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ThinkingGear Create customized rubrics and store online. Self-scoring capabilities
Rubistar Includes templates and the rubrics are downloadable unlike Thinkinggear. Storage is only 1 year and no self-scoring
Curriculum Technology Integration
Kathy Schrock's Guide to Rubrics
Creating Rubrics Through Negotiable Contracting
Noodles Citation and bibliography tools
EasyBib Automatic Bibliography and Citation Maker
Cite This For Me is a tool designed to help students correctly format reference lists or citation pages. Cite This For Me provides formatting not only printed materials and websites, but also for things like podcasts, online videos, and even email correspondence.
KnightCite Bibliography Composer What makes KnightCite special is that it covers many citation styles and compiles complete bibliographies, not just single citations.
Zotero - A free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work -- in the web browser itself.
BibBuilder 1.3 Free MLA-Style Bibliography Builder
Citation Machine
Citation Maker: Elementary
Citation Maker: Secondary
Citation Wizard
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Puzzles - Quizes - Activities
Exercises, Quizzes, Tests Hundreds of links to online exercises, quizzes, and test makers as well as as well as a subject-arranged list of links to assessment tools.
QuizRevolution Makemultimedia quizes. You can include video, images and audio files. There are two options for answer format, multiple choice and open ended response. If students register for an account , you can monitor their results.
Puzzlemaker Create word searches, cryptograms, math squares, and other types of puzzles to use with your lessons
QuizCenter This site allows you create and correct online quizzes and automatically posts them on a server so they may be used by students.
ClassTools Quickly create games to review material. Arcade games, Venn diagrams, atribute games and more. No registration, simple directions and samples to follow.
Proprofs create quizes of videos. Video tutorials
Engrade Online gradebook that you can also post grades, assignments, and attendence. Password protected.
GradeConnect Also functions as a course management system with announcements, assignments. calendar, mass e-mails, and links.
ClassNotesOnline Dozens of features including syllabus, information page, claendar, classroom news, class photos, links, files, assignments, gradebook and more
Cool School Apps Foreign languages, Math, Science, Geography, history
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Eboard.com A teacher communication tool allowing posting of homework, notes, and even pictures
Edu2.0 An exemplary example of a learning community. It offers a complete Web-based learning management system with more than 10,000 shared online resources, and a range of networking and collaboration features--wikis, blogs, feeds, chat, etc. And it also includes assessments, attendance logs, grading, assignments, and many other features found in traditional learning management systems. There is no cost for Edu2.0, and there is no advertising on the site.
Keep Toolkit A free, online project planning template that allows students to input images, text, and video into different "boxes" to create a shareable "project portfolio."
Nicenet's Internet Classroom Assistant A free, well-done, Web-based classroom environment giving teachers and students a secure forum to collaborate and share ideas
ClassNotesOnline Dozens of features including syllabus, information page, claendar, classroom news, class photos, links, files, assignments, gradebook and more...
Weebly Drag and drop website creation and editing from templates
Yola Drag and drop website creation similar to Weebly except for rollover links.
Hipero Bills itself as the simplest free Website builder.
Tripod for Teachers Free online Web authoring. Nice templates and support.
Alefo Alefo is a website that allows the user to take "snapshots" of any other website and add them to their own personal homepage. It lets you create widgets from anywhere which is a huge plus for classroom teachers. You can take the best parts of websites and build a personal hub of these clips for your colleagues or students.
Schoopy Create classroom and school Websites with calendars, message boards, assignments and files.
Thinkport Web site builder, lesson plan builder, student acitivity builder, store files, collection of video clips that are downloadable.
Class Homepage Builder Create a Web site in three steps.
TrackStar Collect your Web sites and annodate them. Then publish them online.
Google Home Page Google's Web page creator.
Assign-A-Day A free online calendaring site that can be used to post school, activity, or class calendars
Portaportal Easy to use bookmarking site to use when you want to save and share bookmarks. Also consider Social Bookmarking site for advanced options that a simple to use for tagging and sharing.
Voo2do Tracks priority, due date, and time estimates for each task. There is no notion of "lists" in
voo2do— tasks can be grouped by project, but you can view and edit a bunch of projects together. Voo2do doesnot yet support sharing your tasks with other people.
Ta-da Lists Offers the option of sharing lists with the world or just with a few people. Educators can maintain a list of lists to determine the status of various projects in a particular class. One unusual feature – a dot before each list indicates progress or lack of same. The larger the dot the more is left to do on that particular list.
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AudioPal Add voice to websites for free with AudioPal SAVE PEOPLE 358 Creates an embeddable SMALL player! Pretty handy for giving oral directions on your wiki, website, etc!
Geni This tool allows you to create an interactive family tree. Once you are registered, you can easily create a family tree. You are able to include family member's birth-dates, death-dates, email addresses, pictures, video clips, and more. This site also has the capacity to create timelines for births, deaths, weddings, divorces, education, occupation, and other important events and information.
Online Interactive Literacy Tools Read Write Think has developed two dozen programs/tools for interactive thinking, writing and problem solving. Some examples are timelines, comic creator, essay mapper, persuasion mapper, poem creators, and literary graffiti
Interactive Math and Science Downloads - elementary http://www.smart education.org/?p=topResources Designed for smartboards, but they can be used on individual computers. Windows only
Interactive Math Sites A teacher-created list of interactive mathematics sites to use with the whole class via an interactive whiteboard, TabletPC or workstations http://www.kenton.k12.ky.us/SmartBoard/smartmath.htm#interactiveonline
OER Commons Comprehensive open learning network where teachers and professors (from pre-K to graduate school) can access their colleagues’ course materials and share their own. It uses Web 2.0 features (tags, ratings, comments, reviews, and social networking) online sharing of best teaching and learning practices. Included is free open source programs.
