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Edusim is a free opensource 3D multi-user virtual world specifically for your classroom interactive whiteboard (Smartboard, Activeboard, Interwriter, Mimio, eBeam, or WiiBoard). Edusim is extendable allowing multiple classrooms to connect their interactive whiteboards for collaborative learning session.

Interactive that allows us to graph trig functions.

TimeSpace is an interactive map that allows you to navigate articles, photos, video and commentary from around the globe. Discover news hot-spots where coverage is clustered. Use the timeline to illustrate peaks in coverage, and customize your news searches to a particular day or specific hour. (Many Washington Post stories appear at midnight; others are published throughout the day as news happens). Click the ? In the upper right for help.

Free online service that allows easy communication with parents.

Free Coat of Arms generator allows you to print / order a customized coat of arms

Service that allows for the creation of playlists... Very coll

Wow. Don't tools like this have REAL potential to change the classroom?

CK-12 allows one to customize and produce content by re-purposing to suit what needs to be taught, using different modules that may suit a learner's learning style, region, language, or level of skill, while adhering to the local education standards.

authorSTREAM is a powerful online presentation sharing engine that not only allows you to upload your PowerPoint presentations online for free, but also assists you to share them with your friends, students or co-workers located across the globe. authorSTREAM is a great online community that gives you access to numerous presentations on varied subjects uploaded by community members.

Artists allow anyone to download and shre their music- free, legal, and unlimited.

MathCast is an equation editor, an application that allows you to input mathematical equations. These equations can be used in written documents, webpages, and even databases. They could be rendered graphically to the screen or to picture files. MathCast can be used freely by anyone: students can create equation sheets to help them in their studies, educators can write handouts or study guides, webmasters can add mathematics to their website, and the list goes on and on.

At kitZu, you will find a collection of free, educational, copyright-friendly media resources. Students and teachers around the world can access pre-made collections, or "kits," of various digital assets - still images, background music, narratives, video and text. Each kit is built around a common theme, or curricular topic. For students, this becomes the construction paper of the 21st century --allowing them to create reports and projects filled with rich, immersive media for communicating their vision of whatever subjects they chose. AS they master the technology, they will progress from building projects with supplied materials to projects where they find or create their own resources -- a strategy that results in truly authentic assessment as measured by the projects produced.

Blank sheet music generator with lots of time-saving advanced functions.

The sheet music generator allows you to freely insert notations for various instruments, alter the layout of the sheet, and customize the colors, key, and time signatures. There's also a large directory of pre-populated sheets for a variety of instruments

Awesome presentation service that allows for emailing to people, twittering, and so much more...

The National Archives Digital Vault poster and video creation tools allow students to drag and drop digital artifacts into a poster or video. The National Archives provides images, documents, and audio in an easy to use editor. When making a poster students can combine multiple images, change background colors, and create captions to make collages of digital artifacts. See the screen capture below for a demonstration of poster editing.

These WingClips inspirational movie clips can be downloaded to use in your church, school or other non-profit organization for FREE. Read their subscriber agreement, and you'll find that schools are allowed to use these clips from popular movies for projection, as long as nothing is altered, etc. etc.

What do wild animals do when we're not around? Find out with National Geographic's Crittercam. Safely worn by wildlife, Crittercams capture video, sound, and other information, giving us rare views of the private lives of animals. By allowing us this animal's-eye view, Crittercams help to solve scientific mysteries. And what we learn from Crittercams helps us protect the very animals that wear them.

Lovely charts is an online diagramming application, that allows you to create professional looking diagrams of all kinds. Flowcharts, sitemaps, organization charts, and many more. Free.

Another online comic creator. Allows easy sharing, viewer tracker, other creations by the artist, etc.

MathType is a powerful interactive equation editor for Windows and Macintosh that lets you create mathematical notation for word processing, web pages, desktop publishing, presentations, and for TeX, LaTeX, and MathML documents. MathType works with 100s of applications and websites, allowing you to put Equations Everywhere and Anywhere™.

Record a sketch with or without voice. Then embed the sketch player in your log.

Awesome Web 2.0 tool that allows you to create content in a video form to share with others