Three Lakes Educational Cooperative

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Pre-Writing Strategies

Graphic Organizers and Digital mapping tools

Mindomo- http://www.mindomo.com Mindomo is a versatile Web-based mind mapping tool, delivering the capabilities of desktop mind mapping software in a Web browser. Users get basic tools for free upon registering. A more robust set of tools is available for a cost.
MindMeister - http://www.mindmeister.com Just like Mindomo, MindMeister allows a user to register and use a basic account type for free. It also allows the user to share maps for collaboration.

Writing Checklists

Ta Da - http://www.tadalist.com Ta Da is a web-based tool for making To-Do lists either for yourself or for sharing with others. It's free. You just create and account with Ta Da to use it.
Bla Bla Lists - http://www.blablalist.com Also free, Bla Bla Lists allows more flexible collaboration by allowing list creators to share To-Do lists with others who don't even have a Bla Bla account, email lists to themselves, and publish with RSS so others can receive updates in real time.
Remember The Milk - http://www.rememberthemilk.com Free accounts offer the same To-Do list collaboration tools as Ta Da and Bla Bla. It extends productivity to include Google applications like Gmail, Google Calendar, and iGoogle.

Planning and Organizational Tools

Google Notebook - http://www.google.com Those having Google accounts have the Google Notebook already available to them. Google Notebook is a note taking tool. Create lists of pertinent information for future reference. Google Notebook also allows you to upload you notebook to you cell phone and bookmark items for easy access.
QuickNote - http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/46 Mozilla users can add a Notelist function to their web browser. A great way for saving little bits of information for future reference.

Audio Books

Gutenberg - http://www.gutenberg.org The first producer of free electronic books (ebooks).
Online Books - http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu Listing over 25,000 free books on the Web.
Audible.com - www.audible.com Audio books for purchase that are downloadable.
State Library of Kansas - http://skyways.lib.ks.us/KSL/ksvirutallibrary.html Online services from the State Library of Kansas - Audio books, music, online books.

Math

MathVIDS - http://coe.jmu.edu/mathvidsr/ MathVIDS is an interactive website for teachers who are teaching mathematics to struggling learners made possible through funding by the Virginia Department of Education. The primary theme of MathVIDS is to help educators connect why struggling learners have difficutly learning matheamtics to effective instructional practices for these students.
Learn Alberta - http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/mejhm/index.html?launch=true Junior High Math Interactives.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

Science

Windows to the Universe - http://www.windows.ucar.edu Windows to the Universe is a user-friendly learning system covering the Earth and Space sciences for use by the general public.

Social Studies

American Rhetoric - http://www.americanrhetoric.com Database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.
Ben's Guide to US Goverment - http://bensguide.gpo.gov This site provides learning tools for K-12 students, parents, and teachers. These resources will teach how our government works.

Others

TechMatrix - www.techmatrix.org The TechMatrix is a powerful tool for finding assistive and learning technology products for students with special needs.
Learning Toolbox - http://coe.jmu.edu/LearningToolbox The purpose of the Learning Toolbox website is to help students with learning difficulties to become more effective learners so that they can meet the increasingly rigorous academic demands of today's schools.
TampaREADS - http://66.113.195.73/print-k/choose.htm A program that produces student names as dots, so that students can trace their names.

Fun educational websites

This site allows the user to move words or letters around like magnets on a refrigerator. You can also contact the creator of the site, give him your word lists and he will create a magnet page for you. http://www.mrhall.org/languagearts/wordmagnets/magnets.htm
This site has lots of fun spelling activities http://gamequarium.com/spelling.html
This site allows you to use already created online tests and activities for free (subscription is required to modify) www.quia.com

If you have any cool sites you would like to share, send the url's to Three Lakes Coop.