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

2. 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!

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. 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!

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

6. 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

7. 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!

8. 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

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

10. 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!

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

12. 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!

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

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

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

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

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

19. 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/)

20. 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/

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

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

23. 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/

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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!

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

28. 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

29. 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/

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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/

33. 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/

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

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

36. 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/

37. 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

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

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

40. 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/

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