Interactive Whiteboard Resources A nice collection of interactive whiteboard resources, lessons, and much more
Web Worksheet Wizard Create and publish worksheets online.
My Chingo Allow others to record comments directly onto your site.
Thesaurus Wizard Useful to develop a list of keywords before you begin your search.
Visual Thesaurus Rree online tool displays synonyms in a unique 3-D environment.
SketchUp Free 3D modeling tool from Google. Good animated tutorials.
Kathy Schrock's Tools for Educators A listing of educational tools.
Alice Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience. There is a high school and middle school version.
Scratch A drag and drop programing program for ages 8 and up. Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.
Touch Typing Free Windows typing program for english and hebrew.
BBC Dance Mat Typing Dance Mat Typing is a fun musical introduction to touch typing for kids seven and older. Practice is divided into twelve lessons, and led by animated characters. I recommend the full screen version (this link is just below the lesson.) To know what keys are taught in each level, can click over to About this Site.
Free Typing Games There are six arcade-style typing games, thirty keyboarding lessons and thirty timed typing tests (with printable certificates.) The lessons feature a keyboard that is color-coded to each our of ten fingers, and each lesson introduces two keys, and then reviews all the keys from previous lessons.
TuxTyping2 games and practice
Games
Game-O-Matic A suite of wizards to create simple Web-based activities for language learning and practice
ClassTools Quickly create games to review material. Arcade games, Venn diagrams, atribute games and more. No registration, simple directions and samples to follow.
Games Resources Teachers can generate the games themselves or students might create them. The table below contains links to web pages which feature templates for a variety of games such as Who Wants to Be A Millionaire and, Jeopardy and more.
Powerpoint Games Different gamesthan the TV quiz shows above.
Game: Ayiti: The Cost of Life Players manage life for a virtual family of five in rural Haiti. The object of the game is to make spending decisions--saving money vs. throwing a party vs. buying food--that keep the family healthy. (For more civics sites click here) Classroom support materials for Ayiti - developed by UNICEF
Interactive Math - elementary - wide variety of games and manipulatives for simple to complex math concepts. Good for smartboards also.
35 Educational Games - Examples include Playing History, Geosense, Samrty games. Planet in Action ...
Math and Science Computer and Whiteboard Resources - elementary - math and science avtivities that can be used with whiteboards and regualr workstations.
K-3 Smartboard Resources Math and Language arts sites that can also be used on individual workstations.
Online version of Smartboard Notebook
PBSKids SmartBoard Games (K-6) This site has a collection of educational interactive games for educators. These educational games can be used with a SmartBoard. Subject areas include Arts, Language Arts, Math and Social Studies
Timelines
Timeline Maker Online timeline tool.
Capzles Graphic timelines. Nice user interface and the ability to embed intoa site.
XTimeline Add images, text and links. If you need more detailed tutorial click here
Dipity Dipity is a timeline tool that is web-based, free, and collaborative. Each point on the timeline can include text, images, and streamed video. It’s easy to use and produces interactive timelines. You can also search stored timelines.
Mnemograph Interactive timeline application. You can "grab" the timeline and drag it left and right, and zoom in and out to view centuries at a time or just hours. Mnemograph allows you to create event-spans so that you can see durations and how they overlap. Being web-based, Mnemograph lets you collaborate and share easily.
Timeline Students can generate descriptive timelines that can be plotted with their choice of units of measure (date, time, event, entry, or other). Entries on the timeline automatically become links that allow students to easily navigate from one point on the timeline to another.
Timeline Studio Shareware program with hyperlink and search capabilities
Free Timeline Provides a free activity that students can use to create their own timelines.
Timetoast Make interactive timelines Video tutorials
Circavie This online tool allows you to create an interactive multimedia timeline on a topic of your choice. You are able to use pictures, videos, or text to mark an event. Video and audio files hosted elsewhere (podcasts, TeacherTube videos, etc) can be included in your timelines. Pictures can be included by upload or by URL.
Ask Dave Taylor Dave Taylor covers a lot of territory, answering questions about iPhones, Facebook, Unix, Limewire, HTML, blogs, CSS, building websites, Mac OS, and even "D) None of the Above." Site search is located in the right-hand menu, where there is also a listing of popular articles, a category listing, and a big red Ask Dave button. When you get to the Ask Dave page, you have three choices: search his site, post your question at a for-a-fee site endorsed by Dave, or scroll all the way down the page to send Dave a question for free (as long as you don't check the "Help! I need immediate assistance" button, which is fee-based.)
Ask Leo Leo Notenboom is a retired Microsoft software engineer who has been answering tech questions online since 2003. Best way to find an answer is to use the search function (scroll down the front page to see it.) Popular and recent answers are listed in the right-hand column, or peruse answers listed by category (look for the Categories link near the bottom of the page.) Although Leo does cover a variety of Apple topics, and many questions are applicable to all platforms, he fields a lot of Microsoft, Hotmail and Windows questions.
Jake Ludington's Digital Lifestyle Jake Ludington is a multimedia expert, and answers questions about digital video and podcasting, as well as computer productivity tools, Macs, iPhones, and social media such as blogging and Facebook. His "Ask a Question" form is easy to find (in the upper left-hand corner of every page), as is his site search (upper right-hand corner.) Many of his tutorials include video.
