The Teachers' Tech Lounge Exploring the wise use of tech to increase student achievement 

Snap Pages.Com is a free web site creator (up to 1Gig; 5 pages).  It’s easy to use and might be an interesting way for students to showcase work.

Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Sorted by Focus Area

Free Presentation Backgrounds/Templates for Educators/Students has hundreds of backgrounds and Power Point templates that teachers and students can use for free.  Excellent desktop publishing resource.

Larkin.Net Web 2.0 Tutorials

This web site from Australia has excellent tutorials for new users of Web 2.0 Technology.

Class Tools.Net

Classtools.net provides free, customisable flash templates to embed into blogs, wikis and websites. There is no signup, no passwords, no charges…

Big Huge Labs Creativity Site has almost every application you can imagine for creating projects with student photography — everything from posters, mats & frames, calendars, badges, slideshow, captions, black & white, cubes, and CD covers.  The possibilities are endless and the site is free.

  Cool Web 2.0 Tools for Schools is a great index of free web applications for classroom use.

Every Stock Photo

This is a search engine for free photos. They come from many sources and are license-specific. You can view a photo’s license by clicking on the license icon, below and left of photos. Membership is free, without advertising, and allows you to rate, tag, collect and comment on photos.

Weebly for Education 

Weebly is perfect for creating classroom websites, student e-portfolios, and websites for assigned projects. The drag & drop website editor is simple to use, and appropriate for use with students of all ages. Weebly enables your students to express themselves creatively using a variety of multimedia features, all within a protected environment that you control. Weebly was named one of TIME’s 50 Best Websites of the year.

Technology and Instruction Interwoven is a fabulous site from Lee’s Summit Missouri schools.  There are so many resources here, it’s hard to tell everything, but you can find everything from software tutorials, web graphics, clip art, web quests, technology applications for Marzano’s best practices.  The list goes on and on so check it out.

Discovery Education Animated Clip Art has a nice collection of animated clip art to use on your web site.  Please read their copyright restrictions.

Glowtxt.com is a site that allows you to design custom text with animation and glow effects.  You can either save the image created to use in documents or copy and paste the web code onto your web page.  For example I created this for our school site: