King George County Schools

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

A comic builder with lots of features that allow for flexibility of characters, poses, backgrounds, objects, etc.

A comic creator from Boy's Life magazine.

The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on).

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

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

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.

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

See the connections between Web sites and searches.

A simplified way to create boolean based searches.

A great service for sharing files among several computers. Also useful for accessing your files remotely. Offers 2GB of free storage and paid space upgrades.

Adobe Reader, software used to view and fill PDF forms, is installed on most every computer. With Adobe Reader, you can sometimes enter data into a PDF form and print it, but you are unable to save the completed form to your computer. Also, some PDF forms do not allow you to fill in any fields. Up until now, the only solution to these problems was to purchase the Adobe Acrobat software package at a cost of around $500. With PDFill Editor you can do the above tasks for a fraction of that cost. You can also add comments, annotations, text, or shapes to the PDF and resave it.

Empower students to think critically and make informed choices about how they create, communicate, and treat others in our ever-evolving, 24/7 digital world. Our FREE, pioneering curriculum (get a sneak peek here) offers lesson plans in privacy and security. Invite your kids' teacher to register and help educate kids on the reputation their online behavior is creating.

The ClassMarker online testing website is a professional, easy to use, online quiz maker that marks your tests and quizzes for you.\nClassMarker saves you time normally spent marking test papers.

DesignBlocks is a drag-and-drop programming language based on Scratch, TurtleArt and Processing. It is being developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. DesignBlocks is currently in beta and we are actively seeking feedback. The current system is based on ActionScript3, and we are currently experimenting with HTML5 as well.

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