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Sheppard Software has a fantastic collection of free web-based educational games. Sheppard Software's free games cover Science, Math, Social Studies, and Language Arts. Most of the games are appropriate for elementary and middle school students, but some games are appropriate for high school students. The geography games are particularly good.

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Good to know about this should you need to convert your PDF files to Word, Excel, RTF or Wordperfect.

Both of these presentations are excellent. If you have whiteboard or clickers in your school or use promethean software you will learn so much from Deb Pickerings presentation. I recommend that everyone take time to review these archived presentations.

Excellent keynote speakers. I highly recommend these archived presentations.

Online Survey tool. There is a basic plan which is free.

The website's main purpose is to help educators and schools around the world effectively integrate technology, including the wonderful tools on the vast World Wide Web, into the classroom. eduTecher provides links to thousands of Web Tools and provides concise information on how these tools may be useful in the classroom setting. The site's goal is simple: contribute to the academic world, without charging membership fees for the users or promoting specific software and hardware products through commercial advertising.

Free online software for creating and sharing movies; similar to iMovie or Windows Movie Maker.

Free and simple to use screencasting tool.

This tools makes monitoring student behavior easy. Teachers can set up their class and monitor and make notes on behavior with their mobile device as they move around the room.

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.

This a typing program that allows its users to create their own typing activities or use the website's standardized lessons.

This is a free download from Microsoft that is designed to provide students with free math tools.

This is a free online teleprompter. Helpful for students learning to read or for hearing impaired students who may not be hearing what you are saying.

Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection is a collection of thirty-two puzzles and logic games. The games and puzzles can be played online or downloaded to run on your Windows or Mac OS X computer. Most of the games and puzzles are simple to play, but difficult to master. Quite a few of the games remind me of the peg-in-board logic games you might find at a store like Brookstone.