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February 2009

EDUCAUSE: The Future of Learning

Great resource for teacher professional development focusing on understanding the Learner, Learning Principles and Practices, and Learning Technologies. Look for the 7 things you need to know series.

JeopardyLabs - Online Jeopardy Template

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JeopardyLabs allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world. Building your own jeopardy template is a piece of cake. Just use our simple editor to get your game up and running.

iamliterate wiki

Great resource for teachers in understanding 21st century skills and the tools available.

November 2008

TeacherTube - 60 sec tech

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Short, essential "How To" video tutorials for smartboard

October 2008

Thinkfinity

High quality resources from recognized providers such as ReadWriteThink, Illuminations, Science NetLinks, etc.

Tech-Ease: Quick Answers to Real Classroom Technology Questions

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Great resource for teachers to get quick answers technology questions

January 2008

Resource: Teaching Foreign Languages K-12: A Library of Classroom Practices

Teaching Foreign Languages K–12 is a video library illustrating effective instruction and assessment strategies for teaching foreign languages

December 2007

Word Magnets

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Quick and easy online tool for working with words and sentence structure. Easily adaptable to other activities as well.

November 2007

Google Earth: Creating KML From a Spreadsheet

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Using Google Spreadsheets to create KML files (placemarks) Requirements: a Google Account, images stored online (you must know the url), and the starter spreadsheet provided with this tutorial.

October 2007

Exploratree - Exploratree by FutureLab

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Exploratree is a free web resource where you can download, use and make your own interactive thinking guides. Thinking guides can support independent and group research projects with frameworks for thinking, planning and enquiry. We’ve provided a set of ready-made guides which you can print out or use online. All of the guides are completely customizable or you can start from scratch and make your own! You can share them and work on them in groups too. With Exploratree you can: Use our ready-made thinking guides Make a new thinking guide from scratch Use it to set class projects Print them out (they can go as big as A0) Change and customise thinking guides, you can add or change text, shapes, images etc. As a teacher, you can set up the sequence that you want the thinking guide to be revealed, so that you can stage the thinking activity You can fill in a thinking guide and complete your project on the website You can present your project You can send your thinking guide to a whole group of people You can submit a thinking guide for comments, so it can't be edited but just reviewed Work in groups on the same thinking guide

CLEO - Cumbria and Lancashire Education Online

Amazing set of resources from Great Britain for k-12

disposableWebPage.com

Disposable Web Page is now here! You can create a disposable web page with as little effort as a few key strokes and start right away at filling up the page with the content you want. Disposable web page offers you the convenience and freedom of getting information out there on the internet with as little hassle as can be. Why is it call disposableWebPage? Each disposable webpage has a count down clock. You can set this clock to count down anywhere from 90 days to 0 days from the time the page is created. When the remaining time reaches 00:00:00:00, the page is automatically set for disposal and will exist for 2 more weeks before it gets incinerated.

Learning Flash MX for Teachers

Do you match this description? You have been using PowerPoint in your lessons and feel that you have pretty well mastered it. You are starting to feel limited by the way that PowerPoint works and you want to take more control over the way that objects are animated. You have seen flash animations and games on the internet and want to have a go. You haven't really got much of a life and think that staring at a laptop screen all weekend is fun.

Quiz-Busters

Quiz-Busters is an interactive quiz for two teams based on the popular television quiz program Blockbusters. The resource is designed to be used on an interactive whiteboard as a teacher led activity but can be played by individual students. Hopefully you and your students will find this a fun alternative to traditional question and answerquizzes and can actively contribute to Assessment for Learning (AFL).

September 2007

Make your own comic with MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages

Looking for an alternative to a quiz or an assignment of boring vocabulary definitions written on notebook paper? Trying to find a way to prompt students to write even short passages? Trying to teach simple dialog to ESL/ELL students? Working on appropriate language and interpersonal skills with emotional support students? Looking for a creative way to make clever newsletter additions, bulletin board items, or class rules? Use this great online tool for both students and teachers to create web-based or printed comic strips from a selection of characters and voice bubbles-- and with your OWN text!

NOAA Ocean Explorer

Find multimedia resources such as video, podcasts, photos and over 240 lesson plans for grades 5-12.

Post Lecture Notes Online for Free with LectureShare - LectureShare

This is a free and easy site for teachers to post work online. Create a course page quickly, add announcements, upload docs, video and audio. Students enroll and decide how they want to receive the info.

May 2007

Teacher Resource Exchange

Amazing database of resources for all subjects and grade levels. Many materials available for download

Welcome to schoolscience.co.uk

Nice set of resources (free and commercial) for science k-12. Searchable by age level

free powerpoints and whiteboard presentations for teachers

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Free microsoft Power point TM presentations biology chemistry maths english history physics geography spanish powerpoints. Great for KS1 KS2 KS3 KS4 and post 16 A level lessonplans, K-12 and more

History Powerpoints

Free powerpoints to download for History teachers

Maths Powerpoints

Free powerpoints to download for Math teachers

Chemistry Powerpoints

Free powerpoints to download for chemistry teachers

Biology Powerpoints

Free biology powerpoints to download for science teachers

dy/dan » Blog Archive » Graphing Stories

Dan Meyer, a math teacher from Santa Cruz, CA. Dan used a videos of himself doing various things to teach graphing to his algebra students. The premise is simple: cross an arched bridge; descend a flight of stairs; all within a time frame that the students are shown. What would the graph of that look like in terms of elevation change over time? The lesson, which is downloadable, including the videos, is detailed at his blog here. You can download one, or all of the videos. Entire lesson is 45 minutes