General
4Teachers.org – Integrating Technology
The 20 Word Challenge – with World Memory Champion Alex Mullen Great lesson on learning things!
25 Teacher Hacks For A Successful Classroom – Lucky Little Learners website with helpful teacher tips.
30 creative ways to use Padlet for teachers and students
3D Toad – an educational image database which contains 360° and 360° anaglyphic rotational images. Everything from ballet to yoga, frog dissections to human and animal skeletons, dental hygiene, music, and chemistry.
Annenberg Learner – Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Bookmarkee – A website, accessible from anywhere, to hold all of your bookmarks in categories. Bookmarks can be color-coded, in bold, in italics, alphabetized easily, and each entry can contain notes about the linked website. It can also be kept private or made public which would be a good tool for teachers to share information about research/educational sites to students.
Brownie Locks – Fun, silly, serious, daily, weekly and monthly observances. Great for celebrating during the middle of the year when summer seems oh so very far away.
Brownie Locks Printable Calendar – Did you know that January 1st is Copyright Law Day? Or that July 23rd is *Pink Flamingo Day (Lawn Ornaments) Day? If not, this is the site for you. Printable calendars for every possible event or holiday fun you can imagine, and some you just can’t imagine. 🙂
Cool Tools – technology tools that can be used by educators
The Cornerstone for Teachers Blog
Don’t Engage in the Fight! Tips to Avoid Power Struggles with Students
Doodle – an easy way to schedule a meeting with other people based on when is best for everyone.
EduWonk – education policy and politics blog with guest authors who are passionate about policies and politics in education
EdX Courses – MicroMasters Programs to Advance Your Career. Most of these are free and are taught by professors from Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, MIT, Berkley, the Sorbonne, as well as others.
Food Resources for Teachers – using food across the curriculum K-12
Free Printable Online – thousands of printables from a wide range of categories and subcategories
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Lee Duckworth This is an amazing Ted talk about what it takes to succeed.
Guide to Google Tools – Tips and tricks to using Google services
Lucky Little Learners – Angie Olson, teacher, author, and curriculum designer created to connect with and support teachers. She has taught kindergarten, first, and second grade.
Teach ICT Hoax websites – Links to websites that are actually Hoaxes to teach students how to differentiate real vs. false websites.
Learn Zillion requires an account and log in, but it is free. The website has lessons and video tutorials for practically all areas of English/Language Arts in all grades. You can also search by State Standards. For homeschoolers: LearnZillion’s resources and full functionality are available to homeschooled students — just as they are to any other type of user. Simply create an account and begin your learning with LearnZillion. Parents should simply create a “teacher account” here.
Library Stuff – The library blog dedicated to resources for keeping current and professional development
Little Minds at Work – K – 1st
The Measured Mom – Former teacher with links to elementary content.
Memory Champion Teaches You How to Memorize Anything Great lesson on learning things!
Print Friendly – Takes web pages and removes the junk (ads and such), makes an editable preview and then a printable .pdf file so that you print only what you need from a site. (check copyright when using:) )
PowToon – Create animated videos and presentations
Read, Write, Think – Classroom resources
Recite This – a very easy to use poster maker (check copyright when using this)
Resources About Inductive Learning & Teaching – In the inductive process, students seek patterns and use them to identify their broader meanings and significance. In the deductive process, meanings or rules are given, and students have to then apply them.
SMART Exchange – Pre-K – 7th grade
Teacher Brain – printable activities, games, learning station resources and workbooks for K-6
Teach Hub – K-12 lessons and shared resources
Teaching Channel – Videos for teachers to help educate students
Word Frequency Counter – Check the number of times words appear in your writing.
Plagiarism Checkers
Dupli Checker– FREE but you can only check 1000 words at a time.
Grammarly– “Grammarly is an automated proofreader and plagiarism checker. The grammar proofreader for Chrome (plugin) is free, although not foolproof, the full site using the plagiarism feature does require a fee. (Currently, it is $29.95 monthly; $19.98/month for a quarterly subscription; or $11.66/month for a yearly subscription)
Noplag – This is free, but you have to wait your turn for your document to be checked. Depending on traffic, it could take a little while. For free it does a brief check, but for the full check, you have to pay. And it takes a while. ($0.09 per web page;$0.04 per publication) Files in your library are supposed to be free, but I uploaded a document and could not get it to check it. Not sure about this site, to be honest.
