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

This is a large collection of public domain photos in a searchable database.

This section of flikr teaches social studies by inviting you to comment or tag photos. I searched for Titanic and found some very poignant images with comments by the people who had viewed the picture already. This could be a very powerful learning tool.

One-stop shopping for rubrics. This site contains a great rationale for using rubrics, advice on how to write good rubrics, and links to sample rubrics, rubric collections, and rubric generators (Try the Rubistar generator and storage link).

If you want to bookmark only one site for teaching English, this would be a good choice. The sidebar on the left takes you to an incredible number of resources in drama, grammar, ESL, literature, Shakespeare, children's literature, and more. The resourc

An article about using Daily Quotations in the Classroom.

Shelfari is a social booksharing site with great possibilities for educational use. The interface is a bookshelf to which you add thumbnails of the books you have read or are reading. You can review and rate the books. This would be a great way for a t

Fabulous for use with any subject that can be turned into a story. This is especially good for author projects, history reports, and adaptations of stories. It can be used by teachers from intermediate grades through college, depending on the topic, need, and abilities of the students. Be sure to explore the many links to see how other schools and students have used digital storytelling. Many examples and excellent resources.

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

Dade County's Project WebSIGHT is based on Reciprocal Teaching which uses the five strategies prediction, clarification, visualization, questioning, and summarizing in teaching reading. This site gives you the lesson plans and resources to implement this

Enter a word to look up or just explore by theme. The definitions are constructed as pages with a small amount of text and labeled drawings on which the labels are also clickable links. This would be a great "multiple means of representation" resource.

You can read many of their study guides online free.

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.

Why not have Robert Munsch himself read books to your kids?

Volunteers at Librivox have produced human voice recordings of many of the classic literature titles in the public domain. These are available for free download. \n

This site lists 341 ways to respond to literature. This fits well with the udl principle of "multiple means of expression".

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.

Free online versions of 4 Edmark series classics: Bailey's Bookhouse, Milly's Math House, Sammy's Science House, and Trudy's Time and Place House.

Give free rice to hungry people by playing a simple word game. This would be a fun activity for middle and high school students. Warning...it's completely addictive.

This is a super-fun word-search game on the tags associated with Flikr photos. Just type in a word (you don't need a Flikr name unless you only want to use your own photos) and the puzzle is created instantly. For more info see Paul Hamilton's review at