Top:/Teacher Tools & Resources

Google Book Search...Finding books with Google Book Search is as easy as finding websites with Google Web Search; just enter the keyword or phrase you're looking for into the Google Book Search box. For example, when you search for "rock climbing" or for a phrase like "one small step for man," we'll find all the books whose contents match your search terms. Click on a book title and you'll see basic info about the book just like you'd see in a card catalog. You might also see a few snippets - sentences of your search term in context. If a publisher or author has given us permission, you'll see a full page and be able to browse within the book to see more pages. If the book is out of copyright, you'll see a full page and you can page forward or back to see the full book. Clicking on "Search within this book," allows you to perform more searches within the book you've selected. You can click on any of the "Buy this Book" links to go straight to an online bookstore where you can buy the book. In many cases, you can also click "Find this book in a library" to find a local library where you can borrow it.

Growing Up Online...On January 22, 2008 FRONTLINE aired a program called Growing Up Online.FRONTLINE producer Rachel Dretzin investigated the "risks, realities and misconceptions of teenage self-expression on the World Wide Web."... Insights important for both teachers and parents... Watch the full program online...

21st Century Skills ...Teachers can use as a resource of the six skills that students need to master to be successful in the real world environments of the 21st century. The website contains illustrations of how these information and communication skills can be integrated into the core academic subjects.

134 free academic podcasts. Everything from Applied Physiology to Leadership, drugs and behavior, history of photography, microbiology and poetry.

actDEN (Digital Education Network) is a collection of software tutorials and online courses aimed at helping teachers and students keep up to speed with the changing face of education. The software tutorials cover a variety of Microsoft products such as Internet Explorer, the Office Suite, Outlook, and FrontPage. The online courses cover writing, math, test prep, and a variety of other subject areas.

DOWNLOAD YOUTUBE VIDEOS...Now you can download all your favorite youtube videos to your computer. It's never been easier to download youtube videos.

KeepVid: Download and save any video from Youtube, Dailymotion ...Download and save videos directly from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, Putfile and more. Simply copy and paste.

YouTube downloader is a very easy to use Youtube video download tool and YouTube Converter. It has the complete functions to download YouTube video, archive Youtube video, and convert YouTube video to iPod,iPhone, PSP, Apple TV, Zune, Pocket PC and a lot of other mobile devices.

The Open University's Openlearn ...The OU has made available a fantastic resource with their Openlearn site. There are complete courses that you can go to and study in your own time and all of them are free.

Google Calendar...In 2006, Google streamlined collaborative scheduling the same way it streamlined search and e-mail. Add text message reminders, Gmail integration, and event importing from Outlook and you've got yourself the killer calendar app.

Google Page Creator a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes. No technical knowledge required.
Build high-quality web pages without having to learn HTML or use complex software. Don't worry about hosting. Your web pages will live on your own site at http://yoursitename.googlepages.com

AFT Teachers: designed to help prospective, new and veteran teachers find answers to many of their questions about the teaching profession and to provide tools and resources to help the school day run a little smoother... updated regularly with new additions described in the "What's New" section ...learn about becoming a teacher, funding opportunities, resources for the classroom and more!

21st Century Literacies - 21st Century Literacies refer to the skills needed to flourish in today’s society and in the future. Today discrete disciplines have emerged around information, media, multicultural, and visual literacies. It is the combination of literacies that can better help K-12 students and adult learners address and solve the issues that confront them.
AFT Big Deal Book - Grant & contest info; free material, lesson plans & equipment;technology training; hot web sites for research & enrichment; special offers from educational companies.
ALEX: Alabama Learning Exchange - is designed to compile many types of educational materials and information into a time-saving one-stop resource for teachers and administrators in Alabama. By sharing the wealth of expertise and knowledge of Alabama educators, the children of Alabama will
American Federation of Teachers - AFT Center on Privatization Take Action! Multimedia Grants/Scholarships Meetings & Conferences Web Resources & Local Web Sites Learning Line Jobs @ AFT 2000 Teacher Salary Survey
Annenberg: List of Workshops and Courses - FREE Professional Development for K-12 Educators on the Annenberg Channel. Register for workshops and courses online or by calling 1-800-LEARNER. Registrants receive the free support materials accompanying each workshop or course, and are eligible for a certificate of participation for most workshops and courses. Many of our workshops and courses also offer a graduate credit option.
Apple Learning Interchange - Igniting conversation, imagination, and improvement in education... an online educational environment to facilitate the interchange of ideas among teachers, education leaders, visionaries, and innovators.

