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Online notice boards are a neat way of getting a shared space to collect ideas from your class for a brainstorm. Or for a teacher to post resources for a topic. Students could ask questions about a topic which you (or each other) can then answer. If you want some ideas on how to use them, then here are 19 ways to use wallwisher (and similar) in the classroom via Tom Barrett.

Design beautiful online flyers and publish instantly.

"Many view classroom management as how a teacher runs the day-to-day operations of the class. In the 21st century, classroom management goes beyond the classroom walls. To keep students working and focused on the tasks at hand, a Web site can be utilized to make class time more efficient. "

"This site features online printable greeting cards, free calendars, including yearly and monthly layouts with new designs being added on a regular basis. "

Virtual schools might seem like a foreign land from your three-dimensional classroom. But you can visit that world and offer your students some of its benefits -- like fluency with online collaboration and communication -- from right where you are. All you need is a computer and an Internet connection. Here are some destinations where you and your students can start to dabble in online learning.

A nice list of places for reading in grades K-3.

"WELCOME TO WONDER ROTUNDA, AN INNOVATIVE ONLINE EDUCATIONAL GAME FOR KIDS! Wonder Rotunda is a virtual theme park designed to spark curiosity and open the eyes of youngsters to the wonders of our world. Kids are transported to the Great Barrier Reef, to the African Serengeti, to a Costa Rican Rainforest and to the Moon aboard Apollo 11. They can travel through the human body, run their own business or take a VIP Tour of Washington D.C. Kids learn while the are having fun!"

Highlights for High School: Advanced Content and Interactives for Science and Math.

The site includes more than 2,600 video and audio clips, animations, lecture notes, and assignments taken from actual MIT courses. The site organizes these resources to match the Advanced Placement physics, biology, and calculus curricula.

With Carbonmade, you can manage your online portfolio with a variety of tools that allow you to change how you display your work. The core idea behind the design of Carbonmade is to keep your images or videos at the forefront. For a better idea on what Carbonmade can do for you browse through our Examples.

"Explore dozens of fun games and activities for kids designed to foster early learning and child development. Search by program, activity type and skill to find toddler activities, preschool games and more!"

"WELCOME to NOVA's "Lesson Ideas." This feature mines NOVA's vast library to bring you a robust selection of interactives, video clips, and lesson plans you can use to make science come alive for your students. Search the Lesson Ideas below by topic, each includes a list of the main ideas covered. "

Create diagrams online Real time collaboration Cacoo is a user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire frames, UML and network charts. Cacoo can be used free of charge.

Take, edit and share notes online * Take and store your notes online. * Edit and revise notes with peers. * Look-up and define words with your Workspace Utilities.

Online quiz maker. You can make your own quizzes or choose from quizzes already created.

The most accessible math test resource on the web today with over 6 million graded exams to date and over 300,000 participating students. What we believe in: Clean, quality, easily accessible, educational software for every school and child regardless of geographic location or economic class. What we don't believe in: Games, advertising, fees, spam or gimmicks. That Quiz is free for educational use

Tools that let you edit photos in the Web browser have come a long way in the last few years. We wanted to take a moment to do a feature comparison with a grouping of editors--big and small, to see what each one is capable of. Most of the services on this list take advantage of Adobe's ever-developing Flash platform, which in its latest iteration got a huge boost with support for the large images coming out of today's high-megapixel cameras. On the flip side of that, several of the non-Flash-based editors use AJAX to make the changes happen without reloading the page. The benefit here is that you can run these on machines without the latest versions of Flash installed. While not an exhaustive list of features, we wanted to focus on some of the ones that really mattered, like how much each service costs to use, how large of a photo you can upload, and what makes each one specia

This presentation will provide an overview of a number of online chemistry tools that can be used in the classroom, to fulfill chemistry content standards while integrating 21st Century skills.

Interactive activites for elementary students.

TrackStar is your starting point for online lessons and activities. Simply collect Web sites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a Track. Create your own Track or use one of the hundreds of thousands already made by other educators. Search the database by subject, grade, or theme and standard for a quick and easy activity. There is a fun Track already made for each day of the year, too!

QuizEgg is essential for parents, teachers, professors, instructors and other educators. The online quiz maker let's you quickly and easily make sophisticated quizzes that can be completed by your students online. Quizzes are automatically graded for you, so there is no need to spend hours correcting them yourself. All the quiz results are analyzed and aggregated for you in easy-to-read reports. Sign up for a free account today and see what you've been missing!

Very big online timer. Good for use with smartboards.