The idea for Flocabulary first came to founder/lyricist Blake Harrison in high school. A good student who still struggled to memorize facts for tests, he wondered why it was so easy to remember lines to his favorite rap songs but so difficult to memorize academic information. Blake realized that if a rapper released an album that defined SAT vocab words, students would have a fun and effective way to study for the SAT.
Generate vocabulary lists from any text that you can digitally copy. Paste any chunk of text, up to 200,000 characters, into the Vocab Grabber. The Vocab Grabber then sorts, and places in a word cloud, the most frequently used words in that text.
Free k12 school resources on math, history, social studies, science, living things, space, reading, writing, art and music for k12 students and teachers.
Math
Basic arithmetic, measurement, shapes, counting number, money, and word problems.
Science & Technology
Computers, technology, physics, chemistry and engineering for Kindergarten Kids, K-1, and K-2 students.
Living Things
Free educational resources on living things includes animals, the human body, plants and safety.
Art & Music
Arts and Music includes art history, music, painting, drawing, theatre and dance.
Social Studies
social studies includes geography, famous people, holidays and world cultures.
Earth Science
Geology, oceanography, weather, nature and the environment for kindergarten kids, K-1, and K-2 students.
Reading & Writing
Language arts includes reading, writing, grammar, poetry, alphabet, and online stories.
History
America history, world history, and ancient history.
U.S. History & Culture
Education resources on America includes United States history, government, geography and culture.
Space
The universe, solar system, stars and space exploration.
Through our interactive projects, journals, games and publications, this treasure trove from author Bill Zimmerman provides people of all ages with affirmation of the human spirit, encouragement of their own creativity and sense of fun, and words of comfort and healing.
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.
Soungle is a free site, developed by Southern Codes, for finding all kind of sound FX and musical instruments samples on our mega online library. As different from most of similar sites, Soungle is NOT a Web search engine. It only searches in our growing monster database. Our goals are to keep it simple to use (search, preview and download) and to keep it free.
Keyword searches are performed by entering any word or phrase in a search box. The retrieved results of a keyword search are displayed ten to a page. Clicking on play icon allows you to preview a file. Download button instantly downloads the sound effect or musical instrument sample file. A short description of the sound appears on top of every sound , followed by the frame rate, duration and bit rate. Remember, all of our sound effects and samples are royalty free for downloading.
"In 1994, Dr. Christopher Moersch developed the Levels of Technology Implementation (LoTi) scale in an effort to accurately measure authentic classroom technology use. This scale focuses on the use of technology as an interactive learning medium because this particular component has the greatest and lasting impact on classroom pedagogy and is the most difficult to implement and assess. The challenge is not merely to use technology to achieve isolated tasks (e.g., word processing a research paper, creating a multimedia slide show, browsing the Internet), but rather to integrate technology in an exemplary manner that supports purposeful problem-solving, performance-based assessment practices, and experiential learning--all vital characteristics of the Target Technology level established by the CEO Forum on Education and Technology."
It's a free library of digital content to read and explore. Find eBooks, magazines, and other documents as well as photos, music and podcasts and bookmarks and add them to your own library.\n\nCreate your own interest groups and join other people's, to share your passions, experiences and knowledge with like-minded users.\n\nIt's a place where you can publish your expertise and creative work online, to promote, share or sell to the world.\n\nAt the heart of YUDU is an award winning multimedia publishing system that brings together the power of the written word, video, audio and images.
largest social publishing company in the world, the Website where tens of millions of people each month publish and discover original writings and documents. On Scribd, you can quickly and easily turn nearly any file-including PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel-into a Web document and share it with the world.
"Comments let you apply notes, questions, or observations to a passage on a wiki page - it's kind of like slapping a Post-it note onto the wiki page. Because they're linked to a specific part of the page, comments show you exactly which words they're about (unlike with an email or discussion post). And because the comments can be revealed or collapsed, they let you look at a page as either as an appreciative audience or a critical editor, depending on your needs."
Lessonwriter creates lesson plans and instructional materials for teaching English language skills from any reading passage.
* Copy & paste any text you choose into LessonWriter.
* LessonWriter analyzes text for vocabulary, grammar and usage, pronunciation, and word roots and stems.
* Then, LessonWriter writes a lesson plan and a lesson that teaches the skills you chose in the context of the passage - automatically.
PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture.
Magnetic poetry for kids. Hard to see the collection of word magnets for choosing, but a lot of options are there. Students do need an email address to save.
DOGONews is a free online newspaper and Web guide for elementary and middle school students, providing short articles about current events with photos, videos, a dictonary for challenging words, and maps for geographical context. Teachers can create a custom online newspaper for their students by choosing articles and Web sites based on content area. Students can post news or discuss articles with other users in a safe, education-focused environment.
this network is a consortium in Philadelphia that runs high-quality networks (Internet2). Programming is free for members but fee-based for nonmembers. It's free to join the listserv.