PaperRater – Has a free version and a premium version of both the grammar and plagiarism components. Click here for pricing.
***Plagiarism Checker – In checking these, I have been using a page from my resources and this is the only one that came up with my page as a result of the plagiarism check. The search runs through Google.
PlagiarismSearch.com – To check one document – $4.95; 30 documents (of 1000 words) per month – $29.95/month; 3000 documents (of 1000 words) over 12 months – $149.95
Search Engine Reports – Free
Viper – You do have to sign up for this and upload your document. It will take a Word file, but not a Pages file so you will have to convert to Word if you use a Mac and don’t have Word. Again, I used a post from my blog and it did not find the webpage for the original post. A copied/pasted article from Wikipedia and it did find that to be 98% plagiarised. You have to choose the subject, so perhaps it did not look in the correct place for my blog post. This also generates a report showing where the information can be originally found. If you are using a Windows system, you can download the software, but I actually like the web version.
Art
9 Reasons To Study Art in High School
50+ Awesome Art Competitions for High School Students
Art History Simplified (Comic)
Brownie Locks – Fun, silly, serious, daily, weekly and monthly observances. Great for celebrating during the middle of the year when summer seems oh so very far away.
Brownie Locks Printable Calendar – Did you know that January 1st is Copyright Law Day? Or that July 23rd is *Pink Flamingo Day (Lawn Ornaments) Day? If not, this is the site for you. Printable calendars for every possible event or holiday fun you can imagine, and some you just can’t imagine. 🙂
A Colorful Variation on the Naked Raku Firing Technique
Eye-catching art from everyday science.
An Introduction to Electric Kilns: What to Look For When Buying an Electric Kiln or Test Kiln
Mid-Range Reduction Firing: It’s Not Just Cooler, It’s Cool!
Smithsonian Magazine Arts and Culture
Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest
Windsor and Newton Master Art Classes
CTAE
National Agricultural Library: one of four national libraries of the United States and houses one of the world’s largest collections devoted to agriculture and its related sciences.
Smithsonian Magazine Innovation
Copyright
Common Copyright Myths – From Case Western University – very good information
English Language Arts
24 Must-Share Poems for Middle School and High School
Brownie Locks – Fun, silly, serious, daily, weekly and monthly observances. Great for celebrating during the middle of the year when summer seems oh so very far away.
Brownie Locks Printable Calendar – Did you know that January 1st is Copyright Law Day? Or that July 23rd is *Pink Flamingo Day (Lawn Ornaments) Day? If not, this is the site for you. Printable calendars for every possible event or holiday fun you can imagine, and some you just can’t imagine. 🙂
Does Bad “Grammar” Instruction Make Writing Worse? – Article
English Club – free website for learners and teachers of English
Figment – a site for students to write and publish their stories
Giggle Poetry – Turn struggling readers into fluent readers
How Stephen King Teaches Writing – Great article.
Living in the Layers by Buffy Hamilton, AKA (formerly) The Unquiet Librarian
National Poetry Month Resources
Pairing Fiction and Nonfiction in the High School Classroom
Poetry Foundation Teacher Resources
Project VOICE – Phil Kaye and Sarah Kay
Quill – provides free writing and grammar activities for elementary, middle, and high school students.
Read to Enrich – discussion guides for novels that you can use after reading with a facilitated discussion group. There are also character lists that can be used as a guide during reading.
Read, Write, Think – Classroom resources
Remind – connect with students and parents without giving out your personal information
Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye “An Origin Story”
Strategies for Teaching Poetry to High School Students
ESOL
ESOL Interactive Grammar Games
Giggle Poetry – Turn struggling readers into fluent readers
Resources About Inductive Learning & Teaching – In the inductive process, students seek patterns and use them to identify their broader meanings and significance. In the deductive process, meanings or rules are given, and students have to then apply them.
Math
EdHeads – provides science and math games and activities that promote critical thinking. Choose from Simple Machines, Virtual Knee Surgery or Stem Cell Heart Repair, among others. All activities meet state and national standards.
