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Sometimes you just have to draw, and paint, and erase, and draw some more. This Blog post has links to 12 free online drawing tools and has nice short annotations.  Of these, I have only used Sumopaint and Aviary.  I am looking forward to trying some other ones. I have also had a ton of fun with sketchup on a smartboard.

Today as an extension to creating towers etc with blocks my grade ones and twos worked with google sketch up on both the SMARTboard and stand alone computers- pretty cool

Might be a good goal for September!! The challenge will be launched in June and involves participants creating videos and / or screencasts of some of the great things they are doing with their IWB to share with teachers and students across the globe. The aim is to improve the use of Interactive Whiteboards in classrooms around the world. Great way to connect with others!

A great list of SmartBoard activities, for all subject areas and grade levels.

Large and growing list of interactive sites K-12

20 +children's stories read by actors (American Screen Actors Guild). Books include Stella Luna, Knots on a Counting Rope, Polar Express

This is not a truely interactive site, but the quality is high.

While these stories are not interactive, I listened to White Socks Only and it is a marvelous story which lends itself to predicting and cultural tolerances and racism. What kids don't like to have a story read to them with a different voice than their teacher's. Thanks Jan.

Scroll down through this list to find 150 1-hour long podcasts from two talented Canadian educators, Joan Badger and Ben Hazzard. Listen to do these after shcool or load them on an iPod and take them for a walk. Many lessons contain files for download and immediate use.

I found these podcasts really easy to listen to. I learned a lot!

Thanks for this link, Jan! I had not come across these before! Excellent personal learning resource.

Resources and tech tips (downloadable files and videos) from a Gr. 3 classroom teacher and tech integration leader from Alberta.

Great K/1 interactive site that Avi showed me. I taught the kids the word "intuitive" with this one as there are no instructions...I was amazed at how quickly they figured out the gist of each activity. The aquarium was their favourite (the little submarine on the left). We used the site on our board and on stand alone computers.

You have to play around a bit, but has tons of great manipulatives & mat templates. Check the pull down menus on the left. Perfect for SmartBoard...

I really like the story mat templates. I will spend more time exploring the site. Thank you.

Shows some good uses of SMART tools to create lessons.