Social Studies/ History Tools:  

• Image Detective - Teaching History? This is a great tool to help students look critically at photograghs from the past
• Darfur is Dying - this game demonstrates human rights and humanitarian crisis
• V&A - Create a Coat of Arms

Geography Tools

• Quikmaps  - draw lines/markers on any Google Map
• Discovery Atlas - includes short videos on governments, culture and more 
• Show World -
• Life or Death - Discovery Channel Game - great thinking/planning game

Science Tools

• Fantastic Contraption  - experiment with physics and geometry
• ElectroCity - game that lets players manage their own virtual towns and cities. It teaches players all about energy, sustainability and environmental management.

Language Arts - English Tools 

• Visuwords - online graphical dictionary and thesaurus
• Wordle  - create your own word cloud - Check out Top 20 Reasons to use Wordle
• Get the Pic? - Phrase Guessing Game - Great to use with a Smartboard
• Book Report with a Difference - use Podomatic
• Shmoop Literature: It is like Cliff's Notes but better
• Free Rice - learn new words and contribute to UN food program
• Letterpop - Use LetterPop to create eye-popping newsletters, actionable presentations, irresistible invitations, beautiful product features, sizzling event summaries, informative club updates, lovely picture collages, and a whole lot more

Digital Images + Writing

• Flickr Toys
• Glass Giant
• Dumpr
• Spell with Flickr - give it a try .. you will be surprised at the results

Arts Ed

• sketchfu - draw and share
• aniboom - home of animation
• Artpad - painting tool
• Imagination cubed
• SFMOMA - Explore Modern Art

SmartBoard

• 37 Interesting Ways to use a SmartBoard
• Interactive Whiteboard Stuff K-4
• GSSD SMARTboard wiki

Rubrics

• Oral Presentation Rubric - Grade 9-12
• Oral Presentaion Rubric - Grade 6-8

Check out these classroom ideas: EdTech Solution Blog

1. Use Garage Band (Mac) or Audacity (PC or Mac) to record students voices as they describe their weekend activities. Create a weekly Monday morning podcast for an authentic audience. Use the podcast to teach students about oral presentation and audience. What makes a presentation captivating to the audience? Let them hear their own responses and critique what they said and how they said it. Extend upon this activity by using simple graphic organizers to help them highlight two key activities. This will help them determine saliency - what were the two most important things I did this weekend? You can also build in categorization, similarities and differences and compare and contrast if you capture all the students' responses.

2. Have students use TuxPaint (an open source drawing program download, similar to KidPix) or Kerpoof (two free online drawing/creation resources) and then upload their creations to VoiceThread. Use the recording tool to have students describe their weekend. Encourage them to post a response to each other's pages. Talk with them about appropriate responses that will encourage and support their classmates.

3. Encourage students to use the speech bubbles found on the Drawing Toolbar in Word to create vignettes with dialogue that describes their weekend. This can be especially effective for students with non-verbal learning disabilities or who are on the Autism spectrum as this allows them to understand another person's point of view.

4. Some students may prefer to write a response. Upload their responses to the class VoiceThread if one has been created.

5. Use Dial2Do - a free speech to text tool that will transcribe voice to text via email. Copy and paste it into Word, make any changes or additions and then print it out and add it to the student's Journal folder.