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Visuals & Manipulatives:

• ArtsEdge lesson plans & links for arts education
• Bookr - free- create your own online slide shows and add text very quickly and easily
• Clip art & photos: GoogleImages is great for free clipart- sometimes small files can be blurry when dragged bigger. Just drag them from the page onto your desktop and insert. MorgueFile is a searchable database of free, post-production high-quality professional photos. Flickr - free- for photos. Microsoft Office clipart free for Microsoft users.WeSay provides hi-quality news photos with captions. Although not searchable, it does organize them by subject matter. National Geographic photos.
• Comics- create your own free ones with StripGenerator or MakeBeliefsComix
• Digital storytelling - students are now using multimedia to communicate their own and others' life stories
• Document cameras allow us to put anything we place under the camera up on the screen. Avervision, among others, makes a great product.
• EdVoiceThread - Free to view & inexpensive to post - allows students to post their work - print or multimedia, while others comment upon and collaborate - teacher moderates and controls the possible levels of audience viewing available, and see Langwitches for how to use it.
• GoogleEarth: download the free software and take kids anywhere. The teacher's companion site is excellent for mini tutorials etc.
• Graphic organizers: great free ones at Eduplace , EverythingESL, and Reading Quest
• MakeVideos: free lesson plan on how to teach students to make video projects
• Math Screencasts - free, leveled and by standards - whiteboard demos and the lecture behind them
• Moviemaker: free- students create a movie and email it to a friend
• The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives are free and will help you differentiate your math in interactive ways
• Student-drawn art sites- free: The Broth free-students can collaboratively, simultaneously work with people anywhere in the world on a piece of art in either mosaic or free draw format. The results are astounding. They may also create private invite-only rooms; Saatchi gallery: youth can make and display artwork as well as submit it online for a competition; Something Special painting game is for primary students. The simple story stops occasionally and allows them to use the drawing tools to contribute to the story- very clever.
• Timerime: make your own timelines for free, pulling in graphics. Free but must register.
• Video Streaming: A product with a huge database, good resolution, and a lower price is Learn360. Also see DiscoveryEd. Also free options include TeacherTube, YouTube (but it's probably blocked so you'll need to go to Vixy.net and paste in the YouTube URL in order to download the clip), BigThink for virtual guest speakers, SciVee is YouTube for scientists, Facing History for videos of junior high and high school students, as well as world leaders, discussing personal and political moral choices, Reading Rockets for author interviews, National Geographic and National Geo for Kids, and the Discovery Channel for geographical & science footage. You can also search the web by going to AOL:Research & Learn, selecting 'Video'& typing in your subject. Also see Viewzi, listed below.
• Viewzi is a free visual search engine that allows us to search for pictures, videos, and more
• Vimeos from EFL Classroom 2.0. Select the A/V player and download them too
• Visuwords is free and looks at word associations visually