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Teacher Resources --
-- (Library Info and librarian,
too ) Back to School General Education
portals and starting points - "best of the web" for educators -
TeacherTap Super
Teacher worksheets -- from Rick - 21st
Century Learning
- ABCteach
- Archdiocese
of Seattle
- AtoZteacherStuff
preK-12 educational network
- AwesomeLibrary
organizes the Web with 14,000 carefully reviewed resources, including
the top 5 percent in education
- Blue
Web'N a libray of blue ribbon learning sites on the web grouped
by grade, content and subjest areas, by Pacific Bell Knowledge Network Explorer
- The
Digital Classroom from the National Archives - resources
about primary sources, activities and training for educators and students
- Digital
Library for Earth Sciences System - find websties for links
by grade and subject in Earth sciences
- Discovery
School's Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
- EdHelper.com
over 10,000 lesson plans, webquests, etc. - need to register $
- EdSitement
- great educational material -suggested Websites and lesson
plans - in literature/language arts, art/culture, social studies/history
and foreign language.
- Education
World "where educators go to learn" with search engine
for teachers
- Educational
CyberPlayground
- Eduscapes
"helps educators address common technology integration questions
by providing practical, online resources and activities"
- Edutopia.org
- what works in education
- 4teachers.org
integrating technology
- eThemes
- a great list of online resources for students, arranged by grade level - searchable
- Filamentality
- AT&T - guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering
good Internet links, and turning them into learning activities
- *The
Gateway to Educational Material from ERIC "The key to
one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other
education resources on the Internet!"
- HomeroomTeacher.com
with general resources and clipart
- Internet4Classrooms
- online links to skills based assessment
activities - by grade level
- Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators - Discovery School
- KidsHealth
in the Classroom tips from teachers, information about common
childhood health problems, health-related news, and other resources - teacher's
guides, handouts, and quizzes - all aligned to recently updated national health
education standards.
 - Landmark
Project One of the earliest educational websites on the Internet
with links to teaching and learning resources on the Net and valuable Web tools
- images, primary sources, subject areas.
- LessonPlanPage
- New
York Times Learning Network (gr. 3-12)
- OER
Commons - lesson plan database online to share
- PBS
Learning Media - provides a variety of resource types -- videos,
interactives, documents, audio and images - all curriculum-targeted for classroom
use - and interactives perfect for the Interactive Whiteboard, plus audio and
photos, and even in-depth lesson plans.
- Teachers.net
- teacher resources
- Teachnet.com
lesson plans for all grades, postcard and buddy exchanges, Teacher-2-Teacher
email forums, a free newsletter, how-to projects for the classroom, commentaries,
reviews and much more
- Teach-nology
for integrating technology "giant collection of resources"
- Thinkfinity
- new MarcoPolo site- online educational resources -interactives
and videos and lesson plans - FREE for teachers
- TrackStar
- find internet links/lesson plans by keyword, subject or theme
- Washington
State OSPI - Standards -- https://eds.ospi.k12.wa.us/ealrs/
Back
to TOP Bookmarked by Barb
There are hundreds more: these are sites I bookmarked from recommendations
based on listservs to which I subscribe. - AdLit.org
- Adolescent Literacy resources for parents and educators of kids
grades 4-12
- Adventures
of Cyberbee with curriculum ideas, treasure hunts and web links
by the author of Net Curriculum: An Educator's Guide to Using the Internetand
of a regular column for MultiMedia
Schools magazine
- CybraryMan
- great set of links to all subjects - for kids, teachers, parents, etc.
- KathiMitchell.com
- great set of curriculum related
subject sites
- Marc
Sheehan's lesson plans - resources and plans at different grade
levels - from Pacific Lutheran University
- MIKIDS
a k-8 educational site of safe links, book reviews, etc.
