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Wordle-type application designed specifically for elementary kids. Also includes excellent games at every level...very nice graphics, especially strong early alphabet and counting, seasonal. Activities such as 100 snowballs or make a face would be excellent for mouse practice.

Collection of University of Illinois extension online activities for elementary students. All the ones I looked at were excellent and contained many supports such as narration, captioning, and presentation in multiple languages.

Adam Foster of @iPadTeachers has written an excellent guide to using Book Creator in the classroom. 99¢ on the iBooks Store and well worth it. You could do Book Creator activities with your class or workshops for educators for years with the number of ideas packed into this tutorial. Many subject areas. Many of the activities include App Smashing ideas.

Great resource for secondary students. Summary, notes, guides, and analysis of themes and characters for English Literature homework. The aim of this website is to make learning more relevant and fun for students in the digital age. Graduate students have compiled some excellent units.

Excellent engaging and educationally sound instructional videos. This science site for grades 1-6 also has great accessibility options including visual, auditory and keyboard shortcuts. I learned about this from Paul Hamilton's October 20, 2008 post. According to Paul, Many of the activities include captioned video where the "captions" can be read aloud. Other activities use diagrams and interactive images to present material. All text can be read aloud, and can be repeated upon request.

There are excellent quality instructional videos on everything imaginable here. I searched for life cycle and got 106 educational videos on the life cycle of frogs, butterflies, bananas, stars, etc. The geography section has an astounding collection of Canada videos introducing the provinces and the geographical regions. HowStuffWorks explains hundreds of subjects, from car engines to lock-picking to ESP, using clear language and tons of illustrations. We do the research so you don't have to.

Maureen LaFleche spotted this great resource and here's what she has to say about it "Check out CK-12.org. It is a website that provides open-source content and technology tools to help teachers provide learning opportunities for students globally. Free access to high-quality, customizable educational content in multiple modalities suited to multiple student learning styles and levels, will allow teachers, students and others to innovate and experiment with new models of learning. CK-12 helps students and teachers alike by enabling rapid customization and experimentation of teaching and learning styles. Text can be read at two different levels - grade level and basic. You can download books and activities as pdf, epub or mobi." I have checked out several of the units and they look excellent for middle and high school.

This text to speech app is getting excellent reviews for it's features and ability to extract .pdf content.

Excellent advice for getting started building a PLN.

Excellent article about the use of UDL principles to help students learn about how they learn best.

7 excellent Short videos by BC SD34 illustrating the new core competencies in the curriculum

Has excellent resources for younger and older students. Includes downloadable .pdfs colouring books on Geologists and Mining, great list of links. The items in the interactive geologist backpack game are a little too small.

Excellent source of animal photos

Outstanding interactive online book describes many aspects of the forest and plants and animals that live there. Additional forest facts can be accessed that explore the topics even further. The list of resources is also excellent. Suitable for upper intermediate.

This iPad app provides MSWord, PPT, Excel for free. Even includes a Math Editor. Looks like you have to be online to use it. Paul Hamilton is going to review it soon.

Excellent Resource for classroom science programs. Includes videos, interactives, and a section where students can email their questions about science to scientists!

Awesome TED Talk about a different way to teach math. Are we making things too simple? TED Talks Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. At TEDxNYED, Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think.

Excellent site for kids to do research about dinosaurs even if they did spell Paleozoic and Mesozoic wrong.

Excellent Harcout interactive has students drag pics onto a food web showing the food chain. Three webs: meadow, arctic, pond Suitable for elementary and middle school.

Excellent video for younger children from Simple Science explains habitats, predator/prey relationships, and simple food chains.