For+Teachers

Open Library [] Over 1,000,000 free ebook titles available. Project Gutenberg Australia [] Large collection of free ebooks. Project Gutenberg [] Project Gutenberg offers over 40,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. Book Pop [] Free illustrated stories We Give Books [] Large collection of published free ebooks provided by the Pearson Foundation. Giraffian <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Illustrated books for infants. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lil\\\' Fingers Storybooks <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Animated stories for children. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Merpy Stories <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Animated stories for young children. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Smashwords <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Free ebooks to download. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Toddler School <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Stories for infants. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bookbox <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Download stories as PDFs or MP3s. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Children\\\'s Books Forever <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Free children\\\'s books to download as PDFs. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Books Should Be Free <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ebooks and audio books for children. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ebooks Adelaide <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Large collection of ebooks. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Memoware Ebooks <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|http://www.memoware.com/?screen=search_results&DirectSearch=Y&p=category^!Children~!] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ebooks available for free download. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Oxford Owl Ebooks <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] Fr<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">ee ebooks to download. || And more... =A list of ebook providers for K-6= <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Beatrix Potter Online <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Read along stories with MP3s. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Yesterday\\\'s Classics <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Yesterday\\\'s classics for today\\\'s children. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">International Children\\\'s Digital Library <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Library of ebooks for children. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Room 108 Kids Stories <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lots of Stories for Kids. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">All Books Free <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Free ebooks for kids. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bibliotastic <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">15 free ebooks for kids. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Bookrix <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Free children\\\'s ebooks for free reading online or download. Upper primary and teen titles.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Starfall <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Free public service to teach children to read with phonics. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Storyline Online <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Online stories for kids. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Magic Keys <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Illustrated books for kids of all ages. ||
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Critical Evaluation of Information
- Kathy Schrock's list of resources to teach this. Links lead to bogus websites for you to use as examples...a must for Stage 3 up. || []

BASIC Windows/Microsoft Training Site
This resources emails you once a day for 180 week days giving you a small tip to get to know your technology. Topics include how to maximise windows, where to find the volume etc. Worth a look around - you can browse the tips without signing up, alternatively if you sign up, you get a message with links in your email inbox....good PD as it is extended over time and is not too daunting for those still starting their technology journey. ||
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Bathurst CEO Support Tips & Tricks
Links to lots of documents and advice for teachers and IT Coordinators (for example - how to set up an email signature;) || []

CEO CNA Log In Instructions
How to log into CNA Portal - this enables you to get to Education Resources and Scootle (and other services as they become available) ||
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CEO Corporate Email Instructions
Tells you how to access your corporate email account. || []

4Teachers Tools (Rubric Makers etc)
Timesaving educational resources that use technology to improve instruction across all content areas and grade levels. These tools promote higher-order thinking, and support the development of writing skills. Monitor student research and writing, evaluate student performance, and create bilingual online lessons, classroom calendars, and quizzes in less time than traditional methods. || Live Binders Create and Share online binders App Maker Design and Create your own Apps Apps in Education A Great List of Educational Apps MeMeBooks Create and Print Personalized Childrens Books SchoolTube Online, free videos of great teachers in action . SlideShare Upload & Share PowerPoint presentations and documents Edutopia The George Lucas Educational Project Google Apps for Education List of Google Apps for Educators The YouTube Teaching Channel Great Videos with Great Teachers Apple Distinguished Educators iTunes feed with links to great lessons from great teachers Posterous - The Easiest Way to Post and Share Anything Share your thoughts on the go Boardmaker Share Create Online Board Games SmileBox Turn your photos into one of a kind creations to post, print, and email Minus Create mini online galleries Dweeber Social Networking site for students to study and do their homeworks together Clay Yourself! Create a clay portrait of yoursel f Box.net Online file sharing, content management, collaboration MindMeister Online Mind Mapping and Brainstorming SlideRocket Free Online Presentation Software Online Stickies Create online sticky notes Picnik - Photo editing the easy way, online in your browser Free online photo editing Aviary.com Free online photo editor BigHugeLabs Do fun stuff with your photos Compfight A Flickr Search Too l Embedit.in Embed any file in your website Zamzar  Free online file conversion Read It Later: Save text and websites to read at a later date SurveyMonkey - Powerful tool for creating web surveys. Online survey software made easy! Create online surveys Knovio Online Video Presentations Made Easy | PowerPoint + Webcam ZooBurst Create your own 3D online pop up books Visibli Giving your links more value Teacher Tools: Puzzle, Quiz, and Activity Builders - StumbleUpon a great site with plenty of great options BibMe Fast & Easy Bibliography Maker - MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian - Free Acrobat.com This free Adobe product is an online word processor that works just like a desktop processor--perfect for students who write academic papers and reports . OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite The OpenOffice suite of tools can do all of the same things as the pricey Microsoft Office--for free. || =Web 2.0 Tools= Story Bird Colaborative Story Telling A Complete Set Of Tools For Your Business Zoho Office is an amazing suite of web-based productivity and collaboration tools. The suite includes free email, a word processor, a spreadsheet tool, a presentation creator and more . Schoolr / Academic Cheat Sheet This meta search engine combines other academic search engines to make research faster and more efficient for students . Diigo - Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Online Bookmarking and Annotation, Personal Learning Network. Diigo is an awesome tool for student researchers. It allows you to highlight and annotate specific portions of web pages. Highlighted info can be shared with other people and accessed from any PC or phone with an Internet connection. AJAX Spell Checker Online spell checker ADrive | 50GB Free Online Storage, Online Backup, Cloud Storage Online file storage Zenbe Lists: simple, shared task management Shareflow Keep everyone on the same page | Zenbe Scriblink Your Online Whiteboard Mikogo: Free Remote Desktop, Web Conferencing & Online Meetings Mikogo is a free screen-sharing tool that simplifies online collaboration among people who aren't sitting in the same room. It can be used to instantly share whatever is on your computer screen with someone else. Mindpicnic | Smarter learning. Mindpicnic is helping to revolutionize the way students learn by providing free courses and study materials online . Free Vocabulary - Online Vocabulary Lessons! VerbaLearn is a good place to practice and learn English vocabulary. Students preparing for standardized tests lsuch as the SAT will enjoy this site's vocabulary-building resources. Language Learning with Livemocha | Learn a Language Online - Free! You don't have to invest in expensive courses, books or CDs to learn a foreign language. You can do it for free on Livemocha, the world's first free social language learning site . Free Quiz Maker: Create A Quiz, Online testing, Make quizzes, test & exams Create free online tests and quizzes Flashcards The world's largest online library of printable flash cards Soshiku The Smart Way to Keep Track of Your Schoolwork CreativePro OfficePagemodo Create a Facebook Page | Custom Fan Page Design Money Create some fun looking money Symbaloo Access your bookmarks anywhere TweetDeck Your social world on Twitter The Tweeted Times Create your own personal newspaper from your Twitter Feed YouTube Teacher Channel The YouTube Teacher Channel Becoming an eTeacher Steps to learning how to teacher online. ||
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 * AweApp Digital WhiteBoard || Polldaddy.com Free Online Polling Website ||
 * Tagxedo Word Cloud with Styles || Free Video Clips - Streaming Online Videos - EncycloMedia Free online video encyclopedia ||
 * Weebly - Create a free website and a free blog Free Website Creation Website ||  ||