WF9+Gary+Recklies

=Great Free Teaching Resources= Hi. I thought it was time that I shared some of the great free teaching resources that I have found and have been using in the area of primary education.

First of all let me say that there are a wide range of resources for nearly every occasion if but they were easy to access and simple to use a lot more teachers would be using them. My idea here is to create a list of free software available in an educational setting and then of course specific online resources for specific subject areas and specific grade levels. This will be too much for me to do alone so I thought why not get everyone to pitch in and help. Then we will all be making each others' lives easier.

General Use
[|Open Office] - Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access equivalents that are free and just as user friendly [|IrfanView]- Photo editor and manipulation, simple to use and able to batch rename and resize photos, create slideshows screensavers [|Gimp] An advanced image manipulation program which can be used to create a great number of changes to pictures [|Audacity]- Sound editor software, simple to use and easy to convert into different formats - plus why not record student oral presentations and play them back to the class / or use it as part of their digital portfolio [|VLC Media Player] - for playing (nearly) any audiovisual format available [|Prism]- Video conversion tool, saving a great deal of time (batch conversions) [|HotPotatoes] free puzzle making software - great for theme words [|WordWeb] a great little dictionary at your fingertips [|Sage] an alternative to WordWeb with some great info. about people and places [|Komposer] a no fuss easy to use web authoring tool - create web pages simply - get students to as well [|Google Sketchup] a great free 3d planning tool that can be used to create real scale models

Specific / Game type software
[|Seterra]- an excellent way to get students to learn countries of the world - wide variety of maps available quiz type

[|Anagramarama]- Excellent spelling and language building activity find all the words you can from the jumbled letters

[|Sebran]- A suite of games - great for lower / middle primary - works on interactive whiteboards and is fun for classwork in teams

[|Childsplay] - Great suite for all primary - great starter activities for lower primary

[|Gcompris]- game suite with education in mind - excellent section on helping students learn to single, double click etc.

Tux packages... the friendly penguin [|TuxMathScrabble]- Upper equation builder [|TuxTyping]- learn basic typing skills [|TuxMaths] get great with your operations (tables) [|TuxMathsScrabble] students having problems with equations - try this [|Multiplication Station] a great way to see if students know their tables

[|FreeChess]- a great game for middle to upper primary

Online Educational Games

[|Free Sudoku] Yes the puzzler that will get everyone involved [|Shephard Software] A huge variety of online games for students to be directed to [|Problem Site] A great set of educational games