- ReadWriteThink.org
- great ideas, online activities under Student Materials
- Resources
for Teachers and Parents Stetson MS, Philadelphia
- S.C.O.R.E
online resources for education, Schools of CA
- Shannon
McClintock Miller Diigo site list of subject links to
EVERYTHING
- Songs for
Teaching - songs by curriculum area: math, language arts, transitions
- Teach
Mentor Texts
- Teachers@work
over 1,000 of the best Internet curriculum resources for teachers
- TheTeachersCorner.net
an excellent site with thematic units with web sites, lesson plans
and books
- Zwolle
Elementary School - reading links - great list of resources,
games, and activities
Back
to TOP Balanced Assessment Book
reports - alternatives to Clip Art, Coloring
pages, crafts, games and more Common Core Copyright
-- and Copyright Friendly
images and Sound -- list and Royalty
free video and images fro book trailers/reviews Differentiated
Instruction - lesson planning templates
- Adapt lessons
to reach all students
- TeacherVision list of methods (may need to subscribe)
- Dare
to Differentiate - Wikispace - topics and strategies - with powerpoints and
PDF
- Differentiated
Instruction - Polk Schools http://www.polk-schools.com/Differentiated.htm
- Differentiated
Instruction: one size doesn't fit all http://www.learnerslink.com/curriculum.htm
- Differentiated
instsruction: a hotlist of websites http://www.frsd.k12.nj.us/rfmslibrarylab/di/differentiated_instruction.htm
- basic
understandings sites )learning styles, multiple intelligence), teaching strategy
sites, lesson plan and classroom management sites, assessment and rubics sites,
online tutorials sites on all
- Differentiated
Instruction- list of links from Internet4Classrooms
- learning styles
sites, instructional theory sites, practical tips for the classroom sites, sample
units and lesson sites, multi-link sites
- EdHelper.com
- lesson plans, books to print, worksheets and actvities - need to subscribe (see
Barb Cutler)
- Formative Assessment
PDF
- Four
differentation mistakes to avoid - MindSteps
- Getting
started with Differentiation - questions and answers with Rick Wormeli from
MiddlWeb Listserv
- Math
- Rubrics
and assessment templates, subject specific, from Kathy Schrock Discovery School
- Staff
Development for Educators (SDE) - includes list of PDF files of DI resources
- Tiered
Lesson Plans: differentiation for all learners - various subject lesson plans
with tiered assessment options
Graphic
Organizers iPads Internet Safety Issues Keeping Current
- 101 Free Tech
Tools for Teachers - PDF- SimpleK12.com e-workbooks
- 4Teachers
- teaching with technology 4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology
into your classroom by offering online tools and resources. This site helps teachers
locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars
- Associations,
organizations and Conferences
- Best
websites for teaching and learning - AASL - 25 best and new 2010
Best Websites AND 2011
Best Websites AND 2012
Best Websites
- * Media Sharing * Digital Storytelling * Manage and
Organize * Social Networking and Communication * Curriculum Sharing * Content
Resources: Lesson Plans and More * Content Collaboration
- Big
Fresh - Choice Literacy.com offers top sites visited each year
by literacy leaders
- Bucket
list of Online Educational Resources - David Kapuler's
- Digital
Learning Day
- Florida
Virtual School
- iLearnTechnology
- International
/ global / world communities interaction and activities
- Kathy
Schrock - educational technology
blogs
- Kentucky
Academy of Technology Education (KATE) - online video
tutorials and resources and TICK
for searchable lesson plans
- Magazines and publications dealing with education
and/or technology - see full list at http://www.world-newspapers.com/education.html
- Converge
Magazine: Technology in Education documents the technology
revolution sweeping modern education and chronicles policy drivers, trends and
technology achievements.
- Ed Tech
K-12
- Education Week Covers
local, state, and national news and issues from preschool through the 12th grade
- Education
World - :educator's best friend" with
technology section
- eSchool
News - Monthly newspaper for K-12 decision-makers covering
all aspects of school technology news
- Media
& Methods - Technology & education magazine used for purchasing
decisions in K-12 schools.
- MidLink
Magazine digital magazine for students by students 8-18, with
teacher resources links
- Tech
and Learning - Magazine for educational professionals at the
district level and K-12 grade level. Provides software and new product reviews,
as well as important news on technology for teachers, media specialists and librarians.
