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 * ~ ISTE NETS STANDARDS ||~  ||
 * For students || Standards for evaluating the skills and knowledge students need to know. ||
 * For teachers || Standards for evaluating the skills and knowledge educators need to teach. ||
 * Adventures in Thought || Fast animations explain famous thought experiments that've changed the world. ||
 * [|Bubbl.us] || Brainstorm and Mind Mapping Tool. ||
 * Ever Note || Remember everything, everywhere, all the time. ||
 * Popplet || A platform to collect and brainstorm your writing ideas. ||
 * Notemaking || Great list of organizers for note taking and brainstorming. ||
 * 100th Day || Activities galore for celebrating and integrating 100 days of school. ||

||  || **SCIENCE** ||~  || **VOCABULARY** ||~  || READING ||~   || WRITING ||~  || **RESEARCH** ||~  || PRESENTING ||~  || TECH TOOLS ||~  ||
 * ~ **MATHEMATICS** ||~  ||
 * Everyday Math || The resource and information center developed by Everyday Mathematics. ||
 * Integer Worksheets || Find loads of integer worksheets from Math-Drills.com. ||
 * IXL || Meaning and fun ways to improve your computation. ||
 * Khan Academy || Free video tutorials for all mathematical concepts. ||
 * MathtrainTV || Math tutorial videos taught by students. ||
 * The Math Worksheet || Create math worksheets to practice what you are learning. ||
 * Dragonfly TV || Packed with hands-on activities and interview with real-life scientists. ||
 * ABC Teach || Create shaped word searches with vocabulary words. ||
 * [|Learning Games For Kids] || Cool games that build skills in all subjects areas. ||
 * [|Order Me Around] || Reinforces sequencing skills in science, vocabulary, and geography. ||
 * [|Paint By Idiom] || Matching idioms with their correct definition is the goal of this game. ||
 * PuzzleMaker || Make your own word search or crossword puzzle for free. ||
 * RhymeZone Dictionary || Find rhymes, synonyms, definitions and more. ||
 * [|Rooting Out Words] || Identify the roots of words. ||
 * [|Scramble-Saurus] || Students unscramble words in many curriculum areas. ||
 * [|Spell Check] || Recognize and correct misspelled words. ||
 * [|Spellaroo] || Recognize misspelled words. ||
 * [|Snappy Words] || Free Online Visual English Dictionary and Thesaurus. ||
 * [|Spelling City] || Spelling and Vocabulary games and activities. ||
 * [|Subtangent] || Letters, Anagrams and Mathematics Games. ||
 * [|Stay Afloat] || This version of Hangman tests kids' vocabulary in all areas. ||
 * Thesaurus.com || Find synonyms and antonyms of words. ||
 * Tutpup || Spelling and math games that let competitors play others from around the world. ||
 * Vocabulary Games || A fun way to build vocabulary and test preparation made fun. ||
 * [|Word Confusion] || Choose the correct word to complete the sentence. ||
 * Word Search || Word search on the SmartBoard. ||
 * Word Puzzles || Capstone Kids word search puzzles by categories. ||
 * ~ GRAMMAR ||~  ||
 * [|Grammar Gorillas] || The parts of speech reinforced. ||
 * [|Plural Girls] || Practice recognizing the correct forms of plurals. ||
 * Punctuation Is Important || A video emphasizing the importance of punctuation. ||
 * School House Rock || Rock on with these classic videos on grammar. ||
 * The Oatmeal || Comic, quizzes and stories - funny grammar lessons. ||
 * The Oatmeal || Comic, quizzes and stories - funny grammar lessons. ||
 * Alternative Book Reports || 50 ways to leave the traditional book report and share your story. ||
 * Audiobooks || Free audio books online. ||
 * Book Chomper || Blog by middle school English teacher who devours young adult books. ||
 * Bookfessions || Confessions, thoughts and recommendations from a serial book reader. ||
 * [|Fun Brain] || More fun with these reading and writing games and activities. ||
 * Free Books Online || Free children's books for reading and listening to online. ||
 * From the Mixed-Up Files || This top-notch blog features news about the latest middle-grade books**.** ||
 * Just Right Books || A teacher and parent guideline for how to select Just Right books. ||
 * Kid Litosphere Central || A comprehensive list of children's book blogs including recent published books**.** ||
 * [|Learning Games For Kids] || Cool games that build skills in all subjects areas. ||
 * [|RIF Game Station] || Have some fun with these reading and writing games and activities. ||
 * [|Sign the Alphabet] || American Sign Language letters and numbers are reviewed. ||
 * Tumblebooks || ebooks for kids: read-aloud and audio book cloud. ||
 * Wonderopolis || Happy healthy reading endorsed by the National Center for Family Literacy ||
 * Young Adult Books Central || Featuring teen book reviews for in young adult literature. ||
