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	Free and inexpensive SB-CEUs. Michigan Learnport is in partnership with Michigan Virtual University. This site was created by the State of Michigan to enhance State Board requirements to school districts with limited resources.
My Education Connection	My Education Connection - discounted online professional development courses for MACUL members. The Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning and Instructional Technology Service, Inc. are pleased to announce new online professional development courses. There is customized, online learning opportunity for teachers that focus on core academic content in a self-paced format. You may select as many learning modules as you wish and earn between 15-45 clock hours of professional development. In addition, you will have the option of paying for 1-3 graduate credit hours from higher education partners. Also, you can access over 200 on-line courses in a variety of formats - instructor-led, self-paced and an online learning library. Many of these courses can be taken for graduate credit! More information about establishing online professional development for your district can be found at the My Education Connection site: www.myedconnect.com or Dr. Brannan can be contacted at: (517) 214-1880, or tim.brannan@comcast.net.
Michigan Department of Education	MDE Office of Professional Preparation Services - On-Line State Board -Continuing Education Unit - (SB-CEU) Master Listing System. Courses are listed by category, month offered, and sponsor.
Thinkfinity	MDE is now a State Education Partner with Thinkfinity, which is sponsored by the Verizon Foundation. If you haven't heard of Thinkfinity, you may have heard of Marco Polo--this is the new and improved Marco Polo. Through the partnership with Thinkfinity there is a FREE TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION TRAINING for teachers. They are currently looking for teachers and media specialists interested in becoming field trainers, so that they can start doing technology integration training for teachers in their district and ISD. The field trainer training is a 6-week online course that requires no specific meeting times. 3 SB-CEUs (free) or 2 grad credits through North Dakota State University for $100 are available too. The next training starts in July with a May 30th registration deadline. If you want to participate in this session or if you have questions, please e-mail Karen Hairston at hairstonk@michigan.gov.

Adopt-A-Classroom	Sign up for free, and people around the country/world can adopt your classroom. Adopt-A-Classroom directs 100% of the donation to the classroom teacher in the form of online credit. Adopt-A-Classroom takes $0 for administration. A donor selects a classroom and makes a contribution for the teacher to use and purchase much needed resources for the classroom. Donors may search for classrooms by geography, school name, teacher name or other search criteria. If a donor has no preference, Adopt-A-Classroom partners the donor with an underserved classroom in the community. The teacher uses the credit to shop online from a network of affiliate vendors that have partnered with Adopt-A-Classroom. The teacher has full discretion to purchase resources that meet student needs and increase opportunity for classroom success. If the teacher is unable to meet classroom needs with the affiliate vendors, Adopt-A-Classroom will work with the teacher on a one-to-one basis. Adopt-A-Classroom sends each donor an "Impact Report" which details item-by-item, dollar-for-dollar what the teacher purchased with the donation. Donors and teachers communicate throughout the school year, so donors can learn about the difference they have made in the lives of the students. In most instances, donors receive thank you packages, artwork and other student created projects. Donors may choose to support the classroom in ways beyond the financial contribution, such as visiting the classroom, chaperoning field trips and other activities that are coordinated directly between donor and teacher.
Animoto	Provides new approaches to digital storytelling with images, music, and comments. Digital stories can be embedded into a blog, wiki, LMS e.g. Moodle/Blackboard, YouTube, or saved for offline playback ($). Animoto for Education provides educators a special educational account with premium options for no charge - EducatorsAnimoto. The educational FAQ answers many questions such as the maximum length of a video (10 minutes) and number of images (approximately 300.) It also suggests tips for registering students and managing video project creation. Animoto videos may be downloaded in QuickTime (free) & to DVD ($).
Back-up	Mozy, an online back up for both PC and Mac. 2g free or $5 a month unlimited space. A copy of your data is stored in a secure, remote location for safekeeping, so that in the event of disaster your data is still retrievable.
Despair	Motivational posters, mugs, and notecards for your home or office. Also available in desk size and calendars. Now a humorous personal demotivator.
evernote	You can write a note on anything: Web cam, phone camera, or iPhone. Performs OCR recognition and you are able to search by it. Free
Glogster for Educators	A way to create on-line multimedia posters. Can add links, audio, videos, etc.
iGoogle	Keep Me Up To Date – iGoogle http://www.google.com/ig allows you to customize your Google page to hold your most important information. The Google search tool is still there, but the white area has now been replaced with modules you select. Modules can be rearranged and multiple pages can be created so personal information can be kept separate from work information. Modules may contact the latest news, RSS content from your favorite blog, or gadgets with the current weather forecasts or the word of the day. Principals use iGoogle to monitor teachers’ blogs. From www.google.com click the upper right corner where it says iGoogle to login or create an account. Then start adding content. Switch back to the “Classic” view at anytime with a click. Getting Started with iGoogle
Jott	Call a simple phone number, speak your notes, messages, or updates and hang up. Jott Voicemail works the same way, but your friends, family, and colleagues are the ones leaving the messages when they call your number. Then, Jott takes the spoken messages, turns them into text, and sends them to the right destination via email, text message, or web update. Supports Twitter. Small monthly fee.
Michigan Online Resources for Educators	MeL is a project of the Library of Michigan, an agency of the Department of History, Arts and Libraries. Provides all Michigan residents with free access to online full-text articles, full-text books, digital images, and other valuable research information at any time via the Internet; and provide an easy-to-use interlibrary loan system to allow Michigan residents to borrow books and other library materials for free from participating Michigan libraries. Find resources linked to Michigan GLCE's!
Open Office	Free open source suite of productivity programs. Includes: word processing, formula editor, spreadsheet, and graphic applications.
Remember the Milk	Note taking Web site that allows you to call it from your cell phone and leave a reminder to yourself. Get your email, SMS, or IM reminders. Manage tasks offline and use Google Calendar. Free.
Skype	Free Internet calls and chats! Millions of people use Skype to communicate for free through voice and video calls as well as instant messages. Many people also use Skype to call landline and mobiles with pay as you go Skype Credit or a monthly subscription.
Survey Monkey	Teachers can create online surveys to pre or post assess learning. Students and teachers can also create online surveys for analysis. Free.
Trillian	If you use more than one instant messaging application this will consolidate them all. Windows. Adium - Mac
Wordle	Wordle is a tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. It creates a great visual of important themes in a piece of text.

