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Educator (teacher)
10 Google Forms for the Classroom
180 Technology Tips for Educators and other Professionals
60 Second Recap - making great works of literature accessible, relevant, and, frankly, irresistible
Aadblockplus - tool can be added to Firefox or Chrome web browsers and will block any ad from appearing on users screens
Acronym Finder
Algebra calculator - (7-11)
Answers.com
Asana - free Web 2.0 tool that allows you to organize all your tasks.
Banish E-mail Overload - April 26th, 2009 by Devin Vodicka
Bartleby - (4-12) unlimited access to books and web free of charge.
Bibliomania - poetry, short stories, novels, and more (Gr 4-12)
Bloom's Revised Taxonomy - (K-8) Choose the appropriate google tool to get the desired result.
Brainpop Educators- resources for teachers on their Educators page and they're free. Lesson plans, featured blogs, featured videos, and video tutorials are just a few examples.
Cable in the Classroom
CA Dept. of Ed: Recommended Literature (K-12)
CDE on iTunes U - CDE on iTunes U offers easily accessible high quality professional development for teachers and education administrators.
Capture by George - take screen shots and save your file as bmp, jpeg, gif, png, or tiff. (3-12)
Chemistry help - (9-12)
Childtopia - (K-5) educational games for kids, Great for elementary or English Language Learners
Class Brain - Explore, learn, share (K-12, ad heavy)
Colorín Colorado - free web-based service that provides information, activities and advice for educators
Cool Tools for School - sites & free tools that teachers can incorporate into lessons and assignments
Council of Chief State School Officers
CPR Today - This website provides opportunities to earn your CPR certification.
Cutepdf - free conversion to pdf
Dictionary/thesaurus - (K-12)
Digital Storytelling - educational uses
Discovery School - all subjects (K-12)
Dropbox - sync, store, and share your files online
Early Childhood Investigations - free webinars to "enhance the practice of other early childhood administrators", however, content is applicable to teachers as well.
Education Podcast Network
Egyptian Museum in Cairo - official website (6-12)
ESL Printables - worksheets, lesson plans,  activities, etc.
Fair Use Evaluator - how to determine the "fairness" of a use under the U.S. Copyright Code (9-12)
FEMA - Resources for Parents and Teachers
FileInfo.com - Learn about file extensions (the little letters following a file name, like .doc, .pdf, etc).
FREE - Federal Resouces for Educational Excellence
Free Online Graph Paper - generates paper to your desired specifications
Free Technology for Teachers- Free Resources and Lesson Plans for Teaching with Technology
Free Text to Speech Program
FT Exploring - This website specializes in science and technology curriculum.
FutureMe.org - send a letter to yourself and get it a later date
Gamequarium - comprehensive collection of online games to teach a wide variety of skills
Gliffy.com - Gliffy Basic is a free diagramming tool
Giggly Poetry - poems to read and rate
Go! Animate - This free program allows students and teachers to create custom animations
Google for Educators - Free google resources
Google Tools for your Classroom - Free google resources
GrammarBook - Online quizzes, grammar rules, punctuation rules, capitalization rules, and other features are available free to visitors.
GuideToOnlineSchools.com - Computer Education Resource Guide for K-12 Teachers
Halfbakery - Users post creative, fictitious inventions - great for a creativity exercise
Implementing the Refreshed NETS•S - best practices for implementing the National Educational Technology Standards
iPad in Education - info from the Dept of Ed Tech, School District of Palm Beach County, FL. There resources including apps for elementary, middle school, high school, and administrators. Great for our current iPad users.
I-SAFE - videos and handouts for teaching students how to be safe online.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Khan Academy - over 3,000 videos to help you learn what and when you want, at your own pace.
MonkeySee - vast collection of how-to videoscreated by professionals
NEA - National Education Association
November Learning - great ideas and resources to help educators incorporate technology into curriculum
Online Dictionary, Thesaurus, Quotes, Reference, Translator, etc.
Pandora Radio - create a personalized station for you using the qualities of the artist you chose
Parks Online Resources for Teachers and Students - free services, including videoconferencing, for
California teachers
PBS Teachers - (K-12)
PBS Teacherline - PBS created online graduate level courses for teachers to continue their own professional development.
