ABC Mouse

ABCmouse.com is a subscription-based website that is currently offered to U.S. and Canadian
public schools. Public school teachers and librarians qualify for free public school classroom accounts.

With that said, quickly go grab this offer and get you students involved in a journey of online learning. Teachers can customize up to FIVE learning groups. There is no advertising or links to other sites, which is rare for a free educational site and it the company does not ask for or require personal student information.

With 2000+ Activities and a Learning Path with 6 levels, your kids will be excited about using this great program. Best of all, kids will learn while having fun!

Also check out there mobile apps! The Grand Canyon App is FREE and the others apps are under a dollar.

Reading Bear Online Program

I am totally excited about Reading Bear. One, it's FREE. Two, it's a product from a company in my home state - Mississippi. Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi strives to impact their community by connecting people who care with causes that matter. With that said, Reading Bear is a perfect example of the awesomeness of CFNM. Reading Bear teaches children to read by introducing phonics and teaching new vocabulary. To date they have 14 great presentations with the plans of adding up to at least 50 if not more.

Each presentation can be played as a  video or as an interactive slide show and it introduces one or a few related "phonics rules". This is a "must see and use application" for educators and parents alike. Click on over to Reading Bear and sign up for a free account and use it with your students as a class or individual accounts. You will need an email address and set up a password. It's super easy and I'm certainly impressed.

If that wasn't enough, a Memphis-area philanthropist partnered with CFNM and they created WatchKnowLearn a site I blogged about back in September or October. WatchKnowLearn is an awesome site I stumbled across a couple of years ago. This site is has indexed over 20,000 educational videos, placing them into a directory of over 3,000 categories. The videos are available without any registration or fees to teachers in the classroom and to students at home 24/7. So here you have 2 incredible resources, all for FREE, at your fingertips. Click This to stumble on over to WatchKnowLearn and check out what's been stated as "YouTube with Brains".

Salman Khan - Changing Education

Khan University -

A free world-class education for anyone anywhere.

If you haven't heard of Salman Khan then you need to google him. You will run across several important things. To sum him up...he's taking education to a whole new level with his phenomenal vision.

Educators must watch the video. It inspires, it educates, it sells the service and the service is completely FREE.

His story is amazing. He started out tutoring his cousins via video conferencing. He turned those lessons into You Tube videos and his journey took off from there. Kids all over the world are learning math the way they learn best...at their own pace while incorporating with technology. With over 1 million members, Khan University is the future of education. As an educator, you can track your students and work with those that are struggling or have their peers who have mastered that skill tutor. You can also become a coach and tutor kids yourself. There are tons of videos and new features have been added to enhance the learning experience and keep students motivated. To learn more about Khan and Khan University, click this!