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This is a wonderful site for students to use with multimedia presentations. It offers royalty-free music that can legally be used by our students for public presentation. The music is actually of high-quality and is abundant. This site further lends itself to the discussion of what can legally be used.

This a great site that allows users to create multimedia presentations that include pictures, text, and music.

This is a pretty cool website. It is a nice change from using Microsoft Office all the time. Different is good.

A plethora of images to be added to presentations or documents--free and legal!

This is a nice way to get a picture or image suitable for a specific topic and not have to worry about copyright infringement.

Greg, I will use this to make my rubrics kid friendly!

great resource for teachers and students for how things work for just about every topic/subject. all information is up-to date and many photos are included.

TED is a nonprofit website intended to "spread knowledge and information from the world's most inspired thinkers." TED contains information on a wide variety or topics. Particularly valuable are video presentations from experts in so many areas.

"Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world!" Ted.com features thousands of short videos of people talking about topics such as technology, entertainment, business, science, global issues, etc. The videos are organized in several ways such as by newest release, date filmed, most comments in a week, most persuasive, funny, and much more! You can also participate in live question/answer discussions with some of the speakers and join ongoing blog conversations with people around the world on important topics related to the videos. I just showed my students a talk by a famous composer who directed a virtual choir and they were very inspired!

This website allows students and teachers to create imaginary Facebook pages for study purposes. Within the site you can choose from historical people such as Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill or Queen Elizabeth. Students can create a profile for their person and choose their "friends." They can also add posts and comments to their person's Fakebook page. This website can be used for book reports, character plots from novels, historical moments and many more educational purposes.

I just checked this out. It actually seems much more user friendly than myfakewall. Thanks for the resource, Erin. I'm going to use this with my classes for the next novel that we read.

Very cool. Like Greg, I've seen myfakewall, but not this one. This will be a great thing for us to do in my 7th grade classes when we talk about cyberbullying and online safety. The students will love it!

A great place to teach and learn about not only time lines but also to find out "great people" in history who share the same birthday as you. You can also find out peers, aka people who were born in the same year as you around the same month.

This is a fun and easy to use activity, especially for younger kids not completely familiar with timelines. And Sarah, I also find the age thing useful- I had a group of fourth graders this morning who didn't have a clue what Jurassic Park was (seriously, are we old?):)

A fun site to use with students! I liked finding out who my famous "peers" are that share my birhtday &/or birth year. The peers that share my birth year are Neve Campbell and Monica Lewinsky, what does that say about me? :)

A bountiful resource for reader's theatre scripts.

I actually did a presentation on reader's theatre when I was in college and this was one of the sites I used. It is wonderful and has a great library of scripts at many levels. Very useful to teachers looking for a creative way to revamp their reading curriculum.

This site interesting science ans social studies videos, blogs, articles, photos, etc. for middle/high schoolers. I like it because it presents information and articles in a way that is attention-grabbing for older students.

Dipity allows the user to create a timeline that can make events come alive using media tools.

Wow! What a great tool for making timelines fun and interesting for students!

I will share this website with my own high school age children! It definitely gives students an opportunity to present information in an interesting fashion.