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free app for the iPad

Good for any class doing a character study The ever clever Russel Tarr has developed a new neat tool for creating fictional text message exchanges between fictional and or historical characters. The Classtools SMS Generator is free to use and does not require students to log-in. To use the SMS Generator just click the left speech bubble icon and enter a message. Then to create a reply just click the right speech bubble icon and enter a new message. You can make the exchange as long as you like.

free downloadable ebook of chapters from various professional educator books on teaching POETRY

Interesting music resource, all tracks are copyright free and it downloads easily

SEN Teacher provides cost-free teaching & learning resources for students with special needs and learning disabilities

<< Next Vista works to make learning more engaging, with a focus on helping students start strong with any topic they study. Its central project is a free, online library of teacher- and student-made short videos for learners everywhere.>> -- Rushton Hurley's site

Pics4Learning is a safe, free image library for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos and images for classrooms, multimedia projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other project in an educational setting.

free online courses for learners of all ages

"Neuroscience & the Classroom: Making Connections is a self-contained distance-learning course distributed free of charge on the Web. The course is designed by Kurt Fischer, director of the Mind, Brain, and Education Program at Harvard University Graduate School of Education; Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, assistant professor of education at the Rossier School of Education and assistant professor of psychology at the Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California; and Matthew H. Schneps, George E. Burch Fellow in Theoretic Medicine and Affiliated Sciences at the Smithsonian Institution and director of the Laboratory for Visual Learning at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). The multimedia course consists of six units, with an introduction and a conclusion. Each unit contains many integrated videos and sidebars of additional information, as well as a list of resources."

Free, open content geared toward high school students.

Moby offers his music for student filmmakers for free :-)

"Here are my free downloadable audio books - Enjoy!"

"Welcome to Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab. Your source of free science projects and experiments for parents, teachers, and children of all ages. Kick off your shoes. Pull up a chair. Make yourself comfortable. Oh yeah, did we mention that protective goggles are required... "

"I demonstrate how to do things in class and this little mouse locator really helps my students find where I am asking them to look on the screen. It is called Mouse Locator by 2 Point 5 Fish.  Of course it is FREE."

List of 100 free iOS developer tutorials #techxperts

More than 10,000 items in the Walters Art Museum - about a third of the total collection - can now be viewed and downloaded online for free, without copyright restrictions.

Great photos for use for educational presentations, inc iPad pics and close ups of dictionary definitions for educational words, e.g. Teach, learning etc etc.

A lovely collection of fonts