Internet Sites - Unorganized
http://internetworkshop.pbwiki.com/f/Links%20list%20for%20November%202006%20workshop.doc
This page of links as a word document
http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/
Elementary Theme Pages by Jim Cornish - EXCELLENT!!! Themed Units already planned out for you. This man teaches in Canada and must have his whole school working together on these units. They really look great!
http://www.abcya.com/index.htm
ABCya! Elementary educational games
Pretty cool! Divided out in grade level.
http://www.gamequarium.com
WONDERFUL site with literally TONS of educational games. This site has been designed and is maintained by a classroom teacher-turned-technology integration person
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html
Place The State - Intermediate
Really cool web-based game where player has to place all 50 states on a blank US map. Pretty cool – it times you, tells how far off you are (in miles) and shows the correct placement of the state when you miss. Then you are allowed to place the state where it belongs and lower your “missed by” column. You can also get to this site and others about states in gamequarium in the Social Studies section in the first column and then US Geography. My students really have fun with this one and the one that is "Name the State".
http://del.icio.us Social Bookmarking
This is a wonderful place where you can put your "favorites" so that you (and others if you have something interesting posted) can get to them from any comptuter with internet access.
Title: School Site of the Month , By: Brooks-Young, Susan, Technology & Learning, 1053-6728, October 1, 2005, Vol. 26, Issue 3
Database: Academic Search Elite
Looking for ways to keep parents involved and informed? Visit Fred Roemer's fifth grade Polar Bears site (www.pb5th.com/index.shtml), Pinellas Park Elementary School, to see how one teacher uses the Internet to maintain open lines of communication between the classroom and home. Along with offering parents access to grades, assignments, and practice tests, Roemer's students take turns posting a daily log message. These detailed entries provide parents a comprehensive look at what's going on at school.
http://www.edhelper.com/tpreporder.htm
This is one site that you have to pay for, but I have seen good things from this. The subscription is $19.99 for either K-8 or 9-12, or $39.98 for everything offered. I think that it might be worth while to at least take a look at the site to consider the cost.
There are theme Units all worked out for you if you are a member. If you go check out this site, there are some pages that you can see as samples so you can see what you will get before you buy.
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/
Lesson plans for 10 different areas and 6 different age ranges. There are some really good lesson plans here! You can submit something that worked well for you too.
http://abcteach.com
site with lots of stuff – free and members only. says, 5000+ free printable pages and worksheets
http://www.libsyn.com
Site where you can VERY easily make your own podcasting page for yourself or your class. There is a $5.00 per month charge for the smallest size, but it is well worth it for all that it does!
http://www.learningtimes.org
Learning Times is a community of learners and instructors. You do have to register and belong, but it is free. From there, you will be free to explore the site and become members of the different learning communities within Learning Times. There are two podcasts that are featured there and both are excellent. Both have their own websites as well.
http://www.podcastforteachers.org Podcast for Teachers
Dr. Kathy King and Mark Gura produce excellent podcasts about some of the newest educational technology. This site isn’t just the technology for the sake of technology. They are very interested in the pedagogy of the technology. "More Ed Tech You Can Use Today and Tomorrow" from Podcast for Teachers
http://www.pbwiki.com Free Wiki Site
This is the site where I went to build our internet workshop page. It is a VERY easy place to set up your own wiki either for yourself or for you class – or some for both! It’s free and you can have as many as you like! I have 11 so far :-)
http://www.itunes.com iTunes
This is NOT only for Macintosh users and it is NOT only for iPods! There are LOTS of things here for PC people. If you decide that you want to be able to listen to things away from your computer, any mp3 player will play what you find here. This is just about the easiest place to find and listen to music and podcasts. There are others and we'll talk about some in the workshop.
http://21cif.imsa.edu/
21st Century Information Fluency Project from the Illinois Math and Science Academy. Wizards for different uses plus some games to use to help teach how to efficiently search online. Excellent Free site to help students and teachers with online research issues.
http://www.cybersmartcurriculum.org/lesson_plans/
Joe Dreblow June 20, 2006
This does not concern music--thought it was a good site for showing kids how to use and respect the internet. So many kids are getting over their heads with things they should not be doing on the internet, these lessons are done in a "stepping stone" process as kids progress thru the grades. If we train them right, maybe they won't stray into the forbidden zone!
http://librivox.org/ Librivox
LibriVox: free audiobooksLibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we release the audio files back onto the net (podcast and catalog). Our objective is to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet. We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/ Teachers Pay Teachers
After a free registration, there are lesson plans and things that you can either download from no cost to $???. You also can, for $29.95 a year, become a Teacher-Author and sell your lesson plans and supplemental materials for a price that you determine. You get 85% of the selling price and the site get 15% commission. I downloaded this file
http://www.skype.com
This is a computer-phone program - telephony or VoIP whatever you want to call it. All you need to use it is a microphone of some sort. This is really cool for home, but you could use it in your classroom to call a museum - an expert - a penpal class - whatever, but for FREE!!! It's always free from computer to computer and, until the end of the year, it's free to any house or cell phone in both the United States and Canada. The calls are very clear from my home. Right now, the only drawback I have is that I'm tied to my computer. I'm getting a "box" that will allow me to use a regular telephone so that I'll be mobile like I am with my cordless phone.
http://musicintheelementaryclassroom.pbwiki.com
a wiki that my music methods class put together in the summer of 2006. Most of these sites show a way to use music to teach some other concept, for example, singing the ABCs - something that we all did as a young child. LOTS of links! I have not checked all these links to be sure that they are all live. If you find a dead link, please let me know so I can edit the site to keep it valid.
http://www.superkids.com/
SuperKids is a website for parents and teachers who want the best in education for their children. SuperKids provides:
Reviews and ratings of educational software
Practical and fun tools for online and offline use
News about important educational issues
Views of visionaries and policymakers.
On the right side of the screen, there are free games and tools that you can use at school and/or at home. In the center, there are reviews of software that you might be interested in checking out.
http://www.jott.com/Jott/login2.aspx
JOTT is a "Voice-powered, hand-free messaging and to-do lists". I've just learned about this and haven't played much yet, but so far, it looks REALLY awesome! You call a toll-free number - leave a message in your account - and it sends you an email and a text message ..... all for free! Pretty cool, I think!
Personal News Aggregator (free online) allows for RSS subscriptions
Very interesting educational blog – makes me think most days!
This is a very cool site that I have just found this past week and am still exploring! Educational stuff for Pre-Kindergarten through Sixth Grade. The Arts, Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, and Thinking Games are the areas for all the grade levels. Very cool – very interactive! The major drawback to the free side of this website, as I see it, is the ads. The teachers I’ve shown it to so far, though, say that the ads are OK since we really need to teach our students about ads anyway.
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