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Bring the classroom to life with interactive mobile presentations that teachers create and customize themselves. And it's free. This works on the Ipad and the teacher has a content tool that they chose grapics, text, and materials from to present an interactive slide show where the students can interact with on their Ipads.

"Splashtop Whiteboard allows teachers and students to turn their iPad into an interactive whiteboard. Once connected to their computer over Wifi, they can watch Flash media with fully synchronized video and audio, control favorite applications then annotate over lesson content all from an iPad. Now interact with students at their desk or from all four corners of the classroom!"

Blubbr is a neat quiz creation service that I recently learned about on Free Technology for Teachers. Using Blubbr you can create interactive quizzes that are based on YouTube clips. Your quizzes can be about anything of your choosing. The structure of the quizzes has a viewer watch a short clip then answer a multiple choice question about the clip. Viewers know right away if they chose the correct answer or not.  Great for reinforcing a topic on internet safety, social netiquette, social skills etc.

The Constitution Center offers a free interactive U.S. Constitution with lesson plans, activities, games, videos, and historical documents. Students can explore the Constitution by article, amendment, or specific issue

The Teacher Wall is a virtual town hall that gives teachers an opportunity to talk about the things that are most important to them--from challenges to "A-ha! moments," from lessons learned to job satisfaction, from curriculum to parent engagement. The topics tackled on the Teacher Wall showcase a wide range of voices and provide teachers with a chance to interact and share with one another, all while adding to the conversation on America's schools. Backed by the Gates Foundation. Go to the site and click on teacher wall to view some of the features before signing up.

This site corresponds with the map data (mearsures of academic progress). This is a great compilation of sites that are categorized by skill level and concept. You have to know what score the child got on their maps testing and then work on those concepts that fall into the range on the site. All are interactive and easy games. This site can even be used without the map scores and used just for fun.

This site corresponds with the map data (mearsures of academic progress). This is a great compilation of sites that are categorized by skill level and concept. You have to know what score the child got on their maps testing and then work on those concepts that fall into the range on the site. All are interactive and easy games. This site can even be used without the map scores and used just for fun.

zondle is a site where you create quizes with any topic you would like for your students. The students then chose a gome from the game choices (which are many) and once the students answer the questions correctly, they play a portion of the game. This is a way to reinforce any skill that you would like to learn and remember. The games are quite fun and some are challenging enough to make you want to answer the questions over and over just to play the games. This site is free and has so much potential for use with a variety of learners.

These educational games provide fun and focused repetition practice that enables automaticity and fluency to be achieved more quickly. With what we now know about automaticity and fluency in academic performance, we can help students achieve masterful levels performance faster than ever before!

wonderful site that teaches kids basic math for grades 1st - 5th. The site is free for addition only but parents can buy more time for additional math skill practice. The site has a teacher component where the class can play against one another in a challenge. No chat feature, very secure. Looks great and engaging.