General+Links

Apps
NEW: 39 sites for using the IPad in the classroom Great information and links at ipadeducators List of best free apps at Coolest list of Best iPad Apps for Free An apps finder for ipad/itouch A list of educational apps for the ITouch App Safari Search for apps Database of IPOD apps for education. IPad pod casts with many links at The IPad Show Apps find and share at Appsfire Using an IPad or IPhone as a PDF reader Apps for special education Blog with many links for IPAD Apps at Learning In Hand

New! Wiki dealing with using an IPad in the classroom. toc

Audio books**/**Ebooks
Hundreds of free audio books.[|Librivox.org] Hundreds of free books to download to a PDA/Phone/Kindle:[|Manybooks.net] Another long list of links for free or almost free books....from [|children's books to textbooks.] Free ebooks to download in various formats, including Kindle-munseys

242,000 free ebooks and counting at ebooksread Free audio books at Books Should Be Free 7 places to find free e-textbooks free audio books/short stories at ThoughtAudio Audio books and much more at OpenCulture
 * [|Let me Google that for you]**


 * [|Awesome Library]: Reviewed links by subject matter.**

Blogs
100 inspirational [|blogs] for teachers

Bulletin Boards
Printable borders for your bulletin boards. Interesting site!

Calendar Templates Plus
Lots of [|templates] for Excel...some free Calendar Dummy sends you free text reminders

"Cheats"
Need help with a [|crossword]**?**

NEW
Symbaloo.com Create a visual graphic of grouped links. Create your own or add "tiles" from other users. Very easy to use team generator. Works well with student roster from PowerSchool. TeamMaker Work in groups using Wiggio [|Which Date Works] helps to schedule meetings, etc. Visual thinking/collaboration tool:[|Mywebspiration] Online collaboration [|whiteboard] Chart comparing social learning tools....very helpful

Make conference calls using these 6 apps

Online Whiteboard at Groupboard

Curriculum
Fantastic digital content by subject. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [|School of Education]


 * WOW! Collection of open source curriculum:[|Curriki]**
 * Shmoop** Teacher resources are wonderful! History, English, Civics, Poetry, Biographies, etc.

KhanAcademy with over 1600 educational videos. Highly recommended! Black History Month resources

Tons of resources at A to Z Teacher Stuff

More resources for teachers at The Teacher's Corner

**Dictionaries/Words/Pronunciation Guides**
Wordnik: collaborative dictionary and pronunciation guide Dictionary with Creative Commons [|pictures] Visual [|Dictionary] [|How to say that name] [|Another pronunciation site] [|Name pronunciation] Can't remember the word? Try this fun site:[|Tip of my Tongue] Visual/video [|dictionary and vocabulary] builder


 * [|Save the words]...interesting look at language**


 * [|TXT Shortcuts] defined....interesting resource to find out what kids are "saying"**

Documents Sharing
Great place to post or to find documents on hundreds of topics. Collaboration tool. [|Docstoc.com]

=Downloads-= Legal sites for downloading content

Drawing Tools/Cartoon makers
Online collaborate [|drawing] Comic[|strip creator] Another [|comic strip] creator [|Comics] out of your photos [|Comics, cards and movie maker] Create and share stories online with [|StoryTop] Flowchart maker and more:[|Draw] Cartoon maker with many options:[|Toondoo] Visual thinking/collaboration tool:[|Mywebspiration] Online collaboration [|whiteboard] Create multimedia stories, etc. at Creaza.com

Dubuque:

 * [|Dubuque] Encyclopedia on-line**
 * Dubuque pictures:[|Digital Dubuque]**


 * Dubuque [|postcards]**

Education/Links
Tools for teacher. Great set of links arranged by categories List of links for teachers:links Digital Bloom's:[|Bloom's Taxonomy] [|elinks] An unbelievable listing of resources by subject. Check it out. Great site for ideas by subject:[|IDEAS] Lots of links by subject: [|High School Ace] Thinkfinity--site with many links by subject. Good search engine on site:[|Thinkginity.org] Enotes....great site with many links

Educational Psychology-links to videos. Incredible list

ELL
Literary guides in [|Spanish]

