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a handy site for teachers who are looking for some lesson plan ideas to go along with children's books. The library features picture books, books for early readers, and books for young adults. Each book is linked to a list of activities that could be done either while reading the book or after reading the book. The books themselves are not free (you can buy them online or find them locally) but the listed activities are free for your viewing. Teaching Library is supported through Amazon Affiliate sales so if you purchase a book through their site you will be supporting them.  Applications for Education Teaching Library could be a good resource for teachers struggling to develop a new lesson idea. If you're looking for some new books to add to you classroom, but you're not sure which ones you want, take a look at Teaching Library's suggestions.

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WeVideo is a free web-based video editing program that lets students and teachers upload video and photos to the WeVideo media library. This library can be shared or private, which is great for classroom projects. Users can add titles, effects, animation, music, narration and more to create their own video story. WeVideo makes it easy to share a video story or publish the finished video to a social-networking or video-sharing website. This looks to be a rather full-featured and well designed video editing option that is similar to Creaza or the recently departed JayCut, but with the collaborative media library as a big plus!

Teach Reading While Preserving the Environment I Save a Tree is offering $80,000,000.00 worth of free interactive books and Virtual Library software to all public schools in the United States. The Virtual Library 2.0 software and interactive books can be installed on a district server, and all students and teachers within the district can access the interactive books. I Save a Tree iBooks can be viewed on Windows and Macintosh computers as well as on smartphones that include Adobe Flash. School districts interested in taking advantage of this offer should send an email to customerservice@isaveatree.com.

In a move that will make primary-source documents more accessible for students, Caroline Kennedy unveiled the nation's first online presidential archive on Jan. 13, a $10 million project to digitize the most important papers, photographs, and recordings of President John F. Kennedy's days in office. Users can browse through the drafts of Kennedy's "Ask not what your country can do for you" speech and see how he tinkered with the words of that most famous line from his inauguration. Or, they can listen to his personal phone calls and read his letters. Archivists digitized more than 200,000 pages, 1,200 recordings, and 300 museum artifacts, as well as reels of film and hundreds of photographs. Library Director Tom Putnam said they started with all of Kennedy's Oval Office files-everything that went across his desk-along with his personal papers, official White House photos, audio of all his public remarks, video of his famous speeches, and home movies. Private partners-including AT&T, EMC Corp., Raytheon Co., and Iron Mountain Corp.-contributed $6.5 million in equipment and technical services to digitize thousands of records. The library will continue digitizing about 100,000 pages a year, along with thousands of photos and recordings. At that rate, it would still take more than 100 years to digitize all records from the Kennedy administration

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Video library of lessons in all subjects and areas that we teach.  Definitely a good resource for students and your teaching. 

An online library of free videos for learners everywhere - our goal is to gather a set of resources to help you learn just about anything, meet people who make a difference in their communities, and even discover new parts of the world. Next Vista for Learning wants to post your educational videos online, too. Everyone has an insight to share and yours may be just what some student or teacher somewhere needs!

Although Spotify is usually thought of as a social music app, it also offers the ability to combine your music library with theirs. If any of your tracks or albums are already in the Spotify, with a single click, you'll have access to Spotify extras such as artist info and ease of social sharing. Desktop features are free for everyone, but some of Spotify's best mobile features, such WiFi syncing to your phone, are reserved for Premium members, which costs $9.99 a month.

Royalty Free Music Downloads & Royalty Free Music CD Buyout Production Music Libraries

That's great! My students are always looking for free music to add to their projects.

an online diagram maker with an extensive library of shapes and icons, added features such as shading and gradients, and the ability to collaborate in real-time

can log in with a class login in order to get book suggestions. Students can log in and write the reviews. Can leave name as a tab. Teacher can stay on top of it. Can put on classroom webpage as book suggestions. Then virtual shelf is available. Gets kids excited about reading

Currently there is a crazy question on one of the list-serv, if students use Google Docs... how can you make sure they are doing the typing of their papers. I think one of my middle school teachers had this question back in the 90's and didn't accept student-typed data of any kind. It had to be handwrittien. This is a resource sent in reply..... I say start the work in class. You can always check the history of typing... ~~GB

"My StoryMaker lets you control characters and objects - and creates sentences for you! Once you are done with your story, you can print it out. You cannot go back and edit a story once you have ended it but, if you click "yes" when asked to share it with others, you can print it out again by entering the magic number it gives you in the box on the right. Since lack of space forces us to delete story files older than 1 month, please save the .pdf file that prints to your own computer."