PDFonline - Convert ANY document to PDF. Works for Office documents, web pages, images or engineering diagrams into PDF documents.
Presbyterian Day School Math Tutorials - (4-12)
Professional Development Quick Tips- ideas for utilizing technology in the classroom
Reading Rockets - website for resources to help young readers (K-5)
Scholastic for Teachers
SchoolTube.com - The place for Students and Teachers to Share Videos online
Screenr - free Web 2.0 tool that allows users to take video of them modeling something on their computer and publish it directly onto YouTube
Smart Teaching - Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom
Smithsonian Education - wide variety of resources for educators, easily found via a searchable database.
Songs for Teaching - huge searchable collection of songs you can purchase for teaching your curriculum (K-12)
Super Kids - generate math worksheets and other great interactive links
Super Teacher Tools- educational games
Teachers' Domain - online library of media resources
Teacher Tube - same premise of YouTube, but safer content!
TED: Ideas worth spreading - collection of talks by some of the world's greatest thinkers.
Think Quest - (6-12)
Top 101 Web Sites for Teachers
TubeChop - TubeChop allows users to "chop" a section of a YouTube video to share.
Volunteerspot - great resource for organizing your classroom volunteers
WebQuest.Org - (6-12)
Writing research papers & reports - (6-12)
Writing Fix
Zamzar - Free file conversion site, users convert files to other formats, such as .pdf to a .doc file.
Student
Acronym Finder - (9-12)
Aerospace Museum - San Diego (K-12)
Alfy - (K-12 )
Algebra calculator - (7-11)
American Memory
Ask Jeeves for Kids
Bartleby - (4-12) unlimited access to books and web free of charge.
Bibliomania - poetry, short stories, novels, and more (4-12)
Bloom's Revised Taxonomy - (K-8) Choose the appropriate google tool to get the desired result.
Cable in the Classroom
Capture by George - take screen shots and save your file as bmp, jpeg, gif, png, or tiff. (3-12)
Chemistry help - (9-12)
Childtopia - (K-5) educational games for kids, Great for elementary or English Language Learners
Class Brain - Explore, learn, share (K-12, ad heavy)
Cliff Notes - study guides (9-12)
Colorín Colorado - free web-based service that provides information, activities and advice for educators
Crayola Creativity Central - (K-3)
Cutepdf - free conversion to pdf
Dictionary/thesaurus - (K-12)
Discovery School - all subjects (K-12)
Dropbox - sync, store, and share your files online
Egyptian Museum in Cairo - official website
ESL Printables - worksheets, lesson plans,  activities, etc.
Fair Use Evaluator - how to determine the "fairness" of a use under the U.S. Copyright Code (9-12)
FEMA - Resources for Parents and Teachers
FileInfo.com - Learn about file extensions (the little letters following a file name, like .doc, .pdf, etc).
Free Online Graph Paper - generates paper to your desired specifications
FT Exploring - This website specializes in science and technology curriculum.
FutureMe.org - send a letter to yourself and get it a later date
Gamequarium - comprehensive collection of online games to teach a wide variety of skills
Go! Animate - This free program allows students and teachers to create custom animations
Guide to Grammar and Writing - activities and lessons for learning about grammar and writing.
InfoPlease
Instuctables - a site that can teach you how to do almost anything
I-SAFE - videos and handouts for teaching students how to be safe online.
Khan Academy - over 3,000 videos to help you learn what and when you want, at your own pace.
Kids Memory - memory activities and tools
Kids Know It
Kids Spelling
Kids Numbers
Kids Biology
Kids Astronomy
Kids Dinosaurs
Luminosity - brain development games
Online Dictionary, Thesaurus, Quotes, Reference, Translator, etc.
PDFonline - Convert ANY document to PDF. Works for Office documents, web pages, images or engineering diagrams into PDF documents.
