Website+Resources

=Online Tools=
 * [] || Jing is a free downloadable program that allows you to capture what is happening on your computer screen and add voice explanations. ||
 * http://www.wikispaces.com/ || Wikispaces allows you to set up wikis, which are web pages you and others can edit. ||
 * [] || PB Works also allows you to set up wikis. ||
 * [] || Glogster allow students (or you) to make collages from shapes, text, music, and video. ||
 * [] || Wall Wisher allows you to post a question and have all your students answer it. Everyone will see all of the answers/ ||
 * [] || A different style of search engine that is especially useful in math, science, and English for word etymology. ||
 * [] || Delicious is a social bookmarking site, which means that if you set up your own account, it will suggest sites for you based on what sites you bookmark with Delicious. You do not have to set up an account, you can search to see what websites others bookmarked for your search terms. ||
 * [] || I Keep Bookmarks is a non-social bookmarking site. You set up an account, manage it and everyone else leaves it alone. ||
 * Moodle || This is not a link, but Moodle is an open source free learning platform. You need to either attend a Moodle training or find a teacher in your building using it to find out how to get set up with an account in your district. ||
 * [] || Create or view word clouds - the larger the word in the wordle, the more times it was used in the text. ||
 * [] || Online, easy to use, screen capture website like Jing. ||
 * [] || Reads Microsoft documents to students. ||
 * http://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com/Free+text+to+speech || Big list of tools that will read text to the learner. Great UDL resource. ||
 * http://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com/ || Free tech toolkit for UDL ||
 * [] || Create online polls ||
 * [] || Free Moodle tutorials - thanks Burt! ||

=Content Websites=

ELA
 * [] || Google Lit Trips pairs Google Earth technology with literature. ||
 * [] || Lost Generation - reads with one meaning forward adn a different meaning backward ||
 * [] || Free online novels ||
 * [] || Greek mythology ||
 * [] || 180 poems - one for each school day ||
 * [] || vocabulary building activities ||
 * [] || find out how common a word is - try typing in your first name ||
 * [] || free federal ELA resouces listed here ||

MATH SCIENCE
 * [] || you can set up your class in this website, assign problems that are autograded; great for drill and practice or remediation ||
 * [] || multitude of math resources ||
 * [] || National Council of Teachers of Mathematics site - many resources ||

SOCIAL STUDIES
 * [] || Nifty current events website ||
 * [] || visual telling of the events of teh Amistad ||
 * [] || biographies of the founding fathers ||
 * [] || about Mesoamerican Culture ||
 * [] || The CIA's most recent data on countries around the world - just select a country to get started ||
 * [] || American and World History website ||