1. Exploring Free Online Tools For Use in the K-12 Classroom Michelle Ritger Supervisor of Instructional Technology and Information Systems Flemington Raritan Regional School District

2. Google

5. WWW.YOUR-COMPANY-URL.COM Google Apps Blogger Calendar Docs Picasa SketchUp Earth Reader Notebook Scholar http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/

6. Podomatic

8. WWW.YOUR-COMPANY-URL.COM Podomatic Allows user to make podcasts Free space to post Free searches Allows user to add to iTunes www.podomatic.com

9. Rubrics

10. WWW.YOUR-COMPANY-URL.COM Rubric creator sites Allows users to create, share, and search rubrics Customize existing rubrics Save, print, and modify at any time –http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.phphttp://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php –http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/ –http://www.rubrics4teachers.com/

11. Lesson Plans, Worksheets, Etc.

12. WWW.YOUR-COMPANY-URL.COM Your Topic Goes Here http://www.suelebeau.com/freetools.htm http://www.techtrain.org/teacher_tools.htm http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/

13. Other Resources

14. WWW.YOUR-COMPANY-URL.COM Discovery Education- http://www.discoveryeducation.com/ http://www.discoveryeducation.com/ Internet 4 Classrooms- http://www.internet4classrooms.com/ http://www.internet4classrooms.com/ Thinkfinity- http://www.thinkfinity.org/http://www.thinkfinity.org/ Teacher Tube- http://www.teachertube.com/http://www.teachertube.com/ Free Tools Wiki- http://wiki.monroe.edu/index.php/Free_Tools_for_ Teachers http://wiki.monroe.edu/index.php/Free_Tools_for_ Teachers

15. Software

16. WWW.YOUR-COMPANY-URL.COM Open Office- http://www.openoffice.org/http://www.openoffice.org/ Cute PDF- http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp FreeMind- http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/M ain_Page http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/M ain_Page Blender- http://www.blender.org/http://www.blender.org/

17. Web 2.0

18. WWW.YOUR-COMPANY-URL.COM Web 2.0 Tools Web 2.0 is viewed as an enhancement to the world wide web, enhancing teachers “creativity, communications, information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web “ Directory can be found at http://www.go2web20.net/ http://www.go2web20.net/

19. WWW.YOUR-COMPANY-URL.COM In What Is Web 2.0- Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software, Tim O’Reilly makes the following comparisons:

20. WWW.YOUR-COMPANY-URL.COM Leaders in Web 2.0 Kathy Schrock- http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguid e/edtools.html http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguid e/edtools.html Lisa Thumann- http://thumannresources.com/

21. Questions?

22. WWW.YOUR-COMPANY-URL.COM Michelle Ritger Supervisor of Educational Technology and Information Systems Flemington Raritan Regional School District mritger@frsd.k12.nj.us