King George County Schools

Resources targeted toward 11-14 yr. old boys, but great reading activities for all middle and high school age students who are reluctant readers.

See the connections between Web sites and searches.

Cool effects that can be used with a Web cam without installing software.

Search the web for images. An image search service with more than 3,000,000,000 pictures.

A great place for teachers to purchase discounted software.

Compares results from two search engines. A great tool to demonstrate why you should use more than one search engine.

Cool way to narrow Wikipedia results in order to narrow topics and focus research. Wikipedia is NOT a primary source, but can be a good place to start. Be sure to select en.wikipedia.org.

Doodle eliminates the chaos that comes from scheduling and saves you a lot of time and energy when you're trying to find a time to bring a number of people together. Instead of using just one option, you can propose several dates and times and the participants can indicate their availability online. With one look, you'll be able to see what the best time is for the meeting, and this works with any calendar system that is being used.

"Wolfram|Alpha is a free online computational knowledge engine that generates answers to questions in real time by doing computations on its own vast internal knowledge base. Our long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. This can be valuable to educators in many ways. "

"Lendle. The easiest, fastest, fairest, and best way to lend and borrow Kindle™ books."

"A professional learning community or PLC is an opportunity for a group of colleagues within a specific field to participate in collaborative learning. Typically PLCs are used in schools as a way to organize teachers, students and/or community personnel into specific working groups where they can help enhance curriculum, share visions, contribute and encourage each other with the ultimate purpose of improving education."

"What started out as Sal making a few algebra videos for his cousins has grown to over 2,100 videos and 100 self-paced exercises and assessments covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history."

The internet is teeming with free resources waiting to be used to enhance the classroom experience. Singling out the best ones, however, can be overwhelming and time consuming. At SimpleK12, we have meticulously scavenged the internet in search for the best free classroom tech tools. We're thrilled to present to you this list, HIDDEN WEBTOOLS: 11 Tools for 2011, and we hope it engages you and proves itself useful for all of your educational technology needs.

"The Horizon Project Navigator is a dynamic social media platform that allows users to fully exploit the Horizon Project's extensive collection of relevant articles, research, and projects related to emerging technology and its applications worldwide. Users can contribute new information, add their own commentary and analysis, configure and save custom searches, and rate anything in the dataset. "

Petition2Congress is a public service from the makers of the Rally Congress communications platform (which powers Petition2Congress). If you represent an organization that needs a full featured online activism solution, please consider Rally Congress.

To find FTC consumer publications on a specific Computers & Internet topic, click on a category name from the list below.

This website is a one-stop national resource to learn about the crime of identity theft. It provides detailed information to help you deter, detect, and defend against identity theft. 

EDSITEment is a partnership among the National Endowment for the Humanities, Verizon Foundation, and the National Trust for the Humanities and is a proud member of the Thinkfinity Consortium of premier educational websites.

A comic strip creator that uses Aurthur and his friends as the characters.

Help George and Harold create a cool new episode in the Adventures of Captain Underpants, then e-mail it to a friend!