 * Edmodo || Stay connected to your classroom, collaborate and share content. ||
 * Edublog || Write on! This student, teacher friendly blog site doesn't require an email address to create the blog site. ||
 * BitStrips || Introduce yourself through comic strips and create stories. ||
 * Flubaroo || Write and create tests using Google Docs. Easy grading for teachers and students. ||
 * [|Fun Brain] || More fun with these reading and writing games and activities. ||
 * 100 Word Challenge || Annual creative writing challenge and contest. ||
 * [|Learning Games For Kids] || Cool games that build skills in all subjects areas. ||
 * Lego City Comic Creator || Creative writing using Lego City Comic builder. ||
 * [|RIF Game Station] || Have some fun with these reading and writing games and activities. ||
 * Tagxedo || Create cool word clouds and shapes to print or embed into your wiki or blog ||
 * Turn It In || Find out if people are plagiarizing others' work. ||
 * Typing Adventure || Learn and practice typing in a fun way. ||
 * [|Wacky Tales] || Type in parts of speech to finish the story. ||
 * Wallwisher || Online notice board and wall maker. ||
 * [|Wordle] || A  toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. ||
 * Words of Wisdom Quote || Quote writing activity. ||
 * Compfight || Photo search engine with Creative Commons filter. ||
 * Documentary Tube || Watch full-length documentaries online for free. Hundreds to choose from in searchable categories. ||
 * [|Encyclopedia.com] || Search over a 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries. ||
 * Encyclopedia of Philosophy || Information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy. ||
 * instaGrok || Educational search engine that helps find quality information, images and video. ||
 * KidRex || Kid friendly search engine built by kids. Great for finding kids' drawings. ||
 * Photo Pin || Creative Commons (free) photo search engine. ||
 * [|Those Were the Days] || Historical events that happened on the current date. ||
 * [|Today in History] || Library of Congress collection of events that happened on current date. ||
 * Twurdy || Search engine that sorts material by the appropriate readability level. ||
 * Wolfram Alpha || Computational knowledge search engine. ||
 * [|Where to Do Research] || Lists of categories of what you websites for research. ||
 * Animoto || Create stunning slideshow presentations, including book trailers. ||
 * Compfight || Locate photos and images for visual inspiration. ||
 * [|Creative Commons] || Share, remix and reuse photos legally, especially for research papers. ||
 * Creative Compositions || A collection of student created videos that would be useful for video ideas. ||
 * Draw a Stick Man || Draw a stick character and watch them come to life. ||
 * Documentary Tube || Free educational video documentaries. ||
 * Fake Facebook || Create a fake Facebook profile for a biography or book character. ||
 * Glogster || Poster yourself with text, images, music, and video. ||
 * Google Tricks || 100+ Google Tricks for Education ||
 * Issuu || Snazzy way to publish documents. ||
 * Prezi || Creating amazing presentations online. ||
 * Splashup || Photo image editing tools. ||
 * Squrl || A clever way to collect and manage your video tutorial collection. ||
 * Ted Talks || Ideas worth spreading in 20 minutes or less. ||
 * [|View Pure] || A llows to display YouTube videos without seeing the "related videos" and advertisements. ||
 * Voicethread || Great for storytelling. Group conversations around images, documents, and videos. ||
 * Watch Know Learn || Free educational videos organized for educators. ||
 * [|Wordle] || A  toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. ||
 * Add This || Sharing social widgets like Twitter, Facebook, Blogger. ||
 * Big Huge Labs || Helping you do cool stuff with photos. ||
 * [|Bitly] || Take a complicated URL and shorten it down to something much more manageable. ||
 * Easy Test Maker || Free online test generator to help you create your tests. ||
 * Family Lobby || Find snazzy widgets for your welcome message and tagline. ||
 * Google Tricks || 100+ Google Tricks for Teachers ||
 * QR Codes || 12 Ways to use QR codes in the classroom. ||
 * Smart Board Goodies || Blog dedicated to SmartBoard resources. ||
 * Smart Board Tools || Smart Board resources, tips and tutorials. ||
 * Tagxedo || Create cool word clouds and shapes to print or embed into your wiki or blog ||
 * Web Tool Wiki || Web 2.0 How to for teachers ||
 * [|Word Turtle] || Students can design their own word searches. ||
 * Tricked Out Wiki || How to trick out your wikispaces. ||
 * iPad Apps || ScreenChomp ShowMe SoundDrop 40 Apps for Science ||


