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80 Online Tools, References, and Resources
11/10/11 Update: We have an additional 30 plus tools, references, and resources submitted by community members.
We all know that teachers are always looking for tools, references, and resources for classrooms. Well, here's 80 "must see" trial, free, and paid websites recommended by Edutopia community members. Keep this list in your back pocket! It might come in handy. (The list is not ranked and listed in any order.) =)
What other websites do you think are missing from this list? Which ones do you use?
1. Thinkfinity: www.thinkfinity.org
2. National Geographic Xpeditions: www.nationalgeographic.com
3. Culture Grams: www.culturegrams.com
4. Asia Society: www.asiasociety.org/arts-culture/asia-society-museum
5. BBC for Kids: www.bbc.co.uk
6. New York Times, Lesson Plans: www.learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/lesson-plans
7. Teacher Corner: www.theteacherscorner.net
8. Slide Share: www.slideshare.net
9. Free Rice-Vocabulary Site: www.freerice.com
10. Free Poverty-Geography Site: www.freepoverty.com
11. Learner: www.learner.org
12. International Reading Association: www.readwritethink.org
13. OWL at Purdue U: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
14. Blue Grammar Book: www.grammarbook.com
15. ESL Flashcards: www.eslflashcards.com
16. Spellanywhere: www.spellanywhere.com
17. Rick Walton: www.rickwalton.com
18. Fires in the Mind: www.firesinthemind.org
19. Edhelper: www.edhelper.com
20. RubiStar: http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
21. Byrd Seed Gifted Lessons: www.byrdseed.com
22. Imagination Soup: www.imaginationsoup.net
23. TED: www.ted.com
24. Professional Garfield: www.professorgarfield.org
25. Kid Blog: www.kidblog.org
26. That Quiz: www.thatquiz.org
27. Academic Skill Builders: www.arcademicskillbuilders.com
28. Circle the Cat: www.members.shaw.ca/gf3/circle-the-cat.html
29. Sheppard Software: www.sheppardsoftware.com
30. Storyline Online: www.storylineonline.net
31. ABCya!: www.abcya.com
32. Study Zone: www.studyzone.org/testprep/index.cfm
33. Florida Assessment for Instruction in Reading: www.fcrr.org/scasearch
34. Super Teacher Worksheets: www.superteacherworksheets.com
35. Discovery Education Streaming: www.discoveryeducation.com
36. Busy Teacher’s Café: www.busyteacherscafe.com
37. Global Tech School: www.globaltechschool.com
38. Diigo: www.diigo.com
39. Vocabulary and Spelling City: www.spellingcity.com
40. Making Curriculum Pop: www.mcpopmb.ning.com
41. English Champion: www.englishcompanion.ning.com
42. National Council of Teachers of English: www.ncte.org
43. Web English Teacher: www.webenglishteacher.com
44. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: www.rockhall.com/education
45. College Board: http://professionals.collegeboard.com/prof-dev
46. Technology in Class: www.technologyinclass.com/blog
47. PBworks: http://pbworks.com/
48. Challenge by Choice: www.challengebychoice.wordpress.com
49. McQuality Education Services: www.mcqualityeducserv.com
50. Learning Centre: www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca
51. Dream Up the Future: http://teachers.egfi-k12.org
52. Ten Marks: www.tenmarks.com/tmother/teacher-index
53. Quizlet: www.quizlet.com
54. Voice Thread: www.voicethread.com
55. 8 to Great: www.8togreat.com
56. Learn Me Project: www.learnmeproject.com
57. Hands on Math: www.handsonmath.blogspot.com
58. Edmodo: www.edmodo.com
59. Tween Tribune: www.tweentribune.com
60. TregoED: www.tregoed.org/teachers/new-to-scan.html
61. Middle School Science: www.middleschoolscience.com
62. Science Spot: www.sciencespot.net
63. Animoto: www.animoto.com
64. Prezi: www.prezi.com
65. Buck Institute for Education: www.bie.org
66. Eduhound: www.eduhound.com
67. How Stuff Works: www.howstuffworks.com
68. Flash Card Machine: www.flashcardmachine.com
69. Class Jump: www.classjump.com
70. ABCteach: www.abcteach.com
71. EPALS Global Community: www.epals.com
72. EdHelper: www.edhelper.com
73. TeAch-nology: www.teach-nology.com
74. Survey Monkey: www.surveymonkey.com
75. Scholastic: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/home.jsp
76. iKeep Bookmarks: www.ikeepbookmarks.com
77. Enchanted Learning: www.enchantedlearning.com
78. Eclipse Crossword: www.eclipsecrossword.com
79. Math Snacks: www.mathsnacks.org
80. Wikispaces: www.wikispaces.com
Additional community member submissions:
81. World Digital Library: www.wdl.org
82. Library of Congress for Teachers:
www.loc.gov/teachers
