Favorite Websites for Educators: So Many Sites, So Little Time

The April 2006 issue of Edutopia magazine features a readers' survey. I just couldn't choose one favorite Web site for educators. I regularly visit more than forty sites, and I share them with my master's degree students. They find them helpful, and I hope you will as well! Yes, it's a smattering of odds and ends, and some with my personal notes:

• Pencils Down!: How Decontextualized Standardized Testing Can Destroy Education (Information Today)
• The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology (San Diego State University)
• Emotional Intelligence: At a Glance (Edutopia)
• Technology Integration: At a Glance (Edutopia) When effectively integrated into the curriculum, high tech tools can enhance and extend the learning process, in often surprising ways.
• The Journal of Technology Education
• MultiMedia & Internet@Schools
• T.H.E. Journal
• Technology & Learning (software reviews)
• Multiple Intelligences (New Horizons for Learning) The Tool Room contains an expertly delineated roster of subject areas such as multiple intelligences.
• Thinking Skills (New Horizons for Learning)
• Multiple Intelligences Resources (Theatre in Motion)
• Multiple Intelligences: H. Gardner (The Theory into Practice Database)
• Assessment Alternatives (New Horizons for Learning)
• RubiStar A tool to help teachers who want to use rubrics but do not have the time to develop them from scratch.
• DiscoverySchool (Discovery Education)
• Discovery Education Streaming (Discovery Education)
• Homework Helper (Discovery Education)
• The Kathy Schrock Guide for Educators: Teacher Helpers -- Assessment and Rubric Information This collection of assessment rubrics may be helpful for you as you design your own.
• Knowledge Network Explorer The official Web site of AT&T's education program.
• Simulation and Discovery Learning in an Age of Zapping and Searching (University of Twente, Utrecht, the Netherlands)
• Digital Kaleidoscope: Learning with Multimedia (free registration required)
• Media Smart (Cable in the Classroom)
• Television Goes to School: The Impact of Video on Student Learning in Formal Education (PDF) (Corporation for Public Broadcasting)
• The New Mexico Media Literacy Project
• I, Cringely (the Public Broadcasting Service)
• Classroom Strategies for Exploring Realism and Authenticity in Media Messages (Reading Online)
• Broadcast Media: Enhancing Literacy Through Student Production (Reading Online)
• The Media Literacy Online Project (the University of Oregon)
• The Center for Digital Storytelling
• Listen Up!
• The KQED Youth Media Corps
• The Center for Media Literacy