Mac Most "Get the most from your Mac, iPhone, iPod and Apple TV" with Gary Rosenzweig's huge library of how-to videos, podcasts, and articles. Gary is a computer book author, computer game programmer, and producer and host of the MacMost video series. With more than 550 video episodes on topics such as security, connectivity, backing up and GarageBand, you are very likely to find the Mac answers you need. In addition to using the site search to find your answer, be sure to check out the MacMost forum where you can ask your own question, or help other visitors by answering their questions.
Word Tips Computer book author Allen Wyatt runs a network of helpful sites focusing on Microsoft Word and Excel. Since the format of this review only allows me to display one URL, I chose the Word Tips site for versions 2007 and later (also known as Ribbon Interface Word.) To access the other sites, mouse over the Tips.Net tab in the horizontal menu near the top of the site.
Ask Bob Rankin Ask about technology, the Internet, gadgets and more
Mac Help for Mom Browse help videos or click on tab to ask a question
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Graphic Organizers Includes online and offline templates.
Webspiration New free, for the moment, online version of Inspiration
Cacoo - Nice site for creating online charts and graphs with a built-in chat feature for collaboration
Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers Dozens of templates students can fill in online. HIGHLY recomended for all ages.
Exploratree Wide range of concept mapping/graphic organizer templates from a site in the UK that you can edit. (Saving requires that you be logged in.
Graphic Organizers Searchable by subject area. These are templates not programs.
Language Arts Organizers for fr. 6-12 Unique and well developed organizers. Includes notetaking organizers, Literature Circle organizers, conflict resolution and many character development organizers.
TheBrain: Mind Mapping, Brainstorming Its a powerful information visualization and organization software for free. Simply type in your ideas. Drag and drop files and web pages. Any idea can be linked to anything else. Using your digital Brain is like cruising through a Web of your thinking. See new relationships. Discover connections. Go from the big picture of everything to a specific detail.
Geni Free family tree tool
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Maps Links to maps to print out, find locations, and lessons.
Mapbiquity - Adding a map to your website shouldn't be any different than adding any other HTML element. You should be able to create and customize your map, add your own data, obtain its embeddable code, then use the code to publish the map on your site. All of this is exactly what Mapbiquity lets you do. Mapbiquity is a simple and free to use website that lets you add maps to your website in a few easy steps.
Online Map Tools and Resources Tools for looking up maps and generating customized ones for all types of purposes.
Outline Maps Vast collection of state and country maps for various grade levels.
Google Maps Displays either as a graphic street map, a satellite picture,or a hybrid. Maps have a zoom in feature to view individual buildings and more.
Google Earth 3D virtual map of the world. Terrific zoom in capabilities.
Community Walk Create personal and community maps to show on the map, on your blog or website. Add photos, videos,comments, more.
ClustrMap Add a thumbnail map to your Web site which shows where people come from who visit your Web site.
Survey Monkey Online Survey creator. Ten questions for free version extra tutorial
Strutta - Create not just polls, but online contests as well. Strutta allows teachers to moderate all student content before being posted online.
Pollograph This survey tool has a lot of the same easy survey features that other have BUT you can embed pictures and video!
Kwik Surveys gives you the option to mix and match eleven different types of questions. You can administer your survey by posting it on a blog, website, or discussion forum. You can also email your survey to the people you want to take it. If you choose the email option, you can track who has taken your survey and restrict respondents to taking the survey only once.
Obsurvey - A great site with a wiki-style interface that allows users to create surveys with different styles of questions, such as multiple choice, true or false, and others.
Polldaddy - Similar to Survey Monkey, with a nice user interface.
CreateSurvey Online survey creator.
Zoomerang A online survey creator that allows 20 questions and 100 responses for free
Vorbeo - An easy-to-use site that lets users embed a poll directly into their blog or website.
Text the Mob - Good site site to use with a large audience. Allows users to text in their responses via a mobile device. Built-in filtering soon to come, which would be ideal for schools.
Yarp - A fun site to use for creating simple surveys that generates a unique URL.
FormSite Allows you to create an interactive form (up to 30 fields) and collect data from parents, students, or other teachers
Poll Everywhere This is a tool that allows you to set up a poll where participants can text message their response (or enter their vote online). The poll can be embedded in a PowerPoint or a website.
JotForm Create an online form to embed in your website to gather information from parent or students, etc.
Screen Timer When you need a countdown timer for activities or testing, try this simple downloadable program.
Widgetbox A good source for widgets to embed in wikis, blogs and Web pages.
Awesome Highlighter By placing it on your FireFoxtoolbar, it highlights key notes in web pages, extract notes, create a short url, share or save. Awesome Highlighter can be used as a web note taking or reading comprehension tool.
Adout - Just add a URL and it will remove the advertisements on the page...Might be helpful for those students who are easily distracted by ads.
iCyte Clunky, disorganized bookmarks can only handle a certain amount of online information before they become unruly and difficult to sift through. Likewise, copy/paste doesn't save formatting, is difficult to organize, and is harder to link back to the original website for easy reference. Users can highlight the information he or she would like to save and click the iCyte icon on the browser toolbar. Then, the data can be categorized into different projects designated by the user. Tags and notes can be added for further categorization, creating a searchable database.
Screencast-o-Matic This one actually allows you to create video recordings all from your browser. Like all other great web apps, this is in beta, but it’s got potential that’s for sure.