A Visit to Copyright Bay...This is the most fun to be had learning about copyright. These thorny, legal issues are presented in a fun tutorial that lets you navigate Fair Use Harbor, visit Murky Waters, and crash on Infringement Reef. Fair Use Harbor includes information about AV Materials, Multimedia, Single copies, Multiple copies, and Distance Learning. You and the rest of the staff at your school or library can take a Shakedown Cruise to test your knowledge.

BBC online media training...good, especially if you want to work with audio for podcasts or video for projects.

CAST - Founded in 1984 as the Center for Applied Special Technology, CAST is an educational, not-for-profit organization that uses technology to expand opportunities for all people, including those with disabilities.

Chandler Project ...an open source, standards-based personal information manager (PIM) built around small group collaboration and a core set of information management workflows modelled on Inbox usage patterns and David Allen’s GTD methodology.

CK-12 - Next Generation Textbooks...allows one to customize and produce content by re-purposing to suit what needs to be taught, using different modules that may suit a learner's learning style, region, language, or level of skill, while adhering to the local education standards...free online...Print?: low cost

Connexions is a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute:

COREPlus is an exciting collection of FREE educational software programs that makes it easy to learn all about history, geography, science, fine art, and more. Click any title to start the program

Critical Thinking and Decision Making ...This critical thinking exercise and checklist is designed for teachers and students. A lesson plan can be developed here that illustrates decision-making skills and a teacher can use examples of common problems that get in the way when we try to tell ourselves the truth about the things we are doing and the decisions we are making.

Curriki is a web community of K-12 educators sharing lesson plans and projects in a central location.

CyberSmart...Curriculum: Free to educators highly acclaimed curriculum empowering K-8 students to use the Internet safely, responsibly and effectively. Non-sequential for flexible implementation. CyberSmart! Online Professional Development is every K-12 professional's guide to the new literacies associated with Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and higher student achievement. Modeling appropriate Internet use within teaching context with direct, practical application.

dotProject is a volunteer supported Project Management application.

The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century.

e-Learning Guru is the worlds #1 free e-learning portal serving 40,000+ professionals each month
eduScapes - effectively integrate technology into teaching and learning environments...Check out the Tap into Professional Development with ’Teacher Tap’

ePals is the largest and fastest growing K-12 online community for meaningful learning. More than 132,000 classrooms, 350,000 teachers, and millions of learners across 200 countries and territories safely connect, collaborate and build community....Schools around the globe use our school-safe email and blog tools...Deep learning is catalyzed through collaborative learning projects and experiences such as In2Books (launching Fall' 08), ePals' research-based curriculum-centric eMentoring program.
Free Federal resources for Education - A wide variety of free resources of high quality

Findproductreview.com is designed to help consumers find professional product reviews of consumer related products. FindProductReview.com finally gives consumers one single place from where they can find all editorial product reviews available on the web.

FundingFactory Blogs...Keep a journal, write reviews, share your infinite wisdom and more all from your own blog hosted by FundingFactory...Great educational tool. Check out the blog on The Bridge to Terabitha.
Gateway to Educational Materials - Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.

Graphic.org has all you need to know about building and maintaining a graphic organizer for any project, plan, or goal.

Homework Connection provides educators with a free and easy-to-use tool for communicating school information on the Internet for convenient access by parents and students. This resource is provided free of charge by FundingFactory in an effort to support education.

