1. Diigo Cal Young Collaborative Bookmarking
Annotate, archive, organize, and share bookmarks with students and colleagues at Cal Young.
2. Google News
A great way to search the Web!
Search on a topic (i.e. Lewis and Clark); select a date series; click on Timeline; Select the desired dates; Results!
3. Picturing America
Check out these beautiful, sturdy art prints from the library. They are located in the bottom poster drawer in the Library Office. The booklet has excellent descriptions of each print with teaching ideas, as does the website. Please use the sign-out sheet located at the front of the book.
4. Wordle
Generate a "word cloud" that presents your source text in creative ways.
5. Bubbl.us
A free mapping tool that is great for brainstorming and planning.
6. Issuu
A "zine" that is very easy to use! Publish documents online with the look of a magazine or a book. Great for student or teacher documents! Use the "private" option and it will be available only to people with the link.
7. Animoto
Create stunning video slideshows easily. Student accounts available.
8. Jing
Create screencasts - a great tool for posting instruction online.
9. Free Tech for Teachers
2011 links include a Common Core App and a Khan Academy App
NoodleTools Teacher Resources
21st Century Literacies, Curriculum Collaboration Toolkit, The Ethical Researcher
Oregon
Public Broadcasting Frontline
Watch Frontline's public-affairs
documentaries online
Cool Tools from the 2008 ITSC Conference
Google Experimental Labs, Keeping Connected Kidz Safer, Google Apps,
Web 2.0 tools, Google Earth, Quick and Easy Computer Activities for
Math, Reading, and Homework
Delicious
Save
your bookmarks online and share them with others in your community.
Easy and valuable!
The
Educator's Reference Desk
From the Information Institute of Syracuse. 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+
links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
ERIC Database
The Education Resources Information Database of journal
and non-journal educational research.
Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM)
Access to over 40,000 educational resources found on various federal,
state, university, non-profit and commercial Internet sites.
Google for
Educators
A
"teacher's guide to 12 Google products, including basic information
about each tool, examples of how educators are using them, and lesson
ideas."
The
Lexile Analyzer from the Lexile Framework for Reading
This tool anaylzes text that you submit and returns a Lexile
level. Registration is required, and the text must be in .txt format.
MarcoPolo
Internet
Content for the Classroom that "provides the highest quality,
standards-based Internet content and professional devlopment to K-12
teachers and students throughout the United States."
National
Center for Education Statistics
State education data profiles from the Institute of Education Sciences,
U.S. Department of Education
TeacherTube
An online community for sharing educational videos. Browse and see if there are videos (or a group) that matches your needs!
The WebQuest Page
A Webquest is "an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or
all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web." Browse
existing Webquests or create your own with QuestGarden
Springfield
Township High School Virtual Library's Teacher's Page
Center
for Media Literacy
Rethinking
Schools
addresses
many controversial education issues
