"xtimeline is a place for you to create, share and discuss interesting timelines."

Free timeline tool.

It is just like a real dictionary with synonyms and antonyms and definitions for all of them which can be seen by hovering over the word on the graphic organizer that is automatically generated.

Online free graphical dictionary and thesaurus.

"TimeGlider is a data-driven interactive timeline application built on the (Adobe) Flash platform. You can "grab" the timeline and drag it left and right, and zoom in and out to view centuries at a time or just hours. TimeGlider allows you to create event-spans so that you can see durations and how they overlap. Being web-based, TimeGlider lets you collaborate and share easily. You can create timelines about the last year of your family, the last century of world events, or about pre-historical (bce/bc) times. Currently, one can zoom out to a scope of millenia:"

"QuizRevolution offers a rich FREE solution to create online quizzes . Embed a great looking quiz widget in any website or blog without programming."

"Graphs and charts are great because they communicate information visually. For this reason, graphs are often used in newspapers, magazines and businesses around the world."

Online Survey tool. There is a basic plan which is free.

Cloud Trip is an online application that organizes and ranks the most useful resources on the Web. Using cloud computing and o rganizing, Cloud Trip groups recommend sites by topic. The education database includes links to Web sites for teachers and students. Users can also sign on to the site to recommend, rate, or tag resources they find the most useful. Each time a new recommendation is made, the directory of cloud-computing resources expands.

"Engage, inform, and educate your students with TweenTribune and TeenTribune. These sites let students interact with the news, while fulfilling requirements for language arts, computer skills, and other classes. Kids love it - and so do their teachers" Teachers can sign up and customize Tween Tribune and TweenTribune for your classroom. Free

stopy bullying now is a site for kids and adults about bullying. It includes information about bullying and what you can do. It has games related to bullying to teach students how to handle bullying situations. There are webisodes to help teach kids about bullying.

Scholastic is a partner of thinkfinity.

"Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a freely available teaching tool designed to be a student's first exposure to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn fundamental programming concepts in the context of creating animated movies and simple video games. In Alice, 3-D objects (e.g., people, animals, and vehicles) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects."

I have used and have seen this used. It is like a PowerPoint but web based. Presentations can be embedded.

"The LF10 is a loose association of middle school students in undisclosed \nlocations in cyberspace dedicated to promoting awareness of important academic \nterms and concepts through absurd stop-motion films"

I liked the examples I looked at on this site. Students took a concept and created a video to demonstrate or explain the concept.

This looks fun. You can turn yourself into a talking spud (potato) http://www.screencast.com/users/Russell1955/folders/Jing/media/11ad3cd8-45ee-4b55-ac8b-1d9581d1ddb6 copy and paste this link into your browser to see a screencast about it.

fun site

Teacher training videos

Here are a number of sites. I found some for ESL and foreign language teachers.

Here are a number of sites in one location.

What is it like to work as a paleontologist? In Activity 1, students listen to or read an interview with paleontologist Paul Sereno, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, to learn about his passion for science and his discovery of SuperCroc in sub-Saharan Africa. In Activity 2, students join a dig with paleontologist Mike Everhart to learn what happens when a scientist in the field suddenly discovers fossil remains. In the Closing Activity, students create a story or conduct an interview and present or record their work for an imaginary radio program.

"To engage students in making design decisions that affect the transfer of energy \nbetween a building and the outside environment. To help students identify and \nconsider the types of decisions involved in improving a building's energy \nprofile. To analyze the green roof option in economic and community terms."

"This lesson uses the four modalities of reading (reading, writing, listening, \nand speaking) on a math word problem to bridge the gap between reading and math. \nAfter a read-aloud from the book Math Curse by Jon Scieszka and Lane \nSmith, students create their own word problems with answers. Students solve each \nother's problems. As they reread the word problems, fluency and comprehension \nincrease. Finally, students use the skills they've learned creating word \nproblems to complete a crossword puzzle. As students read the math concept words \npresented in the\npuzzle and write the correct answers, their reading and \nwriting math vocabulary skills increase."

"This lesson will encourage students to examine the trade-offs involved in our \nuse of energy, a topic they will likely revisit throughout their lives. \n\nThis lesson is built around an interactive called \nPower Up!\n in \nwhich students choose how to power a city. They will have to choose between \nvarious energy sources, taking into account the trade-offs between cost and the \nenvironmental impact of each choice. Discussions before and after the game will \nexamine the various options and what students may want to take into account when \nmaking their decisions."

Memorize.com is a new learning website that allows users to create their own study guides and then share them on the web. The free site assembles user-generated content in three formats -- flash cards, multiple choice, and visual learning diagrams. The topics range from traditional school subjects, such as history, languages, and geography, to less academic categories, such as food, billiards, and television. Users can follow other users and their pages and edit other users' pages to craete their own unique page.

Free and can be used in a variety of content areas.

Another free resource that looks interesting.

Shmoop, a publisher of digital educational resources, has added pre-algebra to its list of free learning guides. The online Pre-Algebra Learning guides contain hundreds of topics with succinct explanations, diagrams, interactive examples, practice problems, and real-world applications. Pre algebra is Shmoop's first foray beyond its core humanities offerings. At the home page click on the pre algebra tab