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A variety of templates, tutorials, and graphic organizers introduce and explain the major forms of writing (narrative, persuasive, expository, research, response to literature) and help students develop practical writing skills - from coming up with a topic idea to publishing a polished work. Developed in collaboration with Microsoft for Learning Essentials, these tools offer solid instruction from the popular, research-based Write Source series of writing programs.

59 different video presentations, created by teachers, that explore and demonstrate what teachers can do with Smartboards in the classroom - and its all free!

The Word List Generator Project is a database of 2084 words that elementary school teachers can use to help students practice and build sounding out and word-form recognition skills.

A one stop solution for Project Based Learning! You'll find all the resources you need to design and manage high quality projects for middle and high school students.

The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning. You'll understand language in a powerful new way.

"YouTube" for Children's eBooks This site does not have any intention of making any money, ever. Bandwidth and storage are cheap. We just want everybody to have an easy way to find, share, and self-publish their own free children's ebooks, whether the audience is just their own kids or the whole world.

Photos to be used for both personal and commerical free of any charge (must agree and comply with provider's terms and conditions). This is a place for free Photos and Wallpapers, Large collection of high resolution stock photos, Thousands of high quality pictures, easy to search.

Free powerful online computational knowledge engine: answer questions; do math; instantly get facts, calculators, unit conversions, and real-time quantitative data and statistics; create plots and visualizations; and access vast scientific, technical, chemical, medical, health, business, financial, weather, geographic, dictionary, calendar, reference, and general knowledge-and much more.

Yodio uses your phone number to recognize you and get your recording to the right account. The next step is to create something. Begin thinking about an interesting topic, recent trip, or business idea to record. Or, grab a photo and tell its story!

The Fifty Tools Below you will find 50+ web tools you can use to create your own web-based story. Again, the mission is not to review or try every single one (that would be madness, I know), but pick one that sounds interesting and see if you can produce something.

"Free text reader. Listen to work documents, homework, PowerPoint presentations, emails, RSS feeds, blogs, books ... while you relax, commute or exercise. Great for elearning, learning a new language, proofreading documents, multi-tasking and entertainment. YAKiToMe! speaks English, Spanish, French, German ... with male and female voices using the world's best text to speech (TTS) software technologies. "

Dragon Dictation 2.0 is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon NaturallySpeaking that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text content for everything from email messages to blog posts on your iPad™, iPhone™ or iPod touch™. In fact, it's up to five (5) times faster than typing on the keyboard. With Dragon Dictation 2.0, you can dictate status updates directly to your Social Networking applications (Facebook and Twitter), send text or email your friends, send notes and reminders to yourself … all using your voice. The new Dragon Dictation 2.0 also features multilingual capabilities, giving you the option to switch between a variety of languages.

"Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages."

"SSReader is a free, large font reader for OS X that speaks text files aloud and displays the text stanza-after-stanza, simultaneously. Although this reader was created to assist those with visual impairments, it can be used by anyone"

"A free Windows text-to-speech plugin for Microsoft Word It will speak the text of the document and will highlight it as it goes. It contains a talking dictionary and a text-to-mp3 converter."

"ClipSpeak is a portable, lightweight text-to-speech tool with a minimal user interface that speaks text copied to the clipboard. It is compatible with all SAPI5 speech synthesizers, and can also be used to convert texts to MP3 files."

Firefox add-on. "FoxVox will speak any text you highlight in a web page. FoxVox can also create audiobooks in mp3, ogg, and wav formats. You can now easily turn your blogs and articles into podcasts. FoxVox now supports speech in many different languages."