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This site allows you to create floor plans for an entire house or just one room. This could be used for interior design classes, drafting/construction classes, or even in a math class when dealing with building and furnishing a home.

HotChalk is a curriculum, planning, assessment, and professional development site for teachers, students, and parents. This site offers videos and other content information. It also allows teachers to put assignments online. The site claims to reduce plan time because of the wonderful resources for lesson planning it offers but I think I would spend some up front time getting everything figured out. The professional development resources are also very helpful. Users can save information in their desk, library, and class. Initial registration was free.

This site has free lesson plans, a learning management system, and lots of other great tools.

Students of all levels would be able to navigate this tool. This could easily be used as whole group or individual instruction!

Create flow-charts, diagrams, even floor plans! This tool makes it very easy to create great looking diagrams. In the classroom the students could design K-W-L charts and all types of graphic organizers. This could be added to a blog and look really professional. This tool could be used in a whole group or individual manner! Only negative is you can only have a free 30 day trial and then you have to pay a fee!

Create flowcharts, diagrams, or even floor plans! This could be great for creating graphic organizers or for my students to create and label floor plans when we discuss home vocabulary.

Discovery Education has an AWESOME website that provides lesson plans for almost every area of teaching K-12. Once you click on a lesson plan that you like, you are provided with the objectives that are covered, materials needed, procedures on how to teach the lesson, evaluation over the lesson, and vocabulary! WOW!!!!!

This site captures history in numerous ways, videos, posters, photographs, historical documents, and more. What they are calling "digital vaults." However, this site goes much further than that... You can create your own posters or movies and many more creative historical items. They provide numerous photos, videos, and other things needed to create these items. You can also upload your own from your computer. There are lesson plans provided for educators using these resources.

Give your students FREE access to hundreds of interactive learning and revision games. Save yourself hours of planning and marking.

Letterpop is a site that allows you to create attractive newsletters using various templates and personal pictures. The free plan allows the user to create 10 published newsletters a year.

If you like to travel this site be the right one for you. It gives user created reviews of various hotels. You can search for a city and availability dates and then see the reviews for the hotels that fit the search criteria. Not educational, but a neat site to look at if you are planning a trip.

ReadWriteThink is a collection of lesson plans and interactive student tools that support K-12 literacy learning. These resources are a fantastic opportunity for students to use technology as a tool to learn. These are great activities for students to use as Reading Responses. If you have one or two computers in your classroom, use one of the activities as a Center and rotate students. If you have access to a mobile lab or computer lab, each student can spend more time with the activities.

Free worksheets, lesson plans, sites for parents and teachers, online activities. Fun for all ages.

This site has lots of research, hints and FAQ's about block scheduling. It would be helpful for planning a schedule change, finding staff development ideas, or improving teaching methods.

This site is not necessarily for students - unless they are working and saving for college, but I think this would be very useful for a lot of us, who live on a budget! I am currently planning my wedding, remodeling a house, and still trying to save money and am extremely excited to give this site a try! This is a personal finance software that helps you to manage your finances for multiple accounts, but it will all be in one place now! You can also print charts, track your progress and see where you can save money.

This is a great collection of videos done by teachers on numerous topics. You can also upload your own videos to share with others. This has several applications.

This website has a lot of different videos, pictures, audio. etc that could be used in the classroom. All you have to do is type in what you want to search, and you will be amazed with what comes up! For example, I typed in "The Water Cycle" and had 10 different videos pop up!

like Youtube but customized content for teachers and education.

I think Blogger is a great tool for students and teachers to use. I love having a free spot to speak my mind and be able to connect with others in (and out) of education. I have a plan to start having my students blog about the books that they are reading as a way to document their reading towards our 25 book campaign.