- THE
Journal - Journal for K-12 administrators and teachers who
recommend, specify, or approve the purchase of technology for their districts,
schools, and classrooms
- Wired.com
- newest in technology and trends
- Microsoft
Partners in Learning Network - global connections, tutorials, free tools
- Middle
School Portal2:Math and Science Pathways - a social network
with online resources for teachers
- MiddleWeb.com
exploring the challenges of middle school reform, and brimming
with resources for educators and parents, with an e-mail list
- National
Science Digital Library - with resources , links for teachers
- Partnership
for 21st Century Learning
- MILE
guide - Milestones for Improving Learning & Education
- Pew
Internet and American Life Project - source for current information
and statistics on the impact of the internet on children and families
- Puget
Sound Educational Service District (PSESD) newsletter
(One to one) and classes
- The
Scout Report A weekly publication of new and newly discovered
Internet sites for researchers and educators. These sites are REVIEWED by educators!!
To receive the electronic mail version of the Scout Report each week, join the
scout-report mailing list by sending an email to:listserv@cs.wisc.edu in the body
of the message, type: subscribe scout-report yourfirstname yourlastname
- Search
Engine Watch - search engines and tips and information about
searching
- Technology -
new technology -- How-to-Guides--
see also Best
Websites for teaching and learning
- FREE
Technology for Teachers Free Resources and Lesson Plans for Teaching with
Technology
Joyce
Valenza's list of new tools and technology to use Teacher
Training videos on new softwares - Russell Stannard, a lecturer at the
University of Westminster (UK) has created a ton of training videos for many of
the common educational technology tools; he covers Moodle, Twitter, Audacity,
Wordpress, Jing, podcasting, and many more useful tools - Animoto
-- see also One True Media - example
of both
- avatars.yahoo.com --
create picture of self
- Aviary.com
- basic photo editing online. They have this built-in shortcut: If you simply
add "http://aviary.com/" to the beginning of the URL that you wish to capture,
it grabs the site and auto-opens in the Aviary editor.
- Blabberize
- make own video with cut mouth movements
- Content
Clips.com - find and organize multimedia clips to quickly assemble simple
web-based teaching activities and presentations - National Science Digital Library
- DabbleBoard
- synchronous, online whiteboard tool that allows the creation of multiple pages
and integrates text and video chat
- Diigo
- social bookmarking tool, allows a researcher to organize sites and images from
the web, as well as personal notes, using keywords
- EPals
- community of over 200 countries where students can connect with other students
from around the world
- Flash animation - Sproutbuilder.com
- Flickr
- Glogster
for Teachers - create online interactive posters for yourself and your students
- GoAnimate
- make your own cartoons
- iPads
in the Classroom - website with links collected by Kathy Schrock SOS for Teachers
- Jelly
Cam -- make stop motion movies
- Jing
an easy to use tutorial program where you can record audio over images cast over
your desktop (working in microsoft office, searching the web, navigating a computer,
etc...) and can record and post these videos online
- Keyboard
shortcuts
- Knovio.com
- add audio/video to PowerPoints
- Little
Bird Tales - add audio to pictures created or imported - great for with kids
artwork and stories
- MeoGraph
- create online stories with embedded video, background maps, etc
- November
Learning - Alan November- Tech Guru whose web page has tons of tech-based
resources
- Padlet - formerly Wallwisher-
create a flexible online space where students can create virtual posters, brainstorming
boards, virtual project portfolios, and share learning with others.