Screentoaster
Record your screen. Also allows you to record voiceover after screen capturing.
Camstudio Capture audio and video playing on your screen. For Windows only Here is a simple Tutorial
Wink
Free screencasting software. Not quite as powerful as Camtasia and Captivate, but it still should be valuable for most tutorial applications.
Copernicus This tool is for you Mac people out there. It prides itself on being very fast allowing the program to record directly to your RAM for super fast access. Use it to easily create screenshots or simple how-to movies. Does not capture audio.
oRipa Screen Recorder oRipa Screen Recorder is a handy tool to record your Windows desktop activities in real time and save it as a video file. oRipa Screen Recorder also captures anything you can hear on your PC, such as, music and talking through the PC's microphone.oRipa Screen Recorder is great for making all kinds of movies, including:
- Make software, Web site and product introduction demos and tutorials.
- Real time record audio narration to your captured videos.
- Turn PowerPoint presentations into movies.
Enhance your online help documentation
Chat Creator Lets you add a chat window to your site
Five Thousand Resources to do Just About Anything Online Metalist that compiles all the individual collections of lists re: various applications and tools from Mashable (Social Networking News blog) into one giant list.
ClassTools Provides flash-based templates for the creation of graphic organizers, puzzles, and worksheets
Icebrrg Creates forms, applications and surveys. The information on the forms are automatically uploaded to your Icebrrg personal site. Good tutorial.
LetterPop A free service that helps you create and send newsletters. You can drag and drop templates into place, add text, and publish your newsletters to the web.
Sticky Notes For Windows computers. keep convienient notes while you are on a Web site, save passwords at quick access, reminders, and more uses listed at the site.
Fleck Allows you to write notes on any web page and then share them with your friends and colleagues or save them for yourself. You can use the search box on fleck.com or you can add the fleck bookmarklet to your web browser and then whenever you are on a web page you want to write notes on, just click it and you can get busy.
Gadwin Easy to use freeware utility that allows you to capture any portion of the screen, save it to a file, copy it to Windows clipboard,
Sni.ps This is a widget that lets you grab ANYTHING from the web. The creators also make a great point that it brings the attributes for source and shows that you copied...thus crediting it properly.
MWSnap MWSnap is a small yet powerful Windows program for snapping (capturing) images from selected parts of the screen. It is capable of capturing the whole desktop, a highlighted window, an active menu, a control, or a fixed or free rectangular part of the screen.
Dragnifier Windows download to magnify a specific section of a presentation, Web page, or article.
Clipmarks Clip and save just the stuff you want from any web page. Create your personal online collection of clipmarks. Tag them with keywords, add your own comments and share
them with friends. Search the Public Clipmarks to see what's being clipped and who is clipping it.
Scribd A useful Web 2.0 online application which allows you to upload a file in common formats (i.e. PPT, DOC, TXT, XLS, etc.) and an Adobe Flash Paper version is created in a player. You can easily embed the player and the content on your own Web page or blog, you can have the item viewed and even read-aloud right from Scribd's site, or you can download the uploaded file in PDF, TXT, and even the read-aloud file in MP3 format for putting on an audio device.
Education World Tools and Templates Collection of templates for certificates, graphic organizers, calendars, newsletters, reading responses, 15 categories in all.
Microsoft Education Highlights include clip art, Office templates, lessons, how-to videos and more. Challenging to navigate.
Spreadsheets Resources
Excel Resources
Terrific variety of spreadsheet resources including tutorials, interactive spreadsheets, templates and lessons.
http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/excel/
http://www.baycongroup.com/el0.htm
http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/excel/
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line_excel.htm - includes some advanced features and templates
http://www.esu5.org/techteacher/excel.htm - includes turorials and lessons for K-12
http://www.sabine.k12.la.us/class/excel_resources.htm lessons K-12
http://www.ncwiseowl.org/kscope/techknowpark/FreeFall/Resources.html Lessons K-12 and data resources
Microsoft Education: Tutorials To aid teachers in incorporating technology into their classrooms, Microsoft provides rich step-by-step tutorials searchable by grade level, learning area, and Microsoft product. Each tutorial is user-friendly (often with pictures and detailed instructions for the teacher) and strongly integrates the use of Microsoft products in the learning process.
How to Insert a sound in a Windows Word Document Also offers suggestions for using this capability.
Digital Tutorials Collection of sites that offer tutorials for applications.
Docuter Simple document storage and sharing space. No need for flashdrives.
4 Shared An online storage site that offers users 10 GB of space to keep their documents and other files. The user can choose to make these public or to keep them private on a folder-by-folder basis.
Dushare Easy way to share files No login or registration
FileDropper File Dropper is a simple way to host and share large files on the web. The site lets users upload files up to 5 GB in size and then receive a link that they can share with anyone to allow them access to this file. This is a great way to send large pictures, presentations, audio files, and videos
iSendr - Not a storage site but you can send files that are too big for email. Search for a file to send to a friend, click on Send and then give your friend the URL...no file uploading.
Joggle Save and share your digital photos, music or videos
MediaMax 25 GB of free online storage. You can select who you want to share files.
XDrive 5G of free online storage
Omnidriv PowerTalk is a free program that automatically speaks any presentation or slide show running in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows.
ReadPlease Windows-based screen text-to-speech reader. It will read text aloud.
VozMe Type in some text, click the Create MP3 button, and it will open a new window
and play a male or female voice (your choice) reading the text. You can
download the file as an MP3 using right-click save-as (PCs) or CTRL-click save-as (Macs).
