General+Resources

=Classroom Setup: These sites are dedicated to helping teachers come up with the best ways to set up their classrooms with SMART Boards.= Scholastic Classroom Architect Lakeshore Classroom Designer

=Lesson Creation Resources=



Jigzone: create online puzzles; also linked on the "Discovery of the Month" page on this wiki.

Record MP3 - record audio to attach to objects in your Notebook lessons. (This is blocked in my district, but you could record at home...) *Don't really need this anymore with the new Notebook 11...other than the fact your recordings are limited to 1 minute in Notebook.

1001 Free Fonts - just what it says; for instructions on how to download these fonts directly to your computer, click here. Once at the site, scroll all the way to the bottom to the section titled "Out with the OLD and in with the NEW".

PicsForLearning - copyright friendly resource for photographs.

Public Domain Clipart

**Flickr - If you search through the Creative Commons, there are over a million photographs that have no licensing and/or copy right issues. Just please make sure to give credit to the photographer somewhere in your presentation.

**Free Clipart by Phillip Martin You can use this as long as your are with a non-profit organization, so teachers: go for it!

**MorgueFile.com - free photos for use in SMART Notebook lessons.

Clips Ahoy! - free school-related clipart. Neat stuff, but there's a lot of advertising to swim through.

Clipart and Other images: images.google.com, bing.com/images, Google Swirl

Create rubrics for free and print them at RubiStar 4 Teachers

- game templates

**Animation Library - This is a website where you can download animated .gif images to use in your Notebook lessons. It is recommended that you save the images to your computer first, before inserting the image into your Notebook file.

Grabba Beast - Students can design their own "beasts" that can be used for many purposes in daily classroom activities

Build Your Wild Self - another icon creation website that students can create to be their personal icons for daily activities (just like Grabba Beast)

Sketch and Paint - tools to create really neat backgrounds for your SMART Notebook lessons. When you save the image, be sure to save it as 800 x 600.

Flame - another cool website where you can use different tools to create neat backgrounds for your lessons.

LearnNC - website with tons of lessons and "learning materials". Although some might not be labeled IWB, using Notebook's Transparency Layer, anything from the web is now "IWB" ready!

Animated Clipart

WatchKnowLearn.org - free educational videos categorized by subject. The only issue I see with this website is that a good number of the videos are on YouTube. My district has YouTube blocked, so I would possibly have to preview the videos at home and download them there to be able to view in the classroom. However, these videos can be inserted into Notebook lessons.

NextVista - free online videos, similar to other video source sites like YouTube, School Tube, Teacher Tube, etc.

=Sound Effects=

SoundJay -

SoundCli.ps- Share, listen, and download sound effects & clips free here at SoundCli.ps You can even upload your own sounds for others to enjoy.

FindSounds - search engine for sound clips

PacDV- PacDV has been producing [|royalty free sounds] for filmmakers, sound designers, music producers, film students, and multimedia developers since 2001, and our sounds have been featured in a variety of independent films and videos, television programs, documentaries, commercials, games, radio shows, and new media projects. On this web site you find sound clips that we have decided to make available free for you to download.

GRSites Sound Effects - free sound effects as well as other resources for building class websites!

=Media Converters=

KeepVid.com - allows you save YouTube videos to incorporate into your Notebook presentations. Great tool, since most school systems block YouTube.

Catch You Tube - allows you to do the same thing as KeepVid.com.

Format Factory - allows you to convert mp3s to Flash Audio files; these will start playing in Notebook when you enter the page (for a video demonstration from Tequipment, click here)

3outube - video on how to use YouTube if it is blocked by your school system.

Media.io - great for converting to .mp3!!

=Other Converters= = = pdftoword - free online version allows you to convert pdf files to word so that you can edit as you need

PDF to Word Online Converter - free online version allows you to convert pdf files to word so that you can edit as you need; no email required

PDF Converter - convert multiple file types to pdf online for free

DocuPub - free online pdf converter, batch converter, compressor, etc.

Zamzar - converts pretty much anything to pretty much everything...

=Ready To Go Lessons=

Amphitheater Public Schools - links to interactive whiteboard lessons.

**SMART Exchange

SMART Board Lounge - tons and tons of resources (lessons, learning games, etc.)

IWB Teachers - another wikispace where teachers are sharing their lessons

SMART Board Galleries - premade Notebook files that you can use and edit.

Longwood Central School District - lots of premade SMART Board lessons

ABCTeach - lessons created for SMARTBoards

Wichita Public Schools Instructional Technology

=Other Wikis= **SMART Board Revolution - a wikispace connected with the online community SMART Revolution

SMARTBoards4Us - a wikispace with SMART Board resources

**great4sb.wikispaces.com - Pitt Country Schools wiki for sharing interactive websites and Smartboard resources

HM Tech - wiki for Houghton Mifflin resources - vocabulary presentations for each story, practice activities, etc.

SMARTLinks - a resource for teachers using SMART Boards in their classroom

EduTech Database: @edutechdatabase - A new website called K-12 Tech Tools features more than 1,000 free online technology tools. The tools are categorized by subject, grade level, and standards. Teachers can share their own tech tools, success stories, and can learn from one another.

ICTMagic - winner of the 2011 Best Educational Wiki Award; TONS of goodies and information for teachers looking to incorporate technology into their everyday teaching.

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=Other Resources=

PBS Learning Media- PBS LearningMedia is a dynamic platform offering the best of public media content and produced specifically for PreK-16 teachers. With free access to over 14,000 high-quality resources tied to national standards, teachers can download, save and share exactly what they need for an inspired classroom experience. [|Sign up] is free and easy!

Bedford County School District - Click on the "Educators" tab to the left-hand side of the page. Tons of great resources!! Check out the virtual field trips!

Curriki.org - One of the largest sources of free teaching and learning content on the web, Curriki.org now offers more than 43,000 learning assets contributed by educators and available under the Creative Commons license.

SMARTTech Resource Center

Best Practices - Resources on "Best Practices" in teaching. Great find!

**Teacher Tube - great sight to view and download videos for Notebook presentations, as well as tutorial videos

Internet Archive - "The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

SMART Board Resources - exactly what it says...

Rockingham County Public Schools - technology resources

Teachers Love SMART Boards

**Teaching with SMART Boards - wow...

Shelfari! - online bookshelves where you can share what books you're interested in and/or currently reading. I think this would be a great tool to use on class websites.

**I Keep Bookmarks - instead of keeping your really great website finds to yourself on your computer, I Keep Bookmarks allows you to keep them online and allow others to see. I created an account for my third grade team. Since your bookmarks are all online, you can access them anywhere, anytime!
 * *ikeepbookmarks.com/lenski - looks to be websites to use in grades K-5; organized by topics and subjects*

Soar 2 New Heights - I created a class website this year using Webs.com. It was really easy to use for me and for my parents. However, I've been considering going to a wiki format for the upcoming school year. This wiki is a great model if you're considering the same for your class!

Scholastic.com Interactive Whiteboard activities

2Learn.ca Education Society - tons of educational resources; technology and otherwise.

BBC Bitesize - video tutorials, activities, and assessments for students of all ages.

**ZAC Browser - filtered internet browswer created for children with Autism

Living Sasquatch - Okay, so this has nothing to do with educational content (other than fostering creativity), but I think this is awesome :) Create a video of you and Sasquatch.