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 January: Snowflake Bentley, Winter Poem or Book Talk ||  January: Snowflake Bentley, Winter Poem or Book Talk ||  January: Snowflake Bentley, Winter Poem or Book Talk ||  January: Snowflake Bentley, Winter Poem or Book Talk  February: Candy Heart Sentences ||  January: Snowflake Bentley ||  Note: The Public Gallery may not suitable for student browsing. || December: Winter Song Video ||  Not available for Vista. || December: Winter Song Video  January: Snow in Six Words ||
 * ~  ||~ **Art & Illustrations** ||~   ||
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 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Kerpoof] === ||< <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Kerpoof is a website that allows the creation of original artwork, animated movies & stories. Sign up for a [|free teacher account]. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">December: Winter Song Video, Holiday Cards
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|KidPix] === ||< <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Kid Pix is a commercial software program available from The Learning Company that allows users to draw, paint, scribble, stamp, sticker and more with a click of the mouse. [|Demos of KidPix4 and KidPix for School] are available for download. The demos are very limited in usage. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">December: Winter Song Video, Holiday Cards
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Tux Paint] === ||< <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tux Paint is an Open Source, free drawing program for children which allows users to draw, paint, scribble, stamp and more with a click of the mouse. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">December: Winter Song Video, Holiday Cards
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">MS Paint === ||< <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">MS Paint is a program that comes installed on Windows machines that allows users to draw and paint with a click of the mouse. There are many tutorials about using Paint on the Internet including:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Make Pictures With MS Paint]
 * [|Microsoft Paint Tutorial] || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">December: Winter Song Video, Holiday Cards
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> **[|Pics4Learning]** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> This site has free pictures for student use. The pictures are monitored so it is a safe site to use. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> January: Snow in 6 Words ||
 * ~  ||~ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Audio & Video Recording & Storytelling ||~   ||
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Animoto] === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Make a movie with pictures and music. Sign up for a [|free teacher account.] || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">December: Winter Song Video
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Audacity] === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Free open source software for recording and editing sounds. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">December: Winter Song Video ||
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|GarageBand] === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A personal recording studio on your Mac. Record, edit & mix songs and other sounds. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">December: Winter Song Video ||
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|iMovie] === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Create, edit and build movies on a Mac || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">December: Winter Song Video ||
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Movie Maker === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Create, edit, and build your movie with a few simple drag-and-drops. A free download for Windows users. Download [|Movie Maker 2.1 for Windows XP] or [|Movie Maker 2.6 for Vista]. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">December: Winter Song Video ||
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|MyPlick.com] === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Upload a presentation and an audio file which you can synchronize to your slides using an online tool. and have the option to synchronize the audio with your slides using our online easy-to-use sync tool. You can upload images but MyPick works best with presentation formats. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">December: Winter Song Video ||
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|National Geographic Wildlife Filmmaker] === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Make a movie from preselected animals, sounds and music. Movies must be made in one session. You can open them with the number that is given but they can't be embedded on a webpage. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">January: Animals in Winter ||
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|One True Media] === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Create your pictures using any art tool or by hand drawing and scanning and record your voice or song using Audacity or GarageBand and upload the pictures and sound recording to One True Media to create a shareable video montage.
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Photostory] === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Photostory3 is a way to use photos for digital story telling. It is a free download for Window users.