Carryout Text - A great way to convert text to speech, good for converting blogs, emails or documents.
HearWho Convert text into an mp3 file by copying and pasting it into the main window on the right. Choose your voice and click on Start Conversion. RIGHT click / Save Target As to save the mp3.
PowerTalk PowerTalk is a free program that automatically speaks any presentation or slide show running in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows.
Word Talk A free plug-in developed for use with all versions of Microsoft Word (from Word 97 upwards), which can help people with reading difficulties use Microsoft Word more effectively.
CLiCk Speak is an open source, freely available extension for the Firefox web browser. It features a mouse driven interface, and it reads web pages.
Natural Readers The Free version allows you to experience listening to your emails, web pages, reports or any text on your PC.
e-Speaking An easy software solution to enable you to control your computer, dictate emails and letters, and have the computer read documents back to you.
Yakittome Text-to-Speech MP3 - enables you to play later on computer or mp3 player
Spoken Text SpokenText is an online text to speech converter. Using it you can easily create audio recordings of any text content. You can use our site to record books, articles, web pages, your papers class notes or any other text content you want to have available to you in audio format. So that you can listen at any time.
Jott With cell phone can leave a message and text of message is emailed to your or other person's account
ESL | Spanish | Multiple Languages (including Spanish)
Type It is a free online program for typing accent marks and other special characters. Not a full-fledged word processor rather it simply provides a way to write text that you then copy into a document. Also se AX for Windows users only
Lite Type is a virtual keyboard that allows you type and search the web in your choice of 53 different languages.
If you're a Mac user and would like to know how to type special characters on your keyboard, here are three free PDFs from Go Squared that offer directions on how to type accents and symbols by using the correct combination of keys on your Mac's keyboard.
ESL
English Central video clips from news shows and movies and shows text as the words are shown, and scores how well thestudents has pronounced the text. sponsored by Google
Free Online Video Games for ESL Students Here are some ways to use online video games with students as a language development activity as you explore new ways to engage students in English language learning activities that are easy to maneuver, engaging to do, and promote face-to-face conversation.
ESL Video A website with free ESL video quizzes and resources for ESL / EFL students and teachers. It is simple to use and has a growing library of content that will likely help teachers make learning English easier and more enjoyable.
DotSUb is a website that allows you to upload videos and put subtitles on them. Perfect to share foreign language resources or to set translation projects to your students.
Repeat After Us is an online library of copyright-free English texts and audio recordings. The purpose of Repeat After Us is to provide ESL students with a place to read and hear proper pronunciations of English words.
Breaking News English video tutorials ESL lessons
dotSUB is a webtool that allows teachers and students to view, upload, transcribe, and translate any video into and from any language. This is an easy to use site that would be perfect for lots of different things, including ELL/ESL or Foreign Language classes.
Mingoville For young English learners. Games and interactive exercises
Kubbu Teachers can easily create a number of online exercises for students to complete, and you can easily keep track of how they do. It's free for one teacher and up to thirty students.
Dave's ESL Cafe Resources for ESL teachers and students
ESL Prinatbles English worksheets, lesson plans and other resources submitted by teachers.
ESL Kids Flashcards and games
Voxy uses current articles from world news, pop culture, and sports to to help students acquire language. As students read an article they can click on highlighted words and hear them pronounced. Highlighted words when clicked reveal the Spanish translation. Clicking on highlighted words also adds them to a study list. The study lists can be used for quizzes and games. Voxy is available in English and Spanish.
Lingro- video This makes all the text of any website clickable and searchable using a dictionary. You have to see this to believe it. It works in several languages. It means you can just click on any word and a dictionary will appear explaining what that word means!!!
My Study Bar - a comprehensive set of portable open source and freeware applications to support learners with literacy difficulties. MyStudyBar is similar to popular commercial programs which use a floating toolbar to support literacy. The toolbar includes a range of tools to support inclusion such as mind mapping, screen masking, word prediction, talking dictionary, text-to-speech, Save as MP3 and voice recognition. PC Only. (Speech recognition only works in Vista or Windows 7)
ESL Flashcards Colorful flashcards
Listen A Minute Listening activities. Video intro
22 Frames is a new service that provides a central location for locating captioned videos for learning English and for Internet users who have hearing impairments. 22 Frames provides more than just captioned videos. For each video 22 Frames provides a list of idioms, slang words, and commonly mispronounced words in each video.
Breaking News English is a great site for ESL and English Lesson Plans that are built around current events and news. The site is always up to date and offers 1000s of FREE 13 page, ready-to-print handouts, downloads, and quizzes.
VozMe Type in some text, click the Create MP3 button, and it will open a new window
and play a male or female voice (your choice) reading the text. You can
download the file as an MP3 using right-click save-as (PCs) or CTRL-click save-as (Macs).
WordSteps is a resource for learning the vocabulary of your choice of nine languages.
EnglishCafe is a website that offers a full range of tools for students who are learning English. A user can use the site to find a teacher, meet practice partners, take lessons, and more! This site is a great place for secondary students to learn or improve their English.
The Idiom Dictionary was created to help people understand the meanings of more than five thousand English idioms. To use the Idiom Dictionary just enter a phrase or part of a phrase into the search box and the Idiom Dictionary will offer an explanation of that idiom.
¡TradúceloAhora! IBM's grant program designed to open up a world of services and information on the Internet for Spanish speakers, using automatic English to Spanish translation.
