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It appears that sparknotes was originally designed to be used as a footnote - intended to summarize books required for reading. This site is well organized and easy to use and students would be crazy not to use this site. It is organized intoseveral tabs - Spark notes guides (provides summaries and analysis - 500 guides for Literature and a number for History, Math, and Biology), No Fear Shakespear, SparkCollege (info on colleges including intro videos0, Test prep (for standardized tests), Flashcards, Miss Marm (writing help), Spark Test (self-evaluation), and Spark Life which is all about school life. It appears to be free with up to date valid information and all your support questions can be answered under the help tab.

A great resource for teachers and students! Students can literally complete these graphic organizers online by typing in the PDF file! Very cool!

This is a demo website released by Google that is free to use and it gives a 360 degree view of the human body. Students can turn on layers to see bones, muscles, organs, and the nervous system. In addition, every time the student clicks on a body part, a label with the proper name of the body part appears. It is a great learning tool, but one problem that I found is that some web browsers such as Firefox do not seem to support the WebGL, which is a new standard for 3D on the web.

Professional organization for teachers of world languages. Has a lot of free resources, membership is required for job searching and advanced services

This website provides big variety of skill building activities for students from kindergarten to 5th grade. It includes language art, math, science, and social studies. It also list the Illinois learning standards and provides websites with strategies and graphic organizers to help you working meeting these standards.

This site is free to all users. I feel that with a brief introduction to the site, it should be very easy to navigate for all students and other users. Considering the content, this site would be useful to students grades 8-12. Much of the site is also dedicated to teachers of these grade levels. It does not look like the most exciting website one will ever visit, but it seems like it could be a nice break from a history textbook. What might be difficult for some users is trying to find historical information that is not featured in the main exhibit at the time. While it seems like if you dig deep enough, you can find what you want to about American History, it is much easier to simply explore the featured exhibit, which currently (as of 6/8/11) is the Reconstruction era. The information is very credible and up-to-date. Aesthetically, it may be more appealing to students who like an online platform than a textbook. It has a look of being very organized, though personally I feel like it could look slightly more "professional." In terms of user-help, the site notes that its "Ask a Historian" and "Contact Us" features were disabled due to SPAM. Therefore, users can no longer contact the site managers. I believe this to be a huge drawback of the site.

Free website used to develop lesson plans in art. Lesson plans contain the objectives, materials, planning, assessments and examples. This website is better used for teachers, but students who are interested in art projects would enjoy this website. This is very effective learning tool because the website uses various forms of art from clay, abstract, collage, sculptures and etc. The information is up-to-date and contains unique art projects. The website is organized by grade level to help find appropriate art for each grade. There is an email available to contact the creator by email. The art lesson were submitted by teachers and allows users to add comments about each lesson.

Zunal allows for a free registration to create one free webquest This site is up-to-date since 2010. This site offers step by step directions to create a webquest and also provides answer to common questions about using Zunal. Students from grades 4 and up would be able use this web site. The information on the site is informative to help create a webquest and even few examples of webquests. Students get more involved and use higher-level thinking when using the tools to create a webquest. This site itself is well organized and colorful. Students would enjoy creating a webquest because he/she are able to work together in groups and use creativity.

Founded in 1999, BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports educators, and bolsters achievement. Our award-winning online educational resources include BrainPOP Jr. (K-3), BrainPOP, BrainPOP Español, and BrainPOP ESL. All are supported by BrainPOP Educators, our teacher community now more than 125,000 members strong and featuring free lesson plans, video tutorials, professional development tools, graphic organizers, best practices, and much more.