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Teaching spelling and vocabulary is easy with VocabularySpellingCity! Students can study and learn their word lists using vocabulary and spelling learning activities and games. Students can take final or practice spelling and vocabulary tests right on this engaging site. Premium games and automated student record keeping are available to Premium Members. This resource is likely designed for elementary school students, however there are games available for any age or subject. Poor spelling skills are quite common among all walks of life and spellingcity offers a fun way for anyone to practice their spelling and vocabulary skills. For teachers spellingcity offers the capability to access spelling and vocabulary lists other teachers have uploaded to the site so professional sharing is encouraged.

This site hosts a social network, explicitly for teachers, students, and parents, to facilitate education. It provides teachers and students with the opportunity to expand their learning communities into cyberspace, and most remarkably, actively include parents.

Celly lets you instantly group people and topics into cells. Cells function as chatrooms where people communicate instantly via text-based messaging. Cells can include messages from the web or other social networks to capture your interests. This resource allows for all phone numbers to be kept private during communication. Celly offers a handy tool to communicate with parents, students, and groups of any kind. A teacher or leader of any kind can mass text a group of people and receive individual responses while remaining anonymous. This tool is great for sending schedules, reminders and even in class polls.

IXL is the Web's most comprehensive K-12 practice site. Widely used by schools and families, IXL provides unlimited practice in more than 4,000 math and English topics. An adaptive learning system features games and awards, inspiring students to achieve.

Great resources, especially to share with parents! However, I'm trying to figure out how much they can do for free before needing to pay for a subscription.

Aurasma is an app in which you are able to take photographs and video and tie the two together through a channel. When the app is downloaded on a phone, you can hover your phone over the picture and the video linked with it will automatically come up.

Amazing!

Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Flashcards+ on the App Store. Download Flashcards+ and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

The flashcard app is a great study tool and saves paper too! My own children introduced me to this one.

Isn't it fun when kids introduce us to great new tools!

We love lists. They capture ideas, things to do and places to see. And when you share them, they influence the world around you. This is Wunderlist.

This site is available for the desktop or phone. The best description of wunderlist is an in depth to do list. This would be an excellent resource to use in teams such as administration teams, academic departments, committees and even class projects. This resource makes it easy for teachers, administrators or even committees to delineate duties. Some tools made available are the ability to set priorities, live note taking, flagging and due dates.

This website focuses on Language Arts lesson plans for grades K-12. Lesson plans range from reading and writing, follow PA common core and old standards, and offer differentiation for varying levels of abilities. All materials are included, printables are readily available, and lesson plans are laid out in an easy to follow format. The website is free.

WHAT IS FREE - The Federal Registry for Educational Excellence (FREE) makes it easier to find digital teaching and learning resources created and maintained by the federal government and public and private organizations. This is like a one-stop shop for digital content, it offers over 400,000 selections that span the K-12 curriculum.

Play games, watch videos, learn about animals, and places, and get fun facts on the National Geographic Kids website. -- There are also resources for younger students. I've found that the younger students are very curious about the "real". National Geographic is a resource that can be trusted.

For more than 20 years, Boardmaker has been the go-to solution for providing symbol-based learning materials to students with special needs. Boardmaker Online is a complete system for delivering personalized instruction and therapy while also measuring student progress. Already a Boardmaker Community* or Boardmaker Online Member? Log In ›

I use this for many students that need visual prompts to encourage pre reading and overall language comprehension skills. There is a free 60 day trial that allow unlimited downloads during that time.

The creative visual learning platform that every educator and student deserves. I used this tool when I taught in Maryland for students to have interactive computer time, when they were completing state projects.

Read reviews, get customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Super Duper StoryMaker FREE on the App Store. Download Super Duper StoryMaker FREE and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

This is a great app (free version is available as well as pay for app) that allows students to creat their own story. I use this resource to create an expressive language opportunity for many of my students.

This is free site that offers graphic organizers for all areas of education. Vocabulary, process, cause and effect, and sequencing are just a few categories the site offers graphic organizers for. I use this for my students in science, social studies and language arts. I use them for the students to keep information straight but also for the students to study already taught information.

quick free and super easy. Take a Youtube URL and paste it in the space and bang you have yourself an audio file!!! No more hassels with youtube fails or even worse network issues!

TeachersPayTeachers.com -- 1,000,000+ free and priced teaching resources created by teachers for instant download. This website gives teachers the opportunity to share and profit from their creation of intellectual property. Teachers may not think of themselves as entrepreneurs, but why not?

I really like this site! Thanks for the share....Charlotte

lino is an online web sticky note service that can be used to post memos, to-do lists, ideas, and photos anywhere on an online web canvas. lino is a completely free service that runs on all popular web browsers. Lino can create a virtual pin board for multiple students/people to use at once. This resource was designed to assist teachers/people who use a large amount of sticky notes in their lives so they can now make the sticky notes digital. Teachers can use lino as a way for groups of students to access a unit and pin comments or helpful tips to other students.

Remind (formerly Remind101) is a safe, free way for teachers to text message students and keep in touch with parents. I use it with my class for easy communication for my parents. I can send reminders easily and don't have to give out my private cell.

It takes just seconds to publish your article and share it with the world Pen.io is a simple resource for creating a personal website. Groups of students or even family members can keep in contact with one another easily through text, pictures and videos.

Interesting that you don't create an account! This could make it easier for some projects or could create some new challenges. I want to check this one out. It could have great potential.

One of the first, and best, and briefest TEDTalks, ever! The TAKE-AWAY? Just because we've done "it" this way forever, does not mean that there is not room for improvement ... Enjoy!