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Check out Jen Wagner's slideshare on ideas for using Wordle in the classroom.

"Welcome to Soundzabound™ - the ONLY royalty free music library which meets all the licensing and technology requirements needed for education! Soundzabound Music Library offers a wide variety of music, audio themes and sound effects for grades K -12 and universities that ensures your copyright safety. Perfect for podcasts, PowerPoint™, videos, news shows, video yearbooks, digital storytelling, presentations, TV broadcasts, web design and more!"

Free Quiz creating tool. Users can create, store and print worksheets, studysheets, exams and quizzes online.

Copyright Kids has links to information about copyright but presented at a level for kids to understand. This site is kids, parents and teachers.

This organization hosts electronic field trips with four main parts: the trip, journal, the virtual visit (a streaming video), an Ask the expert tool, and a hosted web chat.

Take your children on a efieldtrip or check out this site to learn more about virtual fieldtrips. Free

This is CSI for the history classroom.

Looks interesting. It is investigation for the history classroom.

I checked out the investigation link. It looks like there are a variety of investigations that students could do.

"The ancient tradition of storytelling meets the digital age. When students create a movie or interactive slideshow to tell their story, learning becomes personal. With digital storytelling, students can: Improve their writing. Show creativity. Have a voice. Digital storytelling projects lend themselves well to portfolio assessment"

Resource for teachers about digital storytelling.

Advise and asnwers about sexting.

Common sense media has information broken down by grade level. This link takes you to sexting there are resources for educators available on this link.

Lots of good ideas on how to use your flip cameras in the classroom.

Ideas for how to use a flip camera in the classroom.

Smithsonial Education for Educators, Families and Students

This site is really interesting. I clicked on educators and I was able to search a topic by keyword, grade, as well as state and standard. When the search came up It has numerous additional links to go out to. It really looked like the links had good materials for teachers and kids. The one that I chose had lessons that could be printed out for educators.

"K-12 School Lesson Plans, Curriculum and Materials Chemistry ... and Climate Change, Global Warming & Solutions"

One of the many cool sites you will find in the tired teacher's website K-12

From A-Z classroom strategies for Teachers

Lots of resources for teachers.

A series of short lessons (with abundant examples and worksheets) for use in teaching basic professional writing skills. I encountered in a grad class, but much of it looks like it can be easily applied to secondary students.

Moderately challenging United States map review. Students must drag states to their correct location (not labeled); judged both on accuracy and time.

Our goal is to provide the finest quality paper-based teaching materials to teachers and parents around the world. We aim to make all of our worksheet modules useful, valuable and effective in everyday classroom situations.

Dabbleboard is an online collaboration application that's centered around the whiteboard. With a new type of drawing interface that's actually easy and fun to use, Dabbleboard gets out of your way and just lets you draw. Finally the whiteboard enters the digital age!

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is well known for his electrifying presentations. Communications coach Carmine Gallo discusses the various techniques Jobs uses to captivate and ...

seeks to educate children in grades four through six - tweens, in the parlance of marketing - about how advertising works so they can make better, more informed choices when they shop or when they ask parents to shop on their behalf.

An assortment of free power point presentations on a variety of topics.

Thanks for sharing this one. Looks like lots of ready to ppts.

"We believe that everyone should have the same opportunity to learn. The best way to make this possible, we believe, is to organize into one, super directory the hundreds of thousands of good videos currently available on the Internet. To make this a reality, we invite teachers, instructors and educators to suggest videos for inclusion into our directory, and then to review, approve, and assign those videos into appropriate categories using a wiki framework and philosophy. The videos are the highest quality found on the World Wide Web, cover all major educational topics from elementary to secondary schools (or age range 1 - 18), and are Kid Safe!"