- Pictures
online
- Popcorn
Maker - makes it easy to enhance, remix and share web video. Use your web
browser to combine video and audio with content from the rest of the web — from
text, links and maps to pictures and live feeds -- like TED ED
- Qwiki
Creator - presentation and put all together in one spot - web content, video,
images, maps, content from your computer, text or even a tweet
- Schmoop
- Smart, fun, plain-spoken study guides and teacher resources
- Screencasting
- SlideShare.net
and for educators (shows
example of Geography of Japan) - or search for ones already done
- SimpleBooklet.com
- make your own eBooks
- Soundzabound
for royalty free music
- StickyBits
app- adding content to barcodes - QR codes
- Student
Led Conferences from Zionsville Midle School (need FLASH9)
- Surveys
- TeacherBootCamp
Blog - Reboot
Summer Camp
- Top Ten Tools
for technology in primary classroooms - Kathy
Cassidy website and links
- Twitter
- one of many social networking sites that students use on a daily basis where
we can connect with them to share learning in their arenas
- VoiceThread
- create collaborative multimedilideshows using images, documents and videos (maybe
$)
- Weebly
- Widgets
- Wikis
and
- Daring Tech Wiki
- to share information & professional development products for creative instruction
- Educational
Oragami - information about using technology to support Bloom's Taxonomy;
there are tips, tricks, handouts, and information to support you as you use this
in your classroom
- Wikis
for educators
- wordle.net
-- create word pictures
Learning Resource
Center - recommended sites Tutoring
and Educational Resource List- (pdf updated 4/2011) list of people and
groups
Back to
TOP Learning
Style templates http://www.highsmith.com/pdf/librarysparks/2011/lsp_feb11_tech_repros.pdf Lesson
Planning templates Literacy Links - Literacy
Shed - with great video clips to inspire writing - British
Multicultural Podcasts Reading - ReadWorks.org
-- reading lesson plans by book units and skills and strategy units - need to
register, but FREE
Readers'
Theater - Power
of Readers Theater Teaching
Reading - 25 best - Phonemic Awareness
- Phonics
- Fluency
- Vocabulary
- Text comprehension
Religion
 - Advent
- Finding
God - Program resources, Loyola Press - with keyword search option
- Learning
to Give.org - with lesson plans
- Lent
-- including Matt Roodrum,
run with me video and prayer PDF
- Liturgical
year
- Loyola
Press - lesson plans and activities
- Mary
- including Rosary
- OneTimeBlind
- minimovies - short film illustrations for use in worship services and small
groups - sharing stool with God - prayer by Grace McLaughlin
- Oscar
Romero Education Packet PDF
- Pope - how
to become pope video (bit tongue in cheek)
- TopMarks
-- religion based interactive white board activities: Christinaity,
Judaism, Hinduism, Islam
- Bible
for Children.org - 60 stories from the bible: Old and New Testament- click
on colorful pictures to advance story
- Life
of Jesus - A simple illustrated story of the life of Jesus.
It includes his birth, his visit to the temple as a boy, his baptism, the disciples,
miracles and death - REfuel.org
- New
Testament: Lost sheep, healing a blind man, good Samaratin - REfuel.org
- Story
of Christmas - A simple story about the first Christmas for
young children - REfuel.org
SmartBoard
and Interactive activities and ideas ------- see especially Smart
Exchange -- search by word or browse by subject area FLASH websites
- Eduscapes list by subject Interactive sites - shockwave online activities PowerPoint
sites Whiteboard/Smartboard sites
Special
Needs: Student Learning Expectations - Visiting
Committee Report for St. Joseph Videos
and music online - and create own - and free -- AND St.
Joseph Media Server
Create
Own (from Best
Websites for teaching and learning - AASL) - others from Free
Technology for Teachers - Animoto.com
- Create a video in five minutes – no kidding! Using Animoto, educators and students
can create videos that contain photos, graphics, music, text and more!
- AudioBoo
- record audio online or mobile iPhone app
- Blabberize
- make own video with cut mouth movements
- Content
Clips.com - find and organize multimedia clips to quickly assemble simple
web-based teaching activities and presentations - National Science Digital Library
- CoSketch.com
- multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize
- sketch- and share your ideas as images
- Creaza
Education - video and audio editing, cartoon creation, mind mapping tool
- JayCut.com
- free online editing, need to register
- Masher.com
- free - with video clips from the BBC's Motion Gallery and Rip Curl video, a
large music library, an effects library, and a good selection of video player
skins.
- Memoov - free - create animated
video up to 5 min. in length
- Our
Story.com - create timeline
- Primary
Access - online tool for students and teachers to combine text, visual, and
sound elements, which are then combined to convey information about their chosen
historical event or time frame - digital movies - search under "community"
for examples of subjects, time periods, etc.
- Ripple.com
- read stories online
- SlideSix - add
narration to slideshows directly through the Slide Six website.
- Storyboarding
- StupFlix
- similar to Animoto - see also Schwup
- Voice
Thread - The end of the boring slide show! VoiceThread allows users to share
images, documents, and videos with added narration by the authors and others.