Quizlet - free online program allows users to create flash cards to study any topic they wish (3-12)
Scholastic for Students
SchoolTube.com - The place for Students and Teachers to Share Videos online
Think Quest - (6-12)
WebQuest.Org - (6-12)
Who do U want 2B? - Information on CA high school and community college courses, career options, and financial assistance. (9-12)
Wordle - for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide (K-12)
Writing research papers & reports - (6-12)
Technology
10 Google Forms for the Classroom
180 Technology Tips for Educators and other Professionals
Aadblockplus - tool can be added to Firefox or Chrome web browsers and will block any ad from appearing on users screens
Asana - free Web 2.0 tool that allows you to organize all your tasks.
Banish E-mail Overload - April 26th, 2009 by Devin Vodicka
Bloom's Revised Taxonomy - (Gr K-8) Choose the appropriate google tool to get the desired result.
Cable in the Classroom
Capture by George - take screen shots and save your file as bmp, jpeg, gif, png, or tiff. (3-12)
CDE on iTunes U - CDE on iTunes U offers easily accessible high quality professional development for teachers and education administrators.
Cool Tools for School - sites & free tools that teachers can incorporate into lessons and assignments
Cutepdf - free conversion to pdf
Digital Storytelling - educational uses
Dropbox - sync, store, and share your files online
FileInfo.com - Learn about file extensions (the little letters following a file name, like .doc, .pdf, etc).
Free Technology for Teachers- Free Resources and Lesson Plans for Teaching with Technology
FT Exploring - This website specializes in science and technology curriculum.
Glogster - Discover the World of Glogging
Good Reads - largest social network for readers in the world
Google Books, Magazines - Free google resources
Google Earth - satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings
Halfbakery - Users post creative, fictitious inventions - great for a creativity exercise
How Stuff Works
iPad in Education - info from the Dept of Ed Tech, School District of Palm Beach County, FL. There resources including apps for elementary, middle school, high school, and administrators. Great for our current iPad users.
i touch the future - productivity and utility apps to streamline tasks and help leaders make better use of their valuable time and resources.
IVS Computer Technology's Facebook Page - resources for using Smartboards and Notebook software, as well as professional development.
Jing - Jing is a free online video capturing program
Join.me - free screen sharing site - allows users to virtually share their computer screens with others
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Khan Academy - over 3,000 videos to help you learn what and when you want, at your own pace.
Kwout - a way you quote a part of a web page as an image with an image map.
Lynda.com - a collection of courses on a wide variety of software programs
Malwarebytes - remove malware from your computer
MonkeySee - vast collection of how-to videoscreated by professionals
Media Source - Free online file conversion tool for documents, compressed archive, sound & video
Moonk - Create a slide shows, video shows etc, and then integrate into other pages, blogs or your own personal website.
NaturalReader - program that will convert text to speech
November Learning - great ideas and resources to help educators incorporate technology into curriculum
One True Media - This Web 2.0 tool allows users to create videos for easy sharing.
Online-stopwatch.com - stopwatch or a countdown timer
PDFonline - Convert ANY document to PDF. Works for Office documents, web pages, images or engineering diagrams into PDF documents.
Prezi - free presentation software that engages your audience
QR code creator - free program to creat your own QR (quick response) code.
SchoolTube.com - The place for Students and Teachers to Share Videos online
Screenr - free Web 2.0 tool that allows users to take video of them modeling something on their computer and publish it directly onto YouTube
Taking Control of Email - Click to view the online presentation by Devin Vodicka for helpful information on organizing email.
Teacher Events Social Network - An online Community for Teachers to Network Online and at Events
Teachnology - The Online Teacher Resource
Think Quest - (6-12)
Vocaroo - allows you to record sounds or the spoken word and provides you with the html code so you can embed it into a website
VoiceThread - collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos
Voki - users can create their own avatar
Math
Algebra calculator - (Gr 7-11)
Discovery School - all subjects (K-12)
Free Online Graph Paper - generates paper to your desired specifications
Khan Academy - over 3,000 videos to help you learn what and when you want, at your own pace.
