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Are you ready to move beyond bullets? Here are some very creative PPT templates that will scaffold your students' presentations. Click on the sidekicks bar on the left to get started with PPT ideas (and downloads) for Book Blasts, e-stories, scrapbooks,

Tikatok is a digital story telling tool. Children can create their own books and upload illustrations. They can select who can see their books online. Teacher Tools include a special dashboard and notifications about their students' activities on the site.

This is an amazing tool for students or teachers to create interactive guided presentations by combining web pages, photos, Power Point and more with your voice, notes and highlights. Viewers can control the pages, scroll, click on links, view videos and more.

Short videos about each element are embedded in the periodic table.

Recommended by iLearn blog. Website with materials for teaching Internet safety.

Amazing site presented by the Coquitlam team at the UDL conference. Into the Book focuses on eight reading comprehension strategies for grades 1-4. Kids area has interactive activities for each strategy, teacher area features teacher guides, lesson plans, posters, video and audio clips, downloads, and more.

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.

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.

This is the Harvard UDL site, the best place to begin learning about UDL. Start by reading the online version of "Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age".

This large library of free photos was contributed by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. This should be a relatively safe place for students to search photos.

Get free help with homework and tests on literature, Shakespeare, science, math, and history. Each literature note includes a book summary, analysis, essays on theme and plot, character analysis, quotes, quiz, and more.

These free photos (over 10,000) are useful for science topics such as different kinds of storms, oceanography, fisheries, space.

Formerly called Marco Polo, this phenomenal free site has resources in every subject. If you click on the Educators tab, you can search not only by topic and curriculum area but by the type of resource you want: lessons, worksheets, interactive, reference,

Great internet safety site.

How to create a timeline in MS Word that includes dates, pictures, and url links.

This is an amazing list of great articles about reading and re-defining literacy competence in the digital age.

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work - in the web browser itself.

On Jamendo, artists allow anyone to share and download music. This is probably not a good place for kids to browse but handy for finding copyright free soundtracks for your projects.

In this section of Flickr, people have already given various levels of permissions to use their photos.

Freesound: collaborative database of creative-commons licensed sound for musicians and sound lovers. Have you freed your sound today?