TEACHER   RESOURCE  PAGE



Integrating Technology Links

Jefferson County, Tennessee Website

Social Studies Links
 

Digital History

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu

Black History Month

http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm

Smithsonian Source

http://www.smithsoniansource.org

Science Links

Biology Resources

http://www.nsf.gov/news/overviews/
biology/index.jsp

3D Science Concepts

http://www.3dscience.com

Science Literacy

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/explorations

Virtual Astronaut

http://virtualastronaut.jsc.nasa.gov

Genetics

http://gsic.genetics.utah.edu
 

Math Links

National Math Competition

http://www.usamts.org
 

Multidiscipline Links

MarcoPolo

http://www.marcopolo-education.org/home.aspx
 

NationMaster

http://www.nationmaster.com

 
 

Online Resources

Free Audio & Video Content

http://www.learnoutloud.com/free

Video Guide

http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/TechHelp/
VideoHelp/VideoGuide.html

Digital Video Primer

http://ui.video.uiowa.edu/DVprimer.htm

iMovie

http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/

Free Online Image & Photo Editing Tools

http://www.creatingonline.com/image_editing/

Download Photo Story 3 free http://www.microsoft.com/photostory

Free clipart, photos, backgrounds, music & sounds http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx

MS Windows Media Player 10
(required for Photo Story 3)

    http://www.microsoft.com\downloads

Teacher Resources
 

Educator’s Reference Desk

http://www.eduref.org/index.shtml

AOL@School

http://www.aolatschool.com/

http://www.aolatschool.com/junior

MHLN

http://www.mhln.com
 

Teacher’s Candy Store

http://pages.mhlearningnetwork.com/
gshepherd/teacherscandystore/

eThemes

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/

Little Red Schoolhouse

http://suzyred.com/

BLOGS

http://educationaltheme.blogspot.com 

http://gbequette.blogspot.com 

http://writingtechnology.blogspot.com 

ABC Teach

http://www.abcteach.com/

Teach-nology

http://www.teach-nology.com/

English / Literature

PowerPoint Poems
http://www.bmrsd.net/jfk/injfk/JFKWeb/JFKNews/
PowerPoints/Lavergne_Spring_files/frame.htm

Digital Storytelling

http://www.scott.k12.ky.us/technology/
digitalstorytelling/ds.html

Book Ads
http://education.apple.com/education/ilife/
project_template.php?project_id=22&subject_id=2

Short Story Commercials

http://education.apple.com/education/ilife/project_template.php?project_id=93&subject_id=2

Digital Booktalks

http://digitalbooktalk.ucf.edu/

Book Talk using iMovie

http://www.users.ties.k12.mn.us/~wbierden/booktalk.htm

Digital Storytelling Websites
Examples:  All files needed for the project, along with student examples, are posted at http://walledlake.k12.mi.us/aal/ digstorytelling

Digital Presentations

MovieMaker (Free from Microsoft) Fantastic resource      
http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/uploads/NECC2006/
KEY_13349523/Herzog_MovieMakerTutorial.pdf

For …. FREE!
(or close to it…)

Graphics

GIMP or GIMPShop

Specially modified for Photoshop users

http://www.gimpshop.net/

 

Paint.net

http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/download.html

 

InkScape

http://www.inkscape.org/download.php

 

Page Layout

Scribus

http://www.scribus.net/

Presentation Alternatives

MS MovieMaker

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/
updates/moviemaker2.mspx

MS PhotoStory

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/
digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx

Presentation Alternatives

Openoffice.org(GUI)

http://www.openoffice.org

 

Majicpoint (Markup)

 http://member.wide.ad.jp/wg/mgp/

 

Newsfeed Readers

FeedReader

http://www.feedreader.com/

RSS Owl

http://www.rssowl.org/download

Video Playback

Media Player Classic

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_

id=82303&package_id=84358&release_id=403110    

 

VLC

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

 

MPlayer

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

Word Processing or
Office Suite

Open Office

http://www.openoffice.org/

 

AbiWord

http://www.abisource.com/download/

Note Taking
Freemind

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Jarnal

http://www.dklevine.com/general/software/tc1000/jarnal.htm

Keynote

http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html

3D Graphics & Modeling

Blender

http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Blender.31.0.html

 

Jahshaka

http://www.jahshaka.org/component/
option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,16/Itemid,49/

Stars, Space & Mapping

Celestia

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/download.html

 

