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Technology Resources
The Technology Committee has put together a list of websites where you can get lesson plans, online activities, web quests, and other ideas for integrating technology into your curriculum.
eTech Ohio Educational Technology Conference 2008
http://genoaschools.net/Staff/pscline/etech_ohio_teacher_inservice.htm
This page includes links to many of the "emerging technologies" introduced at the 2008 eTech Ohio Conference, as well as the Conference Planner.
PowerPoint Games/Templates- List of websites
INFOhio- Educator Resources / Teacher Tools
http://www.infohio.org/Educator/educator3.html
This section of INFOhio links you to resources and information for educators in
Ohio's K-12 community. Special emphasis is placed on resources to support
INFOhio's Electronic Resources.
LearningExpress Library- More than 100 programs to learn, practice and prepare for tests on a variety of subjects in elementary, middle and high school. The tests are interactive, provide immediate scoring, complete answer explanation, and an individualized analysis of test results.
INFOhio Digital Video Collection http://www.infohio.org/ER/secure/DVC.asp
Ohio's Area Media Centers (AMC) Digital Video Collection (DVC) is available to all Ohio K-12 schools at no cost to districts, educators or students.
INFOhio is releasing a trio of Spotlights for those who want to enhance their presentations with visuals: graphics, video clips and animations. If you are going be spending some time this summer creating content for the coming school year, you might want to take a look at these!
All are available at: http://www.infohio.org/Educator/spotlights20052006.html
- Spotlight #3 is entitled "Using Graphical Images From INFOhio Resources" and describes the wealth of still images available through INFOhio.
- Spotlight #4, "Using Video Clips From INFOhio Resources" not only tells where to find these clips, but also how to link directly to the resources.
- Spotlight #5 is on "Using Animations From INFOhio Resources" and it shares some tricks for linking that you may not have discovered!
Scholastic Network Available on your school’s online resources page.
Thinkfinity
http://www.marcopolosearch.org/mpsearch/basic_search.asp
The Thinkfinity Search Engine provides access to all of the educational resources created by the MarcoPolo Partners plus Partner reviewed materials.
Ohio Department of Education- Instructional Management System
http://ims.ode.state.oh.us/ode/ims/Default.asp?bhcp=1
Ohio's Instructional Management System (IMS) is the vehicle for communicating State Board adopted model curricula, including lesson and unit plans.
Ohio's Statewide Testing Web site
http://portal.success-ode-state-oh-us.info/
Provides teachers and students information and resources for the Ohio Achievement Tests (OAT) and the Ohio Graduation Tests (OGT).
Ohio Resource Center for Mathematics, Science, and Reading
Educators at all levels will find research and resources for the effective integration of technology into instructional practices on the COR website.
Discovery School
Provides innovative teaching materials for teachers, useful and enjoyable resources for students, and smart advice for parents about how to help their kids enjoy learning and excel in school. The site is constantly reviewed for educational relevance by practicing classroom teachers in elementary school, middle school, and high school. The site includes:
Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.
Puzzlemaker (Discovery School)
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists. Includes a clip art gallery.
Ohio Treasure Chest of Technology Resources
http://www.ohiotreasurechest.org/
Here you will find an archive of great web sites organized to match the objectives in the Ohio Academic Content Standards. It can be searched by subject and grade level.
Filamentality
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/
Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into online learning activities.
Blue Web’n
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
Blue Web'n is an online library of 2008 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hot lists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). You can also browse by broad subject area or specific sub-categories.
Education World
http://www.educationworld.com/
Education World's goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom.
Best Webquests
Look to this site for a matrix of the best Web Quests arranged by content area and learners' age. You'll be able to read what we think makes a great Web Quest, submit yours for consideration, and get tips on Web Quest design.
EduScapes
Provides ways to help integrate technology into the teaching and learning process.
Scholastic.com for Teachers
http://teacher.scholastic.com/
Scholastic.com is an award-winning portal for school-based professionals including teachers, administrators, librarians, families and kids
TechTeachers.com
This website’s goal is to connect technology to curriculum to transform teaching and learning. The site includes:
Teacher Templates- Jeopardy, PowerPoint, and Inspiration templates; A Digital Filing Cabinet- Open for you to explore anytime; Resources for Visual Learners- resources organized for you to help reach the visual learners in your classroom; Digital Storytelling…and more!
The Educators Network
http://www.theeducatorsnetwork.com/
Offers a network of 'teacher-focused' sites, covering such topics as: lesson plans, theme units, free software, worksheets, teacher tools, certificates, grade books, and a whole lot more.
Sites for Teachers
http://www.sitesforteachers.com/
Hundreds of educational websites (for teachers) rated by popularity.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/
A to Z Teacher Stuff is teacher-created, and designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. They offer lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more.
ABC Teach
5000+ free printable pages and worksheets, such as: research forms, theme units, puzzles, clipart, flashcards, portfolios, and many teacher extras.
Teacher Web
With TeacherWeb, you can post assignments, announcements, calendars, photos, grades and other educational material that is easily accessible by your students and their parents. Easy to use and updates immediately. This is a subscription site.
Edhelper
A subscription website offering a wide variety of resources for teachers
Funding Factory-Lesson Plans
http://lessonplans.fundingfactory.com
Lesson plans are divided by subject and grade level.
Cyberbee Web Links
http://www.cyberbee.com/links.html
Just click on annotated links for curriculum and technology websites. Cyberbee also includes ideas for web projects and web-based treasure hunts.
Education Place- Houghton Mifflin
This site includes handy links to such items as: printable outline maps, graphic organizers, shape book patterns, and helpful tips for searching the Internet.
The Educator's Reference Desk
The Educator's Reference Desk brings you the resources you have come to depend on. 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
ERIC/GEM http://www.eduref.org/Eric/ The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) provides quick and easy access to over 40,000 educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit and commercial Internet sites.
Teacher Tube
The site contains video clips submitted by other teachers that are specifically geared to education. TeacherTube provides the ability to download videos to your computer for personal or classroom educational use only, provided you give a link back to TeacherTube in any presentation, website, or other form of media in which the downloaded video is included and give credit to the author of the video.
Teacher TidBytes
An excellent starting point for teachers who want to spend "quality" time on the web because it ''cuts out the middleman'' and, whenever possible, links users directly to pages that offer valuable curriculum-related topics, as well as a wealth of Internet resources.
The Federal Resource for Educational Excellence (FREE)
http://www.free.ed.gov/index/cfm
This website makes it easy to track down new teaching resources from federal agencies.
Smithsonian Education
http://smithsonianeducation.org
Offers more than 1/200 free educational resources, and includes a feature that aligns those resources to standards of learning in every state. Teachers can find lesson plans, virtual exhibitions, photographs, artworks and databases of research information that apply to their curriculum. The state standards are correlated to subjects.
PBS Teachers
A portal for pre K-12 educators offering a one-stop resource for educators searching for wide-ranging curriculum resources, video products and online professional development opportunities through the PBS TeacherLine.
Teachers' Domain
Teachers’ Domain is an online library of more than 1,000 free media resources from the best in public television. Teachers’ Domain resources include video and audio segments, Flash interactives, images, documents, lesson plans for teachers, and student-oriented activities.