Websites that you can use

1.    Alex Brown has created great Destiny screencasts and posted them for us.

2.    Google for educators can be used to create custom searches.

3.    Weebly.com can be used to create class websites.

4.    Typingweb.com for free typing practice and educational games with assessments

5.    Google SketchUp Pro for creating 3D models of buildings/architecture; this is used on a personal computer. Can get free licenses from MACUL website or Michigan.gov

6.    Indiana Youth Initiative, driveofyourlife.org, kids can make decisions about life (job, money, college, etc.)

7.    Kidblog.org can create different classes for kids to blog from home or school

8.    Arcademicskillbuilders.com  Kids can create usernames and play against their classmates

9.    Protopage.com Teachers can create links for resources for kids and parents; it’s free; can be accessed at home

10.  Sites.google.com Teachers can create own pages

11.  Havefunteaching.com—videos with alphabet letters

12.  www.growing.course.com

13.  www.internet4classrooms.com  ELA and Math sites and acitivities

14.  Edmodo.com    Facebook-like site, safe site for kids to talk to teacher only

15.  Tammyworcester.com---resources (books) and other technology lesson ideas and tips

16.  http://fur.ly allows you to link several sites together and flip back and forth through them with the click of a button; great for K-2

17.  http://tinyurl.com  takes a really long website address that you want students to go to, and makes it a shortcut with less than 8 characters that you can name yourself

18.  http://todaysmeet.com  free chat room that works well for teachers to post questions

19.  www.tagxedo.com  allows you to create word clouds (like Wordle) in shapes of animals and people and such but changes color too

20.  www.tenmarks.com  Free Math—can create a site from 2-8^th grade—has videos that show kids how to do the problems step by step

21.  www.powertyping.com  Typing lessons with assessments—timed, free

22.  www.professorgarfield.org  All sorts of academic games with fun sounds and graphics

23.  www.sesamestreet.org Great for lower elementary; learning games

24.  http://library.heritageacademies.com:81/ gives you access to ALL schools’ library pages; can look at links used by other libraries

25.  Webquests –can pay $20 a year to see all that are saved there

26.  Encyclopedia Brittanica— training webinars posted on Training Resources on homepage

27.  www.bibme  helps make bibliographies in MLA or APA

28.  www.mathplayground.com   Allows for competition with academics

29.  www.freetypinggame.net  Typing

30.  www.uen.org Utah Education Network—Has interactive games broken by grade bands and subject areas

31.  MAP Math and MAP Reading sites (just google search term)— activities by RIT range

32.  www.freerice.com  -vocabulary

33.  www.thehungersite.com  ties in with Moral Focus by letting kids “give back”

34.  http://classtools.net  free educational games plus random name/vocab word picker to select students for centers, class jobs, answering questions, etc.

35.  http://turnitin.com  Helps you identify plagiarism

36.  www.bookadventure.com  –an option for Accelerated Reader, free

37.  www.tumblebooks.com --$500 per year; books that read to students with animations

38.  Ala.org – search top 25

39.  Create a spreadsheet to log all equipment (sample-post on sharepoint)

40.  Abcya,com—reading games that seem to work well on Thin Clients

41.  Zoomit computer tool to zoom in on screen, write on screen, and set up a timer

42.  Onguardonline.gov—free info on cyber safety

43.  Animoto.com  - like an interactive slideshow; can get a teacher account; has music, students can create their own presentations 30 seconds up to 5 minutes; kids can get own accounts using gmail accounts.  Works on Thin Clients (sound has to be done on desktop though)

44.  Prezi.com  --interactive powerpoint-like; can zoom in and out and animate objects

45.  Mrnussbaum.com (a thousand sites in one)—has educational games

46.  Edheads.org  --interactive games

47.  Kindergarten—buy long foam sheets from Michael’s and cut them up for kids to sit on to stay away from each other (stop touching); helps classroom management and is cheap

48.  www.arcademicskillbuilders.com - academic games for grades K-5; loads fast

49.  www.museumbox.org – variation of PowerPoint in a box, filling in each side of the box

50.  Scholastic.com scholastic.thanksgiving

51.  www.123ppt.com  - can put a video background behind your ppt

52.  www.classmarker.com  - can be used as a Do Now, make quizzes/tests and can assign by groups (homerooms); grades it and gives score immediately.

53.  www.typing-lessons.org - typing

54.  Freetypinggame.net – typing

55.  Screenr and Jing for making video tutorials

56.  Fcrr.org  - reading center activities

57.  Newyorktimes.com for current news