1. Wow, Cool, and Oh So FREE! Sharon Bolan, Library Media Specialist/ITRT Central High School Frances Wilson Coordinator of Technology and Testing Lunenburg County Schools

2. 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!

3. Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Audacity is a FREE open source program for recording and editing sounds!

4. 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

5. 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!

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

7. Amazing Maps http://www.yourchildle arns.com/megamaps.ht m http://www.yourchildle arns.com/megamaps.ht m Create large wall maps or individual one-page maps FREE from Your Child Learns!

8. 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!

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

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

11. NoodleTools http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/lit eracies/information/5locate/adviceengi ne.html http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/lit eracies/information/5locate/adviceengi ne.html Choose the best search for your information needs!

12. 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!

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

14. 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/)

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

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