4Teacher

The 4Teacher site provides a rich collection of different tools with RubiStar and TrackStar being two of the most popular. RubiStar allows users to create and save rubrics using predefined categories and text. TrackStar will guide students in their use of the Internet with guided “tracks” with questions and links to websites. The real strength is rubrics and tracks others have created are available for your use. Be sure to visit the Teacher Tacklebox to search for a curriculum area and be prepared for success.

Annenberg/CPB Learner.org

Grades K - 12. Free professional development. Annenberg Media uses media and telecommunications by funding and broad distribution of educational video programs with coordinated Web and print materials. Annenberg Media's multimedia resources help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods. Includes: Chat or forum, lesson plans, teacher resources, parents resources, teacher’s guide, video or audio, Web links, assessment ideas, e-newsletter, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.

AOL@School

Elem. Created by American Online. Importance on current events. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, parents resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, reproducibles, student activities, and student reading material.

BBC Schools

Ages 5 - 16. The site provides free educational content. The UK spends $289 million on this children's education Web site.

Blue Web’n

Elem. Blue Web'n is an online library of Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). The sites in Blue Web'n are chosen by the Education Advocates who have advanced degrees in education and/or library science and have numerous years of teaching or library experience. Includes: Lesson plans, teacher resources, parents resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, reproducibles, student activities, and student reading material.

ClassNotesOnline

A resource for teachers to communicate with students and parents. This FREE service allows teachers to keep students up to date and parents informed on the daily work, assignments, homework, and grades in all of their classes. 12 optional home page services. Template-driven, so it’s fill in the blank. Includes: The class syllabus, class supplies, a classroom information page, a calendar of events, classroom news, classroom photos, useful classroom links, class notes, class files, homework assignments, grade book, and guestbook.

Discovery School

A Free resource for K-12 teachers. Includes: Puzzlemaker, Lesson Planner, Quiz Center, Worksheet Generator, and Custom Classroom. Also this site includes: Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators, Clip Art Gallery, Science Fair Central, and BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper.

Education World

A search engine for educational Web sites only, content, including lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, and articles written by education experts; site reviews; daily features and columns; teacher and principal profiles; Wire Side Chats with the important names in education; employment listings.

Educational Web Adventures

Elem. EduWeb designs online learning games that has produced over 75 immersive interactive, and in-depth adventures about art, technology, science and history. The company’s clients are museums and cultural institutions. Includes: Lesson plans, teacher resources, parents resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.

Educator’s Reference Desk

Elem. Resources formerly housed at AskERIC. Contains four tabs: Resource Guides, Lesson Plans, Question Archives, and Search GEM/ERIC. Includes: Lesson plans, teacher resources, parents resources, Web links, and assessment ideas.

eThemes

Elem. eThemes is a service of the eMINTS National Center. eThemes resources are created and maintained by University of Missouri-Columbia College of Education staff and graduate students from the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies. Includes: Lesson plans, teacher resources, Web links, and assessment ideas.

Internet 4Classrooms: Teacher Tools

Elementary. Developed by Susan Brooks and Bill Byles. The link is a collection of 20 categories. The tools include: Assessment Tools, Awards & Certificates, Books to Make, Bulletin Boards, Calendars, Flashcards, Forms and Templates, Game and Puzzle Makers, Internet4Classrooms Forms, Lesson Plan Templates, Miscellaneous, New Teacher Help, Personal Educational Press, Planning Tools, Printable Bookmarks (for books), Printable Resources for SEN (Special Education Needs), Storage Sites, 3-D Printables, Web Page Hosting, and Worksheets.

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress serves as the research arm of Congress. It is the largest library in the world. The Library's mission is to make its resources available and useful to Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations.

Merlot

MERLOT's goal is to improve teaching and learning by increasing the quantity and quality of peer reviewed online learning materials that can be incorporated into faculty designed courses.

MORE

The Michigan Electronic Library’s Michigan Online Resources for Educators (MORE). You can browse by content expectations, subject, or do an advanced search. Note links in content expectations sections are still being completed and you may not find links in some areas. Links are represented by a laptop icon.

Quizlet

Studystack

Online Flash Cards and study games. Quizlet and studystack Create your own or use existing sets.

Recipes4Success

Use the Recipes when you want a tutorial to help learn a new application. Tutorials include: Microsoft Office products, Adobe Photoshop, FileMaker Pro, Inspiration, and Kid Pix Deluxe 3. Includes: rubric maker, graphic organizer, maker, and bibliography maker.

Resources for Teachers

Created by Jefferson County Schools in Dandridge, Tennessee. There are more than 30 forms and templates that can be printed. Topics include: ABC observation Form (Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence), 20 ways to foster values in children, primary student behavior self-analysis, good news report, helping your child become better organized. Web sites include: you can handle them all, good behavior charts, and parent conference.

Scholastic

K-8 Teachers. The tools include: Graphic Organizers, Rubric Maker, Flash Card Maker, Spelling Wizard, Class Homepage Builder, Class Part (connect with teachers and collaborate around the world), classroom calendar, To-Do List, Class Set-Up Tool, School Supply List Maker, Printable Classroom Organizers, Scholastic Wireless (download news, activities, and events to your handheld device, Your Tech Tutor (expert advice and ideas).

Super Teacher Tools

Super Teacher Tools provides the tools that teachers love, such as the random name generator, and seating chart tool. Once a class list is created or uploaded, a teacher is assigned a number so their list may be used again and again.

TEAMS Distance Learning

Elem. Produced by Los Angeles County Office of Education and supported by a U. S. Department of Education Star Schools grant. Part of TEAMS is free, part requires a subscription. Free includes: Lesson plans, teacher resources, parents resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.

Thinkfinity

Teachers of all grade levels can easily find lesson plans, interactive activities, worksheets, rubrics, media, primary source documents, and reference materials from many high quality content providers with one search.

