Scratch - http://scratch.mit.edu/
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.
ITunesU - http://www.apple.com/education/guidedtours/itunesu.html
iTunes U is a part of the iTunes Store featuring free lectures, language lessons, audiobooks, and more, that you can enjoy on your iPod, iPhone, Mac or PC. Explore over 200,000 educational audio and video files from top universities, museums and public media organizations from around the world. With iTunes U, there's no end to what or where you can learn.
Google Docs - http://www.google.com/educators/p_docs.html
Google Docs is an easy-to-use online word processor, spreadsheet and presentation editor that enables you and your students to create, store and share instantly and securely, and collaborate online in real time. You can create new documents from scratch or upload existing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. There's no software to download, and all your work is stored safely online and can be accessed from any computer.
SchoolTube - http://www.schooltube.com/
SchoolTube provides students and educators a safe, world class, and FREE media sharing website that is nationally endorsed by premier education associations. Educators can now sign up for their own video page.
Google Earth - http://earth.google.com/
Google's powerful free software will take to place you never thought possible. The amount of things you can do with you class is beyond imagination.
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Want to create a podcast. Audacity is free software that allows you or your students create great podcasts for the internet.
Moodle - http://moodle.org/
Moodle is a great open source learning management program that many schools and institutions are using to create and develop their online learning communities.
Hot Potatoes - http://hotpot.uvic.ca/
Hot Potatoes suite is a great addition to any virtual school community. The software was developed by the University of Victoria and allows educators to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes works seemlessly with Moodle.
Sloodle - http://www.sloodle.org/moodle/
Sloodle is an Open Source project that combines the virtual world Second Life with Moodle's learning management system. Sloodle provides a range of tools for supporting learning and teaching to the immersive virtual world; tools which are fully integrated with a tried and tested web-based learning management system used by thousands.
Second Life - http://secondlife.com/
Second Life is an online virtual world create by its users where possiblities are endless. Education programs are using this world as well. You can attend conferences, lectures and take courses in this virtual world. Note: This site is for users over 18 only.
Teen Second Life - http://teen.secondlife.com/
Teen Second Life is an online virtual world for students ages 13-18. Students can create, start a business and meet new people in this student version of Second Life.
WordPress - http://wordpress.org/
Word Press is one of the most popular blogging programs available on the web. It is a free blogging service that gets you blogging in seconds without having to download any software.
OpenOffice - http://www.openoffice.org/
OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.
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