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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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Jason Fabbri
Many wonderful educational sites here. I'd also like to recommend 19Pencils.com. A site where teachers can easily discover, share and manage sites just like mentioned in this article.
Livebinders!
Here are Livebinders I created with tech tools, some of which you have already listed.
http://livebinders.com/edit?id=128257#http://livebinders.com/edit?id=130510
Great example of you you can use Livebinders to share resources...
But you didn't suggest that Livebinders be added to the list! (It should be)
One World Education Should Be on This List
Thanks for putting such a list together, Hubert. Check out One World Education (www.oneworldeducation.org) out of Washington, DC. The organization publishes student writing on culture and global issues and then aligns the student writing with project-based lesson plans and comprehension-based assessments. Is anyone else familiar with them?
Organizer tools
I've tried Livebinders and it's OK. This is my collection of links regarding research methods - http://www.livebinders.com/edit?id=247696#
I have another suggestion I've tried recently - Pearltrees - also easy and nice - my collection of survey research links - http://www.pearltrees.com/#/N-f=1_3971124&N-u=1_475759&N-p=31311173&N-s=...
As video organizer I've enjoyed Vidque - http://vidque.com/idabrandao
WolframAlpha
What about WolframAlpha? I show all my Mathematics students how to use this. I created some slideshows to demonstrate syntax for Mathematics:
http://colleenyoung.wordpress.com/wolframalpha/examples2/
I use many of the tools you have listed and created a WordPress blog for staff at my school giving links to tutorials and examples of classroom use.
http://staffweb2tools.wordpress.com/
One True Media
One True Media is a video editor, similar to Animoto, but with the advantage of no time limitation. The free component is quite good (the paid version allows the use of extra templates).
Examples of some of my travels: (Bussaco 2011/Portugal) http://www.onetruemedia.com/otm_site/auth_share?work_id=15382314 ;(Londres 2011) http://www.onetruemedia.com/otm_site/auth_dvd?work_id=13814229
MentorMob
Awesome tools on this list! Thanks!
We here at www.MentorMob.com have teachers creating Learning Playlists to organize online resources (YouTube videos, articles, PDFs, etc) for their students. They then have embedded these playlists in their classroom blogs or LMS'. Hope this helps!
You forgot gFlashcards, It's
You forgot gFlashcards, It's a very good alternative to Quzilet.
For free homework help and
For free homework help and affordable test prep, check out www.brightstorm.com
A plethora of videos by real teachers.
Brilliant list here. So many
Brilliant list here. So many excellent tools for educators. I've just started using Scoop It, too, which I think has real potential.