Math.com
Math Forum
Math Tools - resources for any math curriculum
MathTV
MathWorld - Weisstein's
Middle School Math Project - resources for teaching middle school math
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics
Presbyterian Day School Math Tutorials- (4-12)
Super Kids - generate math worksheets and other great interactive links
TED: Ideas worth spreading - collection of talks by some of the world's greatest thinkers. (6-12)
Science
Aerospace Museum - San Diego (Gr K-12)
Chemistry help - (9-12)
Discovery School - all subjects (K-12)
FT Exploring - This website specializes in science and technology curriculum.
Geography Online
Google Earth - satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings
Khan Academy - over 3,000 videos to help you learn what and when you want, at your own pace.
NASA
National Geographic Society
Natural History Museum - San Diego
National Wildlife Refuge System
Outdoor Life Network
Parks Online Resources for Teachers and Students - free services, including videoconferencing
Periodic Table of Videos - collection of videos – one for every element on the Periodic Table (5-12)
Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater & Science Center - (K-12)
Science (and more) to Music - songs on a wide variety of topics (6-12)
Sci4Kids - (K-5)
Space Mysteries - is a series of inquirydriven interactive Web explorations(5-12)
TED: Ideas worth spreading - collection of talks by some of the world's greatest thinkers. (6-12)
Wordle - for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide (K-12)
Wright Flyer Online - (5-12)
Social Studies
American Memory - (Gr 4-12)
California Historical Society - (4-12)
C-SPAN - (9-12)
Discovery School - all subjects (K-12)
Egyptian Museum in Cairo - official website (6-12)
Instuctables - a site that can teach you how to do almost anything
Khan Academy - over 3,000 videos to help you learn what and when you want, at your own pace.
Museum of Man - San Diego
Museum of Obsolete Objects- YouTube channel highlighting obsolete objects
Open Congress - track specific bills, view the most popular bills (6-12)
Open Vault - provides online access to unique and historically important content (6-12)
Qwiki - online multimedia encyclopedia (6-12)
Railroad Museum - San Diego (K-3)
San Diego History Center - (6-12)
State Hermitage Museum, Russia - (6-12)
TED: Ideas worth spreading - collection of talks by some of the world's greatest thinkers. (6-12)
Wordle - for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide (K-12)
GATE - Gifted and Talented Education
Discovery School - all subjects (K-12)
Khan Academy - over 3,000 videos to help you learn what and when you want, at your own pace.
TED: Ideas worth spreading - collection of talks by some of the world's greatest thinkers. (6-12)
ELA - English Language Arts
60 Second Recap - making great works of literature accessible, relevant, and, frankly, irresistible
Acronym Finder
Bartleby - (Gr 4-12) unlimited access to books and web free of charge.
Bibliomania - poetry, short stories, novels, and more (Gr 4-12)
CA Dept. of Ed: Recommended Literature (K-12)
Childtopia - (K-5) educational games for kids, Great for elementary or English Language Learners
Dictionary/thesaurus - (K-12)
Discovery School - all subjects (K-12)
Guide to Grammar and Writing - activities and lessons for learning about grammar and writing.
Khan Academy - over 3,000 videos to help you learn what and when you want, at your own pace.
Online Dictionary, Thesaurus, Quotes, Reference, Translator, etc.
Poetry Out Loud - national recitation contest (8-12)
The Quotations Page - searchable database of quotations of all kinds (6-12)
Reading Rockets - website for resources to help young readers (K-5)
Scholastic for Students - (4-8)
Starfall.com - It teaches reading and is extremely interactive (K-5)
Storybird.com - an online collaboration tool geared for students up to 13-years-old (K-8)
Storyline Online - picture books that are read aloud by actors (K-5)
TED: Ideas worth spreading - collection of talks by some of the world's greatest thinkers. (6-12)
Wordle - for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide (K-12)
Writing research papers & reports - (6-12)
ELL - English Language Learner
Acronym Finder
60 Second Recap - making great works of literature accessible, relevant, and, frankly, irresistible
Childtopia - (K-5) educational games for kids, Great for elementary or English Language Learners
Colorín Colorado - free web-based service that provides information, activities and advice for educators
Discovery School - all subjects (K-12)
ESL Printables - worksheets, lesson plans,  activities, etc.
