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Studyblue is a free tool that allows users to create flashcards, quizzes, and lecture notes and share them with others. Teachers can set up a "class" and give students a code, and everyone with the code can create collaborative study materials. There are mobile phone apps that the students can use to take their flashcards and notes anywhere. They can access their files offline. StudyBlue also sends helpful test and study reminders via email and text message.

I learned about this tool from an article in Learning & Leading with Technology, August 2011. An educator shared how her students use it.

Royalty Free Music is am large selection of music that can be used for your educational projects.

Free and simple to use screencasting tool.

Soundjay is a collection of music and sound tracks that are free to use as long as you cite the Soundjay site and you are not allowed to post the sounds on any web site for others to download, link directly to individual sound files, or sell the sounds to anyone else. You can put them into your videos.

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

Use this tool to create your own storyboard.

This is an interesting article about tools that can be used to manage passwords.

Looking for a tool to keep all those passwords you have to remember, then check out this article.

Daily Grammar provides simple and clear lessons on the basics of English grammar for grades 5-12. Set up in modules of five examples and a follow-up quiz, the simiplicity of the approach and the explanations make this a great site for students to use on their own when they feel they need self-paced remediation or enrichment. Mr. Bill Johanson, the author of the material, is a former junior and high school English teacher, with 30 years experience in the classroom.

This National Geographic site, suitable for grades 6-12, makes excellent use of multimedia to explore the pyramids individually, and place themwithin historical context. It also includes photos and videos from King Tut's Final secrets as well as other ancient Egypt resources

This link is to a digital toolbox using livebinder

Useful descriptions and resources built around the idea of multiple intelligences

Secret Milionaires Club use this site to teach financial literacy.

This is a free online typing skill development program. It provides 27 graduated lessons designed to help students learn how to use their keyboard correctly.

Typing Lessons Online is a free touch typing program that allows its users to type fast using their ten fingers. It offers free and interactive typing lessons and exercises for all levels.

This is an interesting game that tests your vocabulary and your ability to type quickly.

PowerTyping has a small collection of five typing games and lessons that students can use to develop their typing skills.

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.

Online collection and databank on instructional tools, emphasizing resources that can be used to guide student thinking and understanding.

Purdue University's online guide-book to successfully using the APA style in writing professional papers.