The Internet Public Library Kidspace
www.ipl.org/div/kidspace
IPL is a public library for the World Wide Web.  A wide variety of reference is available for students, parents, and teachers.  There is also access from the site to IPL Librarians.

National Geographic Kids
kids.nationalgeographic.com/
Videos, activities, games, and stories brought to you by National Geographic.

Fact Monster
www.factmonster.com
From “Information Please”, a wealth of reference material is available on this site.

B. J. Pinchbeck’s Homework Helper
www.bjpinchbeck.com
A guide to encyclopedias, references and resources on a variety of subjects.

BBC Schools Online
www.bbc.co.uk/education/schools/
Webzine offers topics such as phonics for primary students, GCSE exams and revisions, and teaching seven-year-olds to use e-mail.

KinderArt
www.kinderart.com/
Art education site for kids of all ages features hundreds of free lesson plans, online children's art gallery, information on the arts in education, a glossary of terms, interactive bulletin board.

Math.com
www.math.com
Provides ways and resources for students, parents, and teachers to learn math.

The Math Forum
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/
Contains sub-sites for parents, teachers and learners of math, including games and Ask Dr. Math, which gives step-by-step instructions for math problems.

Encyclopedia of life
www.eol.org/
While not complete, the Encyclopedia of Life has done an impressive amount of work creating an electronic page for each species or organism on Earth. All content currently uses Creative Commons licenses. If you want to reuse anything on the site its a good idea to have a look at the (generous) terms of use.

Wikimedia commons
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Search for pix; copyright included with each image, but you have to LOOK.

Internet Archive
www.archive.org/index.php
Find almost anything, especially from the past.
Need to LOOK for copyright statements, but much is public domain

Pics for learning
www.pics4learning.com/
"image friendly library" Permissions granted for use and the bibliography info is displayed for each picture right on the page.

Dimdim
www.dimdim.com
Lets you deliver synchronized live presentations, whiteboards, and web pages while sharing voice and video on the internet – with no download required.

Jing! PC and Mac - Download free software
www.jingproject.com
Take a screen snapshot; record video of onscreen action; share instantly over web, IM, email.

Yuuguu
www.yuuguu.com
Simple and easy to use screen sharing, web conferencing, remote support, desktop remote control and messaging.

Free conference
www.freeconference.com
Free conference call program.

Free conference call
www.freeconferencecall.com
Free conference call program.

SKYPE
www.skype.com/
Free internet calls - Make free Skype-to-Skype calls – any time of day, any day of the week, anywhere in the world.

 

Splashup
www.splashup.com
Online, simple graphics editing tool.

Picnik
www.picnik.com
Online photo editing.

PhotoShop Express
www.photoshop.com
Photoshop’s Online photo editing and photo sharing tool.

Gimp
http://www.gimp.org
If you've always wanted PhotoShop and cannot even afford PhotoShop Elements, Gimp is FREE, open source software that, with a little work learning on your part, will put you into the image manipulation scene.

CleVR
www.clevr.com/
Create panoramas from photos - Embed with code snippet.

Aviary
http://aviary.com/home
Photo editing, logos, web templates, filters, color palettes, screen capture....and more!
One sample drawing.

ArtPad
www.art.com/asp/artpad/default.asp
Creative paint program that allows for drawing unique works.
Downside: can only save picture online. However, screen capture does work.

Pivot stick animator (PC only)
www.geocities.com/peter_bone_uk/pivot.html
This free software download is a great asset in my classroom. The kids create beautiful animations and this is a very useful link.

Flashberry.com (PC only)
www.flashberry.com/
Free flash openers or introductions - but must use IE browser to create

Scratch (Mac and PC)
scratch.mit.edu/
Create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, art....

Audacity PC and Mac
www.audacity.sourceforge.net
Simple platform, easy to cut, apply filters, etc. [for mp3 file saving also download the lame plugin]

Garage Band Mac only
www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/
Create original music, podcasts, sound effects.

FreePlayMusic
www.freeplaymusic.com
Free music downloads in a variety of genres.

Movie Maker PC only
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/default.mspx
Create and share great movies

iMovie Mac only
www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/
Create and share great movies

TeacherTube
http://teachertube.com/
Division of YouTube dedicated to education
Upload video and embed on your own website; access, embed, download other's videos.

Handbrake - Mac - Linux - PC (need to download the program)
handbrake.fr/
HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder.

Garage Band Mac only
www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/
Create podcasts, with or without images or video.
Audio only format: mp3; Video/image format: m4v

Audacity PC and Mac
www.audacity.sourceforge.net
Simple platform, easy to cut, apply filters, etc. [for mp3 file saving also download the lame plugin]

iTunes - Application standard on Mac; available free for PC
Upload podcasts to iTunes store - education; students can download to their iPods.

Gcast - online podcast hosting
www.gcast.com
Free hosting; free podsafe music. Create and store podcasts. Get embed code to add to website. Downloadable to iTunes or iPod.

NVU all platforms
www.nvu.com
http://net2.com/nvu/
Dreamweaver type of software.  Easy to use

KompoZer all platforms
www.kompozer.net
Easy web authoring; Dreamweaver style; recommended by NVU.

Screen Recorders

uTIPu
www.utipu.com
Very simple screen recording

Jing all platforms (download the program)
www.jingproject.com
Screen capture, video recording.
Create, save, share. Output is a Flash movie (.swf) file.

Survey Tools

SurveyMonkey
www.surveymonkey.com
Powerful tool for creating web surveys.

Google docs
docs.google.com/
Can create a form to be filled in by others. Results are automatically put into a spreadsheet for you.

However, Google Docs is much more: Word processing, spreadsheet, presentation. Collaboration with others. Accessed online. Office, but not the newest, can be uploaded, edited, shared. See ideas on Google Docs for Teachers.

For Teachers
Education Network Australia (EdNA)
www.edna.edu.au

Directory of online education, training information and services focusing on the whole Australian education and training community. Also hosts discussion groups, event notice board and collaborative online school projects.

Single category items

Gallerie Mac OS X only (download program)
www.myriad-online.com/en/products/galerie.htm
Quick media gallery web pages. Also download templates for various styles.

PhotoOnWeb Windows only (download program)
http://www.photoonweb.com/en/
Quick Flash Gallery for photos. Leave on their servers or download to your own.

Hot Potatoes Mac & PC (download program - Freeware as of Sept.1, 2009)
http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
Make quizzes, matching, crosswords, and more.

Webspiration
mywebspiration.com/
Currently free as it is in beta. Do have to sign up.
By makers of Inspiration Mind Mapping tool - this adds the possibility of online collaboration.

Glogster/Education
www.glogster.com/edu
Make your interactive poster easily and share it. Registration required. Can register a class also. All education glogs are private, but can be linked to a web page with code snippet.

Wordle
www.wordle.net
Crate word clouds. Create save, print, share.