How to Mark Up Papers Digitally Using MS Word In this tutorial for teachers...describes how to mark up papers digitally using MS Word.. shows how to find the Reviewing Tool Bar, how to highlight text, and how to insert comments.

I Love That Teaching Idea! is a website designed to allow teachers to share and share alike.

Infinite Thinking Machine is designed to help teachers and students thrive in the 21st century. Through an active blog, an Internet TV show, and other media resources, the ITM shares a “bazillion practical ideas” for turning the infinite universe of information into knowledge. We showcase examples of innovative instructional methods, talk with leading experts, and share real stories from the classroom to improve how we think, learn, teach, and live.

Instructifeature: Using Online Tools for Student Research

Integrating the Arts...Launch a cross-disciplinary examination of art designed to support essential learning in math, science, social studies, and language arts. Using representative works from ancient, medieval, and Renaissance periods, learners absorb information about a range of art and artifacts from these periods across multiple disciplines.

Kafafa offers free website building and hosting on the Interne using.a wide array of ad-free templates that you can use to build your free website. Once you've selected a template, editing the content of your website is easy to do. To edit the text appearing on your site's pages simply select the text box and start typing. To add or edit other elements of your site's pages just click edit and add images, videos, and hyperlinked text using the simple editor. If you can send an email, you can create a website with Kafafa.
Knowledge Loom - specially organized collections of resources on selected education topics or challenges
Landmarks for Schools - Large variety of resources: dedicated to the idea that Information will be the raw material that drives the 21st century, and that today’s students should be learning to BUILD with information.

LearnOutLoud.com is your one-stop destination for audio and video learning.
Browse over 15,000 educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and videos.

Lefora...Free Forum Hosting...Easy to get started - Free, hosted, and just a few clicks away. Save time moderating with our community tools and anti-spam support.

Litsum is the internets largest collection of study guides, chapter summaries, analysis, discussion topics, quotes, styles, themes and character analysis.

MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed, higher education, online learning materials created by registered members, and a set of faculty development support services.MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.

The New York Times Learning Network - A free service of the Times’ website that includes daily a daily news quiz and lesson plan.
New York State Education Department - NYS Archives | NYS Library | NYS Museum | Office of Counsel | Office of Cultural Education Office of Elementary, Middle, Secondary and Continuing Education (EMSC) Office of Higher Education | Office of State Review | Professional Licensing | Teacher Cer

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse...Lesson Plans, Syllabi, and Curricula

Neulio lets you compose courses online from audio and video files - and then share them with others.  You can add quizzes and passwords....

NYLearns - Free subscription for all NYC teachers to a large variety of lesons, activites, resources, assessment tools, etc. Site also has extensive access to free (non-subscription) resources
NOVA Online Teachers - a searchable database of all our educational materials, an ever-growing collection of more than 500 separate resources.

OER Commons is a teaching and learning network, from K-12 lesson plans to college courseware, from algebra to zoology, open to everyone to use and add to...Open Educational Resources, or OER, offer new ways to engage with free-to-use learning content.

Open Workbench is an open source desktop application that provides robust project scheduling and management functionality. Already the scheduling standard for more than 100,000 project managers worldwide, Open Workbench is a free and powerful alternative to Microsoft Project.

Partnership for 21st Century Skills has emerged as the leading advocacy organization focused on infusing 21st century skills into education. The organization brings together the business community, education leaders, and policymakers to define a powerful vision for 21st century education to ensure every child's success as citizens and workers in the 21st century.

Project Interactivate - The goals of Project Interactive are the creation, collection, evaluation and dissemination of interactive Java-based courseware for exploration in science and math.

ReadTheWords.com provides a free service that will read any submitted text out loud. Choose from fourteen different readers in three languages. Listen to the reading online or download for iPod or other mp3 player. Post your reading into your web site or blog.

"Remember The Milk reinvents the to-do list"

SchoolTube...(Internet video publishing in a "safe online environment"...free!

