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

The April 2006 issue of Edutopia magazine features a readers' survey [1]. 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 [2] (Information Today)
• The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology [3] (San Diego State University)
• Consider This Archive [4] (PBS TeacherLine)
• Emotional Intelligence: At a Glance [5] (Edutopia)
• Technology Integration: At a Glance [6] (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 [7]
• MultiMedia & Internet@Schools [8]
• T.H.E. Journal [9]
• Technology & Learning [10] (software reviews)
• Multiple Intelligences [11] (New Horizons for Learning) The Tool Room contains an expertly delineated roster of subject areas such as multiple intelligences.
• Thinking Skills [12] (New Horizons for Learning)
• Multiple Intelligences Resources [13] (Theatre in Motion)
• Multiple Intelligences: H. Gardner [14] (The Theory into Practice Database)
• Assessment Alternatives [15] (New Horizons for Learning)
• RubiStar [16] A tool to help teachers who want to use rubrics but do not have the time to develop them from scratch.
• DiscoverySchool [17] (Discovery Education)
• Discovery Education Streaming [18] (Discovery Education)
• Homework Helper [19] (Discovery Education)
• The Kathy Schrock Guide for Educators: Teacher Helpers -- Assessment and Rubric Information [20] (Discovery Education) This collection of assessment rubrics may be helpful for you as you design your own. Let me know if you have one you would like to share!
• Resources for Rubric Development [21] (Intel Teach to the Future with support from Microsoft) This site will help you use rubrics to evaluate a presentation or activity.
• Knowledge Network Explorer [22] The official Web site of AT&T's education program.
• Simulation and Discovery Learning in an Age of Zapping and Searching [23] (University of Twente, Utrecht, the Netherlands)
• Digital Kaleidoscope: Learning with Multimedia [24] (free registration required)
• A Friend for the Language Arts: How Technology Can Enrich Reading and Writing Instruction [25] (the Electronic School)
• Media Smart [26] (Cable in the Classroom)
• Television Goes to School: The Impact of Video on Student Learning in Formal Education [27] (the Corporation for Public Broadcasting)
• The New Mexico Media Literacy Project [28]
• I, Cringely [29] (the Public Broadcasting Service)
• Classroom Strategies for Exploring Realism and Authenticity in Media Messages [30] (Reading Online)
• Resources: Quick Facts [31] (Just Think)
• Broadcast Media: Enhancing Literacy Through Student Production [32] (Reading Online)
• The Media Literacy Online Project [33] (the University of Oregon)
• The Center for Digital Storytelling [34]
• Listen Up! [35]
• The KQED Youth Media Corps [36]
• The Center for Media Literacy [37]