Great blogwith many helpful links

Helpful websites and training videos

Flashcards
How to make digital flashcards using Google Docs

Games for Education
Great collection of tools and educational games at Sheppard Software Great collection of games for many subject areas at Play and Learn

Find words for crossword puzzles, Scrabble, etc. here
 * Brain games:[|brain]**
 * Brain Games:[|Thinks.com]**
 * test your reaction time fun:[|click]**
 * [|Games with a purpose].**
 * Games for group activities, etc:[|games]**
 * [|Hearing] test**

[|Smart.fm] helps you learn things quickly

Google Stuff
100+ tips for getting the most out of Google


 * Using [|GoogleMaps] in unique ways.**

**Graphic Organizers/Templates/Tools/Flashcard makers**

 * Graphic [|Organizers]**
 * Top tools for learning:[|Tools]**
 * Great template collection:[|Templates]**
 * Flashcard makerShmoop/study tool:[|Cramberry]**
 * Make and share flashcards**
 * Tons of ideas with templates:[|Readwritethink]**
 * Graph paper [|graph paper]**
 * Some free/some fee- [|4teachers.org]**


 * Time line maker[|ourtimelines]**

Graphic organizers:[|Exploratree.org.uk] Simple registration allows for templates to be created and saved on-line. Great collection.

On-line slides with your audio:[|Voicethread] Learn what's "hot" right now on the web:[|Popular urls] One of my favorite opening pages with hundreds of clickable links:[|All my faves in one place]

Singing e-mail-cheesy but fun:[|Sing]

**Homework Helpers**
Homework reminder:[|Keep track of homework assignments]

**Know the Net**
Evaluating Internet Sites :[|evaluate]

Library
See what's new at [|local libraries]

MAP resources
Interesting set of links for MAP

Music
Royalty-free [|music] Radio Stations:[|iheard.com] Find lyrics for a song at [|LyricRat] Find a radio station based on genre, artists, etc. Fun, Free

Song Meanings at Soundfacts

Song stuck in your head? Try this site to knock it out :) MP3 editor at cutmp3 Virtual Keyboard....fun Secondhand Songs Huge database about music. Who sang it first, who does it sound like, etc. Convert video to MP3 at FetchMP3

MP3 search engine at wuzam.com

Names
Find your surname in the [|world]

Newspapers
Newspaper Museum [|interactive front page]

Online Learning/Education
[|Incredible list], including books on the web [|New York Times Learning Network]. Links to lessons

PDF
Review a Word document, fill out a PDF form, mark up an image, and more... All with Crocodoc, all online, all for free.

Paper

 * Free [|printable paper], from lined to basketball score sheets. Hundreds of options.**

Photos
Make a video out of your own photos at [|animoto] Great multimedia site. Allows teacher to create an educational account, too! Manipulate/edit your photos[|Image chef] Add flash effects to photos:[|Flash-gear] Photos from Life Magazine:[|Life] Add fun [|effects] to your photos Make [|wallpaper collages]-free and easy [|Fotopedia]-wikipedia for Photos

Photos/images Public Domain

Plagiarism checkers
5 sites to check for [|plagiarism] Great collection of articles and links about plagiarism
 * [|Plagiarism checker free]**

==Portable applications**(what Greg showed us)**
 * [|Portableapps] for your portable drive:**==

PowerPoint
Free templates. [|Large variety] Thousands of free backgrounds and templates

Productivity
Printable [|checklist]/To Do

Quiz creation

 * Create quizzes based on [|videos from the web].**

Quotations

 * 10 sites for [|quotes]**

Reference Sites
Reference sites other than Wikipedia:[|Reference]

Screen Capture
Nothing to download...just record what's on your computer screen and share [|Screenjelly.com]

