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A kids version of GoAnimate. A very powerful animation tool, very flexible and fully featured. Easy to download or embed the final product.

A very powerful animation tool, very flexible and fully featured. Much steeper learning curve than the other options tagged. Easy to embed or download the result. Top end product, very flexible.

Dvolver creates creativity tools. Have you ever wanted to direct your own movie? No problem. Our MovieMaker helps you make a movie in a few simple steps. When your opus is complete send it to a friend. Or, post it to your website or myspace page. No easy way to download currently but embeds well

Create a text based, comic style movie with simple animation. Its very simple, quick and effective. No easy download at this stage or character voices but very easy to use.

Over 7,000,000 educational videos. WatchKnow website for finding educational videos for the classroom. This is also a great place to locate videos that you may want to download and incorporate into a Notebook lesson file. This site is maintained by the users and organized in a way that can really help teachers find relevant videos for the classroom. I also like the rating system that is used to help teachers make a educated decision on what videos to review.

Stories from prominent authors. Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go,

Great site worth a look

sAM animation - get free trail version

Search engine for sound effects

"This library contains over two hundred thousand free digital recordings"

Excellent site to grab movie clips, great search capabilities. Eg can search for characters/ mood/ setting etc. Excellent resource. Need to download clips at home as proxies currently appear to block.

"The simplest way to search and find sounds" - Great website to use in digital storytelling projects

Writing fun is a great way to support students in the writing process

This is an excellent resource and one which i use with my schools very often. The examples are good, and it also provides a scaffold for Microsoft Word that you can download. http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/ is also made by the same person and is worth a look.

Follow download link for a pretty decent piece of timeline software.

Free icons... useful for docs or presentations.

An excellent PDF explaining how to get the most out of Google Search. A good idea might be to print out a few copies of this and put it on the wall near your desktop computers? Similar posters relating to other google tools can be found here: http://www.google.com/educators/posters.html

AtoZ Free Games is a free online gaming website where you can play a wide variety of games directly in your browser. It offers games in categories like action, puzzle, racing, shooting, dress-up, and more. There's no need to download anything - just click and play. The site is updated regularly with new games and is easy to use for all ages.