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Fifty Websites in Fifty Minutes Tutorials and Ideas for ALL Subjects!

Popplet - A great tool for you and your students. From elementary to high school, this tool is easy to use to organize your all kinds of information.

Free Rice Vocabulary practice for all. It changes levels as you improve. Can do different languages' vocabulary and subjects (like flags of the world and multiplication tables).

Funnel Brain Flash cards on all subjects. You can create your own, too.

Play Spent Real life economics tools for kids. Kids play a game to find out how much they spend in a day/week/month.

The Endless Mural Creative fun for all levels! Be a part of the mural that never ends.

Mangomon High Interest, vocational skills for special education

@http://remind101.com/ A way to text reminders to your students or parents from your email. They do not know your phone number, and you don't know theirs. You will be able to see who texts you, though. Safe way for those to communicate with parents and students without using Twitter, cell phones, and the like.

@http://animoto.com/ Make a free 30 second animated slide show with music, images, and text. Students have access to it at school!

Youtube Mathademics Channel Short math clips explaining math functions.

@http://voicethread.com/ Web 2.0 and a slide show - a great way to get your students to talk to each other over the subject you pick! Add Youtube videos and music for after school homework, or Teacher Tube and images for the school day. A great interactive site!

Museum in a Box A fun way for your students to present information. Imagine opening a box full of little museum tidbits! Your kids will love this one! D Upload images and texts into a cool presentation format.

Safari Montage Not only informative, but a great place to set up substitute plans. Log on with your district username and password and set up playlists to enrich your curriculum with documentaries and educational videos.

Fightbac! Fight bac.org - Food safety - all levels are here. Mythbusters for high school and k-3 activities

Itunes and Itunes U - This site has more free items than you might think. Podcasts and classes for students and for your own professional development. No link here. You will have to click on your program files. Good for all ages. Link them to your wiki site for older students.

Physical Education Update This site definitely a must for P.E. teachers. Lessons and activities, as well as updated information for the athletic world! Written a bit like a blog, it gives ideas for many fun activities.

Glogster.Edu - Create electronic posters and reduce the economic gap between students. All grades are able to use this site.

Illumination Resources for teaching math. Activities and lessons provided.

Stixy -and Wallwisher Great places for brainstorming and quick assignments. Students or teachers can click and drag a post it note onto a board (sort of like the "parking lot" idea). Simple to use and easy to modify.

My Plate All levels for this one - and all content areas! From preschool to high school - an all nutrition based website!

Voki - This creative little widget is a place to make a animated person avatar). You can add vocal characteristics, change the way your avatar looks, and embed it into a website. I love this one for substitute plans or outside of class assignments.

Yippy - You or your students can search using just .org or .net. A wonderful support strategy to teach valid research.

Teacher Tube and Schooltube - Not only will you find information for yourself for lessons, but students can upload their videos, too. A bit more control than Youtube.

Brightstorm - Do your kids need a visual tutor? Brightstorm provides video homework help for math and science.

Kiss Tunes This website is for all music lovers. Create your own music and share it with the world!

NBC Learn - Another great source for keeping up with the kids! Modern, high interest news and documentary pieces that are educational and fun! Check out "The Science of Football."

CNN Student News - A commercial free way to keep the kids caught up with the daily news.

Brainpop - and Brainpop Jr. - Skill building and informative. You need to get a username and password for this one. Students can get it from the teacher or librarian.

MathTV Short, easy to understand videos showing how to solve math equations and theory.

Kahn Academy - WOW! User friendly site for students and teachers. Math, Science, Economics,Business and Finance, Art History and MORE. Simple concepts to college entrance exam level skills taught in video format. Can you say DIFFERENTIATION?

Twitter Keep your parents updated, or use it for professional development - you would be amazed at how many teachers share ideas through Twitter.

Dr. Jean Songs and Activities for young people.

Poetry 180 A poem a day from the Library of Congress. Just think..everyone in the district could read the same poem everyday - and NEVER repeat! How cool is that?!

Skype an Author Several authors will have a Skype conference with your class. Check out the list at this site and set up an interview!

PBS Video Want to use that PBS show you saw last night for class? Videos that stream nicely and have high quality, educational content.

Interactive Simulations Interactive labs and scientific experiments. Some even have lesson plans to go with them!

Transfer in Iowa Wonderful site for anyone wanting to help their student gain insight to a smooth transition from public

OWL Writing Lab Students often need help with how to cite a source or write a paper. This site is NOT just for writing students. All students and teachers can get a heads up on current MLA and APA, as well as writing help.

CIA The World Factbook How does the CIA work? What skills do do the employees need to become a CIA agent? This website is "the bomb" of websites for all content areas and all levels!

Weezic A place to get free sheet music and play the music, too!

Super Teacher Tools Many, many tools for teachers - from U.S. population counter to website creation - check this site out! All levels!

Ted.com Interesting topics and discussions. Great place to get kids thinking!

Johnnie's Math Page Interactive math tools for kids and teachers

Learn 360 Great site that many of you already know about, but I had to put it on here. Learn360 is an interactive media for K - 12.

Hoagies' Gifted Talented and Gifted ideas for parents, kids and teachers. Wow! There are a ton of resources here!

Survey Monkey Need to make a quick survey for your ITDP or for a formative assessment? How about to find out what time parents will show up for conferences? This is the spot to set one up - free and simple!

Poll Everywhere'..or maybe you want to make a bold jump into the cell phone world. This site gives you the ability to collect data with the quick touch of a text.

Slideshare Easy to use presentation site!

Word Steps At first glance, this website might just look like a dictionary site, but students and teachers can compile lists of foreign language words and phrases that they want to learn.

Geogebra Free mathematics software for learning and teaching. It has interactive graphics, algebra, and spreadsheet. Levels from elementary to university level. When you look at it, it might scare you off, but give it a try - very cool! To use the software, click on download, then use applet start and nothing is downloaded onto your computer.

Tagxedo If you love Wordle, then you are going to love Tagxedo. Everything you can do with Wordle, but now you can make them into shapes (like animals). Useful from k-12. A great way to present information for you and your students.

Bubble.us Brainstorm and mind mapping for the the electronic age. Just click, tab, click for an instant organizer. Easy for small hands to control. This might be fun for a vocabulary lesson for all disciplines.

Go Animate Love this presentation site! Make free little animated cartoons on any subject of level you need. Kids can sign on and make them, too!

MCVideoGame.com This plays a bit like a Sims game, but shows the process of going from resource to product. Any level can play, but mostly geared for 4th grade and up.