83. SocialMaestro:
www.socialmaestro.com
84. Spellingcity:
www.spellingcity.com
85. Report Card Comments:
www.reportcardscomments.com
86. EDSITEment!:
www.edsitement.neh.gov
87. Khan Academy:
www.khanacademy.org
88. Teachinghistory.org:
www.teachinghistory.org
89. National Archives - Teachers:
www.archives.gov/education
90. Smithsonian:
www.si.edu/educators
91. Jibe:
www.jibemix.com
92. Glogster Edu:
www.edu.glogster.com
93. PD 360:
www.pd360.com
94. Enter The Group:
www.enterthegroup.com
95. assessmentfocus.com:
www.assessmentfocus.com
96. JewelBeat:
www.jewelbeat.com
97. NWP Digital Is:
http://digitalis.nwp.org/
98. Gapminder:
www.gapminder.org
99. Facing the Future:
www.facingthefuture.org
100. Curriculum21:
www.curriculum21.com/clearinghouse
101. World Mapper:
www.worldmapper.org
102. Collaborize Classroom:
www.collaborizeclassroom.com
103. SweetSearch:
www.sweetsearch.com
104. LearningReviews.com:
www.LearningReviews.com
105. Genetic Science Learning Center:
learn.genetics.utah.edu
106. Enter The Group:
www.Enterthegroup.com
107. Hudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology:
www.hudsonalpha.org/education/digitaleducation
108. Knovio:
www.knovio.com
109. Splashtop Inc.:
www.splashtop.com
110. Root-1:
www.root-1.com
111. MyClassTalk:
www.myclasstalk.com
112. BenchPrep:
www.benchprep.com
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Biology and Genetics
Two online resources I would like to recommend for teaching biology and genetics are the Genetic Science Learning Center, gslc.genetics.utah.edulearn.genetics for students and teach.genetics for educators and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology digital education tools at www.hudsonalpha.org/education/digitaleducation.
Heidi, Adam, and Sal, Thanks
Heidi, Adam, and Sal,
Thanks for adding more resources to our list.
Knovio
I'm testing a new recent free webtool - Knovio.com - which is a video presentation based on the use of webcam and powerpoint. It uploads a ppt, converted into still images, and allows a video comment along the display of the ppt. It's very simple to use and recording will take a few minutes, allowing to share online. The tool is still a beta version, and one of the objectives is to embed in blogs (or websites). I think it may be also very useful for online training/tutoring.
Although there are already other more creative presentation tools such as PREZI, and other screencast tools like JING or Camstudio, it's an interesting alternative. It will probably evolve to a commercial tool in what respects some features to develop, as Jing and other tools, but the free component will be enough for educational purposes.
Organizing these resources
I agree that this is a great list! How can I keep all of these resources organized?
Teacher Productivity in the Classroom
Very useful list Mr Yee. Teachers might want to head over to splashtop.com to learn about our products and how they un-tether teachers from the front of the class. By connecting to their computers using an ipad, they can control their favorite applications and websites, view flash videos then annotate over content - all while being free to roam the class.
Engaging and adaptive mobile apps
Root-1 builds games and puzzle-based apps that make learning fun. Root-1's goal is to increase user engagement, foster a better understanding of one's capabilities (both self-awareness and feedback for parents and teachers), and build a back-end that tracks progress and adapts to the user.
http://www.root-1.com/
App for the classroom
I'd like to let the Edutopia community know about MyClassTalk for iPhone, iPad, and iTouch. It's an app designed to promote equitable participation in the classroom. It allows teachers to easily award participation points to students and generate reports on daily, weekly, monthly class participation by each student. But more importantly it quickly shows the teacher which students have participated the least.
To find out more check us out on twitter @myclasstalk, like us on facebook, and visit our webpage.
We use it our classes and it has been a success with students who like knowing that their participation counts and with parents who like to know I am doing everything I can to understand their learner!
The webpage
http://www.myclasstalk.com
BenchPrep: Online and Mobile courses for SAT, ACT, GRE etc.
I highly recommend www.benchprep.com for everyone preparing for any standardized test including SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT, MCAT, LSAT, PCAT, NPTE, PMP, CFA, CAPM, Praxis etc.