Khan Academy - over 3,000 videos to help you learn what and when you want, at your own pace.
Online Dictionary, Thesaurus, Quotes, Reference, Translator, etc.
Pics4Learning - copyright friendly, appropriate pictures to be used for educational purposes only. (3-12)
Reading Rockets - website for resources to help young readers (K-5)
Starfall.com - It teaches reading and is extremely interactive (K-5)
Storybird.com - an online collaboration tool geared for students up to 13-years-old (K-8)
Storyline Online - picture books that are read aloud by actors (K-5)
Wordle - for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide (K-12)
Writing research papers & reports - (6-12)
Special Education
Discovery School - all subjects (K-12)
Khan Academy - over 3,000 videos to help you learn what and when you want, at your own pace.
Reading Rockets - website for resources to help young readers (K-5)
Storybird.com - an online collaboration tool geared for students up to 13-years-old (K-8)
Storyline Online - picture books that are read aloud by actors (K-5)
Starfall.com - It teaches reading and is extremely interactive (K-5)
Wordle - for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide (K-12)
Health and Wellness
Discovery School - all subjects (K-12)
FEMA - Resources for Parents and Teachers
I-SAFE - videos and handouts for teaching students how to be safe online.
Khan Academy - over 3,000 videos to help you learn what and when you want, at your own pace.
KSU – Stressed Out Over Studying…Tests
Parents
Family Education
FEMA - Resources for Parents and Teachers
Free Text to Speech Program
FutureMe.org - send a letter to yourself and get it a later date
Get Net Wise - teach children about Internet safely.
Global School Net
Great Schools
Groupon - Discounts available in your area
Instuctables - a site that can teach you how to do almost anything
Khan Academy - over 3,000 videos to help you learn what and when you want, at your own pace.
Scholastic for Parents
Sparkaction - a powerful voice for children, youth and communities
Speak Up - survey allowing respondents to voice their opinions about a variety of educational topics
A-C
10 Google Forms for the Classroom
180 Technology Tips for Educators and other Professionals
60 Second Recap - making great works of literature accessible, relevant, and, frankly, irresistible
Aadblockplus - tool can be added to Firefox or Chrome web browsers and will block any ad from appearing on users screens
Acronym Finder - (9-12)
Aerospace Museum - San Diego (K-12)
Alfy - (K-12 )
Algebra calculator - (7-11)
American Memory
Answers.com
Ask Jeeves for Kids
Banish E-mail Overload - April 26th, 2009 by Devin Vodicka
Bartleby - (4-12) unlimited access to books and web free of charge.
Bibliomania - poetry, short stories, novels, and more (Gr 4-12)
Bloom's Revised Taxonomy - (K-8) Choose the appropriate google tool to get the desired result.
Brainpop Educators- resources for teachers on their Educators page and they're free. Lesson plans, featured blogs, featured videos, and video tutorials are just a few examples.
Cable in the Classroom
CA Dept. of Ed: Recommended Literature (K-12)
CDE on iTunes U - CDE on iTunes U offers easily accessible high quality professional development for teachers and education administrators.
Capture by George - take screen shots and save your file as bmp, jpeg, gif, png, or tiff. (3-12)
Chemistry help - (9-12)
Childtopia - (K-5) educational games for kids, Great for elementary or English Language Learners
Class Brain - Explore, learn, share (K-12, ad heavy)
Cliff Notes - study guides (9-12)
Colorín Colorado - free web-based service that provides information, activities and advice for educators
Cool Tools for School - sites & free tools that teachers can incorporate into lessons and assignments
Council of Chief State School Officers
CPR Today - This website provides opportunities to earn your CPR certification.
Crayola Creativity Central - (K-3)
Cutepdf - free conversion to pdf
D-F
Dictionary/thesaurus - (K-12)
Digital Storytelling - educational uses
Discovery School - all subjects (K-12)
Dropbox - sync, store, and share your files online
Early Childhood Investigations - free webinars to "enhance the practice of other early childhood administrators", however, content is applicable to teachers as well.