Casa Notes Tool Casa Notes is designed to allow teachers to quickly make, and customize, typical notes that are sent home to parents or given to the students. This is done by using templates and allowing the teachers to customize some of the content, choose a color scheme and add a graphic. Teachers can select whether the notes should be in English or in Spanish.
ESL Partyland Interactive quizes for students and lesson plans for teachers.
Interesting Things for ESL Students Activities, games, songs, podcasts, lessons and more.
Everything ESL Games, podcasts, songs, lessons and more
Decorate This site is a fun way for ELL students to practice their understanding of household objects by shap and color as they must locate "Roger's" requests for items to be placed in his home.
MeeGenius read stories outloud for young students
Spanish
BilingualFun Spanish for young children.
Lyrics Training An easy and fun method to learn and improve your foreign languages skills like english through the music and lyrics of the songs. intro video
Spanish Bilingual Resources Brings together some of the best Internet Education sites for Spanish bilingual teachers. Our ever-increasing collection can also be used by students and parents.
Voxy uses current articles from world news, pop culture, and sports to to help students acquire language. As students read an article they can click on highlighted words and hear them pronounced. Highlighted words when clicked reveal the Spanish translation. Clicking on highlighted words also adds them to a study list. The study lists can be used for quizzes and games. Voxy is available in English and Spanish.
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Lingus TV is a web-based TV channel devoted to education and the belief that the entertainment and active participation of students is the key to communication in a new language.
Verbling is a new site designed to match people who are willing to help each other learn a new language. For now the site only supports English and Spanish, but it appears that they have plans to expand their offerings in the future. Verbling matches native speakers of a language with people who want to learn that language. Then at the appointed meeting times the two people get together to have a live conversation using one of the suggested conversation starters. Half-way through the session they switch languages so that both people get to practice the language that is new to them.
Spanish Proficiency Exercises Features dozens of video clips of Spanish-speaking students reciting sentences in their native dialect in both a slow and normal speaking speeds.
Spanish Podcasts
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Multiple Languages Sites
I Love Languages A comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. Includes online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, and language schools. You can search the site by language.
MakeBeliefsComix Allows students to create comic strips up to four panels and print them. Supports English, Spanish, French, Italian German, Latin and more languages.
Childtopia A multi-language and multi-age site that includes language learning materials.
dotSUB is a webtool that allows teachers and students to view, upload, transcribe, and translate any video into and from any language. This is an easy to use site that would be perfect for lots of different things, including ELL/ESL or Foreign Language classes.
WordSteps is a resource for learning the vocabulary of your choice of nine languages.
Zon Zon is an interactive multiplayer online role playing game for learning Mandarin Chinese.
Vocabulix provides numerous free tools for learning Spanish, German, or English. Vocabulix can be used to create quizzes or take quizzes online. Vocabulix provides dozens of drills and activities designed to help students learn Spanish, German, or English. The verb conjugation chart can be used on the Vocabulix website. The verb conjugator code is freely available for use in third party blogs, wikis, or websites. As most new language learning websites do, Vocabulix has a social networking option that helps match native speakers with learners.
iMendi just select the language you speak and select the language you want to learn. iMendi then gives you the choice of choosing a lesson (level 1, level 2, etc) or trying a randomly chosen lesson.
ESOL Courses is a good source of free online activities for English language learners. ESOL Courses provides activities for everyone from beginners just learning the alphabet to advanced students preparing to speak in English at a job interview.
Shared Talk is a website run by Rosetta Stone. It is a great site for students (and teachers too) that would like help practicing their foreign language skills. The site offers a full community of language learners from all over the world who are wanting to practice their speaking skills.
Lingro Choose a website you want to read, place it into Lingro and then the whole site becomes clickable and you can find the meanings of any word on the site with just a click of a button. So if you are reading El Pais or Le Monde or The Times, then you can make any of the text clickable and it will immediately bring up a dictionary and tell you the meaning of the word.
BBC Languages Resources for teaching Spanish, French, German, Italian, and other languages. Includes videos, audios, interactive online exercises and teacher guides.
Livemocha is the world's largest online community for language learners, with free lessons and a global community to help students (or teachers) learn a new language. With Livemocha, users can develop confidence in their language skills that will help them to carry on conversations in a foreign language. A great site!
Mango is a site and program designated to helping people learn other languages. Using real conversations and everyday conversation, the program is easy to follow and very effective. The site also has a language translator function that can switch between 12 different languages.
My Language Exchange is a website designed for two or more people who speak different languages practicing each others language. For example, an English speaker who is learning French will do a language exchange with a French speaker who is learning English. There are many ways to practice in a language exchange. The site offers lots of great features, including International Penpals as a way for students to get real life practice with language. A great site and tool for learning or mastering a foreign language.
Voycabulary makes the words on any webpage into links, so you can look them up with just a click--in a dictionary of your choice.
Forvo can best be described as an audio wiki for word pronunciations. One of the problems with learning to speak a language that is not phonetic is trying to figure out how to pronounce the words.
CAPL The purpose of CAPL is to provide images that demonstrate the true meaning and intention of the words in a language. CAPL currently has collections of images for teaching and learning English (North American), German, French, Chinese, and Spanish. CAPL also has images for Japanese, Russian, and Ukranian.
Verbs Online provides foreign language students with a good selection of activities for practicing verb conjugations. Practice activities are available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese.
Euronews news videos is a service offering news videos in ten languages. Each video is accompanied by a written transcript directly under it as it is playing.
