Teacher-made Online Activities and Virtual Classrooms

Quia : Quia provides users with access to a rich collection of online services that allow you to create games and
    quizzes over the Internet and share them with others.
CASTLE : Create online quizzes and assessment exercises
QuizStar: Create quizzes of various types
Funbrain : Create quizzes. The beauty of it is that you can "save" and edit any of the quizzes already there.
Quiz Center by Discovery.com : It's fairly easy to use and it's free. It allows multiple types of questions, including
   fill in the blanks, true or false and multiple choice.
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer,
   jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is
   not freeware, but it is free of charge for non-profit educational users who make their pages available on the web.
Webauthor : Create interactive exercises by filling in forms on the website.
Xercise Engine : The Xercise Engine is server-based Java software which allows authors to create interactive
    browser-based language exercises. There are a number of demonstration exercises on the website.
Spellmaster : An online authoring tool which enables you to create simple browser-based timed vocabulary
    exercises (JigWord, MatchWord, SpeedWord).
Filamentality : Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you through picking a topic,
    searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources into learning activities. It helps
    combine the "filaments" of the Web with a learner's "mentality". Support is built-in through Mentality Tips that
    guide you along the way to creating a Web-based activity you can share with others. You can use Filamentality
    to create a Web-based Treasure Hunt aimed at helping users learn more about a topic.
Puzzlemaker.com: Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents.   Create and
    print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists. Build your own maze or print
    our specialty hand-drawn mazes created around holidays and classroom topics.
DiscoverySchool's Puzzlemaker allows kids to make crossword puzzles online.
The Interactivities Forum's Resource Site: Add your own interactive educational multimedia to your class website
TrackStar helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) for use in lessons (Webquests).
blackboard.com : Blackboard offers a complete suite of enterprise software products and services that powers
    e-Education infrastructure for schools, colleges, universities and other education providers around the world. You
    can create a FREE course Web site to bring your learning materials, class discussions, and even tests online.
    Supplement an existing class or teach a course entirely on the Web.
SchoolPlanner.com: FREE Web-based, interactive communication tool for Teachers, Schools, Students, and
    Parents to come together...
CyberLearningLabs.com's ANGEL is a web-based course management and collaboration portal that helps
   educators manage course material and communicate quickly, easily, and effectively.
The Manhattan Virtual Classroom is a password protected, web-based virtual classroom system that includes a
    variety of discussion groups, live chat, areas for the teacher to post the syllabus and other handouts and notices,
   a module for organizing online assignments, a grades module, and a unique, web-based email system open only
   to students in the class.
ClassWeb Open Source Distribution: designed to let instructors easily create and control class websites
Authenticated User Community (AUC): offers the ability for users to have a uniform web-based interface to
   discussion forums, e-mail (similar to hotmail, etc.), file management, and a searchable user database. Also,
    "Interactive Classrooms" provide a means for students and teachers to have a web-based extension to their in-
   class interaction.
ePALS Classroom Exchange : online classroom
ClassWebs : building a class website
TeacherWeb -teachers' online bulletin board.
Quick Topic: free web forum and collaborative document review groupware
eboard.com : quickly post homework & class information online
Nicenet: It is a FREE password-protected site where you can set up threaded discussion boards. NiceNet also
    has an in-class email feature, a place for posting documents, etc.
Family Education - My School Online: Once registered, you will have a set of website-builing tools to create your
   school Website. You will also be provided with a Web-based teacher gradebook, free email account, free
    Website hosting, and 24-hour online support.
Your Homework.Com: This “grass roots” site is free for teachers. The main objective isto provide teachers with a
    simple, organized space for posting homework on the Web. Students and parents can access the page and
    read the homework assignment and related materials.
SchoolNotes: Teachers can create notes for homework and class assignments, then post them on the Web
   immediately.
HighWired - Your High School Online: Online publishing tools and templates allow you to create customized
   pages for your high school Website. Categories include school paper, student activities, classrooms, sports, and
    guidance with additional individual pages.
Lightspan, Inc.: It combines assessment, content, instructional tools and resources, professional development,
  and add-on modules—all in an online program that's easily personalized for students, teachers, administrators,
   and families
SchoolCity.com: SchoolCity Inc. is a global education software solution company providing next generation
   administrative systems, technology solutions, and e-learning services to K-12 school districts, schools and
   education industry partners around the world.
www.Think.com
MyClass.net is a free service for teachers to set up their own interactive class web sites.
Putting education online with free school websites from myschoolonline.com
FreeLists: free, no-hassle mailing lists

WebQuest & Teaching Resources Search Tools:

Free Lesson Plans, WebQuests, Worksheets and Teacher Tools from edhelper.com : 10960 Lesson Plans, 1223
WebQuests, 5000 Free Worksheet Generators, 1600 Word and Critical Thinking Problems, Exams and Puzzles
for Standardized Tests.

Blue Web'n Learning Sites Library : Blue Web'N has a content table where you can browse any specific
content area and get web based tutorials, activities, projects, lesson plans, hot lists and other resources.

Internet4Classrooms- Helping Teachers Make Effective Use of the Internet

WebQuest Locator at GEC Computers in the Classroom

WebQuests for Learning: Webquests for all ages and subjects. Sign up to connect with a school in the United
States or Australia.

Times Webquest Page : This site is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the WebQuest
model to teach with the web. By pointing to excellent examples and collecting materials developed to
communicate the idea, all of us experimenting with WebQuests will be able to learn from each other.

WebQuests: Webquests designed for K-5, Middle School, High School

WebQuests: Across the curriculum and every grade level over 500 Webquests are categorized by subject and
topic.

Webquests and Resources for Teachers : This sites provides a lot of sample webquests and a link on how to
create your own webquest.

The Teacher Channel, discoveryschool.com : This is one of the best sites for teachers. It provides lesson plan
ideas, tools to create a puzzle, glossary, quiz and a worksheet.

The WebQuest Page at San Diego State University

FREE--Federal Resources for Educational Excellence- for quick access to all educational materials formerly
available only in hard copy format

Last updated: January 27, 2003.