speed
Photo Image News
f/stops for Beginners
Photo.net
Aperature and f/stop Explained
Blogdivvy.com

Green Screens 7 More

How to make a Green Screen
Media College

Lightroom 3

Lightroom Tutorials
photokaboom.com

Photo Raw

Raw File Processing in Photoshop Elements
photokaboom.com
Camera Raw in Photoshop Elements (techniques)
photoshopelementsuser.com
An Introduction to Raw
geofflawrence.com - Image w/ explanations

Photography Basics

Phantastic Photos
Pictorial definitions of aperature; DOF; rule of thirds

Photoshop Elements

Raw Files Processing in Photshop Elements
photokaboom.com
Photoshop Elements Tutorial (page of links)
photokaboom.com
Using Camera Raw in Photoshop Elements (techniques)
photoshopelementsuser.com

How-To's

Photographing Christmas Lights

Plug-ins & More

VLC Media Player
Use for system recording - VLC Media

Podcasting - Tutorials & How To's

Podcasting (Learning & Teaching Scotland)
Number of short video tutorials on uploading audio plus web apps using audo; Setting up Audacity.

Podcasts

Authors

Literature (Young Adult

Sync
Audiobooks-Age13 & up. One free audiobook download per week

Stories

Lit2Go
Free online collection of stories to download. Search by author or title.
Kids Audio Books
Stories in mp3 format to download

Poetry & Prose

101 Best Loved Poems
Includes works of the great poets
Short Stories
Short stories by well-know classic authors

Poetry for Kids

Printable Poetry for Kids
Includes nursery rhymes; poetry about U.S. Presidents; graduation; holidays, etc.
Giggle Poetry
Poems by many well-known children't poets

Potpourri - A Little of This & Some of That!!

Holiday Celebrations
All kinds of facts and activities on the different holidays throughout the year - A neat website!
The Game Crafter
Make your own games - cards, boards, dice, etc.
Search for Bible Verses
Lutheran Hour
Cube Creator
Create a cube with questions for review; ReadWriteThibnk

PowerPoints & Templates to Download

PowerPoint Slideshows to Download
Themes & Topics at PPPST.com -- ALL SUBJECTS!!!

Professional - Web 2.0

Jennifer Wagner -
K-6 projects & sites using Web 2.0
Thinking Digitally - Web 2.0
Educational Web 2.0 Applications
ARTICLE - Creating a new culture of teaching and learning
Lists Web 2.0 sites - TNT 2009

PLN

Personal Learning Networks for Educators
Video

Royalty Free / Creative Commons

Royalty Free Music

Free Play Music (iTunes)
Feeling, Style, Instrument, Volume & Tempo

Science

The Exploratorium
The Exploratorium Museum of art, science, and human perception located in San Francisco
Birding & Wild Birds
Everything about birds including pictures, descriptions and info about birding
Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears
Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears is an online magazine integrating science, literacy, and the polar regions.
Cells Alive
CELLS alive! represents 30 years of capturing film and computer-enhanced images of living cells and organisms for education and
Tissues of Life
Learn about the four tissue types that make up the human body
What Color Eyes Would Your Children Have?
Insert genetic family info into online 'calculator' to determine eye color your child will have
3-D Science Subjects

Search Engines

Quintura for Kids
A fun "tag cloud" style site that lets users embed word chains into a site.
Oamos
A wonderful visual experience that is unlike anything else around.
BevyFind
A search engine that speeds up the searching process by combining different elements into one page.
Kngine
An excellent "Web 3.0" search engine built on semantics.
Spezify
Get visual results with a sticky-type interface that incorporates all sorts of media content.
Scoopler
One of the best real-time search engines on the way w/ a built in button to share results across multiple social networks.
Webkruz
Get search results in visual thumbnails w/ blurbs of text underneath.
Sputtik
A great way to search for results on the web w/ a variety of content covered in different visual ways.
Feedmil
A nice way to search where users can adjust their results via a sliding panel that controls the searching criteria
Yahooligans
Search engine for kids

SmartBoard Add-Ons!!!