Hello World provides games and activities for students to develop their knowledge of foreign languages. Hello World has games and activities in nine languages including Spanish, French, and Mandarin Chinese. Not all of the games and activities are free, but enough of them are free to warrant listing as a good place for free learning activities.
Study Stream is a service for learning to read and speak Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese. Study Stream takes an interesting approach to helping people learn these languages. The centerpiece of the Study Stream system is a collection of videos and articles in the language that you're trying to learn. The videos and articles are accompanied by side-by-side translations to help you follow along. From each video or article you can select words and phrases that you want to study through the study exercises provided by Study Stream.
TypeIt Typing tool for writing in numerous languages,e.g., spanish, french, German, italian and more
BrainPop in Espanol Animated K-8 content in multiple subjects areas.
Bilingual Books for Kids Books to purchase in Spanish and English side by side.
Translate Anything Translate text that you type in a box or have a Web site translated.
CAPL The purpose of CAPL is to provide images that demonstrate the true meaning and intention of the words in a language. CAPL currently has collections of images for teaching and learning English (North American), German, French, Chinese, and Spanish. CAPL also has images for Japanese,
Open Culture Devoted to the idea of sharing learning opportunities. Open Culture has an extensive list of free resources for learning thirty-seven different languages.
Hello World provides games and activities for students to develop their knowledge of foreign languages. Hello World has games and activities in nine languages including Spanish, French, and Mandarin Chinese.
PDF & Other File Converters
PDF995 Free pdf creator and converter. Many features including merging pdf files. Windows application.
Online PDF Converter Upload any type of file and then click on the GeneratePDF button. Open the converted file and save
PrimoPDF Create PDF using PrimoPDF - a free tool for high-quality conversion to PDF, comprising a user-friendly interface that enables printing to PDF from virtually any Windows application.
Comet Docs - Easily one of the best visual sites for converting files and very user-friendly.Has over 50 conversion options with the ability to do file analysis and comparison.
OCR Convert Image to Text Converter - Convert PDF to Text, Image to Text, PDF to Word, JPEG to Word - Free Online OCR
Scribd, a PDF publishing service, has now integrated Apture search technology to make PDFs interactive. Now anytime you're reading a document on Scribd and you come across an unfamiliar term just highlight it and click "learn more" to have text references, images, and videos pop-up on the document. You can then click the links, read the pages, and watch the videos within the pop-up on the document. video
Page Flip-Flap turn Word documents, PDFs, and images into an online book with page-turning effects. To use Page Flip-Flap you create your documents as you normally would. When you're ready to publish just upload your document to Page Flip-Flap and they will convert it into a document that you can display with page-turning effects. You can share your finished document via url or by embedding it into a webpage.
Acrobat PDF - Use Free PDF creator for use in Windows.http://www.pdfforge.org/. It acts as a printer just like Adobe Acrobat but without the cost.
FillanyPDF is a site to upload your PDF form and link to it so other people can fill it out and sign it online.
How to Embed a PDF Document Into Your Website
I Love PDF - Online tools to merge, split and manage PDF files.
UnLOck PDF Remove restrictions fromsecure pdf files
Calameo is a web publishing tool that will allow teachers and students to upload any type of document (PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and then see it as a page-turning webpage that they can share via Email, embedding on their school or student site, or even Tweet it out or add it to an RSS. Easy to use and very useful.
Rotate PDF - Upload any PDF document, rotate it and download the rotated version.
MyMorph A Windows only program, it enables you to convert hundreds of files for conversion to PDF. It requires Internet access since it works with the Web-based Conversion Program, DocMorph (shared below). MyMorph is a Windows-based software program that significantly increases the functionality of the DocMorph Web site by enabling users to select hundreds of files at one time for PDF file conversion. MyMorph uploads files via the Internet to DocMorph, waits for results, and downloads the newly created PDF files to hard disk.
DocsPal - A nice site for converting tons of different files; results are downloaded via unique URL.
YouConvertIt - Easy to use site for converting multiple files.
HTML to PDF - Fast and easy to use; convert any web page into a PDF.
Fill Any PDF FillAnyPDF is a website where teachers can upload PDF forms and link to it so others (students) can fill it out and sign it online.
Foxit Reader An alternative for Adobe Acrobat that allows you to read and edit PDF files. A good classroom alternative to expensive Acrobat Professional.
OCR Terminal - Converts scanned images into usable data such as: TXT, RTF, or Doc.
PDF Tools Rip, Mix and Burn PDFs are a useful tool for transferring all sorts of documents in their original form; these tools will help you with all aspects of dealing with them.
OpenOffice 2.0 Not strictly a PDF Printer Driver, OpenOffice allows you to open any MS Office document and then export the file to PDF. This limits the file formats you can work with to those that can be opened by OpenOffice. Be aware that OpenOffice 2.0 (available for free on all software platforms) can open over 100 different formats, including MS Office, multiple graphic formats, and more.
Web-based Conversion Programs
DocMorph Allows you to convert from fifty different file formats, including PDFs, to five different outputs. Those output formats include Portable Document Format (PDF), Multi-page Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), Single-page TIFF, Text, and Synthesized speech.
Online PDF Converter - While this online PDF converter has a 1 megabyte limit per file--which may limit you if you have a document that has lots of images--you can convert from a wide variety of formats (easily over 50) to PDF. Two nice features is that it allows you to add a watermark image of any text you enter on multiple pages.
