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Set of free graphic organizer templates...very creative looking but "freeform" so you can adapt them to your own uses.

Look up words in the Visuwords online graphical dictionary and thesaurus to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.

A great online version of "Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader" recommended by James Hollis at Teachers Love Smartboards. Really fun to play with excellent graphics.

Excellent online timeliner recommended by iLearn website. See her July 22 2008 review for comments about using Capzles in the classroom to keep a log of your students' reading progress through the year! This timeliner has an extremely attractive interface and is easy to use. You have to upload photos, videos, and audio files that you want to use. You can add short captions and descriptions easily to those files. The descriptions box looks small but expands as you add more text. Once you're out of edit mode a person clicking on the picture sees the whole block of text. If you want to create a longer text entry, you can blog directly on the timeline. It's unfortunate that you can't create a blog entry and have a picture, too, as the text graphic is kind of plain. Very slick feature grabs the date from your uploaded photos and adds them to the correct place on the timeline. Ideal for classroom use if kids don't spend too much time fiddling with the themes options. The only problem for classroom use is that you can't embed live links which is necessary for linking to sources used or other important sites. Or maybe I just didn't figure it out.

A very large collection of instructions and/or graphic organizers for reading activties.

Learned about this from Kathy Rice. Great interactive activities and downloadable worksheets. Excellent quality educationally and good graphics; would work well on SMARTBoard. Jan and Jim had also used and said that Character Cards was a favourite activity. The only drawback was that content was stored online.

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.

A variety of templates, tutorials, and graphic organizers introduce and explain the major forms of writing (narrative, persuasive, expository, research, response to literature) and help students develop practical writing skills - from coming up with a topic idea to publishing a polished work. Developed in collaboration with Microsoft for Learning Essentials, these tools offer solid instruction from the popular, research-based Write Source series of writing programs.

Recommended by Kelley Tenkley as free and intuitive with embedded music player...haven't tried it yet.

Great little tool for helping you figure out which areas of UDL implementation you're currently implementing and what you'd like to try or improve upon.

Hi Mallory! Here we are, some years later...I'm getting set to retire...but still looking at and using links and tools that show up from your mailing list. Great stuff! This looks like a great tool. I'm going to check it out with other staff, too, just for the reflection value. Have a great day.