Math Pickle is a free online resource of original mathematical puzzles, games and unsolved problems for K-12 teachers. It is supported by the American Institute of Mathematics.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Music / Theatre
7 Best Apps for High School Theatre Teachers
7+ Free iPad Apps For Discovering The Orchestra
7 Ninja Technology Tips Every [Music] Teacher Should Know
10 Excellent Ways to Use an Interactive WhiteBoard in Your Music Classroom
10 Good Music Apps for High School Students
10 Music Tech Ideas for Middle School
14 Free Musical Instrument iPad Apps
19 Free iPad Apps for Musical Creativity: Play, Improvise and Record Music
28 Free Music Toolkit Apps for Teachers
iPad and Technology in MusicEd
My Go-To Online Resources for Music Teaching
Ted Talks for Music Educators Part 1
Ted Talks for Music Educators Part 2
Reading
900 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free (and the number is growing)
Brownie Locks – Fun, silly, serious, daily, weekly and monthly observances. Great for celebrating during the middle of the year when summer seems oh so very far away.
Brownie Locks Printable Calendar – Did you know that January 1st is Copyright Law Day? Or that July 23rd is *Pink Flamingo Day (Lawn Ornaments) Day? If not, this is the site for you Printable calendars with every possible event or holiday fun you can imagine, and some you just can’t imagine. 🙂
Children’s Storybooks – Audiobooks
Giggle Poetry – Turn struggling readers into fluent readers
Librophile– Audiobooks
LibriVox – Audiobooks
Lite2Go – Audiobooks
Loyal Books – – Audiobooks
MeeGenius – Audiobooks
Open Culture – – Audiobooks
Read, Write, Think – Classroom resources
Storyline Online – Audiobooks
Storynory – Audiobooks
Unite for Literacy – Audiobooks
Science
EdHeads – provides science and math games and activities that promote critical thinking. Choose from Simple Machines, Virtual Knee Surgery or Stem Cell Heart Repair, among others. All activities meet state and national standards.
Eye-catching art from everyday science.
How To Memorize The Periodic Table Of The Elements (Within A Week)
Middle School Science Curriculum – Eva Varga: Author, educator, master naturalist
National Agricultural Library: one of four national libraries of the United States and houses one of the world’s largest collections devoted to agriculture and its related sciences.
National Science Teachers Association
Smithsonian Magazine Science and Nature
Social Studies
Brownie Locks – Fun, silly, serious, daily, weekly and monthly observances. Great for celebrating during the middle of the year when summer seems oh so very far away.
Brownie Locks Printable Calendar – Did you know that January 1st is Copyright Law Day? Or that July 23rd is *Pink Flamingo Day (Lawn Ornaments) Day? If not, this is the site for you. Printable calendars for every possible event or holiday fun you can imagine, and some you just can’t imagine. 🙂
Foundation for Teaching Economics
National Archives for Educators
Smithsonian Magazine Smart News
SPED
Brownie Locks – Fun, silly, serious, daily, weekly and monthly observances. Great for celebrating during the middle of the year when summer seems oh so very far away.
Brownie Locks Printable Calendar – Did you know that January 1st is Copyright Law Day? Or that July 23rd is *Pink Flamingo Day (Lawn Ornaments) Day? If not, this is the site for you. Printable calendars for every possible event or holiday fun you can imagine, and some you just can’t imagine. 🙂
Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorders
Landmark School Outreach Program
Landmark School Outreach Program Resources
Recommended Books from LD Online
Teacher Blogs
Kindergarten, Kindergarten Blog
Moving at the Speed of Creativity
Technology Sites
Assistive Technology – technology for communication, writing, organization, reading, and multimedia for special needs students
Class Tech Tips – Math, Social Studies and Sciences, reading and writing, educational technology, and teaching strategies
Connected Teaching and Learning – info and technology blog by a teacher from Oslo, Norway. Great resources for getting more creative with lesson plans, incorporating technology and improving teaching in general.
EdTech 4 Beginners – app tutorials, lesson ideas with effective EdTech, setting up / using class management technology, and lots more
The Ed Tech Roundup – updates on educational technology news and reviews
EduTech for Teachers – strategies using digital media and the latest technology devices
High Techpectations – ideas, resources, downloadable PDFs and useful links
On an e-Journey with Generation Y – commerce and information technology teacher
Techie Musings – hints on using technology, creative project ideas, and how to transform boring lessons into dynamic discussions
Writing
Computer-Assisted Instruction and Writing
Figment – a site for students to write and publish their stories
Giggle Poetry – Turn struggling readers into fluent readers
Read, Write, Think – Classroom resources
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