Super Timer
Fiery Ideas

SmartBoard Lessons, Websites & Tutorials

Creating Smart Lessons
SmartBoard interactive resources and sites on the web.
SmartBoard Lesson Plans & Templates
Links to websites for interactive lesson plans & downloads.
SmartBoard Lessons & Plans - K-3
Great sites to use with the SmartBoard
Whiteboard Blog
Tips and ideas on using Whiteboards including SmartBoards
Teachers Love SmartBoards
Lesson ideas including interactive websites to use with SmartBoards
Teachnic SmartBoard lessons
Kindergarten lessons for SmartBoard
Elementary Smart Lessons
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Using the Smartboard to Teach Engaging Lessons
(With a 6-12 Math Emphasis) - Videos 15 to 20 minutes
Smart Exchange - To REGISTER
SmartBoard resource center and community network site
SMART Board
Interactive websites, Notebook lessons, resources, training & tutorials
School Dist of Waupaca - SmartBoard Links
Here are many links that will be helpful for your SmartBoard experience.
SmartBoard Links & Info
Includes info on Notebook software, lessons, & tutorial links
Tutorials and General Info
Includes handouts on using SmartBord with other apps

Elementary Smartboard Lesson Websites

Longwood Central School District
Lesson Planet
SmartBoard Lesson Plans

High School SmartBoard Lesson Websites

Portaportal - Time to Get Smart
Lists websites for tutorials, math, English, science & social studies

Interactive Websites to Use with SmartBoard

Letter Quiz
2-team activity that works with answers starting with the chosen letter.
Letter Quiz Q&A - Math pdf
PDF file of MATH questions and answers to use with LETTER QUIZ (link in listed in this section)
Absorb courseware
Math, Chemistry, Electronics, Physics, & Advanced Physics
K-3 Interactive Websites (Julie Thompson)
K-3 Websites to use with SmartBoard in the areas of Math, Writing, and Language Arts
SmartBoard Resources
These Smart Board resources have sound and animation and interact with the teacher to make an interactive lesson for primary stu
Word Search Wizard
Create word searches to use with SmartBoard - Can also be downloaded and printed
Oak Street Elementary School
Stories Interactive Sites for Smartboard Use – Grades K - 5
Interactive Internet Resources
Center - k-12 - Missouri
Smart Exchange BETA
View lessons before you download

Math - SmartBoard Lessons to Download

Using the SMARTBoard to Support Math
Lessons for all grade levels - K-12

Smart Slate Tutorials

Smart Slate WS200 Users Guide
Complete Users Guide - Includes Installing Bluetooth
Customizing Smart Slate WS200
Excellent souce on customizing the Smart Slate
Creating an Overlay for Your Smart Slate (VIDEO)
Video
Customizing the Smart Slate (SLIDE SHOW)

SMARTBOARD FAVORITE WEBSITES

Interactive WhiteBoard Resources (TeacherLed)
Excellent math tools; also some English / literature

SmartBoard Lessons to Download - All Levels

SmartBoard Lounge
Download lessons using Notebook software
L'Ouverture Computer Technology Magnet

SmartBoard Tutorials

Social Studies

Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt sponsored by the Brittish Museum

Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail
All about the Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail
ThinkQuest website
The Oregon Trail
Map with photos of landmarks along the way.

Study Drills

Study Champs
Math, science & English drills

Study Skills

How to Study
Suggestions to help you improve your study habits.
Study skills & Homework
This websites looks at testing using essay questions

Teacher Resources

Can Teach - Classroom Discipline & Organization
Teacher Files
Resources, ideas, clipart, activities and lesson plans.
Elementary Math Websites
Contains number sense & operation; Data Analysis, Probability; Geometry, Structure & Logic
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
List of sites for educators
Espresso Education
UK based website with teacher resources. Must register with email address to access free materials.
ABC Teach
Printable teaching aids, pages, and worksheets.
Educational Websites
ALL KINDS - Check this out!!!
Online Stop-Watch
Mrs. Alline - Directory of Educational Resources on the Web
Curriculum tools, Tech tools, Resource tools, Teaching Resources, Games & Entertainment
100 Terrific Cheat Sheets for K-12 Teachers
Teaching That Makes Sense
PDF's of writing strategies, assessments, organizers
Recommended Software for Educators
Much software listed is FREE
100 Helpful Websites for New Teachers
Websites with information new (and veteran) teachers will find helpful.
Learn It - Teach It
Lessons, Video Tutorials, and Resources for teachers
10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports
Excellent Ideas from "The Apple"
eMINTS
Content rich, kid-safe online resources - (Univ. of Missouri)
Library of Congress Teaching Modules
Tutorials for using the Library of Congress in the classroom
Internet4Teachers - Julie Hagaman
Excellent list of Web 2.0 FREE programs
Technology Integration Unit Planning
Discipline - Behavior Managements Sheets (Teacher Vision)
(Printables

