Teaching+Tools

=Teaching Tools=

=Bloom's //Revised// Taxonomy!=

[|The First Five Days of School for Educators] - Setting the Stage for Engaged Global Learning


 * [|Teach Your Students to Search the Web with Google Advanced Search] - Tutorial**


 * [|Blooms Taxonomy for Teachers]** - This is a pdf poster to download.

[|Spark Notes]- Study Guides for all Subject Areas.

[|Google Guide]- Making Searching Even Easier. This is an online interactive tutorial and reference for experienced users, novices, and everyone in between. Also a section for Teens! [|Ben's Guide to U.S. History for Kids]- A great site for grades K-12. There is even a place for parents.[|Interactive Algebra]- This is a good site for Algebra practice. This wold be a great site for students having problems in Algebra!

[|Using the SMARTBoard to Support Science]- You can use these with the Mimios also. Thanks Kelly Hines!!

[|**FREE Federal Resources for Educational Excellence**] **-** All subject areas! Great resource Seaman Projectors in Education- A place for educators to find websites that lend themselves to use with a projector. The websites is categorized by grade level as well as content. Take a look at this one if you have a projector in your classroom. =[|Google Lit Trips For Young Readers]- Young readers discover the world of books as they travel the world.=

[|American Rhetoric] - Famous Speeches from Politics - Online Speech Bank.

[|Wild Earth TV]- Provides live feeds and videos of African Animals and the African Bush

[|Academic Earth] - Easy way for advanced placement classes to find high quality, academically appropriate videos. Lectures and courses from Yale, MIT, Berkely, Harvard, Princeton and Stanford. These videos can be embedded in a course blog where the teacher can post questions for students to answer as they watch.

Web 2.0 - Cool Tools for Schools- This has a link to tools for teachers and students to use. Check this one out!

[|EasyBib] - The FREE Automatic Bibliography Composer - MLA and APA Formatting

[|How to Use YouTube Videos in the Classroom] - This is a tutorial on how to use YouTube Videos in the classroom even when your school system filtering blocks YouTube. This tutorial is on TeacherWeb and it is not blocked by the filtering.

[|The Periodic Table of Videos]- Each Element has a video to help you teach. Check this out!

[|Standards ToolBox] - An Online toolbox for lesson plans, Alabama State Standards, test generator, teaching resources, calendar. Free lesson plans, STATE STANDARDS, and more!!!!!!! All for FREE!!!!!

[|Website Readability Test]- This website will give you the "Readability" of a website. It will include total sentences, total words, average words per sentence, words with 1- 2- 3- and 4 or more syllables, precentage of words with three or more syllables, average syllables per word, Gunning Fog Index, Flesch Reading Ease, and Flesch-Kincaid Grade. This might help your teachers with their own webpages or blogs.

[|Complete Geometry Curriculum] - Dan Meyer has posted his entire Geometry Curriculum online, PowerPoints, PDFs, and Keynotes (Mac version of Powerpoint and they can be opened in Powerpoint). 1.94 gigabytes of information!

[|Current Events in Pictures!] A great teaching tool.

[|Alphabet Antics]- Collaborative Project between Kindergarten Classes in Canada, Illinois, and Mitchell Elementary, Gadsden City Schools. Be sure to look at the videos for the letters F and I. These are from Noccalula Falls. (Be sure to use the override before you visit the site. The videos are on YouTube and they are bocked. I am trying to figure out how to unblock just the videos for this site.)

[|CRAMBERRY] - Do your students need help studying for exams? Learning a New Language? Then [|CRAMBERRY]might be for them. It is easy to get started. Just create a set of flashcards, type the text you want on the front and back, click to add a new card, as soon as you have as many cards as needed, click finish

[|Student 2.0 - Think Different] - I thought some of you might be interested in a students point of view.

[|Principals Do Have a Sense of Humor] - Take a few minutes from your hectic schedule and read the lastest post from "The Principals Page". I hope it brings a smile to your face.

[|Animoto for Education] - Now Animoto can help you with class projects. Be sure to check this out!

[|National Education Technology Standards (NETS)] - International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) announces NEW technology standards for students.

[|Zac Browser] - Free Web Browser - Targets Autistic Children - Developed by John LeSieur when computers seemed useless for his 6-year-old grandson, Zachary. This browser simplifies using a computer and doesn't overwhelm a child with too many options.

[|Graphing Calculators Tutorials] - Do you expect your students to know how to use graphing calculators when they enter your classroom? If so, you might ask the students to watch these videos.

[|Dan Meyer's Blog] - Dan explains how he uses a video projector in his MATH class!!! Yes, that is correct, video projector and digital camera to teach math!!!! Please take a look!!!! This is just one of many videos he has created. [|Dan Meyer - I Like to Teach!]

[|Web 2.0 Awards] - A list of websites (with links) that received Web 2.0 Awards. There is a first, second, third place and an honorable mention.

[|Current Events in Pictures!] A great teaching tool.