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Useful tools for secondary teachers are sites that allow for more access to resources, videos,embedding tools, and printables. I enjoy using Edhelper.com which allows for the creation of content-based puzzles and printable worksheets. Unitedstreaming.com is also a website that provides access to SOL based videos and curriculum units. Though these two websites are not free, edhelper allow teachers to create minimal activities for free and unitedstreaming is often purchased by school districts who receive a site license. Last but not least, I recommend Zamzar.com, which allows teachers to embed YouTube or other videos into PowerPoint presentations that may otherwise be blocked by district internet screening tools.

Look at free versions of capture software.

This is free and there's no need for an email address. I think I would create the site for each group of students so that I'm in control of the user name and passwords. I can enroll them in an "author" role so they can be in control of the pertinent areas of the page. I think this would be an awesome thing to incorporate into my political parties and election simulation for my class "parties" to create a fake blog for their candidate on the campaign trail. After spending too long trying to create a sample, I realized I'll need more direction with this one. It's not as intuitive as I thought it would be. If anyone has any hints or tips, I'm open.

Have your students create and print out these free online thinking guides when they are working on a laboratory assignment or collaborative group project. There is a wide array of graphic organizer templates that may be manipulated and used for different disciplines and topics.

Glogster allows you to create online posters. Everything you insert onto your poster can be hyperlinked to another site, video, music, etc. You can then publish your Glogster and provide others with the web address so they can view it.

Glogster is a private and safe student environment where students create interactive posters. The Free Basic account allows students to create and share glogs but lacks many tools in the premium level. The Teacher's premium licence for 200 students costs $99 per year.

Scribblar is an online collaborative tool that empowers users to develop and maintain a conversation via online whiteboard, audio and text messaging features. This is an ideal tool for groups of students and teachers to brainstorm and plan outside of class hours. This is great!

Scribblar is a free multi-user whiteboard that allows for brainstorming and collaboration. It has text-chat and works in all browsers. I plan to use it to have students create a review for the properties of quadrilaterals.

GeoGebra is a free interactive mathematics software that allows the userto integrate geometry and algebra into the classroom. The program can be used online or downloaded to a computer so that the user does not need to be online in order to use the softward.

This is a great website for ear training. One of the downsides is that it does have a cost to get the full benefit of the tool but anyone can sample the activities for free. Teachers can track student progress as well.

This is an interactive site which allows children to make movies, draw pictures, create stories and cards, as well as spell words to match pictures. I went on the site and created a very short movie and found it to be very fun. This site is free to educators and their students once registered.

This tool will allow you to create image and photo galleries of a variety of resources for class activities. It also has a very thorough and rich help/support feature.