Blogs

Tips for Using Blogs in the Classroom
(Onine Degrees.Org

Crossword Puzzles

The Teachers Corner
Includes saving and other options;

FILLERS -

World Holiday Lessons- (ESL website)

Forms For the Classroom

Forms for the Classroom (Teachertools)
Very good site to download forms; includes behavior, academic, communication, & others

KidPix Lesson Plans

Kindergarten Teacher Resources

Alphabuddies
Crafts designed to help teach children their ABC's.
Crafts for Kids - Animal Activities
Includes crafts, coloring, printables, worksheets and games for many different animals .

Language Arts Teacher Resources

Language Arts PowerPoints (pppst.com)
Many many different kinds of language PowerPoints; some activity sheets included
Cyber Guides (excellent resource)
Teaching resources w/ web links for k-12 lit classics (click on left-side for app. grade level)

Music Teacher Resources

Bulletin Boards for the Music Classroom
Music bulletin boards including ideas on themes, backgrounds, and borders - All dealing with MUSIC!!

Quiz / Worksheet Makers

Free Quiz Maker
Online Quizzes - (Proprofs.com)
ClassTools.net
Make interactive games for student drill

Rubrics

Rubrics - University of Wisconsin
Excellent site for rubrics

Teaching Kits

Kitzu
Download kits with pictures & PDF's to explain the pictures. Excellent for Glogs!!!

Videos in the Classroom

Using Flip Videos in the Classroom
Movie tutorials incl lower elem; ideas for using Flip

VoiceThread

100 Ways to Use VoiceThread
VoiceThread - Ning

Webquest Generators

QuestGarden
Free 30 day trial or $20 for two years
Zunal Webquest Maker
Registering gives 1 webquest & $20=3 yr membership Add files; export; student quiz; review; embed YouTube videos
Technology WebQuest Maker
Fill in boxes in template; Quick and simple but limited options; Right-click to save HTML & upload to website or file host
What is a WebQuest (article)
Explains the different parts of a webquest.

Wikis

Best Practices for Your Classroom Wiki
How-To's incl etiquette; parent permission form, etc.

Word Search

Word Search -
Excellent site to make word searches to cut and paste into a document. A favorite of mine!

Comments for Report Cards

Comments for Report Cards
Super Teacher Worksheets

Technology - Computers & Other Stuff - How They Work!

Tizmos

Typing Websites

Technique

Timings

Typing Test . Com

Video Conferencing

Skype

Finding Classes to Skype

More Skype Resources

Recording Skype Sessions

Virtual Tours & Field Trips

100 Virtual Tours You Don't Want to Miss - (Online Universities)
Virtual Field Trips from SimpleK-12
Places & processes

Voicethread

Web 2.0

Gizzle.it
Is a news aggregator that puts online news in one customizable place
Crayon
Create a professional-looking newspaper with this nice online creator. There are several options to choose from, so it has a bit

Animations

GoAnimate
Create your own animations
Xtranormal
Make 3-D movies for free

Avatars & Icons

Create Avators from photos
Free - does not make desktop icons
CoolUtils
Converts JPG -square; less than 100kb; choose .ico extension
Be Funky
Edit your photos, add photo effects, text, speech bubbles, frames, stickers and more
Mr Picasso Head
Create your own image using Picasso elements
My Oats
Create designs using online application
Picnic
Edit photos
Build Your Wild Self
Need Flash Player & Java Script
Dumpr. net
Photos w/ effects
Portrait Illustration Maker - THIS IS THE ONE!!!
This is the one we use for class.
WeeMe
WeeWorld
Meez
Create a 3-D avatar
Simpson-ize Me
Create an avatar in the style of the Simpsons's!
Cartoon Me
Joystiq Mii Characters
South Park Studio
Make your avatar in a South Park character
Moonjee
Make an avatar / virtual make-over