ThinkingGear

Create your own self-scoring rubrics you can store in MyGear. Not downloadable.

Thinkport

Free. Downloadable video clips. Instant messaging, lesson plan builder, student activity builder, and project builder, timeline maker, online text annotation tool. Fee-based Maryland professional development courses under Course Enrollment.

Thirteen Ed Online

Elem. Channel 13, the PBS station located in New York City and licensed to Newark, New Jersey. Click on SITEMAP at the bottom of the homepage for easy navigation. Includes: Lesson plans, teacher resources, parents resources, teacher’s guide, video or audio, Web links, assessment ideas, e-newsletter, and reproducibles.

Tools for Educators

Tools for Educators is a site with worksheets, cross word maker, word search, certificate creators and more.

Utah Education Network

Elem. This site provides a wealth of resources, including Student Interactives pages. http://www.uen.org/k12student/ where links are organized by curriculum area to Java, Flash, and Shockwave based interactive activities.

WebQuest Page

Elem. The model was developed by Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University in February, 1995 with early input from SDSU/Pacific Bell Fellow Tom March, the Educational Technology staff at San Diego Unified School District. Includes: Chat or forum, lesson plans, teacher resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, student activities, and student reading material.

Animoto	Create professional-looking flashy videos with music in a matter of minutes.
Big Huge Labs	Create cool projects with your own (or saved) images.
Cool Text	Free graphics generator for web pages, newsletters, folders, and name tags. Over 30 logo designs, hundreds of fonts, scads of colors and font sizes up to 3 inches high.
Cue Prompter	This is an online teleprompter. It can be helpful when students are recording podcasts or other types of broadcasts.
FindSounds	Over 1,000,000 sound effects and instrument sounds found on the Web.
Flickr Creative Commons Search	Find images that photographers have licensed with creative commons licenses for use in student projects.
Fonts	Elementary. Fonts range from simple for primary grades to highly stylized for advertising. Most are free.
Freeplay Music	Free copyright-cleared, quality music for a presentation. There are more than 1,400 top-notch musical selections.
Google search for LIFE photos	Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.
Internet Archive	Not censored screen before student use. Created by a non profit organization, it features over 31,000 movies, 31,000 concerts of live music, 76,000 audio recordings, 27,000 texts, and 55,000,000,000 (billion) Web pages.
Internet4classrooms: Graphics	Top clip art sites include: Barry’s Clip Art Server, Education Clip Art, Science Clip Art, and WiseGorilla. For photos: American Memory Collection, NASA Images, NOAA Environmental Visualization Program, and Pics4Learning. There are 14 sound clip sites, 11 sites from Banner Generator to Pixelsizer, and Photoshop Tutorials.
iTunes Store for Podcasts	Apple’s iTunes is a great place to find podcasts. Pod casts are short videos that can be created and posted on the Web for people to listen to and view on their computer or iPod. Many Web sites host their own. Education podcasts is a great place to start. They include: A School in the Coulee - by middle schoolers in Wisconsin, KidCast:Learning and Teaching with Podcasting – a how-to podcast guide for teachers, Radio WillowWeb - by elementary students in Omaha, Nebraska, The Downs FM - produced by primary students in Kent, UK, The Savvy Technologist - interviews and info from a K-12 curriculum specialist, and Teachers’ TV News – top ed news of the week for teachers.
Jing	Capture images and video from your computer screen. Great for creating tutorials and web page tours.
Jumpcut	Must be 13 and up to use this site. Video that works a lot like iMovie, but it’s all online. Grab pieces or clips from any video posted on the site and include them in your video too. Reporting requested if you find inappropriate clips and they are removed from the site.
MSNBC Videos	YouTube alternative.
OurMedia	YouTube alternative.
Photostory	Create digital videos the easy way!
Picnik	Easy photo editing. Add special effects with a few mouse clicks.
SchoolTube	YouTube alternative.
Smugmug	Offers web interface to add picture groups as well as subgroups. Drag your photos to the smugmug uploader and order them on t-shirts, coffee mugs of get them framed.
Soundzabound	Soundzabound Royalty Free Music supersedes Fair Use in that we fully license the music with unlimited rights for education and sign off that you are protected. 60 day trial period for REMC12, ending April 20. User Name: REMC12 Password: trial60
Speechable	Take any image you have saved on a computer, then add speech bubbles. Save in a variety of formats. Use alone or in PowerPoint, Word, MovieMaker, or other software.
Teachertube	Shareable videos posted and used by educators.
Totlol	YouTube alternative.
Voice Thread	A powerful way to talk about & share your images, documents, and videos.
YouTube	A wide range of videos with educational value are available from YouTube. To download YouTube video in mp4 format follow the instructions on this site to add a link. MP4 playback typically is done with the QuickTime Player.

Copyright Metro: Interactive Guide to Using Multimedia in Your Courses	What pictures, artwork, music, or electronic media can you legally and properly present in your classroom. View this 10 minute video. Produced by Baruch College of the city University of New York. Set a good example for your students.
IMSA 21^st Century Information Fluency Project	Created by the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. There are tools, tutorials, and resources using five Wizard Tools. Tools are: search, evaluation, citation, thesaurus, and spelling.
Information Literacy	Created by Donna Baumbach, of the University of Central Florida. Information literacy skills include: 9 information literacy model sites, 5 searching for information tutorial sites, 7 evaluating information sites, 10 collecting, organizing, analyzing, and using information sites, 8 legal and ethical uses of information sites, and 1 producing research reports site.
KnightCite Bibliography Composer	Created by a student at Calvin College named Justin Searls. It creates citations in MLA, APA, and Chicago styles, for print and electronic sources, including books, anthologies, periodicals, multimedia, communications and Web sites.
mynoteIT	Designed for note taking in class. Use it to save notes, search your own notes, and those of others, look up the definition of a word, track your grades, send messages to buddies, create groups, and maintain a calendar. Includes: subscripts, superscripts, special characters, underlining, table insertion, multiple text colors, numbered and bulleted lists, drawing a line across the page and spell check. IPRISM
PowerPoint Presentations to Support Curriculum Integration	K-12. Created by the South Carolina Department of Education. The slideshows are informative and communicate effectively without a narrator or presenter relating to student research. Titles include: Building Better Research, Collaboration, Copyright, Inquiry-Based Learning, Plagiarism, Putting the Pieces Together, The Big 6, and What Students Must Know.
Research Paper Organizer	Created by Barbara A. Jansen, Librarian/Technology Coordinator at the St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Austin, Texas. Students fill out a Big 6 questionnaire to organize their research. Sections include: memory, convergent, divergent, and evaluative questioning. Also, assignment organizer, research assistant, presentation guidelines, and Web site evaluation guide.

