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Music
 If you have a Mac, you know GarageBand. If you don't, you have to check out Magix Music Maker!
 * Click here for the free version download site. (It //is// a download, so you'll have to have the rights to download it and to install it.)
 * Works great with your interactive whiteboard!!!
 * Need help? Check out these great tutorials! ... courtesy of Jason Heiser. Thanks Jason! (When you launch the first tutorial it will take you to a moodle site. Just log in as "guest", and then go back and launch the tutorial again. Once you hit play, you can play the movies full screen.)
 * Music Maker Environment
 * Adding Tracks (music)
 * Adding Video (version 14 or 15 - not free)
 * Voice Recording
 * Saving

Learn from your colleages from around the world! Here are some people to follow on twitter.

Art
 Like Paint? Try ArtRage!
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">ArtRage2 is a free download. You'll need the rights to install this.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Try it out. If you want more features, upgrade to ArtRage2.5 for only $25.00.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">On the bottom of the purchase page is contact information to inquire about bulk pricing for educators.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Have Adobe? Here's a cool idea: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;"> No Adobe? No Problem!
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">go to Big Huge Labs
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">allow it access to your Flickr account or just upload a photo
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">download swatches (.ase - adobe swatch exchange)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">load them in Adobe InDesign
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Use Gimpshop for a free alternative to Photoshop. Same look and feel, except for the price!

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Belong to any Nings? ArtSnacks is the perfect one for you! It is private, so you'll have to request to join the site and wait to be approved.

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Check out this Phys-ed flipchart on the Principles of Training. At PE Central you can find anything you'd ever need for lesson ideas!
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Let's look at this part of the site with videos.

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Think you can't find anything cool for your health class? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Need a flipchart already done? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Try using Worldometers for an intro into deaths from smoking, or health costs due to obesity.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Use this one on BMI, or this one on Crystal Meth: The Wrong Road

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Middle School
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Try this site from Curriki
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">High School
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">PhET interactives - AMAZING physics simulations, biology, chemistry, Earth science, and more.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Molecular Workbench - for biology, molecular biology, physics/chemistry, and systems.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">There are applets here for everything! I love the chemistry.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">These are wonderful interactives from Katharine Lady Berkeley's School

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Would you like to have your students read **literature** or poetry that your district has not purchased? Find it free online as an EPUB! <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Need **grammar** help? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;"> **Plagiarism Checkers** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;"> **Vocabulary Help**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Use BookGlutton for your students to read their EPUBs for free
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Find Shakespeare, many classics, poetry, and more at Project Gutenberg
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Another //excellent// site for free EPUBs is Feedbooks.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">For free stories and poems in .mp3 format (audiobooks), try Lit2Go and Librevox.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;"><span class="wiki_link_ext">Grammar Bytes is awesome for interactive lessons, with accompanying worksheets to use if you want!
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">English Exercises
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Grammar Practice from a BBC site
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Shakespeare Resources **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Not very interactive, but a great resource - PlayShakespeare
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">This jog-the-web is an awesome Shakespeare review!
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Plagiarismchecker.com
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">You type (or copy and paste) in phrases from a students paper - longer than 6 words, and less than 32
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">It will show you the website(s) it was taken from if it was plagiarized.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Article Checker
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">This one does not specify a limit of words
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Asks if you'd like it to look on Google or Yahoo
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Reports back the time it took to match
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Plagiarism Detect
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Free version
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Can upload .doc (Word 03) and .txt files
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Must create an account
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Paid version
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">More accurate
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">"dual view"
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">$15/mo.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Quote Finder
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Paste in text
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">See plagiarism highlighted in yellow, with the number of sites it matches
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Click on the highlighted text to go to the google results
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">DOC Cop
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Requires an account
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Can check for plagiarism from the web
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Can check up to EIGHT documents against each other!
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">upload .doc files or .pdf files!!
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">May take up to one hour - results will be emailed to you
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">"Flashcard" Sites
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Brainyflix
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">An awesome site for students to learn words using pictures with sentences, or videos
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">If they create an account, they can build their own
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">There are contests on this site often
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">FunnelBrain
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">has a study mode for logged in students
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">thousands of sets already created to study from
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">students can also create their own flashcards
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Quizlet
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Search for already created sets
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Browse by standardized test
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Create your own cards
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Learn words through videos at WordAhead
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Another site like that one: Wordia
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Visuwords
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Amazingly cool site!!! - Graphical Dictionary
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Shahi
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">An online dictionary that uses Flickr photos - very cool pictures!
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Two sites that work with your email
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Save the Words
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">So fun! Have your volume up for this one.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Print out a certificate and agree to use your word in conversation. =)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Subscribe to Word of the Day

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Doing a unit or topic where you'd like to classify things? Try Webspiration - a free, web-based version of Inspiration.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Need current events? How about checking out daily front pages from around the world at Newseum?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Learn about the world through maps.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">uuorld
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">show - choose USA or World and learn about different areas using many different statistics
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Use the maps here with no labels to test your students on states, capitals, and countries.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Neat way to learn about the world - Gapminder.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">This game is SO fun! - Fling the Teacher
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Create interesting timelines with -[|TimeGlider] or [|Xtimeline]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Teaching the Stock Market, use this free Virtual Stock Market- [|WeSeed]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Have your students create flashcards or puzzles- [|StudyShack] or [|Quizlet] or [|FunnelBrain]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Student collaboration may be made easier by the use of - [|Drop.io]

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">A calculus interactive from [|Phet] on the shapes of derivatives and antiderivatives of given functions.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Try this fractions (batting average) problem found using Thinkfinity.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">My kids loved playing the number balls game on this site to order integers from least to greatest, and there are so many more!
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Here's a nice flipchart on proving the Pythagorean Theorem using area: [[file:Pythagorean+Theorem+Resources.flp]]

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">You can find some great vocabulary practice flipcharts at Promethean Planet: An advanced level Spanish adverb practice: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">German practice on colors and shapes: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Google Earth is always a wonderful resource to learn more about any country. Practice on Flashcards at
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Funnelbrain - make sure you're signed in to use the learning mode.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Popling - this will require a download and install.

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Knowthat - This site has SO MUCH for //every// subject! Fun Science at Ology. This BBC site is good for elementary math, but for lower level students in the secondary schools too. This BBC site is good for elementary grammar and spelling, but some would suit students in the secondary schools too.

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Google SketchUp Blender - "Google Sketch-Up on steroids" =) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 169%;">

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Scratch - Be sure to get the task cards to use with your class.