Blogging

Kidblog
Secure blogging for students - Teacher controlled

Collaborative Writing and Note Taking

50 Tools and Tricks to Revolutionize Your Notetaking
List of 50 Web 2.0 tools for your own work or collaborating with others
Wallwisher
Online Board Maker
Scribblar
White board collaboration
Awesome Highlighter
Highlight and save webpages

Comics Creation

Pixton - ; Has educational accounts (paid)
Also, there are a ton of options such as voice recording, drag-n-drop interface, and importing/exporting features.
ToonDoo
One of the most popular online comic creators that is very similar to Pixton, with the ability to create a private space for edu
Comic Master
A very nice-looking site that is user friendly with lots of features to choose from such as: backgrounds, objects, speech bubble
Bitstrips
A great site with an educational instance (paid) that allows students to create comics in a safe/secure environment.
Stage'D - A great-looking site for creating animated comics!
Make Beliefs Comics A wonderful site with lots of options to choose from -- it even lets users create comics in Spanish.
Super Hero Squad Show - A fun site for kids to make comics off of their favorite Marvel super hero.
Witty Comics - A comic creation site that focuses more on creating text more then anything else.
Chogger - A nice site for creating a comic, with the ability to create a drawing from scratch.
Comic Creator - Use with younger students
From Read Write & Type, a easy/simple to use comic creator that is nice to use with the younger kids.

Digital Book Creation

Mixbook - Best site for a book to share with others - digitally or a hard copy
Educators can create students accounts for better management
BookRix -
Best site for advertising your digital book; user friendly
Panraven
Nice site for creating, sharing, and purchasing your digital book
Book Builder
Create digital books (ME - Check out!!)
PDF Flash - First book is free.
MyPublisher = Free software that allows users to create colorful photo or digital books
Tabblo - Create a user account to make digital books with photos
SmileBooks - Create beautiful storybooks online, or download software for your computer
Site for making photo books to order
LuLu - Create print or ebooks; a user-friendly site
Electronic books for Beginners
Teacher's Network

Digital Story Telling

Primary Access
Digital storytelling using photos (Flickr); Web-based w/ no software to install Embed projects
Digital Story Telling Resources & Websites (Making Teachers Nerdy blog)
Excellent list of websites & resources for digital storytelling.
Tips for Digital Story Telling
from Tech & Learning magazine

Drawing

Canvastic
Drawing & Replays!

Facilitating

Scrummy
List & assign jobs / tasks within a project

Glogster

Making a Glog
Prezi presentation

Highlighting Web Pages

Roohit
Gives URL of highlighted webpage to refer to or share

Just For Fun

Mini-Mizer
Picture yourself in plastic! (from 'Reasonably Clever' website)
Photobabble
Talking Photos
Paint like Jackson Pollock
Online painting in the style of Jackson Pllock - great for SmatBoards
Transl8it
Translate regular language into text!!
Magnetic Poetry - Playing with Words
Sites & links (TechLearning)

Logos and Headlines

Supalogo
Create your own text-based logo - choose font, colors, size, then download or copy html.
Glitter Your Way
Logos & titles - all with shimmery effects! Copy and insert in blog or webpage.
Shape Collage Online
Download or online version
Make Your Own Avatar (blog) (Sue Waters)
Blog posting on sites to create avatars
Logo Maker
Easy to use; Great options

Mind Mapping

Slick Plan
What's not to like? Easy to use, create beautiful flow charts, then embed to a site.
Thinklinkr
Real-time collaborative site where users brain storm and create a mind map.
Webspiration
The popular desktop application is now the web
Diagrammr
Quite simply the easiest mind mapping site to use, no registration is necessary, then share the URL w/ others.
Imagination Cubed
Nice looking site that is ideal for the electronic whiteboards w/ the ability to draw your own mind maps.
Edistorm
Real-Time mind mapping w/ sticky notes.
Education Eye
A great way to brainstorm w/ this innovative search engine.
Mind42
Nice collaborative mind mapping site that is easy to use.
Mindmeister
Beautiful looking mind mapping site w/ the ability to embed into a site.
Mindomo
One of the most detailed mind mapping sites w/ lots of web 2.0 features, such as sharing, commenting, etc.
diagram.ly
Easy to use draw website to diagram; download as XML; PNG; JPG; SVG;

