Here is an assortment of computer teacher tools guaranteed to make life easier. Try these outside links, but remember the copyright restrictions.

Puzzlemaker    http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/index.html

Word searches, Math Squares, and all sorts of puzzles.

Calendar-Maker    http://calendar.yahoo.com/

Make your own calendars and share them on line.  

The Worksheet Generator 

http://school.discovery.com/teachingtools/worksheetgenerator/index.html

Make matching, fill-in-the blank, multiple-choice, and much more worksheets and quizzes.             

Easy Type Word Processing Tutorial    http://www.easytype.com/default.asp?why=nocookie 

Who says "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch?" What a great word processing tutorial!

Encyclopedia Brittanica      http://www.britannica.com

Choose excerpts or the whole article.

Library of Congress Maps    http://www.loc.gov

Historical, physical, political maps for classroom use. Careful, you could spend all day here.

Little Explorers     http://www.enchantedlearning.com/dictionary.html

Children’s Online English Dictionary containing over 1,200 entries. Also contains English-French, English-German, English-Portuguese, or the English-Spanish version. There is a list of classroom activities that use the Little Explorers site.
Online References

iTools     http://www.itools.com/research-it/research-it.html

Online dictionary (Webster’s), rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, maps, phone directories. etc.

WordNet     http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/ 

Princeton University’s online thesaurus that groups nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in related categories.

Onelook    http://www.onelook.com

Online dictionary, impressive in scope. Contains almost 3 million words.

RhymeZone    http://rhyme.lycos.com/

A rhyming dictionary online and a whole lot more. Type in a word and receive virtually very rhyming word in English. Very extensive listings, however, including arcane words. Subdivides results by number of syllables. Also provides (on request) definitions, synonyms, antonyms. It will even locate the word in Shakespeare and other sources.

WriteExpress     http://www.Rhymer.com/cgi-bin/rhymer.cgi

Online Rhyming Dictionary. Lets you choose the type of rhyme you want (end rhymes, last syllable rhymes, double rhymes, beginning rhymes, even first-syllable rhymes).

Readability Sites    http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/fry/fry.html
http://www.cdc.gov/od/ads/smog.htm

Just in case you lost your print copies, two readability formulas are online: the Fry and the SMOG – directions, tables, graphs, everything you need. Just to keep such formulas in proper perspective, however, remember that SMOG stands for "Some Measure of Gobbledygook"!

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary    http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm

Offers quick look-ups plus a thesaurus, word games, word of the day, more.

Encyclopaedia Britannica    http://www.britannica.com/

The entire contents online with a convenient search engine and many related links.

Library of Congress    http://www.loc.gov/

Home page of the most extensive information system in the world (except for the Internet!). Sections for parents and kids. Maps available.