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Visuals & Manipulatives:

• Art sites, allowing students to create the art: 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; ArtPad-draw and send, 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.
• ArtsEdge lesson plans & links for arts education
• Bookr - free- create your own online slide shows and add text very quickly and easily and Tikatok
• 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 and Behold - free- for photos. FreeDigitalPhotos- royalty-free 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. Pics4learning, National Geographic photos, Life, the National Archives allows students to make posters, search through clues, and collect images through digital vaults , American Film Resources for links to films with primary sources and other support, NationsIllustrated photos from various countries, United Nations' World Digital Library, Smithsonian Images, ClipartETC free old-fashioned clipart by category.ESL clipart has verbs, adjectives, nouns, pronouns, etc. , UVic about 3000 images, Edupics categorized clipart
• Comics- create your own free ones with Storytop, 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 Freeology, Eduplace , EverythingESL, and Reading Quest
• ImageDetective shows images from American History and leads students through the analytical process used by historical investigators to infer. Also see the PMA homepage
• MakeVideos: free lesson plan on how to teach students to make video projects
• Mapwing: build and share virtual tours
• Math Screencasts - and Show Me (1-6): 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
• Navify inserts images into Wikipedia
• Newsmap virtual interactive map: click on a continent and region, zoom in or out, and then the current headlines with links to stories pop up
• PicLits: free, and allow you to drag and drop words into selected pictures, allowing you to create a type of visual poetry
• Picnik-edit photos for free
• Quizzes-create your own onine and post to a website or blog
• Screentoaster for creating free screencasts and voice-overs
• Shahi visual dictionary combines Wiktionary definitions with Flickr images
• Sounds -search for and download them for free. Also see Absolute Sounds and Sound Jay.
• Timerime: make your own timelines for free, pulling in graphics. Free but must register.Also see Dipity
• 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 or kickyoutube.com and paste in the YouTube URL in order to download the clip. See also or TechCrunch or Zamzar), NeoK12(although some are YouTube and will be blocked at school) BigThink for virtual guest speakers, KarmaTube for videos about positive social changeSciVee is YouTube for scientists, SchoolTube is primarily students uploading video, 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. DiscoveryInteractiveAtlas for geographical, cultural, historical, and nature videos, Graspr for free instructional videos, ExpertVillage and MonkeySee for how-to videos. Scholastic Stacks for author and celebrity interviews. You can also search the web by going to AOL:Research & Learn, selecting 'Video'& typing in your subject. Also see Viewzi, listed below. Wingclips for clips of major motions pictures archived under categories having to do with virtues -good for language arts. PBSvideo
• Viewzi and Videofetcher are 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 visualy.
• Worldmapper: uses data to analyze world patterns regarding a variety of factors in relative global size