Artsonia	Grades K - 8. Artsonia is the world's largest kids art museum online. Take a look - DKES displays student art projects online. Under Find School, type in Delton's zip code (49046). DKES has over 3700 student art projects displayed.
ArtsConnectEd	Elem. Developed by Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Walker Art Center. Divided into five sections: Art Gallery, For Your Classroom, Library & Archives, Playground, and Search. Included in this site: lesson plans, teacher resources, parent resources, teacher guide, Web links, assessment ideas, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
Getty Education	Elem. This is the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles’ home page for K-12 teachers. There are four main sections: Looking at Decorative Arts, Looking at Portraits, Language Through Art: An ESL Enrichment Curriculum (Adult), About Life: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange, Art & Language Arts: Ideas for the Classroom, and Devices of Wonder: Teaching Tools. Included: chat or forum, lesson plans, teacher resources, parent resources, teacher’s guide Web links, assessment ideas, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
Jazz	Elem. Accompanies the famed 10-part Ken Burns documentary series on PBS. About 20 hours of video. Thirteen sections that include: Places, Spaces & Changing Faces, Jazz Lounge, Musical Notes, and over 100 Biographies. Included: lesson plans, teacher resources, teacher’s guide, video or audio, Web links, assessment ideas, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
Kids Design Network	Elem. Developed by DuPage Children’s Museum in Naperville, Illinois activities involve simple machines, communication skills, integration of technology, and collaborative learning with concepts of drama, art, gravity, friction, and magnetism. Included: lesson plans, teacher resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
MoMa Educational Resources	Elem. Ages 5 – 8. Portal to the Education Department of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Included: lesson plans, teacher resources, parent resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, e-newsletter, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
National Gallery of Art: Education	Elem. Created by the National Gallery of Art, it begins with NGA Classroom and NGA Loan Program. The Resource Finder has materials in six curriculum areas, covering over 35 topics and features over 60 artists. The free loan program has slide sets, multimedia programs, videos, CDs, DVDs, and resource guides. Included: lesson plans, teacher resources, parent resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
New York Philharmonic Kidzone	Elem. Sponsored by The New York Philharmonic Orchestra. The site uses its conductors, musicians, and history as backdrops. There are eight main areas: games, instruments, soloists, and conductors; how to make instruments at home with common objects; musicians, composers, and historical overviews from baroque through the present. Included: teacher resources, video or audio, Web links, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
TeachingArts.org	Elem. Focuses on dance, music, theater, and visual arts. Visitors will find organizations, programs, and sites from all over the U.S. Features film clips of the best tap dancers of the 20^th century. Included: chat or forum, teacher resources, teacher’s guide, video or audio, Web links, assessment ideas, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.

Dave’s ESL Café	Elem. Created by Dave Sperling, professor at California State University of Northridge. Dozens of topic or activity-specific rooms: Chat Central, Job Center, self-scoring quizzes, Idea Cookbook with hundreds of activities, skill-building resources (Idioms, Phrasal Verbs, Quotes, Slang). Includes: chat or forum, lesson plans, teacher resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
English as a Second Language	Elem. Developed by Dr. Rong-Chang Li, and ESL educator. Thousands of screened Web sites divided into 21 areas: Listening, Reading, Writing, Grammar, Vocabulary, Lesson plans, Quizzes, Idioms, Methods, and Games. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, and assessment ideas.
English Language Study Related Web Projects	Elem. Developed by Charles Kelly and Larry Kelly, teachers of ESL at the Aichi Institute of Technology in Toyota, Japan. The site has four main sections: Activities for ESL Students, Interesting Things for ESL Students, The Internet TESL Journal, and TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links. Hundreds of fun activities like word games, puzzles, quizzes, exercises, slang, and proverbs. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, Web links, assessment ideas, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
Everything ESL	Elem. The author, Judie Haynes, includes four areas: Lesson Plans, Teaching Tips, Resource Picks, and Ask Judie. Includes: chat or forum, lesson plans, teacher resources, parent resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
National Clearninghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction and Programs (NCELA)	Elem. Developed by the U.S. Department of Education’s spot for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Programs. Includes: chat or forum, lesson plans, teacher resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, and reproducibles.
Pandorabots	Elem. Start by having a conversation with a robot; you write them and they write you back. It’s like instant messaging. Includes: student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab	Elem. Created by Randall Davis teaches at the University of Utah’s English Language Institute. The site uses interactive online activities; there are four sections: General Listening Quizzes, Listening Quizzes for Academic Purposes, Long Conversations with Real Audio, and Short Listening Exercises. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, teacher’s guide, assessment ideas, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
The EFL Playhouse	Elem. Developed by Julie Vickery an EFL/ESL teacher who has taught in the U.S. and Korea. Activities sections: Chants, Crafts, Fingerplays, Games, Phonemic Awareness, Recipes, Songs, Teaching Tips, Tongue Twisters, and Links. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, parent resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, and reproducibles.