Open Source Alternative Software
AlternativeTo - AlternativeTo is "a new approach to finding good software". There mission is to offer alternatives to software products. For instance, if you select Microsoft Office you would offered NeoOffice, Google Docs, etc. This is a brilliant idea and a great site. The suggestions are not always free, but the are listed clearly and reviewed succinctly.
File Hippo - great site for downloading freeware
Acrobat PDF - Use Free PDF creator for use in Windows.http://www.pdfforge.org/. It acts as a printer just like Adobe Acrobat but without the cost.
Art
Art Project powered by Google The Art Project powered by Google features interior tours of seventeen world famous art museums. Art Education
Artsonia World's largest kids' art museum. It is a place to share the artwork of your students, or somewhere to seek inspiration for new projects and lessons.
Smarthistory is a free online alternative to expensive art history textbooks. Smarthistory was developed by art history professors Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Smarthistory features more than just images of notable works of art. Videos lessons, VoiceThread lessons, and audio lessons about eras and themes in art history are what make Smarthistory a valuable resource. Students can browse all of the resources of Smarthistory by artist name, style of work, theme, or time period.
Web Canvas A collaborative painting project. Yu can paint using basic tools, Upload or post professionally done drawings, or you can watch others paint live
Art Babble provides a place for people to learn about the creation of art, artists, and collections through quality video productions. Visitors to Art Babble will find videos related to many forms of and formats for art. Browse the video channels and you'll find videos covering a wide array of topics including abstract art, European Art and Design, African Art, graphic design, glass, sculpture, surrealism, and much more.
Picturing America - a comprehensive collection of art throughout the decades of America. Interactive.
National Gallery of Art for Kids
Destination Modern Art - Interactive art activities for kids
Art Education 2.0 Art Education 2.0 is a global of community of art eduators sharing ideas for integrating technology in the artroom. Filled with photographs, projects, lesson plans, and forums, this is the must be place for art educators on the web.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art: Educational Resources The Philadelphia Museum of Art offers many educational resources for teachers on its website to enhance your art curriculum. Teachers can download printable activity packets and browse through an archive of high-resolution images. There is also information on teacher workshops and classes.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art resources for teachers and students. The first place that teachers will want to check out is the Publications for Educators page. In the Publications for Educators you will find a series of PDFs to accompany online features about the art of Egypt, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Students might enjoy and learn from How Van Gogh Made His Mark. How Van Gogh Made His Mark is part biography, part art lesson, and part hands-on drawing activity. After reading about Van Gogh and seeing his art students can try their hands at creating their own Van Gogh-like drawings.
The Teaching Palette Perfecting the Art of Teaching The Teaching Palette is a blog designed specifically by art teachers for art teachers. Articles on various topics are organized by catagories like "classroom management" and "early finishers." There is also a gallery of art education videos and presentations.
The Incredible Art Department The Incredible Art Department is incredible! With over 50 different topics to choose from,
ArtBabble.org is an online community showcasing videos about art and artists, and includes a range of videos from the National Gallery of Art -- interviews with artists, explorations of works (e.g....
Meet Me At Midnight is an online art adventure produced by the Smithsonian. The purpose of Meet Me At Midnight is to introduce students in grades 3-5 to types of art, art concepts, and art vocabulary. In Meet Me At Midnight students go on three adventures within a museum to find artworks to put in a treasure chest. Along the way students will come across information about different types of artwork.
FREE Federal Resources for Educational Excellence- Arts & Music This site features "teaching and learning resources from Federal agencies" such as the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, and the National Portrait Museum. The Arts & Music allows teachers to search through a large number of sites on topics like artchetecture, theatre, and jazz.
Science and Math Art Connections
Teacher Vision Art and Math - Great activities and lessons that allow Art to be integrated into the Math curriculum.
NPR Where Science Meets Art - Some exceptional podcasts integrating Science and Art.
Arts Edge - A fantastic resource from the Kennedy Center hosting numerous lessons that integrate Art in the curriculum
New York Times Learning Network - Blog produced by NY times that has some great lessons including Art Integration
National Gallery Kid Zone - Loads of interactive Art tools that can be used for math, science, and engineering occasions
Exploratorium - Take a look at the entire site, but especially explore the Art related material
Science and More To Music - What a wonderful collection of MP3 songs written and performed by Dr. Lodge McCammon. Have kids perform to music using Flip Cameras and digital still cameras
Edsitement - I include this site from the National Endowment for the Humanities because of its vast collection of Art related resources aimed at the Social Studies and Language Arts areas. When doing an interdisciplinary unit with Math and Science one may find a good tie in from this excellent resource.
Paint Tools
1. Art Pad - A great painting site that records a picture while it's created to create a time lapse effect.
2. Slimber - An excellent site for drawing & painting with some beautiful examples.
3. Bomomo - A fun site where users can create unique pictures with different templates (ie, Pixie).
4. Doink - A great site for creating animated art with a Web 2.0 flare.
5. Odosketch - A wonderful site for creating beautiful sketches with colored pencils.
6. Sketchpad - Create excellent paintings and drawings with this cool site. Many styles, effects and gradients for users to choose.
7. Sumo Paint - One of the most popular digital art creators on the web, very similar to Photoshop.
8. Live Brush - A wonderful free application that lets users create some beautiful designs. Includes a gallery of examples to view, too.
9. Crayola Digi-Color A very user friendly site for kids.
10. Voice Draw - A unique site that lets users create art with their voice/sound.
Health & Physical Education
EnergyBalance 101 K-5 Note the lunchbox on the right to compare food calories to activiites that burn calories