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**Conferences and Networks** K12 Online Conference-the conference that never ends EdCamp 2010 in KC-free professional development for teachers by teachers Classroom 2.0the social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and Social Media in education MultiMedia and Internet at Schoolsthe educators' guide to electronic tools and resources for K-12 Free Technology for Teachers free resources and lesson plans for teaching with technology **Making the web more user friendly:** Readabilitytool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you're reading Instapaper a simple tool to save web pages for reading later Awesome Highlighterlets you highlight text on web pages and then gives you a small link to the highlighted page Web2PDFconvert web page to PDF other tools: word to PDF, PDF to word, and PDF to excel Print Friendlymake any web page print friendly **Classroom Tools:** Poll Everywherecreate polls with real-time experiences for classrooms and events using mobile devices (max. 30 responses per poll with free account) Stop Watcha simple, fast flash online stopwatch and online countdown timer always available when you need it Snappy Words free visual online dictionary <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Visuwordsfree online graphical dictionary <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Book Wizard created by Scholastic find similar books at the level you need (book alike) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Wall Wisheronline notice board maker @http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/21stcenturylibrarian <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">29 Interesting Ways to Use Wall Wisher <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Prezicreate presentations live and on the web-replacement for powerpoint <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">CoboCardscreate flashcards online-invite friends to add to your flashcards <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Just Paste Itshare text and images the easy way <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**News/Resources/Networks:** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Life Magazine news, celebrity, travel, animal and sports <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Today's Front Page every morning, more than 800 newspapers from around the world submit their front pages to the Newseum via the Internet to be part of Today's Front Pages <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**Copyright Free Pictures/Videos** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Morgue File provides free photos with license to remix <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">EduPics all images are free for use by educational professionals and the students they serve without permission <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Animal Photos Images on this site are under creative commons and are free to use on web sites and other projects <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">World Imagescontains approximately 80,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Photos 8thousands of images that are in the public domain <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Fed Flixa part of Internet Archive <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">movies of the United States Government, from training films to history, from our national parks to the U.S. Fire Academy and the Postal Inspectors <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ImageBase you are free to distribute and modify these files, commercial or otherwise, as long as you attribute its author (David Niblack) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Pics4Learningcopyright-friendly image library for teachers and students <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">World Digital Library (Library of Congress) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">New York Public Library Digital Gallery free and open access to over 700,000 digitalized images  <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**Copyright Free Music** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">SoundBiblefree and royalty free sounds for video editors, movie scores, game designers, and weekend audio warriors <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Free Play Music <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">incompetech royalty free music <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Internet Archive live music (concerts) and audio recordings