Bam! Body and Mind	Ages 9 – 13. Make healthy choices through graphics, games, quizzes, and a chatty choice of words, kids explore topics like stress, decision making, physical fitness, and nutrition. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
BC Education	Grades K – 7. From the British Columbia Ministry of Education is a complete physical education program. Includes: teacher resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, and assessment ideas.
coderedrover	Elem. Designed by the Home Safety Council, originally founded by Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse. The site is interactive and activities change regularly to keep you coming back. Students can download a template for devising a home emergency escape plan. Includes: teacher resources, parent resources, Web links, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
KidsHealth	Elem. Consists of 14 sections that contain articles, features, interactive activities. Topics are feelings, health, nutrition, the body, safety, growing up, and illnesses, injuries, and health problems of adults. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, parent resources, teacher’s guide, video or audio, Web links, assessment ideas, e-newsletter, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
PE Central	Elem. Most comprehensive resource for health and PE educators has over 100 editors and advisors from across the U.S. and world. Organized into 19 topics. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, parent resources, Web links, assessment ideas, e-newsletter, and reproducibles.
Wired for Health	Ages 5 – 16. Established by several departments of the national government in Great Britain. Divided into four categories: teachers, Local Healthy Schools Program Coordinators, Education and Health Professionals, and Young People. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, parent resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.

Chateau Meddybemps	Early Elem. Developed by Jerry and Susan Jindrich. Over 20 interactive games and activities. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, parent resources, teacher’s guide, video or audio, Web links, assessment ideas, e-newsletter, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
Children’s Picture Book Database at Miami University	Grades PK – 3. Developed by Miami University Libraries in Oxford, OH. Over 5,000 books are indexed and include literature, language, and communications: mathematics; health and medicine; natural history and natural science; social studies; and visual and performing arts. Includes: teacher resources, parent resources, and Web links.
Database of Award-Winning Children’s Literature	Elem. Created by Lisa R. Bartle, Librarian. The children’s books here have won awards in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, or Australia. Search by age of reader, setting, genre, format, gender, or ethnicity/nationality of protagonist. Includes: teacher resources, parent resources, and Web links.
Gloria’s Web Site	Elem. Features process writing for teachers. Takes you step-by-step through the five steps of writing. Includes: teacher resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, and assessment ideas.
Listen & Write	Ages 9 – 11. Produced by BBC in Great Britain. Focuses on poetry; poems are evaluated by difficulty, age level, has a rhyming dictionary, beatbox, scrapbook, and pictures. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, teacher’s guide, video or audio, Web links, assessment ideas, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
Literacy Center.Net	Early Elem. Focus on pre-reading and early reading skills for young children. Developers believe that second-language acquisition is powerful to reading skills, so many activities are in English, Spanish, French, or German. Includes: teacher resources, video or audio, Web links, student activities, and student interactive exercises.
Monster Exchange	Elem. Since 1995, classes pair up online and students create picture of a monster. Groups then write about the monster and e-mail it to the partner class who then draw a picture based upon the description. Includes: chat or forum, lesson plans, teacher resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, student activities, and student interactive exercises.
Moonlit Road	Elem. Southern ghost stories and folktales byt written and audio versions. Full archive for all text versions. Free registration. Includes: chat or forum, teacher resources, video or audio, Web links, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
Read ● Write ● Think	ReadWriteThink is a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the Verizon Foundation. NCTE and IRA are working together to provide educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content.
Scholastic Teachers	Grades K – 6. Free registration. Students engage in writing workshops, publish genres like biography, fairy tales, folktales, mysteries, news, poetry, speeches, and reviews. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, parent resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, e-newsletter, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
Teaching That Makes Sense	Elem. Developed by Steve Peha, the site contains a collection of short books and articles all about writing, all free and downloadable. Books range in pages from 27 to 124. Books include: The Writing Teacher’s Strategy Guide, Prompted Writing, Student Writing Samples Grades K-12, An Introduction to the Writing Process, Welcome to Writer’s Workshop, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Assessment, The Five Facts of Fiction. What is Good Writing?, The organizers, and the Reading-Writing Poster Pack. Includes: teacher resources, teacher’s guide, and assessment ideas.
Web English Teacher	Grades K-12. Created by Carla Beard. The site is in 22 categories and provides links and a brief description of each Web Site. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, parent resources, Web links, assessment ideas, and reproducibles.

A+ Math	Elem. and MS. This site offers an extensive array of math drills and practice. There are online flashcards, worksheets (printable and interactive); games, and homework help. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, parent resources, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
Coolmath4kids	Grades PK – 6. Mostly games and cool stuff that illustrate math concepts or principles such as: math games, Lemonade Stand, Geometry, Fraction, Brain Benders, Jigsaw puzzles, and coloring book. Great graphics, navigation is friendly. Includes: teacher resources, parent resources, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
Count Us In	Grades PK – 2. Developed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Kid-friendly with a minimum of text. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, parent’s resources, teacher’s guide, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
E-Examples	Grades PK - 12. Developed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). Interactive, motion, and graphics brings the concept to life. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
Eisenhower National Clearninghouse (goENC)	Elem. Now a subscription service. Five sections: Classroom Calendar containing background information, activities, reading lists, math, and science; Digital Dozen that contains an exemplary collection of Web sites; ENC Focus an online magazine; Lessons & Activities; Ask ENC must be 18 or over to request librarian assistance. Includes: chat or forum, lesson plans, teacher resources, parent resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, e-newsletter, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
Fun Mathematics Lessons by Cynthia Lanius	Grades PK – 16. Created by Cynthia Lanius all lessons and activities can be printed or completed on the computer. Includes: teacher resources, parent resources, teacher’s guide, assessment ideas, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
Math Cats	Elem. – MS. Designed by Wendy Petti. Full of powerful mathematics activities. Playful exploration encourages the discovery of math. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, parent resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
Math Forum@Drexel	Elem. Submit your questions about math – Ask Dr. Math (a group of graduate students). Visit Problems of the Week; Teacher2Teacher, and Math Resources by Subject. Includes: chat or forum, lesson plans, teacher resources, parent resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, e-newsletter, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics	Grades PK – 12. Great for use with a projector or Smart-Board. Manipulatives are Ladybug Mazes, Ladybug Leaf, basic introduction to programming. Attribute Blocks and Geoboards, Grapher, Pattern Blocks, and Pentominoes. Includes: teacher resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
Sadlier-Oxford Mathematics	Outstanding math resources for educators.

