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Presented by Caryl Doetsch... Room # 4
No Software Needed... . Check out these websites which are some of the best of the best free on the web! No installations, no software cd's, nothing required but a click of the mouse! Check out as many sites as you like. The ones in RED are the ones we are covering at our Spring into Technology event. > > > > > > > > > > >  > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
 * 1) Kids Click [] Web search engine for kids
 * 1) Cognitive Strategys [] Strategy instruction and lessons
 * 1) Coloring 2.0 [] My Crayola's NEVER did this!
 * 1) Using Flip Video Cameras in the Primary Classroom [] Ideas, testimonial, sample video
 * 1) Bios 4 Kids [] Informative and fun series for children ages 8-12 telling of lives from historical figures to contemporary icons.
 * 1) ToonDoo [] Welcome to ToonDoo! Create your own comic strips, Publish, Share & Discuss
 * 1) Teacher Tube [] An  online community for sharing instructional videos
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Kid's Health [] Sections for parents, kids, and for teens. KidsHealth is more than just the facts about health; it's fun!
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Spelling City [] An online spelling program for home or school. Great home-school connection.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Pete's Powerpoint Station [] Free presentations and activities for teachers and kids in .ppt format
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Copy right issues in the classroom and beyond [|http://www6.district125.k12.il.us/staffdev/Copyright.html> >]
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Presentation Zen: Where can you find good images? [|http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2006/01/where_can_you_f.html> >]
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Flickr: The Commons [] Shows you hidden treasures in the world's public photography archives
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Digital Directions [] Tech literacy confusion article for teachers
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">CrickWeb.UK [] Free interactive resources and activities; interactive; across grade levels and curriculum areas
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Apple Learning Interchange [] Educator created lessons, resources, movies, images, special content<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Scholastic Computer Lab Favorites [] K-2 / 3-5
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Exploratree [] online libriaries of thinking guides and concept maps
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Twitter [] Twitter in Education [] Twitter in Plain English [|http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter> >]
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Awesome Highlighter [] Lets you highlight text on a web page and giver you a link to the page
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Clipart ETC [] Quality educational clip art
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Elementary Tech Teachers Ning [] Share, discuss, support teachers integrating technology
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Chatzy [] Create your own free chat room
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Top 100 Education Blogs [|http://oedb.org/library/features/top-100-education-blogs> >]
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Teacher's Technology Handbook [] Download .pdf's
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Netvibes [] Create your own personal home page
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Grooveshark [] Millions of songs, listen for free.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">28. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Dog House Fodder for young minds [] Great News source

29. Weboword [] Visual Vocabulary

30. Lovely Charts [] Online diagramming program

31. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Ask Kids [] Ask Jeeves-style search tool for kids

32. Primary source science websites and links []

33. Graphic Organizers [] from Scholastic

34<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">. Storyline Online [] Read by Screen Actor's Guild Actors/Actresses

35. Pinky Dinky Doo [] Early learning site

36. Awesome Stories [] The story place on the web

37. HIP Pocket Change [] US Mint for Kids

38. Online Rhyming Dictionary []

39. Online Thesaurus and Dictionary []

40. Enchanted Learning [] Children's educational web sites and games; creativity, learning, and enjoyment.

41 Timesavers for Teachers []

42. Library of Congress for Teachers []

43. Library of Congress Spotlight on Kids and Families []

44. Science Bob [] A great place to explore Science

45.Early Learning lessons and activities [|http://www.netrox.net/~labush/colrpres.htm]

46. Childtopia [] 1.400+ sites for young learners

47. Teacher's love their SMARTboards []"sharing is caring"

<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">48. Wordle [] Generates word clouds

49. Kerpoff [] site that provides a variety of creative tools for animation, drawing, and movie creation

50. Voki [] a text to speech generator

51. Create-A-Graph [] teach kids about creating graphs and reading data

52. Skype [] providing free voice and video calling to other Skype users worldwide

53. Snagfilms [] find a documentary for free

54. Google Book Search [] search your favorite magazine’s content on the web

55. Images for Education [] NING Group digital possibilities to help learners develop 21st century multiliteracy skills through active learning

56. PBS Teachers Live [] Free Media and Technology Webinars

57. USPTO Kids’ Pages [] Lots of creativity here!

58. Crafty Fun for Kids, Parents, and Teachers [] NING Group

59. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">National Geographic Kids []

60. Timelines [] search for a time line of event, person, or group

61. Google Lit Trips [] Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place

62. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Day By Day [] Visit a month for a website a day

63. Cramberry [] new web application that uses flashcards to help people study, etc

64. Google Earth [] Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean.

65.<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> K-2 Writing Interactives []

66. The Learning Curve [] Blog entry; Using technology for differentiated instruction

67<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">. Read- Write – Think [] Best websites for RLA teachers

68. Mission to Learn [] Blog entry; Educational games that are geared towards making a difference in the world.

69. PBS Teacher News Hour [] Provides teacher unique current events and resources for busy teachers

70. elearnr [] The purpose of elearnr is to share links, resources and guides related to elearning.

71. Scribd [] Uploaded documents, presentations, for sharing

72. I.N.K. Intersting Non-Fiction for Kids []

73. Sqooltube [] Free educational videos for K-8 students

74. WildearthTV [] WildEarth Media is an up and coming South African media company delivering a high quality, entertaining and educational LIVE broadcast from the heart of the African bush.

75. Thinkfinity [] free educational resources for everyone

76. TeacherspayTeachers [] An open Marketplace for teachers

77. Teaching with Twitter [] - Top 10 uses in education

78. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Crossword Creator Adventure []

79. HIPPOCampus [] multimedia lessons

80. How Stuff Works [] explains even the toughest tutorial in a very simple and easy to understand language

81. Atomic Learning [] Atomic Learning provides web-based software training for more than 110 applications students and educators use everyday. (ICE members receive an email each month with username and password

82. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">BrainPOP [] Animated, curriculum-based content that supports educators and engages students.

83.Writing Fun [] Using text organizers to assist the writing process

84. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Math is FUN []

85. School Time Games [] The Week in Rap - A week's worth of current events set to rap. New episode every Friday. Social Studies rocks the house!

86. Biology for Kids []

87. Math MovesU [] Students can enter a "virtual world" of math and engage with games, polls, flash cards, word problems, and factoids all centered on music, sports, and fashion.

89. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Math is FUN []

90. S<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">chool Time Games [] The Week in Rap - A week's worth of current events set to rap. New episode every Friday. Social Studies rocks the house!

91. Biology for Kids []

92. Pics4Learning [] Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students.

93. FREE [] Teaching and learning resources from Federal Agencies

94. Literactive [] levelled guided readers, comprehensive phonic activities and a wealth of

95. Scholastic Teaching Resources []

96. The White House [] Updated interactive site

97. <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Wacky Web Tales [] From Eduplace; like mad libs

98. Rory the Zebra [] emerging readers that includes free interactive reading games, guided reading stories, songs, online guided reading stories with lesson plan resources for teachers such as literacy worksheets and discussions sheets.

99.<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> The best, free Interactive Whiteboard Resources [] Regularly updated to save you time!

100. Historic Tale Construction Site [] Create your own story

101. Everyday Math Center [] Games to support the Everyday Math program

102. TutPup [] Welcome to Tutpup, Compete in fun, educational games against other kids from all over the World!

103.<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Speakaboos [] Watch/listen to fables, nursery rhymes, fairy tales, folk tales, lullabies and more.

104. Tux Paint [] Open Source Drawing Software for Children

105.<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Time for Kids []

Tracy Murdach ICE Conference February 2009 "No Software Required"