Wow!,

Cool!, and Oh So FREE!Internet Resources

for Educators

Wow!,

Cool!, and Oh So FREE!Sharon Bolan and Sidney Long

Central High School

Lunenburg County

Wow!,

Cool!, and Oh So FREE!Internet Resources

for Educators

Wow!,

Cool!, and Oh So FREE!Sharon Bolan and Sidney Long

Central High School

Lunenburg County

Wow!,

Cool!, and Oh So FREE!Internet Resources

for Educators

Wow!,

Cool!, and Oh So FREE!Sharon Bolan and Sidney Long

Central High School

Lunenburg County

Free Internet Resources and Tools to make an educator’s job a little easier. If you find you are having difficulty using any of these

tools, send me an e-mail at sbolan68@gmail.com and I will try to give you some assistance! Find all of these resources

and my regularly updated list at http://readersforlife.googlepages.com/ with

central as the password.

4Teachers - http://4teachers.org/TrackStar, Rubistar, CasaNotes,

KidsVid, and more!

PhotoCube - http://www.trivista.com/products/downloads.htmUsing this free download, users can create

cubes with student photos. The free download has an advertisement on one side of the cube,

but if you purchase the program the advertisement side is gone! The site offers

other free photo programs, but I’ve found I like PhotoCube 1.1 the best.

PortaPortal - http://portaportal.com

This website management tool is free to educators! If you want to find what other PortaPortal users

are bookmarking, do a quick Google search with a search something like this: “music +

portaportals”

WriteBoard - http://www.writeboard.com/ This site allows you to quickly share

documents. Once the site is created, you can share the site with others. The sited

can be edited by each person it is shared with. You get a posting to see who is

making the edits. This would be great for submitting rough drafts to teachers

without using any paper!

Citation Machine - http://citationmachine.net/ By just entering the key information, users can create corrected composed citations for their

documents. This is a GREAT tool for anyone who needs to

document a source.

Pictures for Learning – http://pics4learning.com/

Copyright friendly images for education

Jottit - http://jottit.com/ - Create and manage a site in mere

seconds! Amazing!

Google - http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/

Google Earth, Sketch-Up, Google Pages, Google Docs, and MORE!

Open Office Suite - http://download.openoffice.org/index.html

OpenOffice.org the product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key

desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and

drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites.

Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file

formats, including those of Microsoft Office. The download is available at this link, but it is

also available on this CD.

Internet 4 Classrooms - http://www.internet4classrooms.com/teachertools.htm

This website provides tools to make awards, graphs, calendars,

bookmarks and much more. These tools are free and easy-to-

use.

SEN Teacher - http://www.senteacher.org/Home/

SEN Teacher provides cost-free teaching & learning resources for students with special needs and

learning disabilities. Some resources include word cards, awards maker,

literacy dice, behavior charts, expression cards, cost-free software

and more!

Free Internet Tools for Teachers - http://www.mu-regional.k12.ma.us/tech%20teacher%20resources/getfreeinternettoolsforteachers.htm

This list of links includes some great tools for teachers to use. I especially

like the certificate maker, the fun calculators, and the free tracing

paper. You’ll see some of these links in other places as well.

TeAchnology - http://www.teach-nology.com/downloads/internet

/

Kathy Schrock’s list of downloads - http://

school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/edtools.html

Kathy Schrock’s list of Web 2.0 Tools -

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/edtools.html#Web20_tools

FREE FREE FREE - http://www.techtrekers.com/free.htmAn amazing list of Free stuff for

teachers.

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - http://nlvm.usu.edu/

This site provides a library of interactive, web-based virtual

manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets,

for mathematics instruction.

Internet Public Library - http://www.ipl.org/ This site is maintained by a consortium of colleges! It provides resources

on a huge selection of topics. My students particularly like the

literary criticism link!

Typing Sites! - http://www.abcya.com/standard_keyboard.htm

http://www.c21key.swlearning.com/8th/student/funstuff.html

http://www.freeonlinetypinggames.com http://www.freetypinggame.net

Free Online File Conversion - http://zamzar.com/ Students who

have saved documents in a format not available to them at school can easily format them

with Zamzar. The user will need an e-mail address.

Printable Calendars - http://www.printablecalendar.ca/ This

site allows you to create professional looking calendars in

moments.

TerraServer - http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/

This site allows you to type in your address see satellite maps of places in the United States.

Some places have newer pictures than others.

Internet Safety Sites - http://guest.portaportal.com/netsafety Joe Showker’s

PortaPortal | NetSmartz http://www.netsmartz.org/ This site provides

resources for parents, kids, and educators | CyberSmart http://www.cybersmart.org

Resources for kids, teachers, and parents | Wired Safety http://wiredsafety.org/index.html |

I –Safe http://isafe.org/ A great site for resources! | Links for CyberBullying

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00002205.shtml

Virtual Manipulatives for Science Teachers -

http://www.lane.k12.or.us/insttech/vtc/science_interactive.html

This site provides an amazing list of virtual manipulatives for Science teachers mainly for

middle and high school. Some elementary sites are also listed.

National Science Digital Library - http://nsdl.org/ NSDL is

the Nation's online library for education and research in

Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.

Virtual Tour of the Underground Railroad -

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/

Help students understand the history of the Underground Railroad with this wonderful

virtual tour presented by National Geographic.

Virtual Tour and More of Philadelphia -

http://www.ushistory.org/

Virtual Tour and More of Philadelphia -

http://www.ushistory.org/

Tools for Teachers - http://www.suelebeau.com/freetools.htm This site created by Sue LeBeau provides links to lots of free tools

for teachers.

Free Teacher Tools - http://www.techtrain.org/teacher_tools.htm Another huge list of links to tools

for teachers.

Online Forms and Letters - http://www.teachertools.org/forms_dynam.asp This site provides downloadable

forms that are created for classroom use.