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Sunday, September 10th, 2006
Web Sites Worth Visiting
This quarter’s Web Sightings highlight some great resources to help you and your students with getting Back To School.
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http://teacher.scholastic.com/
lessonrepro
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Teach Now Back to School is a content resource that contains interdisciplinary activities appropriate for the first few weeks of school. Students take a class census, make mini-books, and learn more about their classmates. Links to resources and learning activities are included.You may want to also visit http://teacher.scholastic.com/
professional/backtoschool/ for additional resources. |
http://www.teachervision.com/
teaching-methods/
teacher-training/6600.html |
Teacher Vision features a section on Back to School. Start your new year off with ease and enthusiasm. Their resources range from assisting students in learning the school layout to taking attendance. |
http://www.teach-nology.com/
themes/holidays/back/ |
Teachnology has several Back to School resources for teachers from lesson plans, to bulletin board sets, to help for the first day jitters. Use this resource to help you and your students with getting back to school. Explore the rest of the site to access thousands of teacher resources, lesson plans, and rubrics. |
http://www.learningpage.com/ |
Learning Page provides professionally produced learning materials for the elementary classroom. Printable worksheets, activities and lesson plans for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third grade can be downloaded from the site.This month, Learning Page has created back-to-school worksheet activities. These include a school supply sort, a street address worksheet, a classmate interview, and more. |
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/
Themes/Back_to_School/ |
A to Z Teacher Stuff is a teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more.One of the themes they cover is Back To School with lesson plans, bulletin board ideas and first day activities. |
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Saturday, June 10th, 2006
Web Sites Worth Visiting
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 http://www.debugmode.com/wink/ |
Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutorial for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles, record narration, etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users. |
http://del.icio.us/ |
del.icio.us is a collection of favorite web sites – yours and everyone else’s. You can keep links to your favorite articles, eduational websites, professional development sites, blogs, music, and more on del.icio.us and access them from any computer on the web, share favorites with students, colleagues, friends, and family. Great for creating a resource list for students to use instead of having them do random searches on the Internet. |
http://www.howstuffworks.com/ |
HowStuffWorks explains hundreds of subjects, from how a USB drive works to how Gas Prices work, using clear language and tons of illustrations. Use this web site to help you understand how many new technologies work or to have students do research on topics ranging from Science, to Health, to Entertainment. |
www.isafe.org |
i-SAFE is a non-profit foundation dedicated to protecting the online experiences of youth everywhere. i-SAFE’s education component provides students with dynamic, interactive, up-to-date Internet safety curriculum lessons online, in the classroom, and in the community. These lessons employ peer-to-peer communication and cooperative learning activities to help students retain this valuable information. i-SAFE provides a free Professional Development Program (online or face-to-face) and all the materials necessary to train and certify you. |
http://nvu.com/
NVU Tutorials
http://learn.dccc.edu/~lori/nvu/
http://www.webbriefcase.com.au/
categories/how-tos/nvu/
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A complete Web Authoring System for Linux desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Nvu (which stands for “new view”) makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.
Click on the Download link in the top navigation menu and then choose the download for your operating system. There are several tutorials on the web for using NVU. Two are listed to the left. |
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Friday, March 10th, 2006
Web Sites Worth Visiting
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hotpot.uvic.ca
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The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Teachers can make all different types of worksheets and post them on the web for their students |
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www.kidzonline.org/TechTraining/
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Kidz Online(KOL), a federally-funded, nonprofit organization, combines the concept of peer-to-peer training with a web-based content delivery system, providing a fascinating and innovative new way to integrate technology into the classroom. Throughout this site, you’ll find free videos and free lesson plans that will give you a new insight into using technology. Train yourself and then train your students. |
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www.learnit.org/educatormain.aspx
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LearnIT is an innovative web-based educational resource that provides free, user-friendly learning resources for teachers and students, and demonstrates the power and potential of broadband technology. This site develops technology skills, engages students in technology through stimulating multimedia resources, and provides teachers with resources to help them integrate technology into the learning environment. |
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http://www.archive.org/
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Archive.org is a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Got a favorite website that you can no longer access. Type in the address at this site and you will be able to view it once again. Teachers and students can also use this site to see the changes in a website over a period of time. |
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www.cutepdf.com/
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CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a “printer subsystem”. This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create professional quality PDF documents – with just a push of a button! Teachers can use this to turn worksheets and other documents into PDFs before posting to the web. |
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Saturday, December 10th, 2005
Web Sites Worth Visiting
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school.discovery.com/
teachingtools/
worksheetgenerator/ |
The Worksheet Generator gives teachers the ability to create free, customized worksheets in just minutes. |
Choose from several vocabulary and math worksheet templates in the “Create a Worksheet” area below. Or just use a teacher-created worksheet in the library of “Worksheets to Go”! |
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www.tki.org.nz/r/wick_ed/
maths/index.php |
Visit WickEd Math to check out cool math websites, to discuss weekly math problems with other students, and to play interactive math activities. |
Great resource for lesson plans, classroom activities, and resources. |
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www.k12science.org/
currichome.html |
CIESE sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet. |
The website includes collaborative projects that you can include into your curriculum. Many of these projects use real time data that you can use as a resource in your classroom. |
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owl.english.purdue.edu/
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The OWL at Purdue offers online writing, research, and MLA and APA style help. The OWL is in the process of transferring all their files from an old website to a new one. Check both sites for materials. |
Great resource for research paper writing. Have students walk through the workshop on research papers to learn about the thesis statement, APA and MLA styles, outlining, etc. Also has workshops on writing resumes, and cover letters. |
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www.staplesrewardscenter.
com/ |
Enroll in Staples Teacher Rewards™ and get great rewards when you stock your classroom. |
If you find yourself purchasing supplies for your own classroom, this reward program is for you! Great reward offers for teachers such as free shipping on all purchases online or over the phone, cash back rewards, plus many bonus rewards such as $10 gift cards sent in the mail for being a part of the program. |
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Thursday, September 1st, 2005
Web Sites Worth Visiting
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edutech.msu.edu |
Use this site to gather more information about MSU’s Educational Technology Program. |
Professional Development resource. You may suggest your local school district as a site for the program. |
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www.thegateway.org |
The Gateway to Educational Materials Catalog contains detailed descriptions of over 40,000 educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites. |
Great resource for lesson plans, classroom activities, and resources. |
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www.terraserver.com |
TerraServer.com has aerial photos of most US addresses and a number of international locations |
Great for exploring the connection between maps and the visual appearance of the world |
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iKeepBookmarks.com |
Keep and share bookmarks at this website |
Share links for a class or special interest group. Have students contribute to the links. |
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education.nasa.gov |
NASA has created a comprehensive Education Program containing a portfolio of activities directed toward education at all levels. |
Great as a springboard for classroom discussions of life science, physical science, Earth/space science, aerospace research, technology, mathematics, geography, careers, education, health, and history. |
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