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Here's an excellent place to find free educational videos for your student. Not only is it an easy site to navigate, you'll find everything categorized by subject and rated for age-appropriate levels.  WatchKnow is an Academic Learning Coach's lifeline when it comes to topics that may not be easily explained.

"WatchKnowLearn has indexed over 33,000+ 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. 
Users can dive into our innovative directory or search for videos by subject and
age level.  Video titles, descriptions, age level information, and ratings are
all edited for usefulness.  Our Web site invites broad participation in a new
kind of wiki system, guided by teachers.  We have had a tremendously positive
response from educators to the website.  If we continue to work together, we can
create an incredible, free, educational resource for students across the
world." - taken fro
 
 
Looking for a test creator as an enrichment tool?  Then Gnowledge will be an invaluable tool to help your child in future assessments.  This has to be hands down, one of the best collaborative quize/test-creation sites around.  This excellent looking site should be one that doesn't fall into the inevitable Internet wasteland due to under use from its patrons. 

"Everyone is a student for a time period in one's life. As a student, we 
 practise exercises, do coursework and sit for exams. This applies to all 
students worldwide, regardless of the syllabus. We aim to democratize education 
by advocating community-generated content and assessment for every conceivable syllabus worldwide. What does this mean?

We want you to be able to access our whole breadth of exercises and test papers for free! You can search by title, subject, grade, school and/or country, so finding exactly what you need to practise on is easy.

You will also get the opportunity to be an influencer! Share your expertise by creating exercises or test papers and pass these on to others so that they can learn from you too. Anything you publish can  be accessed by anyone who logs onto Gnowledge.

We hope to empower you  and the world to help yourselves and each other. Let us all democratize education so that we may be better students in academics and in life together." - Gnowledge 


 
 
Tech and Learning has just posted a wonderful article concerning Internet Gaming.  With school starting up, make sure you have your resources available to help that special student of yours make the grade.  Read on, and check out the hotest sites available for online learners.

40 Sites for Educational
Games



  1. ABCya - A great site for games and mobile apps
    for elementary students.

  2. Academic Skill Builders - A wonderful site with
    learning through the use of multi-player games.  Also, there is an educational
    portal which allows for student tracking.

  3. Arcoiris - A nice site for educational games in
    English and Spanish.

  4. Braineos - Games based on flash card in a wide
    variety of subjects.

  5. BrainNook - A fun site for students that focuses
    on English & Math.  Also, there is a teacher portal with lots of resources
    for educators.

  6. Bubbabrain - Lots of game for all grade levels
    that allows teachers to create games too.

  7. Cackleberries - A virtual world filled with
    educational games for kids 3-7 yrs old in a safe environment.

  8. Clever
    Island
    - Excellent games for kids 3-8 yrs old in a wide variety
    subjects such as: Math, Reading, Spelling, etc.

  9. Cookie - A great site for educational games and
    teacher resources.

  10. Creativity
    Games
    - Learn through the use of creativity brain training
    games.

  11. Creating
    Music
    - A fun site for learning music through the use of
    educational games and other online activities.

  12. DimensionU
    - An innovative site for learning math in a 3D virtual world.

  13. Fish
    Smarty
    - Excellent site for online learning through the use of
    educational games.  There is an educational portal for student tracking as
    well.

  14. Fuel the
    Brain
    - A wonderful site to learn elementary skills such as math,
    science and reading. Lots of educational resources too!

  15. Funbrain - One of the most popular sites for
    educational games for kids K-8 yrs old.

  16. Funschool - A wide variety of games, activities,
    and videos for kids.

  17. Game
    Classroom
    - Games for students K-6th grade in math and LA with
    lots of resources such as: worksheets, videos, and more.

  18. Gamequarium - A popular site with lots of games
    in a wide variety of subject areas.

  19. GameUp - A innovative site from the creators of
    BrainPop where the games are based on their interactive animated videos.

  20. Kidz
    Page
    - A fun site for educational games PreK-8th grade.

  21. Learning Games for Kids - A great site for
    educational games on lots of different subject areas.

  22. Lure
    of the Labyrinth
    - An innovative game for middle school
    pre-algebra students.

  23. Magnahigh - Math games for K-12 with educational
    portal.

  24. MinecraftEdu - A unique game based on the popular
    PC designed for schools.

  25. PhyFun - Physics-based games for all grade
    levels.

  26. Pipo
    Games
    - A nice site for educational games for ages 3-12 yrs.  A
    paid site unlocks all the features.

  27. Play
    Brighter
    - A fantastic site filled with educational games on a
    wide variety of subjects, built on its unique anime style interface.

  28. Play Kids
    Games
    - A fun site for educational games in subject areas such as
    math, vocabulary and geography.

  29. Power My
    Learning
    - A great all-in-one site for education filled with
    games, videos, resources and more.

  30. Sheppard
    Software
    - A nice site with lots of games on different subject
    areas.

  31. Skoolbo - Wonderful educational games for core
    skills in the primary grade levels.

  32. Spelling
    Connections
    - A cool site for spelling and vocabulary games with
    educational portal.

  33. Teaching
    with Portals
    - A very innovative game based on the popular
    console/PC game Portal, with lots of lesson plans to be found.

  34. Tucoola - A great site for skill-building games
    for the younger kids with student tracking.

  35. Tutpup - A cool site for math and spelling where
    kids compete against each other.

  36. Vedoque - A nice site for educational games PreK
    - 8th grade.

  37. What2Learn - A excellent site for educational
    games where teachers can create games and track students with a paid
    account.

  38. Yogome -
    A great site/company with lots of innovative games and mobile apps on recycling
    and more.

  39. Zondle
    - Interesting games that support learning and can be embedded into a site.

  40. ZooWhiz - A fun site for kids 5 - 15 yrs to
    develop Math and Reading skills by creating their own virtual
    zoo.
  41. - David Kapuler
 
 
Qtopia is an online learning platform that offers thousands of ready-to-use
activities, motivating games, avatar features, online homework access with
automatic grading, in-classroom review modes, and the ability for educators and academic learning coaches to use 'as is' or completely customize the learning experience.  And, it's FREE.  I used this site numerous times as an educator when I wanted to enrich certain subject areas.

The online learning platform gives students access to thousands of ready-to-use activities, motivational games, avatar features, online homework access with auto-grading, in-class review models, and more.  Judges appreciated the easy teacher and student interfaces.  Just get on, type in a subject area, and learn!
 
 
Need a little help in the area of spelling? Then Chicktionary Lite is one app you need to enhance your child's spelling scores.  This adorable game allows your student to insert a correct letter enabling spelling mastery.  The chicken bobs its head and clucks when kids use one of the letters to make a word. 

There is a "beak sneak" option that will fill in one letter of the word if the child is stuck.  This allows a prompt to still allow the child to complete the remaining letters.  What a great way to use some down time especially if they are waiting in the car or with mom for a doctor's appointment.