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> [|Smilebox] ** || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Smilebox is an easy and creative program that can be used for anything from slideshows to classroom newsletters. You can easily add songs, from their library or yours, and embed your slideshow on any blog or website. Check the [|Smilebox Teacher's Toolbox] to sign up for a free teacher account ($39.99 value). Unfortunately Smilebox is not currently accepting teacher accounts but according to their site they plan on opening enrollment in the near future. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> December: Winter Song ||
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|VoiceThread] === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">An online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. Watch VoiceThread's //[|What is a VoiceThread]// to see how a VoiceThread works.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> You can sign up for a free Educator account at VoiceThread - [|Watch the video] to see how! This is a shared account with you and all of your students and not individual accounts for each student but this works very well for elementary students. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">December: December Holidays VoiceThread, The Polar Express <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> January: Winter Poem or Book Talk <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> February: Things I Love, If My Heart Had || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> February: Conversation Hearts Graphing ||
 * ~  ||~ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Mind Mapping** / Visual Learning ||~   ||
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Bubbl.us] === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Free web brainstorming tool. Create free colorful mind maps. Text only. No JPG export but could use screen capture to create an image. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">February: Things I Love, If My Heart Had ||
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Kidspiration] === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Kidspiration is a visual learning commercial software. A free 30 day trial is available. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">February: Things I Love, If My Heart Had ||
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Webspiration] === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Free web brainstorming tool based on Inspiration software. No JPG export but could use screen capture to create an image. Limited image availability. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">February: Things I Love, If My Heart Had ||
 * ~  ||~ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Spreadsheets, Graphing** & Presentations ||~   ||
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Create A Graph] === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Free online graphing tools from the NCES Kids' Zone. The Classic version is the easiest to use. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">December: Holiday Polling & Graphing
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Google Spreadsheets] === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Spreadsheet component of Google Documents which is a free, online suite of office software. Excel spreadsheets can be imported into Google Spreadsheets but graphs may need to be redone.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Note: Google Spreadsheets assume that row 1 is a header row so some things like the Co-ordinate Graphing might need adjusting because of this. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">December: Gingerbread House Co-ordinate Graphing, Holiday Polling & Graphing <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> February: Conversation Hearts Graphing || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> February: Conversation Hearts Graphing || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> January: Penguin Glyph, Penguin Math Book <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> February: Things I Love, If My Heart Had, Candy Heart Sentences || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> February: Conversation Hearts Graphing || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> February: Virtual Valentine Greetings || read by Lou Diamond Phillips ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> [|Make a Flake] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> [|Popular Front Snow Days] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> [|A Guide to Snowflakes] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> [|Patterns in Nature: Snowflakes] || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">January: Snowflake Bentley ||
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Microsoft Excel === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Commercial spreadsheet software from Microsoft used for graphing and analyzing data. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">December: Gingerbread House Co-ordinate Graphing, Holiday Polling & Graphing
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Microsoft PowerPoint === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Commercial presentation software from Microsoft. Can also be used to create and export slides as images. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">December: Holiday Cards
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Open Office Calc] === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Calc is the spreadsheet component of the free, open source office software known as Open Office. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">December: Gingerbread House Co-ordinate Graphing, Holiday Polling & Graphing
 * ~  ||~ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Card Making & Writing** ||~   ||
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|DLTK's Custom Cards] === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Can choose from a variety of themes, images, messages, etc. and create a card. A fun site for students who can read to generate a printable card. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">December: Holiday Cards ||
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Microsoft Publisher === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Commercial publishing software from Microsoft. Free, open source alternative is [|Scribus] || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">December: Holiday Cards ||
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Microsoft Word === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Commercial word processing software from Microsoft. Free and/or open source alternatives include [|Open Office], [|Google Docs] and [|Zoho] || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">December: Holiday Cards ||
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Voki.com] ** === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Make a talking avatar. An avatar is a picture that represents someone. The talking snowman on the Home page of this wiki is an example of a Voki. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">January: Winter Fun
 * ~  ||~ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Research & Reading ||~   ||
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Mighty Book] === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Online books, jokes and more. Free books with a winter theme:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Pexi Has A Question: Why Does It Snow?] ||  ||
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Penguin Websites === || * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|BrainPop Penguins Video]<span class="wiki_link_ext">Need Subscription to Brainpop. Free Trial is available.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Penguins]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|KidZone Penguin Facts]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Buzzle.com Penguin Facts] || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">January: Penguin Glyph Extension ||
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Storyline Online] === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Screen Actors Guild Members read books aloud. Included in the collection is //The Polar Express//
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Snowflake Websites === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Snowflake Bentley]
 * ===<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Gingerbread Website === || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Decoate a Gingerbread Cookie] || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">December: Gingerbread House Template ||
 * || [|Jan Brett] || December: Gingerbread Man/Baby ||