 * ~ DRAWING ||
 * Art Pad || Blank slate drawing utilities allow users to select from a variety of drawing and painting tools. ||
 * Bomomo || Drawing utility that creates images out of controlled chaos. ||
 * Coloring 4 All || Offers free printable coloring pages, online puzzles, and an online drawing board . ||
 * Crayola Canvas || Provides a blank canvas on which they can draw using virtual markers, crayons, pencils, and paints. ||
 * Draw Island || Free online tool for creating drawings and simple GIF animations. ||
 * Draw It Live || Offers a free space for you to instantly create a collaborative whiteboard to use with anyone you like. ||
 * FlockDraw || Simple service that allows people to quickly and easily collaborate on the creation of a drawing. ||
 * Famous People Painting || Hover and click on the famous to learn about who they are and their history. ||
 * Simple Whiteboard || This Chrome Web App can be used offline. ||
 * Sketchpad || A free, feature-rich, online drawing tablet. ||


 * ~ LITERACY ||
 * **Resources** || * Reading Strategies
 * Independent Reading Process
 * Example Mini-lessons
 * Making the Difference w/ Reading Instruction
 * Alternative Book Reports
 * Middle Grades Book Lists
 * Summer Reading List
 * Looking for Evidence
 * Webinar: Enhancing Language Arts Through Google Apps
 * Webinar Slideshow
 * Teaching Historical Fiction & Video ||
 * **Forms** || * Teacher / Student Conference
 * Reading Conference Notes
 * Workshop Self-Evaluation
 * Peer Conference Strategy
 * Behavior & Attitude Checklist
 * Fiction Comprehension Questions
 * Responding to Literature Questions
 * Reading Response Letter
 * Continuum Correlation Chart
 * Independent Reading Assignment
 * Analyzing Character Traits
 * Family Reading Support
 * Reading Self-Evaluation Checklist
 * Key Benchmarks Books by Continuum
 * Teacher Reading Continuum Charts ||
 * **Just Right Reading** || * Independent Reading Book Assessment Tool
 * Independent Reading Benchmarks
 * My Daily Reading Log
 * Book Log Summary Sheet
 * Oral Reading Rate Benchmarks ||
 * Oral Reading Rate Benchmarks ||


 * ~ Google Webinar Happily Ever After: Enhancing Language Arts Through Google Apps ||~  ||
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 * ~ Slideshow Presentation ||~  ||

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 * ~ INFOGRAPHICS  ||~   ||
 * ~ Tableau ||~ Google Public Data ||
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 * __ [|Tableau] __ is a free Windows-only software for creating visualisations. As you can see, these impressive graphs are colourful and quite unique. || __ [|Google Public Data] __ lets you easily take public data and transform it into an infographic of your choice. These beautiful, colourful graphics simplify and communicate the data perfectly. ||
 * ~ Stat Planet ||~ Creately ||
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 * __ [|Stat Planet] __ allows you to create some amazing interactive visualisations, which you can then use as is or create a static image. It can be used within your browser or downloaded for free. Stat Planet gives you access to some great world data and lets you customise that in your visualisations. It also has some great map-based visualisations to try. || __ [|Creately] __ lets you make easy-to-make diagrams and flow charts (easy to collaborate too). When you start, you can choose from a number of purpose-designed diagram types and quickly add your data to make your own chart. The end result looks very professional. ||
 * ~ NY Times Visualization Lab ||~ Many Eyes ||
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 * __ [|New York Times’ Visualization Lab] __ lets you use statistics from recent NYTimes articles to create visualisations in various formats. You can also see other people’s visualisations and see how other people choose to display the same data. || __ [|Many Eyes] __ lets you upload your own data or use data already stored on the site. The visualisations themselves are well-designed and very professional-looking. This is definitely the easiest way to use your own data for online visualisations. ||
 * Gapminder ||  ||
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 * [|GapMinder] is a free Adobe Air (cross-platform by nature) application to ensure you have current data on major world issues and can create visualisations for your purposes. Data is updated yearly and released with new versions of the application. The visuals are also quite impressive! || __ [|Inkscape] __ is a free vector graphic software available for many platforms. This is the ideal free option for the creation of your overall infographic. Simple and intuitive, you should have no problems importing your visualisations and combining them with other visuals to create your masterpiece. ||
 * Wordle ||  ||
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 * __ [|Wordle] __ lets you create word visualisations using text you enter. There are plenty of interesting designs to choose from. Enter whole books, short passages or see what other people have used. In this example, we can see the US constitution visualised. || __ [|Hohli] __ is an intuitive, simple online chart maker. It’s incredibly easy to pick your chart type, add some data, vary the sizes and colors and see the finished chart. The finished charts are also very well designed and look great! ||
 * Web Tools by Martin Burnett**
 * Web Tools by Martin Burnett**

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