Comparing 12 screencasting tools

Search engines (beyond Google!)
Compare and contrast items with this easy to use search engine: Diffen Wikipedia search engine Powerset Simple yet effective search engine called DUCK DUCK GO Liszen is a search engine designed to search blogs for Library and Information Science info. Check it out Kosmix- A search engine that gives you all you need to know on the results page, generated from multiple sources. [|Try this search engine] RedZee-graphic thumbnails of search results:[|RedZee] Another great visual search engine:[|Kartoo] Search for images and video and more:[|Pixsy] Powerful visual search engine (but might need browser upgrade on older machines):[|Viewzi] Search for pictures:[|Pixolu] Boolean searches made easy:[|Boolify] Search 7 popular sites and see the results on one page. Cool! [|Soovle] Compare search results between Google and Bing at [|Askboth.com] 5 alternatives to Google Exalead search engine. Interesting format 10 Search Engines to Explore the Invisible Web Visual results based on Google Trends. Whatdoyousuggest.net Interesting "concepts" results using this seach engine: KNGINE
 * [|Youtube search engine]**

Software help
Great set of Excel training videos:[|Videos]

**Sound effects**
Audience/crowd sounds
 * Sound search engine**

Survey Generators/Tools
Free sites to create surveys. Lots of interesting info. at this site....Instructional Innovators Blog

Quizinator test generator. Free

Text to Speech

 * [|Type and have it read] or download to use elsewhere. Several voices to choose from.**

Timers:

 * Countdown with [|e.ggtimer]**

Twitter

 * 100 educational [|twitterers] to follow**

Ubuntu tips

 * Power user [|tips]**

Videos
Educational videos of lectures, etc. at FORA.tv 12 sites better than YouTube Text-to-movie= 3D movie maker on-line. Fun stuff:[|Animated movie maker] List of sites for Educational videos Teacher Tube:[|Educational videos by teachers] More Educational videos:[|Researchchannel] 100 best YouTube for teachers-check at home:[|YouTube for teachers] Signs of [|intelligent life]on YouTube More educational[|YouTube videos by subject matter] [|Lectr]-Shared educational videos Free documentaries at [|DocumentaryHeaven]

Video editing
Tube Chop allows you to embed just a portion of a YouTube video. Easy EASY youtube video editor at SnipSnipIt Add speech bubbles to existing videos and save at BubblePly Free on-line [|video editing] Copy/cut/Convert video using MediaCope Create [|online video with] your pics and soundtrack. Powerful and professional looking. 5 sites to help you edit movies online

Kid friendly video search engine....good for younger kids Save YouTube videos using this simple site. Edit YouTube videos using TubeChop Start at a particular point in a YouTube video using YouTubeTime Great ideas for using pocket video cameras in the classroom: Got a Flip?

Make a video from your pictures

Calculators for just about anything:[|Calculator]**[|s]**

Watch tv online at TVgorge

Virtual Tours
100's of educational virtual tours to check out

Vocabulary tools

 * Build your vocabulary here at [|VocabShushi]**
 * Give food while building vocabulary at [|Free Rice]**

Web 2.0
Web pages
 * A fantastic site for online tools and websitesto use.**
 * Quickly create a [|disposable web page]**

**Webcapture**
PDFmyurl.com allows you to capture a webpage and save it as a PDF

In FireFox, S is the command to save a web page.

**WhiteBoards**

 * NEW**


 * Interactive whiteboard using Skype**

Emerging technologies-online whiteboards Many links for using Whiteboards Collection of links to help use Smartboards List of interactive websites to use with Smartboards, etc. On-line Whiteboards
 * Edusim...Create 3-D interactive worlds and more for interactive whiteboards and computers.**

Great explanation/instructions on how to create and use a wiki at TeachersFrist.com
 * Wikis**
 * [|WetPaint wiki site examples]Wikis in education**Type in the content of your page here.

Words

 * CrossTips: Solve Any Crossword Puzzle
 * WordSpy: Dictionary of New Words
 * WordSift: Visualize Text & Related Information
 * Wordnik: Comprehensive Word Search Tool
 * WordAhead: Video Vocabulary Site
 * Webopedia: Dictionary Of Internet Terms And Their Meanings
 * VocabSushi: The Easy Way To Build Your Vocabulary
 * Tip Of My Tongue: Find the Words You Just Can’t Recall
 * Shahi: Online Dictionary with Pictures
 * SaveTheWords: Explore and Share Rare English Words