1. Wow, Cool, and Oh So FREE! Sharon Bolan, Library Media Specialist/ITRT Central High School

2. Telling Time Game & Toothpick Puzzle Telling Time Game - http://www.oswego.org/ocsd- web/games/BangOnTime/clockwordres.html - Telling time game that can be adjusted for different levels. http://www.oswego.org/ocsd- web/games/BangOnTime/clockwordres.html Toothpick Puzzle - http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/exner/java.f/toothpick/defa ult.html - Examine geometry first hand by using this web activity to solve the problem of creating five squares by arranging twelve toothpicks. http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/exner/java.f/toothpick/defa ult.html

3. WigFlip Auto Motivator – Start with a picture from their gallery or one of your own. Create a motivational poster, card or bookmark. Save the jpeg image to your computer or have them create a full poster for you. http://wigflip.com/automotivator/#

4. PowerPoint Activities Hardin County teachers in Kentucky created a wide range of PowerPoint games and activities. All links are well organized and easy to download. http://www.hardin.k12.ky.us/res_techn/countyjeopardygam es.htm Other PP sites: http://www.pppst.com/http://www.pppst.com/ Pete’s PP Station

5. Hero Machine & Science Buddies Hero Machine - http://www.ugo.com/channels/comics/heroMac hine2/heromachine2.asp Have fun with this site making your own animated hero! http://www.ugo.com/channels/comics/heroMac hine2/heromachine2.asp Science Buddies - http://www.sciencebuddies.org/ http://www.sciencebuddies.org/

6. Read Write Think Verizon Thinkfinity offers thousands of free K-12 educational resources across seven disciplines for use in and out of school. http://www.readwritethink.org/

7. Encyclo – Media A free video encyclopedia that covers a wide range of topics. Embed the video clips into web pages or stream videos live. http://www.encyclomedia.com

8. Yucky Science & EdHeads & I Was Wondering Gross science explanations - http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/ http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/ Activate your mind with Interactive activities - http://edheads.org/ http://edheads.org/ I Was Wondering - http://iwaswondering.org/http://iwaswondering.org/

9. Learn to Type Practice typing skills with this interactive practice activity. http://learn2type.com/index.cfm?action=G uestBook&showall=9999http://learn2type.com/index.cfm?action=G uestBook&showall=9999

10. PortaPortal Bookmark your sites and allow guest access to students and teachers http://portaportal.com

11. Optical Illusions A collection of cool Optical Illusions http://www.coolopticalillusions.com/crazy/c razy_illusions.htmhttp://www.coolopticalillusions.com/crazy/c razy_illusions.htm

12. Animoto http://animoto.com/ http://animoto.com/ Create short 30 second videos using your own photographs and embed them into most websites!

13. NoodleTools http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacie s/information/5locate/adviceengine.html http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacie s/information/5locate/adviceengine.html Choose the best search for your information needs!

14. The Ruler Game http://www.rickyspears.com/rulergame/ http://www.rickyspears.com/rulergame/ Test your skills at reading a ruler. See the ruler preferences to the right. The faster you are the higher your score!

15. Chick Coup & Find it VA Practice beginning sounds for very young students http://www.professorgarfield.org/Phonemic s/chickenCoop.htmlhttp://www.professorgarfield.org/Phonemic s/chickenCoop.html Find it VA - http://www.finditva.com/cgi- bin/main.cgihttp://www.finditva.com/cgi- bin/main.cgi

16. Shodor Interactive Math & Big Huge Labs http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/ Big Huge Labs helps you do a lot of fun creative stuff with your digital photographs. http://bighugelabs.com/ http://bighugelabs.com/

17. 4teachers http://4teachers.org/ http://4teachers.org/ 4Teachers helps educators integrate technology into your classroom by offering a variety of FREE online tools and resources. Rubistar TrackStar

18. Advanced Survey & Pics4learning Create surveys to share with students/parents http://www.advancedsurvey.com Pics4Learning – Copyright friendly pictures - http://www.pics4learning.com/index.php http://www.pics4learning.com/index.php

19. Imagination Cubed & Incompetech Collaborate artistically with students/teachers http://imaginationcubed.com/ Copyright friendly music to add to PowerPoints and movies - http://incompetech.com/http://incompetech.com/

20. You Try it! Interactive Activities from PBS. My favorite is Technology at Home http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/

21. Voki http://www.voki.com/ http://www.voki.com/ Create a FREE personalized speaking avatar to add to your blogs and websites.

22. Scratch Create and share your own interactive stories, games, music, and art http://scratch.mit.edu/

23. Open Office http://www.openoffice.org/ http://www.openoffice.org/ Completely FREE, OpenOffice is a productivity program that is extremely similar to the Microsoft Office Suite! This alternative to the Office suite is suitable for students who are in need of word processing programs at home. Program is available on your CD!

24. Jamestown Online Adventure Take the Jamestown survivor challenge. http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown/

25. Authentic History Authentic History Center - http://www.authentichistory.com/ - The Authentic History Center is comprised of artifacts and sounds from American popular culture. It was created to teach that the everyday objects in society have authentic historical value and reflect the social consciousness of the era that produced them. http://www.authentichistory.com/

26. Be Funky http://www.befunky.com/welcome http://www.befunky.com/welcome Upload your pictures and BE FUNKY with them for FREE!

27. SlideBoom Upload and store 100 PowerPoint presentations for FREE! http://www.slideboom.com/

28. Prongo Math Games Cool Math games for younger grades http://www.prongo.com/games/index.html

29. Bubbl.us Bubble.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online. http://bubbl.us

30. Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Audacity is a FREE open source program for recording and editing sounds! Program is available on the CD!

31. Sixty.com Create a personal workspace for you and your students. Share documents, photos, notes and more with select groups of participants. http://www.stixy.com/

32. Spelling City http://www.spellingcity.com/ http://www.spellingcity.com/ Enter your own spelling words and have students practice with printable or online games. Students can even take a spelling test online! Very Easy, Very FREE, Very Cool!

33. Free Rice http://freerice.com/ http://freerice.com/ Practice Math, Art, Geography, Vocabulary, Languages, Chemistry, and English while helping to eliminate world hunger!

34. Amazing Maps http://www.yourchildlear ns.com/megamaps.htm http://www.yourchildlear ns.com/megamaps.htm Create large wall maps or individual one-page maps FREE from Your Child Learns!

35. Jottit http://jottit.com/ http://jottit.com/ Create your own FREE site in minutes! Great for posting homework, advertising an upcoming event, or discussion post site for a particular topic! See an example!

36. TypeIt Type accent marks, diacritics and other characters online http://typeit.org/

37. VisuWords http://www.visuwords.com/ http://www.visuwords.com/ FREE online graphical dictionary

38. Wordle http://www.wordle.net/ http://www.wordle.net/ Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. (from http://www.wordle.net/)

39. Blabberize Create a fun interactive image to add to websites http://blabberize.com/

40. Etherpad http://etherpad.com/ http://etherpad.com/ Collaborate in real time on a word processing document. Just start a pad and invite your friends!

41. Contact me! Sharon Bolan – sharon.bolan@k12lcps.orgsharon.bolan@k12lcps.org