- We
Video
- Wordle.Net - creat word
map image -- se also Tagxedo -- to make
into pictures
- Xtranormal:motivational
animation - create own with preset figures and backgrounds - just type in
dialogue
- ZimmerTwins - students
can create a story from scratch or complete one of the "cliff hanger" story starters.
Online
videos - 90+
videos for tech and media literacy : conversation starters to history
of technology, internet, internet safety and more
- Academic
Earth - 1500 videos of lectures by top scholars in variety of subjects, universities
such as MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, and Stanford - need to register, but free - and
graded
- Annenberg Media -
Learner.org -- free online videos, need to register first - browse
programs
- BBC's
One Minute Wonders videos
- BrainPop
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- after school hours
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- BrainPopJr.-
for younger grades
- es.BrainPOP.com
- Spanish version - same passwords
- Games
-- NEW
- C-SPAN
video archives online
- Discovery
Channel videos
- Film and online film clips
- AnyClip.com
- search for specific subject matter in movies
- iCue
- NBC News links to videos
- NeoK12
- educational videso, lessons and games for k-12 school kids
- WatchKnow.org
- videos for students to learn from - organized
- Documentaries
- FreeDocumentaries.org
- History
Channel - several topics from history, science, holidays (need to watch 10
sec. commercial first)
- Story
of Us - online videos - Rebels and also Revolution and an online Quiz
- Khan
Academy - over 1800 online, instructional tutorials for math courses from
algebra to calculus, and science courses including biology, chemistry, physics,
and more
- Kideos.com - kids videos
online
- Nature
magazine's free access online video
- NBC
Learn - NBC News and the historic film and video archive available to teachers,
students, schools -- 30 day free trial
- NOVA
- Science Now - videos: "watch oneline" tab and activities under
"interactives" tab
- NOVA
- Teacher's
- PBS.org - A-Z
list of programs
- Quotes
about Learning and change - Kay Schrock link to Flickr
- Science
of Everyday Life - some videos and lesson plans
- Science
Online - need King County Library card #
- Squirrel movie - Give
a squirrel a helping hand
- SqoolQuarium
and Sqooltube - includes many Magic
School Bus videos - from Sqooltools.com
- SqoolTube
- Berenstain Bears, Clifford, Dr. Seuss, Little, Bear, Little Critter, Magic School
Bus, Maurice Sendak
- Steve
Spangler's Science Videos
- Teacher
Tube - free - like YouTube, but teacher generated
- Teacher
Domain - onlinve videos, media, lesson plans grouped by subject
- FREE but need to register - WGBH
- Teacher
Training videos on new softwares - Russell Stannard, a lecturer at the University
of Westminster (UK) has created a ton of training videos for many of the common
educational technology tools; he covers Moodle, Twitter, Audacity, Wordpress,
Jing, podcasting, and many more useful
- TED
Ed - educational videos with quiz and lesson plan info
- ThatToonKid'sChannel
- animated book and other online videos
- Watch
Learn Know - free educational videos
- YouTube
Edu -all levels of content
- Web 2.0 free presentation software to create
your own online videos - (cost for premium subscriptions)- see School
Library Journal article to read about
Webquests
: an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by
learners is drawn from the Web Worksheets Writing
-- Youtube - Kid President,
writing letter to Santa with Nick Hornby - Grammar sites
- Inside
story - Society of Children Book Writers and Illustrators - Western WA
- Persuasive
Chart PDF
- Writing prompts
- Bright
ideas for writing - Houghton Mifflin - with photos for extra
inspiration
- Journal
writing every day - article with prompt ideas at the end -
Education World
- Story
Starters - 50 ideas to get the creative juices flowing. Click
Writing Process at the bottom of the page for help with brainstorming, graphic
organizers, the first draft, revising, editing, and the final copy
- Writing
Bugs - Education World.
- WritingFix
- writing ideas strategically designed to "fix" reluctant writers and writing
teachers
- Writing
and grammar resources - picture book examples for
- Writing
tips from children's authors
- Young
Authors Conference - WA - annual celebration of young authors held every spring
at Skagit Valley College in Mount Vernon.
Each year, students begin the day
getting acquainted with each other as they share their own manuscripts. Each student
then spends one hour with the featured author, one hour with a local author, and
one hour with a local illustrator |