Education Podcast Network
Egyptian Museum in Cairo - official website (6-12)
ESL Printables - worksheets, lesson plans,  activities, etc.
Fair Use Evaluator - how to determine the "fairness" of a use under the U.S. Copyright Code (9-12)
Family Education
FEMA - Resources for Parents and Teachers
FileInfo.com - Learn about file extensions (the little letters following a file name, like .doc, .pdf, etc).
FREE - Federal Resouces for Educational Excellence
Free Online Graph Paper - generates paper to your desired specifications
Free Technology for Teachers- Free Resources and Lesson Plans for Teaching with Technology
Free Text to Speech Program
FT Exploring - This website specializes in science and technology curriculum.
FutureMe.org - send a letter to yourself and get it a later date
G-I
Gamequarium - comprehensive collection of online games to teach a wide variety of skills
Geography Online
Get Net Wise - teach children about Internet safely.
Gliffy.com - Gliffy Basic is a free diagramming tool
Giggly Poetry - poems to read and rate
Global School Net
Glogster - Discover the World of Glogging
Go! Animate - This free program allows students and teachers to create custom animations
Good Reads - largest social network for readers in the world
Google Books, Magazines - Free google resources
Google Earth - satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings
Google for Educators - Free google resources
Google Tools for your Classroom - Free google resources
GrammarBook - Online quizzes, grammar rules, punctuation rules, capitalization rules, and other features are available free to visitors.
Great Schools
Groupon - Discounts available in your area
GuideToOnlineSchools.com - Computer Education Resource Guide for K-12 Teachers
Halfbakery - Users post creative, fictitious inventions - great for a creativity exercise
How Stuff Works
Implementing the Refreshed NETS•S - best practices for implementing the National Educational Technology Standards
InfoPlease
Instuctables - a site that can teach you how to do almost anything
iPad in Education - info from the Dept of Ed Tech, School District of Palm Beach County, FL. There resources including apps for elementary, middle school, high school, and administrators. Great for our current iPad users.
I-SAFE - videos and handouts for teaching students how to be safe online.
i touch the future - productivity and utility apps to streamline tasks and help leaders make better use of their valuable time and resources.
IVS Computer Technology's Facebook Page - resources for using Smartboards and Notebook software, as well as professional development.
J-O
Jing - Jing is a free online video capturing program
Join.me - free screen sharing site - allows users to virtually share their computer screens with others
J.Paul Getty Museum
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Khan Academy - over 3,000 videos to help you learn what and when you want, at your own pace.
Kids Memory - memory activities and tools
Kids Know It
Kids Spelling
Kids Numbers
Kids Biology
Kids Astronomy
Kids Dinosaurs
KSU – Stressed Out Over Studying…Tests
Kwout - a way you quote a part of a web page as an image with an image map.
LA County Museum of Art
Louvre Museum-France
Lynda.com - a collection of courses on a wide variety of software programs
Luminosity - brain development games
Malwarebytes - remove malware from your computer
Math.com
Math Forum
Math Tools - resources for any math curriculum
MathTV
MathWorld - Weisstein's
Media Source - Free online file conversion tool for documents, compressed archive, sound & video
Metropolitan Museum of Art-Explore & Learn
Middle School Math Project - resources for teaching middle school math
Mini Vibraphone Soundboard - create your own background noise using a minisound board
MonkeySee - vast collection of how-to videoscreated by professionals
Moonk - Create a slide shows, video shows etc, and then integrate into other pages, blogs or your own personal website.
Museum of Art - San Diego
Museum Del Prado, Spain
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Museum of Making Music
Museum of Man - San Diego
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Museum of Obsolete Objects- YouTube channel highlighting obsolete objects
NASA
National Gallery of Art-Wash. D.C.
National Gallery, UK
National Geographic Society
Natural History Museum - San Diego
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics
National Palace Museum, China
National Wildlife Refuge System
NaturalReader - program that will convert text to speech
NEA - National Education Association
NGAKids Still Life - lets kids of all ages compose their own still life paintings
Norton Simon Museum
November Learning - great ideas and resources to help educators incorporate technology into curriculum
Online Dictionary, Thesaurus, Quotes, Reference, Translator, etc.
