Wow!, Cool !, and Oh So FREE! Internet Resources for Educators

Wow!, Cool !, and Oh So FREE! Sharon Bolan and Sidney Long Central High School Lunenburg County

Wow!, Cool !, and Oh So FREE! Internet Resources for Educators

Wow!, Cool !, and Oh So FREE! Sharon Bolan and Sidney Long Central High School Lunenburg County

Wow!, Cool !, and Oh So FREE! Internet Resources for Educators

Wow!, Cool !, and Oh So FREE! Sharon Bolan and Sidney Long Central High School Lunenburg County

Free Internet Resources and Tools to make an educator’s job a little easier. If you find you are having difficulty using any of these tools, send me an at and I will try to give you some assistance! Find all of these resources and my regularly updated list at with central as the password.

4Teachers - TrackStar, Rubistar, CasaNotes, KidsVid, and more!

PhotoCube - m Using this free download, users can create cubes with student photos. The free download has an advertisement on one side of the cube, but if you purchase the program the advertisement side is gone! The site offers other free photo programs, but I’ve found I like PhotoCube 1.1 the best. m

PortaPortal - This website management tool is free to educators! If you want to find what other PortaPortal users are bookmarking, do a quick Google search with a search something like this: “music + portaportals”

WriteBoard - This site allows you to quickly share documents. Once the site is created, you can share the site with others. The sited can be edited by each person it is shared with. You get a posting to see who is making the edits. This would be great for submitting rough drafts to teachers without using any paper!

Citation Machine - By just entering the key information, users can create corrected composed citations for their documents. This is a GREAT tool for anyone who needs to document a source.

Pictures for Learning – Copyright friendly images for education

Jottit Create and manage a site in mere seconds! Amazing!

Google - ions/ Google Earth, Sketch-Up, Google Pages, Google Docs, and MORE! ions/

Open Office Suite - OpenOffice.org the product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office. The download is available at this link, but it is also available on this CD.

Internet 4 Classrooms - om/teachertools.htm This website provides tools to make awards, graphs, calendars, bookmarks and much more. These tools are free and easy-to- use. om/teachertools.htm

SEN Teacher - SEN Teacher provides cost-free teaching & learning resources for students with special needs and learning disabilities. Some resources include word cards, awards maker, literacy dice, behavior charts, expression cards, cost-free software and more!

Free Internet Tools for Teachers - regional.k12.ma.us/tech%20teacher %20resources/getfreeinternettoolsfor teachers.htm This list of links includes some great tools for teachers to use. I especially like the certificate maker, the fun calculators, and the free tracing paper. You’ll see some of these links in other places as well. regional.k12.ma.us/tech%20teacher %20resources/getfreeinternettoolsfor teachers.htm

TeAchnology - nology.com/downloads/internet/ nology.com/downloads/internet/

Kathy Schrock’s list of downloads - /schrockguide/edtools.html Kathy Schrock’s list of Web 2.0 Tools - /schrockguide/edtools.html#Web20_t ools /schrockguide/edtools.html /schrockguide/edtools.html#Web20_t ools

FREE FREE FREE - tm An amazing list of Free stuff for teachers. tm

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - This site provides a library of interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction.

Internet Public Library - This site is maintained by a consortium of colleges! It provides resources on a huge selection of topics. My students particularly like the literary criticism link!

Typing Sites! - keyboard.htm m/8th/student/funstuff.html s.com keyboard.htm m/8th/student/funstuff.html s.com

Free Online File Conversion - Students who have saved documents in a format not available to them at school can easily format them with Zamzar. The user will need an address.

Printable Calendars - This site allows you to create professional looking calendars in moments.

TerraServer - om/ This site allows you to type in your address see satellite maps of places in the United States. Some places have newer pictures than others. om/

Internet Safety Sites - Joe Showker’s PortaPortal | NetSmartz This site provides resources for parents, kids, and educators | CyberSmart Resources for kids, teachers, and parents | Wired Safety | I –Safe A great site for resources! | Links for CyberBullying shtml shtml

Virtual Manipulatives for Science Teachers - h/vtc/science_interactive.html This site provides an amazing list of virtual manipulatives for Science teachers mainly for middle and high school. Some elementary sites are also listed. h/vtc/science_interactive.html

National Science Digital Library - NSDL is the Nation's online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.

Virtual Tour of the Underground Railroad - m/railroad/ Help students understand the history of the Underground Railroad with this wonderful virtual tour presented by National Geographic. m/railroad/

Virtual Tour and More of Philadelphia -

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Tools for Teachers - ols.htm This site created by Sue LeBeau provides links to lots of free tools for teachers. ols.htm

Free Teacher Tools - tools.htm Another huge list of links to tools for teachers. tools.htm

Online Forms and Letters - _dynam.asp This site provides downloadable forms that are created for classroom use. _dynam.asp