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Education World offers an educator a website to find numerous teaching tools. This website provides links and outlets to resources available on the internet. The professional development section of the website gives teachers countless ideas for improving their educational practice.

Free Rice is a non-profit organization that helps teach children vocabulary, while also helping feed third world countries. This site can help teach students about how to help others while still being able to learn. For every vocabulary question a person answers correctly, the United Nations World Food Programme will donate 10 grains of rice. How you answer a question right is Free Rice gives you a word and you are supposed to define the word. It gives you four choices to choose from, and all you need to do is to choose the best answer like on a test.

This is great website to browse in your spare time, maybe during summer break, to expand your thinking. TED.com's slogan is "ideas worth sharing" There's lots of different topics to choose from, and the people at these TED conferences are from all over the world so you really get a good perspective of global thinking.

This website is an all around good website for teachers. it has a database of worksheets, templets, and even ideas for building lesson plans. The best thing about it is its free!

Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas and the connections between them. The result: visually captivating presentations that lead your audience down a path of discovery. Prezi puts a new spin on the word "powerpoint". You can use different themes, choose the path you want your presentation to follow, it's more creative then a normal powerpoint slide and it is free. Users are making technology available to them when they use prezi because it is created online, so internet access is all that is needed in order to edit or present the prezi. This works especially well for those who do not have the microsoft powerpoint program.

This is a good website for students to use because it tests students in variety of subject matters, and with every right answer they donate rice to third world countries.

This website allows you to order and print the Time for Kids magazines for your students. It also has a homework helper, kid reporters, photos and videos, and also allows you to search around the world. From this site, teachers can also register and get quizzes and worksheets.

This site contains an endless amount of free resources for teachers. You can make flashcards, create custom word searches or use already made worksheets for your classroom. All the research is done for you. Just locate what you want to do and go directly to that website. Free resources rock!

This website goes along with Standard 6.1 by providing teachers with multiple ways to enhance their classroom. There are free worksheets to print out, many links to other websites to get educational material, educational games, and more. It has lesson plan ideas sorted by subject area and even emergency lessons for substitutes to keep students engaged. As a beginning professional, you can look at tips on how to write a lesson plan and improve it as well.

If knowledge was power this site would be invincible. With countless free lesson plans, activities, and games for both students and teachers this site has it all while adhering to standard 6.1.

Teachnology.com is a teacher's resource site that offers educational and instructional tools for teachers. This site reflects Standard 6.5, because this site features research in educational topics and teacher development, student and teacher safe search engines, information in educational technology, teacher newsletters, and teacher forums that allow teachers to communicate on updates and ideas in the educational world. Teachnology.com also offers classroom resources such as lessonplans, worksheets, templates for graphic organizers, and rubrics that can be used in the class.

With the popularity of Facebook and the ability to connect to it from iPads to desktops, it only makes sense to use it for a classroom communication tool. I did a quick search for classrooms, and specifically special education classrooms on Facebook and found numerous pages from all over the world. By using a Facebook page for the class, parents can see what the days lessons were as well as homework and pictures of the day or week. Messages can also be sent to the entire group or individuals as well as other teachers in the department.

This website is called Grade Speed, and it is a website tool for teachers, parents, and students. Grade speed is a great way for parents to stay on topr of their children's education. It is also a great way for parents, and teachers to stay interacted with each other. In grade Speed the student's report card is available, assignments, and current grades to assignments. The website is only used in Nashville public school for right now, but Grade Speed is working hard to get the program used world wide.

6.9 standard Candidates model the legal and ethical use of technology resorces.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

This website is a free social networking site that allows teachers and students to engage in collaborative projects and learning assignments with others from around the world. Teachers can set up virtual classrooms and grant their students monitored e-mail accounts, with parental permission of course, in order for them to interact with other students from all over the globe. For instance, while studying about the rain forest the class may connect with another classroom that lives in the rain forest. This website also allows the teacher to involve parents in the process of learning by adding them to the class network. Parents can monitor their child's academic progress and also receive the classroom newsletter. One aspect about the website that is extremely helpful is the translation tool. This allows teachers the opportunity to have conversations with parents in their native language.

TeacherTube is free to everyone. Members are encouraged to not only upload educationally relevant videos, but also to make constructive comments and use the rating system to show appreciation for videos of value to one as an educator or learner. Users also have the ability to preserve the integrity of the site by flagging inappropriate videos.

I love the search engine. I typed in War of 1812 and it came up with a bunch of video clips and more. Great site! Thanks for sharing!

Khan Academy is on a mission to provide a free world-class education to anyone anywhere. With over 2,600 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 200 practice exercises, we're helping students learn whatever they want, whenever they want, at their own pace.