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  WORLD CONNECTIONS
  DAILY READING
   

GENERAL
1. Scholastic News 3rd Grade
2. Scholasticnews Activities
3. Discovery School for Students
Homework Help & More
4. Time for Kids - online newspaper
5. National Geographics
6. Discovery Kids.com
    History, technology, nature, exploration and science categories
7. Mrs. Bogucki - Virginia teacher
Programs for LA, math and Social Studies review
8. Virtual Fieldtrips
 
  POWER TOOLS
  SPELLING, DICTIONARY AND THESAURUS
    1. Little Explorers Dictionary - Enchanted Learning
2. Word Central Kids Merriam-Webster dictionary and Thesaurus
3. Visuwords
4 Spelling City
  WRITING
    1. Wordle
2. Letter Generator by ReadWriteThink
3. Build a very Small Book by ReadWriteThink
4. Build a Shape Poem by ReadWriteThink
5. Writing a Riddle Poem by ReadWritethink
6. Write a Cinquain .pdf
7. READWRITETHINK MAIN PAGE
  HELPING OTHERS
    * FreeRice vocabulary quiz
  ONLINE PROGRAMS
    1. Canvastic Online - A simple drawing program - saves as a jpg
2. Webspiration -Brainstorming web for free: requires a signup
3. Sumo Paint
5. Splashup - photo editor
6. Autodesk - shapes, text & collaboration
7. Scriblink - online white board for 4 users - Use Firefox

GRAPHS, TIMELINES AND PUZZLE MAKERS
1. Let's Bar Graph by Lanius   Change the data and refresh the screen
2. NCES Create a bar, line or pie Graph
3. Bar Chart - NLVM
3. Chartle - create charts
4. Timeline maker
5. Crossword Puzzlemaker
6. Discovery School Puzzlemaker, quiz center

DOWNLOADS for home
1. TuxPaint - paint and draw
2. ANKI - study helper
3. GIMP - Photo manipulation
4. Jing - Screen capture

HOME
1. Create a PDF - PC Users
2. Zamzar - save videos as a .mov
3. Mailbigfile - To send large files
  KEYBOARDING - Practice 15 minutes a day
    1. Dance Mat Typing - Audio - by BBC
2. eLearning for Kids - Click to skip audio instructions
3. Glencoe's Online Keyboarding - Instructional videos
4. Touch Typing - Go to Regular Keyboard & select Typing Tutorial
5. Type Online - UK
6. Powertyping - Select qwerty keyboard & lesson
7. TypingWeb - Do not register, select START TYPING > Tallies speed


Finger exercises
Nimblefingers Exercises
  ERGONOMICS
    What is Ergonomics?
Cornell University - Ideal typing position
*Ergonomics - Apple Computers

MedicineNet - Carpal Tunnel illustration