Newspapers / Magazines / Brochures (Online)

Issuu
One of the most popular and successful online digital magazine creators/publishers around, with a very nice user interface.
Yudu
Upload a document or PDF to create an online magazine that can be emailed our or embedded into a site.
Openzine
Very user friendly site with an abundance of templates and layouts to create a professional-looking magazine and share online
Newscred
Create a terrific looking online newspaper in 5 minutes, similar to Openzine.
Scribd
A very popular Web 2.0 site for creating online content and publishing
Fodey
A fun site to create a newspaper and then download to print out or put on a blog or site.http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspap
Zinepal
A great way to bring the news to students by "clipping" online articles. This is a wonderful site for those making the move to e
Paper.li
A fantastic site to turn Twitter into an online readable magazine
ReadWriteThink Printing Press
Create online brochure, flyer, booklet, or newspaper

Brochures

Outlines

Create outlines online (Read, Write, Think / Verizon)

Photo Editing

Photoshop Express
2 GB of free space, no ability to layer or composite images.
Picnik
Upload photos to fine-tune, crop, rotate, with artistic effects
FlauntR
Image tools & effects; Share images as site is linked with Picasa, Flickr, & Facebook .
Pixenate
Pixenate is the photo editor of choice for photo printing and photo sharing businesses.
Pixlr
Pixlr is a free online image editor, jump in and start edit, adjust, filter.
Picreflect
Give the reflection on any image, to resize your image, to make them tranparent or rotate them to any angle
Resize Image
Free service will help you to re-size your images with basic and advanced options
Pizap
Easily create wacky images with their digital pictures
Kozoa
Excellen site with some paid options
Photovisi
Create custom collages
Picmonkey
Online photo editing uses flash

Photo Fun

Easymoza - Make photo mosiacs out of your pictures
Hat-Try-On (Village Hat Shop)
Upload a photo and see what you look like in different hats
Big Huge Labs
Do cool stuff with your photos1

Screencasts

BLOG - 4 free tools for creating screencasts
Jing
Free screencast tool - Download
Screentoaster
Screencapture - save to your computer, upload to Screentoaster or YouTube
Screencastle
View on the Screen Castle website or embed into another website or blog.
Screencast-o-matic
Allows you to specify how much of your screen that you want to record and recording your voice is also an option
Kwout
Add a BOOKMARKLET and take a screen shot of part of a webpage and post it using embed code.
QlipBoard
Download from cnet
Eight ways to create screencasts and slideshares
article with Links (TechLearning)

Slideshows - Online

Kozoa
Creates beautiful slide shows, with a variety of music, effects, transitions to choose from.
Shwup
Great site for creating private collaborative slide shows with features such as the ability to allow comments.
Photo Peach
Unique site that allows users to create quizzes in their slide show through multiple choice questions.
Animoto
One of the most popular sites around with an educational instance.
Slideroll
A very nice site site that allows the user to make private or allow comments.
Flixtime
Easy to use site where a user uploads photos and selects audio and transitions and then gets a code to embed into their site.
One True Media
Great site to create animated slide shows with video.
PhotoSnack
Very user friendly site with a drag & drop interface
Pho.to
Create flash based slide shows and get an embed code to put it on a site.
Vuvox
An excellent site for creating beautiful multimedia slide shows.
SlideRocket
Allow users to comment and answer polls in real time. Offers user analytics
280 Slides
Looks and feels like it's running on the dekstop
Zoho Show
Includes live audio chat with presentees; cannot export to PPT, but can import from PPT
Brainshark
Upload slideshows or pictures and record your voice; gives embed code
17 Slideshow Tools for Teachers (Blog)

Sticky Notes Online

Wallwisher
Can include text and links to images
LinoIt
Stixy
Spaaze
Postica