Icebreakers from Improve Encyclopedia has a list of 28 ideas (with directions) for breaking the ice at meetings or to begin a new school year.
Zoo Whiz has online content students can access at home or school. They say teacherscan set up free accounts for their class and oversee progress. There is also a paid premium edition.
20 Ways Teachers are Using Legos in the Classroom has some great ideas on lessons using many of your students’ favorite toy – Legos!
Primary Wall.com is a lot like Wallwisher and allows students to brainstorm together and add ideas to group projects.
Gymnasium for the Brain has been developed to help people to sharpen their mind and improve their ability to think outside the box. This site contains puzzles, patterns, speed math and a Kids’ Corner.
Free Summarizer.Com could either be a great tool to teach summarizing or a student’s easy way to grab text and have it put into “their” own words. I practiced with a couple long passages, and it does a suprisingly good job.
Great site for finding, creating, or uploading infographics on any topic imagineable. I can see math teachers using these infographics to compare data and as a great starting point to lead to larger mathematical questions.
19 Pencils.Com is a site where teachers can (for free) share websites, games, quizzes, and more. You can even create a class web site.
You can send students and parents reminders of events or homework that is due. They do not see your cell phone number when the message is sent nor do you see theirs; however, you do have some inputting on the front end.
Applying Blooms Taxonomy in the Classroom
has a nice grid of sample questions and potential activities and products for students to show mastery.
Tekzilla on the Web answers Technology Questions Tekzilla feeds your tech hunger! Patrick Norton and Veronica Belmont bring you hands on reviews of the latest gear, tips and tricks that improve the tech you already own and conversations with the most informative experts around.
Every wonder what to showcase on your teacher web site? Check out the wonderful resources and information for parents on Beth Newingham’s class site at Rockin Room 13.
Students and teachers will like this free site writing class. It is a free service that allows you to find words and phrases that are similar or related to each other.
Type in a word or a phrase and Words Like.net will come up with a list of related words and their corresponding definitions.
is a site with dozens of instructional technology videos and presentations useful to teach both students and educators.
Image Base Photos are categorized, searchable, and a great tool for students to use in web design and project based learning.
Photos 8 is another site with a large number of royalty free photos that can be used in presentations and web publishing.
Minigroup is a completely private platform that lets you share the right stuff with the right people, without intrusion from strangers, friends-of-friends, or search engines, all from a single account. Use custom identities to share appropriate personal information with various groups.
Tildee.Com is a web site where you can search to find tutorials or how tos on many technology applications. And, you can also create and easily upload our own tutorial videos to share with others.
Automatoon is completely web based and free. There’s no fussy authoring software to install (or pay for!) and you can effortlessly share your animations online. You can also easily export your animations and embed them in your own websites, all for free! Automatoon is the easiest animation tool ever created.
PrimaryPad is a web-based word processor designed for schools that allows pupils and teachers to work together in real-time.
What Will You Learn this Summer – Teacher Reboot Camp Blog has 26 ideas and free professional development resources for teachers and school administrators. What will you learn this summer?
Weather Spark.Com WeatherSpark is a new type of weather website, with interactive weather graphs that allow you to pan and zoom through the entire history of any weather station on earth.
Get multiple forecasts for the current location, overlaid on records and averages to put it all in context.
23 Ways to Use Wallwisher in the Classroom is a great blog post on Innovation 3. You can access Wallwisher and set up a free account atwww.wallwisher.com.
Fraboom.Com is an online childrens’ museum with interactive books, Fraboom TV, games, and online kids classes.
Flipsnack.Com allows you to convert any PDF file into a flipbook that can be embedded in a web site or blog.