Exploratorium	Elem. Created by San Francisco’s Exploratorium that calls itself “the museum of science, art, and human perception.” Two best locations for elementary are Explore and Educate. There are online activities, online exhibitions, over 100 Webcasts, over 500 experiments, and Cool Sites. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, parent resources, teacher’s guide, video or audio, Web links, assessment ideas, e-newsletter, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, student reading material.
HowStuffWorks	Grades 3 – 12. Most popular site on the Web. It has WebQuests, online games, extraordinary people, Ask Marshall Brain, and its own magazine. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, e-newsletter, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, student reading material.
NASA Education Enterprise	Under Age 10. NASA has over 24 sites for education. There are four red rectangles on the upper-left hand corner, For Kids has games, art, stories, and activities. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, e-newsletter, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, student reading material.
National Science Teachers Association	Grades PK – 12. An electronic newsletter by grade level and Web links. Includes: chat or forum, lesson plans, teacher resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, e-newsletter, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, student reading material.
Nova Teachers	Elem. The most watched TV science series in the world. Over 120 documentaries and Web sites with Teacher’s Guide and local viewing guide, and a full transcript of all NOVA programs since 1997. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, teacher’s guide, video or audio, Web links, assessment ideas, e-newsletter, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, student reading material.
OLogy	Grades 3 – 8. Created by the American Museum of Natural History. Topics: archaeology, astronomy, biodiversity, genetics, marine biology, paleontology, and physical science. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, student reading material.
Science Learning Network	Elem. Begins with three sections: Check Out News and Links, Science Whatzit? and Explore Our Resources. Site includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, student reading material.
Switch Zoo	Elem. Play with animal parts to create new animals then write about them, and print them out. Includes: teacher’s guide, student activities, student interactive exercises.
The Why Files	Grades 5 – 12. Stories are humorous with great graphics. Topics: science, health, environment and technology. Includes: teacher resources, Web links, e-newsletter, student activities, student interactive exercises, student reading material.
The Yuckiest Site on the Internet	Grades K- 8. Science entertainment that includes the human body and covers dandruff, gas, sweat, and ear wax. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, e-newsletter, student activities, student interactive exercises, student reading material.

Awesome Stories	Grades 4 – 12. Over 2000 historical stories. Enjoy an interactive learning experience as you see thousands of hand-selected and relevant links to pictures, slide-shows, videos, audio-clips, artifacts, manuscripts, documents and other primary sources linked, in context, within each story. Includes: teacher resources, Web links, e-newsletter, student exercises, and student reading material.
Blabberize	Blabberize. Make history come to life as students add their voice to an image with parts of the image moving so it looks like its talking. Try objects/animals, such as a horse telling their view of the Civil War.
Center for History and New Media	Large history-teaching Web site by George Mason University. It includes: Web Scrapbook, Survey Builder, Timeline Builder, Poll Builder, Scribe, Syllabus Finder, and Tools Center.
CRAYON: Create Your Own Newspaper	Elem. Free subscription to create your own newspaper online with over 90 sources available. Includes: teacher resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
Create a Graph	Elem. – MS. Kids' Zone. Created by the National Center for Education Statistics. Produce, print, or download custom-created bar, line, area, pie, and XY (shape) graphs. Hundreds of colors, patterns, and gradients. 10 different fonts, six data groups with up to 50 items each.
Cyberschoolbus: United Nations	Grades 4 – up. This pertains to the United Nations and is translated in English, Spanish, French, Russian, Chinese, and Arabic. Cyberschoolbs is the curriculum section. Includes: chat or forum, lesson plans, teacher resources, teacher guide, assessment ideas, Web links, e-newsletter, reproducibles, student activities, student exercises, and student reading material.
Education Place \| Social Studies Center	PK - 8. Created by Publisher Houghton Mifflin. Includes a teacher’s guide, extensive state resources, outline maps, a link library, searchable unit activities, and a collection of graphic organizers.
Education Place: Social Studies Center	Grades K – 8. Over 60 topics and themes created by Houghton Mifflin. State resources contain a map, facts, and Web links for each state. Outline maps are great for school projects. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, teacher guide, assessment ideas, Web links, reproducibles, student activities, student exercises, and student reading material.
Elementary Theme Pages	Elementary. Created by Jim Cornish of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. This site includes: Cartooning, Clipart, Comments for Report Cards, Ezines, Literature Circles, Maps and Map Skills, Newspapers in Education, Math Story Problems, Writing Prompts, and Math Virtual Manipulatives.
Google Maps	The best spot for mapping. Allows you to plan and reroute your trip. Downloads to your mobile phone.
Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms	K-12. Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms is a project of the Newberry Library’s Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography. It has been prepared with the support of a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Maps may be historic or historical and focus on the history and background of the US from discovery to current day.
HistoryWired	Elem. HistoryWired can be likened to a private tour through the Museum storage areas. Go on a guided tour for over 450 objects belonging to the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution and receive and explanation of their importance. Objects include: Clothing, Home, Arts/Entertainment, Transportation, or Science/Medicine. Fun! Includes: Teacher resources, Web links, and student interactive exercises.
iEARN	Elem. Participate in collaborative online projects that change the world. Over 150 projects listed in 30 languages, over 25,000 schools participating from 125 countries. Over 2 million students per day involved in projects. Includes: chat or forum, teacher resources, parent resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, e-newsletter, student activities, student exercises, and student reading material.
Infonation	In the basic InfoNation you can choose up to six countries from an alphabetical list of all countries. The basic and advanced versions allow you to display the data as a bar graph that can then be printed. You can display up to six graphs at a time and gives you the flexibility of choosing any statistic you want. In other words, you could choose a health statistic in one graph and an economy statistic in the graph right next to it. Also, footnotes have been inserted to highlight different methods used by Member States to collect data or to clarify when data was collected. The key indicators include: their population, economy, health, technology, or environment.
National Geographic Education Guide	Grades K - 12. The mission of National Geographic's Education Foundation is to motivate and enable each new generation to become geographically literate. To help achieve that goal, the Education Foundation is working in several key focus areas: Grantmaking: The Foundation awards more than five million dollars each year to support teacher training, outreach and other programs that promote geography education. Site includes: Chat or forum, lesson plans, teacher resources, parent resources, teacher guide, assessment ideas, video or audio, Web links, e-newsletter, reproducibles, student activities, student exercises, and student reading material.
NationMaster	Grades 3 – 12. Easy to use. Luke Metcalfe, Manager / Developer. got the idea as he was surfing around the CIA World Factbook; he felt that the statistics would be more illuminating if they were placed alongside other countries and shown relative to population. NationMaster generates graphs based on numerical data extracted from the Factbook. He then took data from other sources. He did this all to promote education and understanding about the world. One intended use for this site is, during debates in discussion groups, people link to comparisons of specific countries. This site compiles thousands of statistics on nations around the world. Statistics are grouped into 27 categories: agriculture, crime, economy, education, health, immigration, labor, media, religion, and transportation.
Perry-Castaňeda Library Map Collection	Created by the University of Texas at Austin. There are over 5,000 maps covering the world. Contains maps of regions in the news. Maps FAZ helps you print out maps most effectively. Most are copyright-free. Divided by continents, there are sections form The World, The Americas, The United States
Score: History/SocialScience	Grades K - 6. SCORE (Schools of California Online Resources for Education). Topics: Social Sciences, Mathematics, science, and language arts. Contains virtual field trips and armchair adventures with over 1800 social science children’s literature to teach history/social science. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, teacher guide, assessment ideas, Web links, e-newsletter, reproducibles, student activities, student exercises, and student reading material.
The Big Wide World WebQuest	Grades K – 4. Sponsored by AT&T. Learn with this Earth is all about. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, and student reading material.
The History Channel	Over 1,000 video and audio recordings of historic events and presentations. World Timeline covers primarily Western history from 500 BC to the present. Maps tab offers access to hundreds of political and historical maps. This Day in History gives the key events that occurred on the date in any of 11 categories. Videos included: This Day in History, U.S. History, Military & War, Science & Technology, Mysteries of History, Exploration, Society & Culture, World History, and Political & Historical Figures.
The Learning Page . . . Especially for Teachers	Grades 4 – up. Teacher’s guide to the American Memory collections of the Library of Congress. Over 100 collections of rare items important to American heritage. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, teacher guide, assessment ideas, Web links, e-newsletter, reproducibles, student activities, student exercises, and student reading material.

