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My goal is to create the ultimate teacher resource that is free for everyone! Have Fun Teaching is updated on a daily basis with new worksheets, songs, videos, flash cards, coloring pages, fun activities and blog articles released every day. Unlike other web sites for teachers, Have Fun Teaching is created by a teacher and it offers high quality songs for learning with content-rich lyrics for kids. HaveFunTeaching.com specializes in fun worksheets, coloring pages, songs for kids, educational videos, fun activities, and teacher tools. ColorMeGood.com is another website that I have created that offers over 6,000 free printable coloring pages for kids! This is the largest selection of coloring pages online with thousands of high quality, full-page coloring pages.

"Mingoville: The World's Most Comprehensive Online English Lessons for Kids - for FREE! Kids Learn English the Fun Way in Flamingo City! Sign up today to learn English through Mingoville's fun, free, colourful e-learning environment with exercises, songs, and games. * Children learn English best when it's fun. * Kids learn English more effectively when they are immersed in the language. * Not all children learn English in the same way."

Kerpoof is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative. Here are just a few ways that you can use Kerpoof: * Make artwork (even if you aren't good at drawing!) * Make an animated movie (really! it's easy!) * Earn Koins which you can trade for fun things in the Kerpoof Store * Make a printed card, t-shirt, or mug * Tell a story * Make a drawing * Vote on the movies, stories, and drawings that other people have made

"Here is one of my private assumptions about education innovation that could use some public criticism: If [x] is going to change teaching practice at scale, then [x] needs to be easy, fun, and free for both the teacher and her students. [x] needs to be all three of those things at the same time. Realize that if you're a teacher and you're reading a blog post, you're automatically seeded in the top 10% of innovative educators. You'll try anything once. Let's also go with Jack Welch and assume that 10% of educators are hopelessly and/or willfully incompetent. Convince yourself, then, that 80% of teachers exist on a sliding scale of innovation and are basically up for grabs. Those who don't want to try [x] aren't necessarily bad educators. They may have made a rational calculation that [x] isn't easy enough, fun enough, or free enough to adopt. There are implications here, some obvious, some subtle: "

"We believe that the easiest way to change people's behaviour for the better is by making it fun to do. We call it The fun theory. http://www.thefuntheory.com"

"4 Fun & Informative Websites You May Not Know About"

"Jam With Chrome is a fun new Google web tool. On Jam With Chrome (only works if you use the Chrome browser) you can play nineteen virtual instruments. Jams can have four musicians playing together in real-time over the web. It's an application that I had a bit of fun playing with this evening. Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be a native recording application built into Jam With Chrome. You could use a screencasting tool like Jing or Screenr to record your jam session. "

PlayScience will take you on a journey of educational fun like never before! For children studying in Grade 1 - PlayScience is the perfect way to build up their science skills. Your child will be able to enjoy a constructive, supportive, interactive fun filled environment while mastering different science concepts. Rather than downloading several disparate apps focusing on different concepts, PlayScience I is your one stop app to help your child learn all science concepts needed for Grade 1. It covers all the learning topics part of Grade 1 curriculum and has been designed with educational and child development experts.

"Mobile technologies are playing a big role in the classroom, in virtually all kinds of education. Music is no exception, as a wealth of new applications for tablets and smartphones have made it possible to learn, share, and have fun with music education just about anywhere. Whether you're a music teacher looking for new tools to share with students or a student looking for new ways to practice and learn, here are some of the apps that we think are helping to revolutionize music education, offering fun, information, and instruction anywhere, anytime."

"50 Fun iPhone Apps to Get Kids Reading and Learning"

Oftentimes, teachers want to offer a fun assignment to students that they will be excited to participate in. With Blabberize, students can upload photos of any person, place or thing. Then, you can trace the mouth of the photo and record a voice for the photo to speak through. There are an endless amount of possibilities that students can do with this fun tool. Sharing information about authors, subjects and books are great ways to use this tool. You can even save the projects and embed it in class websites or blogs.

December is here and many teachers are getting out the famous book, The Polar Express, written by Chris Van Allsburg. Here are some fun Polar Express Activities for you to do with your kids. Choose from a Polar Express poster, Polar Express writing paper, a Polar Express coloring page or a Polar Express maze!

"Music Coloring Pages Music Coloring Pages, Music Coloring Page, Free Music Coloring Pages, Music Coloring Sheets, Music Coloring Book Pages Studying music? What better way to learn instruments than to have pictures of them? It makes a great way to compare and contrast instruments of the percussion, brass, and woodwind families. Even better, play music samples in the background while they learn!"

"What you can do here... · create your own animation · save it to your webspace · share and reuse artwork · collaborate with others · show your animation Follow your inspiration - it's fun and easy to use! Make an animation in a few simple steps and email it to a friend!"

"What you can do here... · create your own animation · save it to your webspace · share and reuse artwork · collaborate with others · show your animation Follow your inspiration - it's fun and easy to use! Make an animation in a few simple steps and email it to a friend!"

Maybe you want to know how you would look like with a different hair cut, in a famous picture or in a cd cover... Many of us have tried to manipulate pictures in order to try something different or just to have fun but not only it takes loads of hard work but also the results aren't usually all that great. Well, not anymore. With FACEinHOLE.com you can easily and in a matter of seconds create a totally "new look" for you and your friends. You just have to select a scenario, upload and adjust a photo (or use your webcam) and there you have it; a great FACEinHOLE that you can send to your friends, post in your blog or make available to the world. Maybe you are wondering how much would this priceless tool cost? The answer is: totally and absolutely free!

With the end of the semester drawing near, so are the plans of preparing students for final exams and standardized tests. Check out these six iPad apps to create fun, engaging, interactive study guides for your students.

" What Job Would You Hire a Textbook To Do? " It was a fun and thought-provoking two days at Discovery Education's Beyond the Textbook event. Thanks so much to Steve Dembo, Dean Shareski, Hall Davidson, Laura Wenograd, and all the other folks at Discovery who not only planned this thing, but took very good care of us while we were there (Full Disclosure: I did not get paid to attend, but Discovery covered all expenses). And thanks to my fellow attendees for making this a great learning experience. (Oh, just a reminder Dean, there are still a couple of light bulbs you need to change.)

Half the fun of iPhone photography is editing and altering your photos in various photo apps. And now that Apple has introduced its iPhoto app for the iPhone and iPad, bringing its desktop photo management and editing software to the touchscreen interface, users have a great, all-in-one photo-editing tool at their fingertips.

"Capturing the Voice of Childhood Capture your child's voice and imagination with our creative story building tool and share them with friends and family. Encourages creativity and self expression Helps reinforce reading and writing skills A GREEN alternative to books NO ads, NO merchandising, NO external links Made with kids in mind! It's Fun and it's FREE for everyone!"