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Lots of great resources here.

Free online movie editor with elements of iMovie and Movie Maker.

http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1nme0/MakingVideosontheWeb/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freetech4teachers.com%2F2010%2F05%2Ffree-guide-making-videos-on-web.html Above is a link to a free Movie Making Guide for Educators with Step By Step TIps to using JayCut!

K-12 FREE Opportunity: If your students investigate bugs, use a microscope, need an authentic purpose for research, I'd like to suggest partnering with Bugscope. You get to collaborate with expert scientists to explore bugs (i.e. looking at a bug's tongue). You would do this all via the internet. It looks amazing! Below is a response from them, with an attachment.  A news-release summarizes a history of Bugscope (http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2011/0729sp_spore.shtml). Bugscope allows teachers everywhere to provide students with the opportunity to become microscopists themselves-the kids propose experiments, explore insect specimens at high-magnification, and discuss what they see with our scientists-all from a regular web browser over a standard broadband internet connection. You sign up, ask your students to find some bugs, and mail them to us. We accept your application, schedule your session, and prepare the bugs for insertion into the electron microscope. When your session time arrives, we put the bug(s) into the microscope and set it up for your classroom. Then you and your students login over the web and control the microscope. We'll be there via chat to guide you and answer the kids' questions. If you would like to see the response from one class who have done this, read Mrs. Krebs' blog post: http://krebs.edublogs.org/2011/09/04/bugscope-session/  If you need any help with this, just let me know. If you end up taking them up on this FREE collaboration, please let me know when/where so I can drop by. This looks fascinating! Kind regards,Tracy

The following quote is from Teaching Generation Now techtoolsforteachers@gmail.com -- Sign up for their newsletter (and view archives) for more tips on how to use Scrublr (and many other tech tools) "Scrumblr is a free online tool that allows you to create a virtual whiteboard. This whiteboard can be accessed from multiple computers and used as a collaborative space for education. We like scrumblr because: ● it is free and extremely easy to use. ● no sign up is needed to create and collaborate on a scrumblr board ● only people with the URL link that you create can access the scrumblr. ● it has no ads. ● it provides the opportunity for students to be active in their learning, reflect, clarify, stay focussed and learn from one another. ● it lets participants be anonymous. ● it allows for students from all over the world to work together. ● it allows you to customise the name and setup of the scrumblr ● it has many uses across all age groups and subject areas. ● it allows for students who don't normally speak up in class to be involved in conversations about their learning"

web-based video creating

Free program for creating flash-based games.  Works on Linux!  Could be a great exercise in developing logical problem solving skills.

Make Flash Games with this site for free. Great for those students who love a a good game and a challenge.

Mangahigh just launched their fully-integrated COMMON CORE standards as a core part of their game-based math curriculum.  It's FREE to sign up!

Great resources from ISTE...

Free eBooks!

"Welcome to Lessonopoly! We are an open educational resource aiming to make life a little easier for busy educators like you. Lessonopoly is a free software portal developed by Silicon Valley Education Foundation. This site was created with constant input from teachers to deliver a set of effective and easy to use tools, even for teachers who do not have time to learn new technologies. Lessonopoly empowers teachers to organize activities inside and outside the classroom, create and share lesson plans, and connect to other teachers by building online communities."

All day on Sunday, May 6, teacher bloggers are giving away items from their Teachers Pay Teachers collections for free. Lots of good stuff for all grade levels!

Every AJUSD school has several webcams to plug into your laptop so you can Skype with other educators and authors...

Just a reminder of this awesome resource and how Mrs. Yollis uses it. and it's FREE!

They have tons of free resources for Arizona teachers to order. Lots of them could be used across the curriculum.

Google Docs Template for creating fake Facebook Profile and Wall.  Great tool for character development.

Register your class for FREE!  Students can contribute to one project. Boom Writer provides a "starter chapter: for a story and students continue the story by writing additional chapters. Teachers can oversee each student's writing, comment, and edit. When all students have written their contributions the class reads the submissions and votes. The names of the writers aren't revealed until after the voting.

It's now possible for a teacher to inform both student's parents in 10 seconds or less of a student's behavior, while walking around the classroom! Moments Ago is free for two weeks then only $1.99 (introductory pricing) from iTunes. A school/district version that takes care of the setup for teachers and provides reports to administrators via html webpage will soon be available. The app is currently designed for iPhone and iTouch and soon on the iPad.