Assistive Technology Training Online	Elem. Developed by The Center for Assistive Technology at the University at Buffalo. Provides online workshops and applications that help students with disabilities learn in elementary classrooms. Includes: teacher resources, parent resources, teacher’s guide, and Web links.
Council for Exceptional Children Online Journals	Elem. CEC is the largest international professional organization of its kind. TEACHING Exceptional Children targets those who work with special education and gifted and talented students. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, parent resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, reproducibles, and student activities.
Davidson Institute for Talent Development	Elem. Nonprofit organization for extremely intelligent young people scoring in the 99 percentile on IQ and achievement tests. Many free, in-person, and online services available. Also, scholarships, famil-oriented programs, summer programs, online resources, and an academy. Includes: chat or forum, lesson plans, teacher resources, parent resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, reproducibles, student activities, student reading material.
Internet Resources for Special Children	Elem. IRSC. Developed by the parent of a disabled child, Julio Ciamarra. The IRSC Web Site is an attempt to bring together valuable information for parents, educators, medical professionals, etc. who interact with children who have disABILITIES. Includes: chat or forum, teacher resources, parent resources, Web links, and assessment ideas.
LD Online	Elem. Produced by WETA, PBS television station in Washington, D.C. Topics: LD, ADD, and ADHD. Over 17 active bulletin boards for over 200,000 monthly parents and teachers. Includes: chat or forum, lesson plans, teacher resources, parent resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, e-newsletter, reproducibles, student activities, student interactive exercises, student reading material.
Special Education Resources on the Internet	Elem. SERI maintained by Roseann Horner has over 1,000 links to special education resources grouped in 23 categories. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, parent resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, and reproducibles.
Students with Special Needs	Grades PK – up. Developed by New Horizons for Learning. An international organization with ideas for every age and ability level. Topics: Inclusion, ADD, ADHD, Autism, Gifted Learners, and English Language Learners. Includes: teacher resources, parent resources, Web links, and assessment ideas.

Altec@The University of Kansas	All. The Advanced Learning Technologies project at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning use innovative technologies to improve teaching and learning for all types and ages. Includes: teacher resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, and reproducibles.
Biopoint’s Course Productivity WebTools	All. Created by Internet Innovations, Incorporated. Provides technology staff development workshops for education. Read Web Literacy and Critical Thinking: A Teacher's Toolkit that is full of resources. Read the e-paper. Design your own online curriculum with myprojectpages.com designed to build inquiry-based learning Web documents; now has MiniQuest and curriculum page templates. Create your own online quizzes that score themselves, Hot Potatoes creates multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching, or fill-in-the –blank exercises. Free. Includes: teacher resources, and Web links.
Edutopia (George Lucas Educational Foundation)	All. Edutopia.org offers hands-on advice, real-world examples, contributions from practitioners, and tips and tools. Edutopia magazine: Promotes positive change in education, and presents fresh ideas and success stories. Edutopia video: Offers documentaries for educators, parents, business, and community leaders, about best practices. Includes: chat or forum, lesson plans, teacher resources, parent resources, teacher’s guide, video or audio, Web links, assessment ideas, e-newsletter, and reproducibles.
Internet4Classrooms	Grades K - 12. Developed by Susan Brooks and Bill Byles, from the Memphis City Schools in Tennessee. There are 4 categories: Subjects, Elementary, Instruction, and Resources. Hundreds of sites by grade level with descriptions. Topics include: Differentiated Instruction, Lesson Plans, Exceptional Children, Virtual Field Trips, and Web 2.0. Includes: lesson plans, teacher resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, and reproducibles.
InTime	Grades PK - University. Enables educators to watch online video vignettes of PreK-12 teachers from various grades and subjects integrate technology into their classrooms using numerous teaching strategies. This three-year grant is from the United States Department of Education’s PT3 program (Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology). Includes: teacher resources, video or audio Web links, and assessment ideas.
TechLEARNING.com:Technology & Learning	Elem. Technology & Learning is a respected periodical; articles are archived online. Sites for Educators have articles and descriptions of Web sites by discipline. Tips gives lists of tips and tricks. Includes: teacher resources, teacher’s guide, Web links, assessment ideas, and e-newsletter.

