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PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools.

"Use digital historical sources to explore different topics online with fun interactive teacher-created activities. Choose from the activities below to get started."

Writing resources for online writing assessment on 2013 SOL standards (from VADOE).  Includes pdfs of checklists, sample lessons, videos and other linked resources aligned with instruction in mind for the new standards.

"The place where you can easily convert a Google™ Spreadsheet into a set of online flashcards, like this:"

Footnote is a fantastic resource on the web to provide historical context for the picture books and novels you are reading in your classroom. With over 70 million original documents online, you can find and share all sorts of intriguing artifacts to build background knowledge in students:

We've created the Digital ID wiki with a two-fold purpose: Provide students, teachers, and administrators with a toolkit of reliable information, resources, and guidelines to help all of us learn how to be upstanding Digital Citizens who maintain a healthy Digital Identity (ID) in the 21st Century. Build a collaborative platform for teachers and students the world over to contribute to our ever-growing curriculum collaborations and student-created content. Our goal is to help our students answer these three Essential Questions: What does it mean to be a (digital) citizen? What are my rights as a citizen? What are my responsibilities as a citizen? Students Objectives and Learning Outcomes: Stepping Up ~ Cyberbullying: By examining bullying within their own lives and across historical events and time periods, students will consider the importance of empathy as a 21st century skill, equally as important as critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and skilled communication. Building Identities ~ Digital Footprint: By examining the importance of maintaining a positive digital identity, students will learn how to employ self-regulation to manage their own digital footprint. Respecting Boundaries ~ Intellectual Property: By employing critical thinking, students will learn the ethical use of intellectual property. Protecting Online Security and Privacy: By studying common threats to electronic security and equipment, students will learn to protect themselves and sensitive information."

Free printable certificates and certificate templates for kids, with an online certificate maker to make certificates of appreciation, completion, merit, and more - from   123 Certificates   Use this certificate maker to print rewards for students, friends, employees, anybody. With 200+ new templates for 2013! 

"Chronos allows scholars and students to dynamically present historical data in a flexible online environment. Switching easily between vertical and horizontal orientations, researchers can quickly scan large number of events, highlight and filter events based on subject matter or tags, and recontextualize historical data."

A simple to use online writing environment for the high-production, creative writer. Write the way you want to write, using any approach you like in a simple, distraction-free environment. It's novel writing in the cloud. All In The Cloud No save button needed. Yarny constantly saves your work to the cloud. Stay Organized Stay organized with separate sections for people, places & things. Write character descriptions, capture research about a location, track to-dos, or use them any way you want to. Distraction Free Start typing, and the distractions disappear. Snippets Write your story in snippets and organize snippets into groups. Auto Versioning

"It is imperative to teach our students beginning with their first experience online to "read" the web discriminately. Students need to understand that just because something is posted on the Internet, it isn't necessarily true. Teachers should practice the skill of web site evaluation before instructing students. The Yahooligans Teacher's Guide: Evaluating Web Sites gives a good overall synopsis of web evaluation while the Cyber Bee's WWW.CyberGuides rubrics clarify the issues of both content and design. Tammy Barcalow has somegreat suggestions to consider when first introducing website evaluation. Check them out! There are also many alternatives for teaching students how to critically evaluate websites and several links are included below. Kathy Shrock's Criteria Evaluation Survey: Elementary Level is an excellent choice to use with upper primary students. The Schrock criteria are simply stated and appropriate for students starting in about fourth grade. However, the form is bit long and may overwhelm some kids. Since we need to consider the reading level of lower primary students, I have created two checklists specifically for younger children. These alternatives require minimum reading and writing while introducing website evaluation. There is one version for kindergarten and first graders and another for second and third graders . Another good option for our students is this Web Evaluation for Primary Grades. Regardless of the specific tool you use, site evaluation should include judgement about the following areas: navigation and usability, authorship and content validity."

About A Web Whiteboard is touch-friendly online whiteboard app that lets you use your computer, tablet or smartphone to easily draw sketches, collaborate with others and share them with the world. A Web Whiteboard works on all modern browsers, no installation needed.

Interactive games and online simulations from BrainPop!

this WritingFix website, which launched back in 2001 as an online place for the NNWP's workshop presenters to post their classes' demonstration lessons and resources

"This section helps students and teachers make effective use of primary sources. "Making Sense of Documents" provide strategies for analyzing online primary materials, with interactive exercises and a guide to traditional and online sources. "Scholars in Action" segments show how scholars puzzle out the meaning of different kinds of primary sources, allowing you to try to make sense of a document yourself then providing audio clips in which leading scholars interpret the document and discuss strategies for overall analysis."

Kathy Schrock's collection of ebooks and other literature to read online, for multiple devices.

useful for making online behavior reports, etc.

Covers (in detail) a variety of valuable online tools to enhance your classroom.

Developmental Studies Center online PD.

Online version of an older CD that was awesome for earth science, 5th grade geology, etc.