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CALCULUS IN MOTION ™ and ALGEBRA IN MOTION ™ animations empower students with the ability to visualize and understand concepts like no still picture can. NEW VIDEO DEMOS POSTED JAN 2008: Use the "Online demo" link at the left. CALCULUS UPDATES : The JUNE 2008 , June 2007, March 2007, and June 2006 updates are free to those who have the Calculus In MotionTM collection through 2005. To get them, send an email with your CD's 5-digit serial number (written on the CD's front label) along with your name and school to amweeks@aol.com , and they will be attached back to you. The June 2005 update to Calculus In Motion is available for a small fee. For description and order form, click here . Updates prior to 2005 are free. ALGEBRA UPDATES : The MARCH 2008 , Feb 2008, & March 2007 updates are free to those who have the Algebra In MotionTM collection through 2005. To get them, send an email with your CD's 5-digit serial number (written on the CD's front label) along with your name and school to amweeks@aol.com . A major expansion to Algebra In Motion was released in 2005 for a reduced fee. Click here for more information & order form . Three Sets Available: CALCULUS IN MOTION ™ 143 Animations Including Animations of 2008-1997 AP Exam AB & BC Free Response Questions ALGEBRA IN MOTION ™ 168 Animations of Key Topics in Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Trigonometry, & Pre-Calculus ALGEBRA IN MOTION ™ LITE A 62-animation subset of Algebra in Motion™ addressing middle school math through early algebra. Each set runs on either WINDOWS or MACINTOSH. Each set requires The Geometer's Sketchpad v4 (available from Key Curriculum Press, www.keypress.com ) to be on the computer. upcoming public engagements. Audrey Weeks, author of Calculus In MotionTM and Algebra In MotionTM, wil

Free surveys and polls that can be added to your website or blog. Free account allows unlimited polls with unlimited responses and unlimited surveys with no more than 10 questions and no more than 100 survey responses. Free version should provide enough features for teachers.

Popular wiki creation site for educators. 10 mb free with unlimited pages and folders. Folders can be used to organize pages by subject or classes. Role-based access control and rss for site with free account. Upgrades available.

Audacity is a free, open-source, cross-platform audio recorder and editor that can be used to create podcasts, among other things. It takes a little while to get used to it, but once you are going, it's extremely powerful for a free program!

Free blog site that caters to educators. Blogs are ad free and built on Wordpress technology. The blog administrator can choose to moderate posts.

Free pdf creator.

web based application to create personal or group flowcharts, can also be used as a colloraboration tool. Not free but cheap ($5/month)

web2.0 based application to create personal or group flowcharts, can also be used as a colloraboration tool. Not free but cheap ($5/month)

Wikispaces offers free, private sites to all K-12 educators.

Free open source audio editor highly recommended for creating podcasts on PCs.

Free wordprocessing, spreadsheats, presentations, graphics, database software. Works well and can read and write other common similar software.

For those Early Childhood and/or preschool teachers, Baby Smash is a free "keyboard banger" game for very young kids (ages 1-3 years). It disables all system keys such as ctrl-esc, alt-tab and the Windows key, so that the kids do not exit the program accidentally or harm the computer. When the child hits the keys, colored shapes and letters will appear on the screen. The names of the shapes and colors will be read out loud, as well as the names of the letters. Babysmash for Windows (created by Scott Hanselman) is a copy of the Alpha Baby software for Macintosh. It requires the .NET framework version 3.5 to be installed.

Andrea Keith gives an overview of the safe email services provided by Gaggle.net. Gaggle is dedicated to providing safe email accounts for students. The tools they provide allow schools to feel secure when giving their students email access. Gaggle offers both free and paid services.

iTunes University on iTunes has podcasts, videocasts, support material and more for free. Content available from many major universities. View on the web or download to your portable devices. Also includes technology integration lessons and tech help (see University of South FL).

This free webtool lets you format any webpage for printing; you can also combine webpages and format them all for easier printing. This would be beneficial when you want to print information for a class but don't want the ads or other nonessential elements on the page. Provides a good way to save ink and paper when you need to print from the web. It was easy to use too.

BrainPop is a highly-regarded, Flash-based video site that offers an array of movies on all kinds of curricular topics covered during the school year. This particular site provides the framework for a teacher to teach a lesson on animal habitats. Beyond just watching the movie and answering the quiz questions, the educator site gives the objectives, materials, preparation, lesson procedures, vocabulary, and extension activities to do with the students. You will have to create a free educator account to gain access to this page.

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Emerging technologies hold great promise for teaching and learning in the classroom, but how can teachers make sense of and keep up with it all? This session will provide an overview of some of the free and available computer-based tools and services ready to be incorporated into the classroom.

Dipity is a free, online timeliner. For each event created, students can added a description, a picture, an online video, and a map where the event took place. The timeline can be shared and worked on by a group collaboratively. The timeline can also be added to a blog.

Online library of free resourses - collection is from public televison.

AP Free response questions