Questions regarding this web site should be directed to Mrs. Methvin
Delton-Kellogg Elementary School
Last modified: Wednesday May 06, 2009

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Anti-Spyware Programs		Arts
Blogging		English Second Language
Bookmarking Services		Health & PE
Computer Problems		Language Arts
Converters and Timers		Mathematics
Free and Fab Educator Tools		Science
General Teacher Support		Social Studies
Graphic Organizers		Special Education
Images, Sounds, and Videos		Technology
Microsoft
Professional Development
Professional Learning Communities (PLC)
Project Based Learning
Research
Wikis

Blogger	Free Blog. Member of the Google team. Easy to use posting text, photos, and video. Free
Blogmeister	The Landmark Project. Blogging service that is safe and easy-to-use. This blogging service is intended for classroom use. You must be a teacher, professor, school leader, librarian or professional currently employed by an educational institution, to establish a Class Blogmeister Account.
Blog-search	Search for blogs by content area or add your own blog, or grab an RSS feed on the blog topic of your choice. Free.
Edublogs	Free Blog. Comes with 20MB of upload space for teachers, students, researchers, librarians, administrators, and education staff. Free.
Free Tech For Teachers Blog	This is a blog, written by Richard Byrne, who highlights new web 2.0 tools that are free.
Joe Brennan’s ADE Page	Blog. CTEC is an organization dedicated to providing media educators across the Chicagoland Area the opportunity to share curriculum and resources necessary for creating a unique experience for students in media programs across the area. Visit his other blog Digital Storytelling.
Twitter	Microblogging. Limits you to 140 characters. New services and companies offer Twitter feeds.

Backflip	Backflip is a free service currently being run by volunteers. Stores URLs only to your Yahoo-style directory. Use a search engine to select your own files. Share sites with friends.
Delicious	This is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. You use tags (key words) to identify your sites. Your collection is searchable by your tags. It’s social in that you can save sites for others. You can upload your current favorites or bookmarks to Delicious to get started. Delicious User’s Guide
Furl	Free. Stores the whole Web site and the URLs. If you store the Web site on Furl, you don’t have to worry that it will suddenly disappear from the Web. It’s always there and fully searchable and saved to your account.
iKeepBookmarks	Free. User your bookmarks at work and home, use them on more than one computer, share your favorite pages with friends and colleagues. Stores URLs only.

Around the Corner	Articles that include information about a variety of computer topics that will make them easier for you to perform.
Catalyst: Walk-In Workshops	Tutorials for beginners. Five sections: Computing Fundamentals Series, Digital Audio and Video Series, and Web Publishing Series.
How To: Cool Tools	Easy to use explanations from Technology & Learning magazine and techLEARNING. Learn how to use your computer more efficiently. Free registration
Tech Support Guy	If you experience a problem at home, this site is run by knowledgeable volunteers and is supported by donations. Registration is free then you can post your problem to the forum.
Tucows	Free and inexpensive software. More software options available at CNET’s Download.

Bubbl.us	Create online word webs and other graphic organizers.
Gliffy	Free basic subscription or user fee subscription. Create idea maps, room layouts, flow charts, and illustrations of process flows.
Read Write Think Essay Map	An online writing graphic organizer for writing an essay... printable before or after the entire map is complete.
Region 15 Graphic Organizers	Elem. – HS. Over 200 high-quality graphic organizers (GO). Subject areas include language arts, literature, the arts, mathematics, science and social studies. GO categories include: analogies, assessment tools, compare and/or contrast, decision making graphs and grids, inventions, literary device analyzer, research science experiments, sequencing, time lines and work habits, study skills, and time management.
Tools for Reading, Writing, & Thinking	Grades 4-12. Created by Greece Central School District in New York. Over 100 graphic organizers, categorized into nearly four-dozen areas. Includes: cause and effect, character study, compare/contrast, decision making, fact vs. opinion, inference notes, and making predictions.

AllThingsPLC	Created by Solution Tree to support educations on their journey to becoming a PLC. This site serves as a collaborative, objective resource for educators and administrators; we invite you to share your knowledge, ask questions, and get expert insight into the issues teachers face each day in the classroom.
Annenberginstitute	Sixteen slides on Professional Learning Communities (PLC) and how they benefit teachers and learners.
Building Professional Learning Communities	This is a transcript on Education Week. Dated November 19, 2007. Interesting Reading on PLC. Includes Rick and Becky DuFour, Anne Jolly, and the moderator is Anthony Rebora.
Creating a Professional Learning Community: Cottonwood Creek School	Article on SEDL. Free Resources.
Professional Learning Communities: Communities of Continuous Inquiry and Improvement	Article on SEDL. Free Resources.
What are Professional Learning Communities?	SEDL is a private, nonprofit education research, development, and dissemination (RD&D) corporation based in Austin, Texas. Improving teaching and learning has been at the heart of SEDL’s work for more than 40 years. Free Resources.
What is a Professional Learning Community?	Educational Leadership. Free Resource. Dated May 2004.

1, 2, 3 Your Web Quest For Free	Quick and easy WebQuest. It offers fonts, font size, text color background color and background texture and images.
CIESE	Grades 1 – 12. From the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education at Stevens Institute of Technology. Collaborative projects include: Down the Drain, The International Boiling Point, Human Genetics, Square of Life, and Take a Dip.
Edutopia’s Project-Based Learning	Grades K-12. Developed by George Lucas Educational Foundation. There is an archive of video and print pieces. Find a self-paced course module on PBL. Large amount of articles describing all types of real life examples.
Project Based Learning	The site is free but requires registration. Resources provided by the Buck Institute for Education and the George Lucas Educational Foundation. There is a 5-step process to complete your project.
Surfaquarium Project Resources Online	Walter McKenzie’s Innovative Teaching offers 19 sites with collections of online projects, and an archive of completed projects.

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