One True Media - This Web 2.0 tool allows users to create videos for easy sharing.
Online-stopwatch.com - stopwatch or a countdown timer
Open Congress - track specific bills, view the most popular bills (6-12)
Open Vault - provides online access to unique and historically important content (6-12)
Outdoor Life Network
P-T
Pandora Radio - create a personalized station for you using the qualities of the artist you chose
Parks Online Resources for Teachers and Students - free services, including videoconferencing, for
California teachers
PBS Teachers - (K-12)
PBS Teacherline - PBS created online graduate level courses for teachers to continue their own professional development.
PDFonline - Convert ANY document to PDF. Works for Office documents, web pages, images or engineering diagrams into PDF documents.
Periodic Table of Videos - collection of videos – one for every element on the Periodic Table (5-12)
Pics4Learning - copyright friendly, appropriate pictures to be used for educational purposes only. (3-12)
Poetry Out Loud - national recitation contest (8-12)
Presbyterian Day School Math Tutorials - (4-12)
Prezi - free presentation software that engages your audience
Professional Development Quick Tips- ideas for utilizing technology in the classroom
QR code creator - free program to creat your own QR (quick response) code.
Quizlet - free online program allows users to create flash cards to study any topic they wish (3-12)
The Quotations Page - searchable database of quotations of all kinds (6-12)
Qwiki - online multimedia encyclopedia (6-12)
Railroad Museum - San Diego (K-3)
Reading Rockets - website for resources to help young readers (K-5)
Rijkwmuseum, Netherlands (6-12)
Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater & Science Center - (K-12)
San Diego History Center - (6-12)
Scholastic for Parents
Scholastic for Students
Scholastic for Teachers
SchoolTube.com - The place for Students and Teachers to Share Videos online
Science (and more) to Music - songs on a wide variety of topics (6-12)
Sci4Kids - (K-5)
Screenr - free Web 2.0 tool that allows users to take video of them modeling something on their computer and publish it directly onto YouTube
Smart Teaching - Ways to Use Wikis for a More Collaborative and Interactive Classroom
Smithsonian Education - wide variety of resources for educators, easily found via a searchable database.
Songs for Teaching - huge searchable collection of songs you can purchase for teaching your curriculum (K-12)
Space Mysteries - is a series of inquirydriven interactive Web explorations(5-12)
Sparkaction - a powerful voice for children, youth and communities
Speak Up - survey allowing respondents to voice their opinions about a variety of educational topics
Starfall.com - It teaches reading and is extremely interactive (K-5)
State Hermitage Museum, Russia - (6-12)
Storybird.com - an online collaboration tool geared for students up to 13-years-old (K-8)
Storyline Online - picture books that are read aloud by actors (K-5)
Super Kids - generate math worksheets and other great interactive links
Super Teacher Tools- educational games
Taking Control of Email - Click to view the online presentation by Devin Vodicka for helpful information on organizing email.
Teachers' Domain - online library of media resources
Teacher Events Social Network - An online Community for Teachers to Network Online and at Events
Teacher Tube - same premise of YouTube, but safer content!
Teachnology - The Online Teacher Resource
TED: Ideas worth spreading - collection of talks by some of the world's greatest thinkers.
Think Quest - (6-12)
Timken Museum of Art
Tokyo National Museum
Top 101 Web Sites for Teachers
TubeChop - TubeChop allows users to "chop" a section of a YouTube video to share.
U-Z
Van Gogh Museum, Netherlands
Vocaroo - allows you to record sounds or the spoken word and provides you with the html code so you can embed it into a website
VoiceThread - collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos
Voki - users can create their own avatar
Volunteerspot - great resource for organizing your classroom volunteers
WebQuest.Org - (6-12)
Who do U want 2B? - Information on CA high school and community college courses, career options, and financial assistance. (9-12)
Wordle - for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide (K-12)
Wright Flyer Online - (5-12)
Writing research papers & reports - (6-12)
Writing Fix
Zamzar - Free file conversion site, users convert files to other formats, such as .pdf to a .doc file.

 

 

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