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Google Classroom - This is a really nice slide show that in a quick easy way shows how the google tools can be intergrated.

You can choose a script and create a storyboard using this tool.

This article shows a variety of apps that will have students to demonstrate a variety of skills of and for learning.

Lingro provides an on-line environment that allows anyone learning a language to quickly look up and learn the vocabulary most important to them. You place a web address within this site and all the words on that web page will become clickable.

This site would be really helpful for those students who are struggling readers and often don't know the meanings of words they are reading.

Great site for those learning english. The teacher section has some good videos on idioms. There is a words in the news vocab section. There is a section about slang and phrases in English. There are videos and recordings and quizzes to help you learn about and practice English prononciation.

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This free site has a variety of online tours that cover a variety of biology anataomy, human health related topics.

"Can do for you: Highlight multiple english words (whole matching). Store the highlight words list locally. Re-do highlighting automatically when page content changed. In coming features: Add a context menu button, to add selected word on page. Shortcuts. Phrase support. Add a setting/option page, to set whole word matching or not. Configurable highlight style. Make it faster."

Blendspace by tes provided these 15 tips to motivate and engage students in a blendspace environment. It's free and it seems easy to create a blendspace.

Edward Bonver's Poetry Lovers' Page provides the complete poetry collections of Famous English and Russian poets for grades 6-12. Included are the poems of Edgar allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, and rudyard Kiplint, as well as the poems of Aleksandr Pushkin, Aleksandr blok, and anna Akhmatova. The site also contains poems submitted by readers, and features links to a poem of the day and a random poem.

this Internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion is suitable for grades 6-12. You'll find everything from A-gskw to Zveda Vechanyaya,k with plenty in between. the mythology section is divided to six geograqphical regions: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania. The Folklore section contains general folklore, Arthurian legends, Greek heroic legend, and fascinating folktales from many lands. In addition, there are special topics, including A Bestiary, legendary heroes, an image gallery, and genealogical tables of various pantheons and prominent houses.

This poem generator makes you an instant poet. Pick a type of poem, place your words into the form, and you imediately become a success. The site, suitable for grades 5-12, consists of 60 kinds of writing activities in an interactive frame format including cinuain, haiku, limerick, septet, and other forms. Poems can then be exported into Word for revision and editing.

This PBS site has a Galileo biography, an exploration of Galileo's telescope, and other interesting articles as well as fun interactive activities for grades 6-12. These games feature animated experiments including Galileo's ingenious experiment on gravity demonstrating that all objects fall at the same rate. Teacher's can find an archive of over 120 companion Web sites to past Nova TV programs by interest, program title, or year of broadcast. There is a searchable teacher's section with classroom activities, TV program descriptions, related NOVA resources, and explorations for students. The video is not free but the interactive experiments on this site are very nice. They are animated and the kids predict what will happen before you activate the animations.

This link goes to a variety of interactive web sites for a variety of content areas.

A list of great free math websited for teachers and students.

It is mainly a hierarchial outlining tool which allows students to organize their information into up to five levels. This is indeed a great organizational tool that educators can use to take notes on their readings and research. It can also be used to plan, revise, and organize writings.

This is a collection of free math resources, lesson plans, interactives and printables. Each slide links out to a resource. Someof the resources also align with science and language arts content.

TypeFaster is a tool that teachers you how to touch type fast using a set of free typing tutorials. This program comes in three versions: Standard, Accessible and Spanish. The standard version is the ideal on so far it has quite many interesting features.

I pads for schools is a site with a collection of apps for all grade levels.

Digital Footprint - has a nice video included to share with students when introducing the topic of digital footprint.