Spiral Notebook: a blog: through our network of professional colleagues, we’ll be using our cumulative experience and collective intelligence to post items — innovative, creative, mostly practical, and sometimes unusual — to get you started on your journey to improve your classroom, school, or school district.

TaskJuggler is a modern and powerful, Open Source project management tool...Helpful for Project Based Learning...

TeachersFirst.com • The web resource by teachers, for teachers.

Teachers Network - Our goals are to support teachers in designing their own professional development, document and disseminate the work of outstanding classroom teachers, to help provide teachers with the knowledge & skills to become leaders in their classrooms & schools.
Teachers’ Pit - The Cartoon strip for Teachers (can get daily)
TeacherVision - is created by teachers for teachers. Our goal is to provide you with lesson plans, resources, and materials that make your professional life easier
Teaching English - 1 as a forum: to help you as teachers of English exchange your thoughts, ideas and materials
2 as a practical resource: for materials, activities and ideas for your teaching
3 as a theoretical and historical archive: where you can read about teaching ideas and techniques.
Teachnet - keeps you connected with educators around the world: Lesson Ideas, Classroom Management, Standards/Assessments, Curriculum mapping, etc.

Teachnology..free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students: . 27,000 lesson plans, Teaching tips and Themes, 6,500 FREE printable worksheets, Games and Downloads, Preformatted rubrics, 256,000 reviewed sites, Printable generators, Webquests

NEW Teampedia is a wiki of team building activities. On Teampedia you can find games and activities for groups of all sizes and ages. Teampedia is a wiki so, as you would expect, you can add your own suggestions to Teampeida.

Technology Integration Matrix...illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students.

Thinking WorldsTM Version 2 software suite and a wide range of assets are now available to download free from this site. ...Thinking WorldsTM Version 2 allows unlimited creation and sharing of content for non commercial purposes. ...A Thinking WorldTM task is a challenge that will take place in a 3D world. For example you may be answering multiple choice questions about how blood gets around the body, whilst exploring a 3D set of lungs. Or you may be bringing different characters information about bullying in a 3D classroom.

Top 100 Education Blogs covers one hundred great blogs in eLearning, Educational Policy, Internet Culture, Teaching, and other areas.
Web English Teacher. - educators can take advantage of online technology to share ideas and to benefit from the work of others. Beginning teachers can find guidance; experienced teachers can find inspiration. Think of it as the faculty library and faculty workroom on a global scale
WEBSITES RELATED TO THE SEVEN LEARNING Standards - From the New York State Education Department
Wisc-Online ... The Wisconsin Online Resource Center is a digital library of Web-based learning resources called ¡°learning objects.¡±The digital library of objects has been developed primarily by faculty from the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) and produced by multimedia technicians who create the learning objects for the online environment.

Wolfram Alpha is an incredibly powerful search engine offering a huge range of applications for education. However, figuring out what those applications are can be difficult for some people. A quick review of the free lesson plans available from Wolfram Alpha for Educators will provide teachers with some ideas they may have overlooked in the past. For example, I would have never thought of using Wolfram Alpha for a creative writing project if I had not read about it in the Wolfram Alpha lesson plan collection.. (Watch two brief video overviews of Wolfram Alpha here). To help educators understand some of the educational applications of Wolfram Alpha, late last week Wolfram Alpha launched Wolfram Alpha for Educators...a collection of free lesson plans, examples of, and ideas for using Wolfram Alpha in the classroom. The lesson plans are currently arranged in three categories; mathematics, science, and social studies. All of the lesson plans are available as free pdf downloads.

YouthLearn - Our goal is to provide out-of-school staff and classroom teachers with relevant, creative materials that can help you make good use of new technology. Look here for planning guides, teaching techniques, activities, projects, and more... just what you need

Zoho brings full-featured office apps online. Along with the standard word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation programs, the suite also gives users tools for note taking, wiki creating, project management, and more.