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Keystone Training Wiki Five Ways to Build Your Own Educational Games  Six Easy Ways for Students to Create Videos Online  10 Place to Make and Find Flashcards  10 Power Tools for Lifelong Learners contains audio and video resources that Open Culture makes available to lifelong learners. These collections are all free, and can be downloaded to your computers and mp3 players.  10 Outstanding Sites for Downloading Lesson Plans  10 Spelling Games and Lessons for teachers, parents, and students.  10 Terrific Web Apps for Teachers  10 Useful Chat Sites for Teachers from the Classroom in the Cloud Blog  21 Things for the 21st Century Educator based on the National Education Standards for Teachers (NETS-T)  25 More Educational Games and Game Builders  50 Web Applications for Teachers to help teachers with lesson planning, research and productivity!   Awesome Stories a gathering place of primary-source information. The purpose is to help educators and individuals find original sources, located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government-created web sites. [|Best "The Best Lists" of 2009 from Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day Blog]  Best Websites for Learning and Teaching contains dozens of great tools from the American Library Association. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Creative Commons: What Every Educator Needs to Know. In today's world with everyone creating online resources, it is important to understand Creative Commons which provides a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists and educators. Creative Commons provide free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Cybrary Man's Educational Web Sites created by Jerry Blumengarten. This site has resources for students,educators, parents, and general interest sites with useful information. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Department of Education's FREE Resources! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Digital Teaching Tools: Your Keys to Improved Instruction is a great wiki full of tools to use in teaching and learning. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Discovery Education's 20.12 contains tons of resources for the 21st century educator and student! Web 2.0 tools, media literacy, tech tips and internet safety are highlights on this site. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Edublogger talks about some OUT OF THIS World Classroom Blogs! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Enquiring Minds list of digital tools that may be helpful in education. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> eTheme's from eMints National Center contains dozens of safe, up-to-date online resources covering hundreds of themes. This is an incredible resource! I looked up Utah History and found lots of websites that I have never seen before. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Free Courses Online: 250 Free Courses from Top Universities Free Foreign Language Online Classes <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Fresh Brain provides teens with the opportunity to explore, engage, and create through activities and projects. FreshBrain takes advantage of the latest technologies, such as web conferencing and social networking, to provide a very progressive environment where teens can complete activities and work together on projects. This experience is enhanced with Advisors, available to support and mentor teens who are working on projects, with the intention of increasing the likelihood of success. In addition, FreshBrain provides teens with tools and training in the latest technologies to complete these projects. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Google Tools to Use in the Classroom

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Graphic Organizer List includes dozens of awesome ready-to-use and free to print graphic organizers.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Interactives provides educators and students with strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students' skills in a variety of curricular areas. Make sure you check out the Spelling Bee interactive for grade levels K-12th grade. It was great. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> iTouch Resources from Learning Continuity contains tons of great applications for your iTouch. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Khan Academy We have 1000+ videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, chemistry, biology and finance which have been recorded by [|Salman Khan]. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Magic studio has been developed by museums, publishers, teachers and pupils to provide an easy to use and highly engaging approach to visual, web based learning. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Meet Me At The Corner....dozens of virtual field trips for kids! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> National Education Technology Plan comprehensive resource list contains technology tool recommendations, responses, statements, and other valuable information. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Next Vista is a non-profit organization dedicated to hosting and sharing original, educational videos. There are three main video classifications that Next Vista uses. The Light Bulbscategory is for videos that teach you how to do something and or provides an explanation of a topic. The Global Views video category contains videos created to promote understanding of cultures around the world. The Seeing Service video category highlights the work of people who are working to make a difference in the lives of others. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Paul Hamilton's Free Resources from the Net for Every Learner <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> [|RefSeek's reference directory lists] enable users to quickly locate some of the best academic resources on the web. Included in the directory is a list of [|professional development resources for teachers]. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Safe Blogs (social networking sites) for kids <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> School Fusion <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Blogmeister <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Edublog <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Kidsblog

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> SafeShare TV is the safest way for schools to view and show YouTube videos. It also removes distracting and offensive elements from YouTube videos and allows you to crop videos before sharing them. Great resource! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> SqoolTools let you search for wonderful lesson plans to fit your needs. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> [|TeachersFirst.com] contains a rich collection of lessons, [|units], and [|web resources] designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format. TeacherFirst.com offers professional and classroom-ready content along with thousands of reviewed web resources, including practical ideas for classroom use and [|safe classroom use of Web 2.0]. Busy teachers, parents, and students can find resources using the [|subject/grade level search], [|keyword search], or extensive menus. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> TeachersTV! "Through engaging [|videos], practical [|resources] and an active online [|community], Teachers TV supports the professional development of anyone working in school, enabling them to widen their skills, develop their practice, and connect with others in the field." <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Technology and Education Box of Tricks was created by J Picardo to support his belief "that the effective use of technology in our schools ensures that education remains relevant to our students in their increasingly digital lives." This blog contains the awesome A-Z Internet Resources for Teachers! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Teacher Training Videos by Russell Stannard - At this site you will find several videos to show you how to use various Web 2.0 tools such as screenjelly, Blogger, Twitter and the Tweet Deck, JING, and much more. This is a great resource when you want to learn something new or just need help. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> The Digital Narrative - Finding your story with new media! Amazing new media narratives, news about teaching digital story writing and much more. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Why Wordle by Steven W. Anderson gives dozens of creative and effective ways to use Wordle in the classroom and with our students. This online article includes a great Google slideshow presentation entitled Forty-Three Interesting Ways to Use Wordle in the Classroom.