Stellarium

http://www.stellarium.org/

NASA World Wind

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/download.html

Did you know?
Audio/MP3
MP3 Gain
http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/
MP3 Book Helper
http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/
musikCube
http://www.musikcube.com/

Health, P.E., Driver's Ed Links

Healthy Choices

http://www.LearntobeHealty.org

Administrators
Healthy School Environments Assessment Tool (SEAT)

http://www.epa.gov/schools
 

Special Education
Special Education

http://www.projectforum.org
 

Test Prep
Test Prep (SAT 1, ACT, GRE)

http://www.number2.com

 

Fine Arts Links

Career & Technical Links

                Primarily Professional | Curriculum | Education | Reference | Search Engines
Model Web Pages

Primarily Professional


Keep up the the 'Net Internet World --- http://www.iworld.com/
NetGuide Magazine --- http://techweb.cmp.com/ng/home
Net Happenings --- http://www.gi.net/NET

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Curriculum

AT&T Learning Center Large site with resouirces for teachers --- http://www.att.com/learningnetwork/
Berit's Best Sites for Children --- http:/www.cochran.com/theodore/noframe/ksites.html
Blue Webn Applications Library --- http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn
Busy Teachers' WebSite K-12 --- http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/BusyT
Chico High School Library Helpful Bookmarks --- http://www.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/libr/webres/helpful.html
Curriculum projects involving the Internet --- http://www.nptn.org/cyber.serv/AOneP
CyberBee--large site with teacher and library information such as citing sources, copyrights, curriculum ideas, student online 
         safety, a Library Toolbox  and information on website construction ---  http://www.cyberbee.com/
Cyber Dewey --- http://ivory.lm.com/~mundie/DDHC/CyberDewey.html
Illinois State Board of Education (K-12 resources) --- http://www.isbe.state.il.us/homepage.html
Jan's Favorite K-12 Resources and Projects --- http://www.state.wi.us/agencies/dpi/www/jans_bkm.html
K-12 Lesson Plans (LA Office of Education) --- http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/places/lessons.html
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators (by subject) --- http://www.capecod.net/Wixon/wixon.htm
Kid InfoSchool Subjects --- http://www.access.ohio.gov/Kid_Info/School_Subjects.html
Kids Web --- http://npac.syr.edu/testbook/kidsweb
K-12 Lesson Plans, Projects A very large site with lots of links ---  http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/k-12.html
LiveText Topics from Columbia University --- http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/livetext/topics
Natural Disaster Lesson Plans --- http://www.ties.k12.mn.us/~mayatch/mq96/lesson/Natural_disasters
Online Educator Weekly Supersites Making the Internet an accessible, useful classroom tool with links to
       websites by subject and grade level --- http://ole.net:8081/educator/LINKS.hbs
Ready Reference Using the Internet --- http://k12.oit.umass.edu/rref.html
Quest NASA K-12 Interactive Information on interactive aeronautical projects --- http://www.cam.k12.il.us/quest.arc.nasa.gov/
Study Web --- http://www.the-acr.com/studyweb/studyweb.htm
Teacher Topics --- http://www.asd.k12.ak.us/Homepages/JAndrews/TeacherTopics.html
WWW Virtual Library --- http://www.w3.org/pub/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html

