May 2007
Cool Text: Logo and Graphics Generator
by 13 others (via)Cool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own image created on the fly.
April 2007
Primary Source Learning - Discover, Teach, and Learn with Digital Historical Documents
Helping educators quickly find and use primary sources related to specific curriculum standards with Best Instructional Practices for all subjects.Includes differentiated instruction, literacy Instruction, and technology integration models.
Welcome to Curriculumbits.com - Online E-learning Resource Library including games, quizzes, videos, interactive animations, presentations
We are constantly updating our resource library with new flash games, quizzes interactive animations and videos in a growing range of subjects, including Biology, Chemistry, Physics, English, Mathematics, French, German, Geography, Physical Education and Business Studies. Our e-learning resources are designed for use on PCs and interactive whiteboards. They can be used to assist the teaching and learning of a whole class, as a small group activity or for individual students as homework or revision exercises.
Next Vista for Learning
An online library of free videos for learners everywhere - find resources to help you learn just about anything, meet people who make a difference in their communities, and even discover new parts of the world. And Next Vista for Learning wants to post your educational videos online, too. Everyone has an insight to share and yours may be just what some student or teacher somewhere needs!
TeacherTube
by 1 otherTeacherTube an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.
March 2007
Exploratorium Digital Library: Browse by Topic
The Learning Resource Collection Digital Library contains the following:
* Images, video, audio, Web interactives and articles
* Hands-on activities
* Exhibit descriptions to help plan field trips
* Teaching tips
* Correlations to national and state curriculum standards
FREE -- Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
by 1 otherMore than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE Web site.
FREE stands for Federal Resources for Educational Excellence.
Welcome to a worldwide learning network — OER Commons
by 1 other (via)Open Educational Resources, or OER, offer new ways to engage with free-to-use learning content from K through college, from algebra to zoology, open to all to use.
Misunderstood Minds | PBS
Companion site to the PBS special on learning differences and disabilities. Has activities to simulate the challenges students face in the areas of attention, reading, writing, and mathematics.
February 2007
History of Lake Champlain
brief history of the Champlain Valley, focused on Lake Champlain and its uses. It is by no means complete, and we are constantly adding to it as we increase our knowledge of this region, through our research and archaeological projects.
Block Posters - Create large wall posters from any image for free!
by 2 othersUpload an image from your computer and choose how many sheets wide you would like your poster to be once printed. Download the results as a PDF.
Captive Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Making of the Americas
From the Mariner's Museum, an informative site about the Transatlantic Slave Trade. This site is useful for differentiation: background information for teacher's adapting materials or for higher level students working independently
January 2007
SketchUcation -
by 1 otherThis site is still under construction perhaps for awhile. It will be a terrific resources for learning how to use sketchup in an interactive environment
Online Tools For Schools
by 1 other (via)The Office of School Services in the College of Education operates as a clearinghouse for Web-based and other educational technology projects. Online Tools for Schools provides an entry to our Internet-based materials for K-16 education.
December 2006
Rubric Builder beta
A Collaborative Rubic Toolkit: Find or create rubrics
Flickr: Tell a story in 5 frames (Visual story telling)
by 1 other (via)Creative ways that Flickr can be used. Not all submissions are appropriate for students!
1st photo: establish characters and location.
2nd photo: create a situation with possibilities of what might happen.3rd photo: involve the characters in the situation.
4th photo: build to probable outcomes
5th photo: have a logical, but surprising, end.
Mathcasts Wiki
A growing library of mathcasts. Mathcasts are recorded movies created with a smart board with audio narration. Students can see and hear how a given problem is solved. Resources available for Grades 1-12.
November 2006
CHOOSE YOUR OWN WIKI ADVENTURE 1
Online PowerPoint Presentation on using Wikis in the classroom. An excellent guide.
AP World History Wiki
An example of a well-organized wiki developed around AP WH review topics. Note how you can review the revision history and compare to previous versions. Click the history tab to try it
Project Cam - Cable in the Classroom (CIC)
What is Project Cam?
Developed by Cable in the Classroom, Project Cam is an online environment with video, chat and file sharing capabilities. It allows educators, students, and experts to make live connections to other learners and experts via webcams and high-speed internet. Features it's free to use for educational purposes.Login to a unique, private page, share live video and audio feeds between two participating locations, communicate with the live text-based chat capability, store and share all kinds of files
Screeniac » Wridea
(via)Watch a screencast that shows how Wridea works. Wridea is a place to store your ideas. You can create multiple pages and categories that are color coded. There is even a way for you and your friends to brainstorm together. It can be used as a project management tool and, of course, it’s free.
wridea.com.review.wmv
Flash Version
adavis / Guidelines and Responsibilities
(via)There are many resources on the web addressing the issues of guidelines and responsibilities while blogging in education. According to Anne Davis, one of the very best is the AHS Blogging Policy developed for the use of weblogs at Arapahoe High School.
Record by phone with Gabcast.com
by 1 otherGabcast.com is a podcasting and audioblogging platform that offers an easy way to create and distribute audio content. Most people will use a touch-tone telephone to make their recordings but we also provide worldwide access to the service through VoIP. Once you have made a recording and have published it, a newsfeed is immediately and automatically updated to alert subscribers to your channel.
