Useful Links
Students
• LearnNC - One of the best sites in the state for all things educational in North Carolina. Lesson plans, field trips, and more.
• NC WiseOwl - NC WISE OWL is a Web site that has, as its centerpiece, several subscription databases. These includes InfoTrac, a
periodical database product by the Gale Group, that is made up of a Kids Edition for elementary students, a Junior Edition for middle
schoolers, and both the Student Edition and InfoTrac Gold Reference Edition for the high school and parent community.
• SAT Test Prep - Online test preparation materials at CFNC.
• Stone Soup - Magazines that publish student work.
• SAT Prep - SAT practice problems.
Parents
• CFNC - Planning and paying for college and more.
• Core Knowledge - More information about the Core Knowledge Curriculum.
• Talking to Your Kids About Being Online - Document guiding a discussion with kids about being online.
Teachers
• Discipline without Stress, Punishments, or Rewards - More information about Dr. Marvin Marshall's discipline model.
• Eduhound - Newsletters for educators.
• free-reading.net - Resource center for early literacy teachers.
• Highlights for High School - Part of MIT's Open Courseware project. Useful for students and teachers.
• MIT Open Courseware Project - Almost all of MIT's courses online for free.
• NC WiseOwl - Great information from North Carolina's Department of Public Instruction. Includes links to many services which can be
linked to via state subscriptions and licenses arranged by DPI.
• LearnNC - One of the best sites in the state for all things educational in North Carolina. Lesson plans, field trips, and more.
• The Internet Public Library - Reading material galore!
Tools
• Audacity - Free audio editing software.
• GIMP - Free photo editing software.
• Instructify - Information about great tools for teachers.
• PB Wiki - Create and ad-free wiki.
• Screencast-o-Matic - Free tool for screencasting
• SchoolForge - Open source software for educators.
• SourceForge - World's largest collection of open source software.
• Word Press - Tool for creating blogs.
• PhET - Online physics simulations.
• World Wide Telescope - Virtual telescope.
• Alice - Visual Programming Language
Content
• WikiBooks - A free library of educational textbooks.