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Education

BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper--another big source of research information listed by subject. Good for
      students and teachers alike --- http://tristate.pgh.net/~pinch13/index.html#b
Children's Literature Web Guide --- http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown
CPSR Links for Educators --- http://cpsr.org/dox/program/education/educ.html
Current top 100 Web sites (by subject) --- http://www.web100.com/
Education Hotlists (by subject) --- http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists
Education World Search Engine --- http://www.education-world.com/
Educator's toolkit for the classroom --- http://marlo.eagle.ca/~matink/
EdWeb Home Page --- http://k12.cnidr.org:90/
Gateway for Educators (Cornell Theory Center) --- http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/MathSciGateway/educGateway.html
Global Network Academy Teacher's Guide --- http://uu-gna.mit.edu:8001/HyperNews/get/text/guide/index.html
Global Schoolnet Foundation --- http://www.gsn.org/
Global School Network--site for projects linking kids around the world --- http://www.gsn.org/
History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers --- http://www.execpc.com/~dlboals/boals.html
Humanities Interest Group: MUD's, MOO's, MUSH's --- http://www.itp.berkeley.edu/~thorne/MOO.html
Instructional Technology Connections --- http://www.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itcon.html
International ReadIn --- http:www.gsh.org/readin/
Internet Resources Newsletter --- http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/irn.html
KIDPROJ's Multi-cultural Calandar--list of worldwide holidays indexed by month, holiday, country and author ---
        http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/MCC/  
Links to the Future --- http://www2.pcix.com/~jeffocal/shadlink.htm
Media Designs --- http://www.earthlink.net/~mediadesigns/Index.html
Multidisciplinary WWW Subject Directories --- http://info.lib.uh.edu/wsub.htm
Nat'l Council of Teachers of English Homepage --- http://www.ncte.org/
Pathways to School Improvement --- http://www.ncrel.org/ncrel/skrs/pathwayt.htm Pitsco's Launch to Educational Resources-- a large site with many links to sites of interest to teachers ---  http://www.pitsco.com/p/resource.html
Professional development materials --- http://teach.virginia.edu/insite
Reading Rainbows --- http://www.pbs.org/readingrainbow/rr.html
School Page: The Educator's Resource --- http://www.eyesoftime.com/teacher/index.html
Social Studies Sources --- http://education.indiana.edu/~socialst/
Teacher's Internet Pages --- http://www.iteachnet.com/Newsb.html
Teachers Helping Teachers--a site for educational resources on the web in the arts, history/social
      studies, language arts, early childhood, multicultural, science and math, social action, special education/gifted education ---
      http://www.cam.k12.il.us/www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/EducationalResources.html
Teachers.Net --- http://www.teachers.net/
TeacherSoft Virtual Village School --- http://www.teachersoft.com/school.htm
Teachernet.Com --- http://www.teachnet.com/
Well-Connected Educator: Publishing Center & Forum --- http://www.gsh.org/wce
World Lecture Hall --- http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture

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Reference


Askeric --- http://ericir.syr.edu/
AT & T 800 Directory --- http://att.net/dir800
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations --- http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett
Carl Uncover Web (Online article delivery system) --- http://www.carl.org/uncover
City Net (Your guide to the world) --- http://www.city.net/
Consumer infomation --- http://www.gsa.gov/
Email addresses and street locations --- http://www.bigfoot.com/
Gallup Opinion Polls --- http://www.gallup.com/
Internet 411 White Pages Directory (email addresses) --- http://www.four11.com/
Internet Public Library --- http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/
Internet Public Library - Ask the Author --- http://aristotle.sils.umich/edu/youth/AskAuthor
Invention Dimension Information on famous inventors --- http://www.cam.k12.il.us/web.mit.edu/invent/
Library Reference Page --- http://www.library.okstate.edu/dept/sed/prestamo/anne1.htm
List of ListServs --- http://tile.net/LISTSERV
My Virtual Reference Desk --- http://www.refdesk.com/
North Suburban Library System Home Page --- http://www.nslsilus.org/
Purdue University Virtual Reference Desk --- http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/index.html
Quotations --- http://www.starlingtech.com/quotes
Switchboard (phone #'s and addresses) --- http://www.switchboard.com/
Where the Wild Things Are (Librarians's guide to best info) --- http://www.sau.edu/internet/wild/index.htm
Women's History Month links --- http://www.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/libr/webres/wom.html
Yahooligans homework reference --- http://www.yahooligans.com/School_Bell/Homework_Answers/Reference

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Search Engines (Keyword search)


Alta Vista --- http://altavista.digital.com/
Excite --- http://www.excite.com/
HotBot --- http://www.hotbot.com/
Infoseek (Ultraseek) --- http://www.infoseek.com/
Lycos --- http://lycos.cs.cmu.edu/
MetaCrawler --- http://www.metacrawler.com/
Search engines --- http://www.spectraweb.ch/gigermd/search.htm
W3 Search Engines (collection of search engines) --- http://cuiwww.unige.ch/meta-index.html
WebCrawler --- http://webcrawler.com/
WWWW (World Wide Web Worm) --- http://guano.cs.colorado.edu/home/mcbryan/wwww.html
Yahoo --- http://www.yahoo.com/

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Model Web Pages to Inspire You
(When you're ready to create your own home page)


Bellingham Public Schools --- http://www.bham.wednet.edu/
East Bradford Elementary School Library Media Center --- http://www.voicenet.com/~ebradk2/library.html
Shuksan Middle School, Bellingham, Washington --- http://wwwsms.bham.wednet.edu/
Stetson Middle School Library: Virtual Branch --- http://www.voicenet.com/~bertland/index.html


 

In addition to the following sites, check out the sites at the Student Research Resource page.   The sites should all be good, but we all know that some sites change and others disappear. 

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