| Fun & Games |
| Link - description |
Trivia Anyone?
An absolute favorite for anyone who likes trivia, quizzes, and puzzles. This site has it all. |
Future architects and designers
This is a neat site that lets you draw, move, and do all sorts of weird stuff to shapes. |
Bookworm
Some students clued me into this last year. It's really addicting! |
Text Twist
Another great game. This is for those of you who love word jumbles and scambles. Be careful, it's addictive. |
Puzzle Maker
Do you need to make a puzzle fast? This site is your solution. |
Google Earth
Want to see a satellite photo of your house, the Eiffel Tower, or anywhere else in the WORLD! Just download this free tool and google away. |
BookPals Storyonline
An online streaming video program where celebrities read aloud famous children's books. This is a great site! |
FunBrain
It is a good website for kids because they have different games for math, reading, and just plain entertainment. |
Discovery Channel Online
This site can help you learn about animals, health, a green planet and more. The games are educational and fun filled. |
Jefferson Lab Fun & Games
If you like quizzes and jeopardy like games, this site is for you. Your teachers will love this site. |
Line Rider
Kids love this site which allows you to take a figure on a journey you create, including all the bumps and spills. |
Sporcle
A really fun site with trivia like games and quizzes on a host of topics from James Bond characters to Crayola Colors. Can you name all 50 states in less than 6 minutes? Follow the link and find out. |
Pogo Games -access at home only
This is a fun gaming site with a host of game types from arcade like games to puzzles and word games. Not accessible from school. |
Toon Doo
Qucik and easy registration with this site allows you to create your own comic book strips. Cute, interactive, easy and fun to use. |
BeFunky!
This is a website that lets you change your photos into artwork with effects like coloring book, charcoal, cartoonize, line art, etc. Turn your photos into incredible artwork with one click. |
Scattergories Online
Check out this site by Hasbro where you play Scattergories online for free. |
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| School Support |
| Link - description |
Study Stack
A web site where you can create your own flash cards, study flashcards, or use the other activities such as matching, crosswords, hangman, scrambled word, or bug chase. You can print your flashcards or even download them to a portable device. |
Quizlet
Another site for creating your own flashcards, sharing them with others, or using ones already made. Online quizzes, reviews, and hints to help you learn material online. |
LibriVox
A site which provides free, downloadable audiobooks from the public domain. Users download the audiobooks in MP3 format and listen to them on their computer or copy them onto an MP3 player. |
How Stuff Works
Ever wondered how a submarine works or why we sneeze? For the answers to these questions and more, visit this site. |
Biography
Find a biography on anyone from Abraham Lincoln to Britney Spears. |
Free Translation
A site that translates from virtually any language to any language. You can even copy entire documents to it and have them translated. |
50 States
Loaded with information on all 50 states. This is an excellent tool for state reports. |
The Write Source
An absolute must have saved site. This has info. on how to do everything for school from how to highlight to how to correctly cite sources for a bibliography. |
MLA Format for Citing Electronic Sources
A handy guide for citing online sources using MLA guidelines. |
Ottobib
Free online bibliography creator. You enter the data, format desired and it creates the bibliography. |
Stellarium
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. |
Diigo
A online bookmarking site that allows you to highlight and even add sticky notes and then share them with others or access them from anywhere. This is a great tool! |
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| Video/Graphics/Animations |
| Link - description |
Sumo Paint
Self-proclaimed to be the "finest painter software online". This is an amazing free graphics editor. |
Pixlr
An advanced online image editor. Check it out! |
Animation Factory
Hundreds of free animations. |
3D Text Maker
Great site for making jazzy and animated Word Art and banners. Free to use. |
Blender
A site where you can download a tool that allows you to create 3-d animation art, gaming images, and cool visualizations. Not for the light of heart. It is in depth & challenging, but way cool if you are into graphic arts and engineering! |
Xtranormal
This site allows you to make your own 3-d Movies with cartoon characters. You write it and they act it out. |
Picnik
Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. |
Cool Text
Cool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. |
Flickr
A free site for sharing photos. Easy to register, use, and share from a variety of tools. Ability to group photos and apply captions. |
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| Sound |
| Link - description |
Google Search String
Copy this search string into google with the name of the artist you are looking for and find great free mp3's.
-inurl:htm -inurl:html intitle:"index of" mp3 "artist name" |
Sound Board
Discovered by a student. Lots of cool sounds effects and even some mp3s. |
Pandora Internet Radio
This is a great free site that creates a music profile based on your favorite songs and artists. Theirs nothing to download and your profile can be accessed from any computer. It's definitely worth a visit. |
Free Midi
Not a bad site for getting midi's. It has a large database. Be careful of pop-ups! |
Midi DB
Free midi clips. Elevator music at its best! |
Jadie Rose
More midi music. |
Wave Pad Sound Editor
A mp3 converter. |
Partners in Rhyme
An absolute favorite for anyone who needs free midi clips and lots of them. Great animal sounds and lots of miscellaneous sound effects. Cool tool for PowerPoint. |
Audacity
An open source program for creating and recording sound. |
Riverpast
Great free tool for coverting .mp3 to frontpage acceptable .wav format. |
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| Tech Tools |
| Link - description |
Zamzar
A great free site for converting files. easily convert mps to wav's and more, plus the ability to grab and save video from almost any url. |
Word Press
An open source program for creating and maintaining your own blog. |
Open Office
A free, open source program for basic word processing, spreadsheeting, and presentation needs. |
Ubunto
A free open source operating system which can be used as an alternative to Windows or the MacOS. |
PC Show & Tell
At this site you are able to watch video demonstrations that will help you do anything from create a table in Word to delete a slide in PowerPoint. |
Skype
Talk to your friends and family for free with voice over IP. Great tool for chatting, calls, and even video conferencing. |
Google Cheat Sheet
A must have for anyone who wants to explore all that google can do. Now, if it could just make me dinner....:) |
Escape PDF
Free .pdf editor |
Woopid
Watch free video tutorials for all your computer and gadget questions. Find a quick answer or learn something new. |
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