This is a neat and useful website. It gives you links to online tools for teachers, and online tools for students. It also gives you links for training materials. All of the links have been tested and proven that they are accurate.
Noodletools is an emerging technology that both students and teachers can use in the classroom setting. This website allows the user the opportunity to create citations in MLA, APA, and Chicago style without having to look at all of the citation guidelines. This website also has resources that the teacher can use, includeing a lesson outline on becoming a more effective notetaker. This is why noodletools.com is an emerging technology.
This is a wedsite for teachers and students to create and store class notes. It's easy and free, and helps students keep track of their class assignments. It also provides self assessment quizes. You can also share notes with other classmates and the notes are unlimited.
The Smithsonian Education page is an excellent place for both teachers and students. Teachers have the opportunity to explore their topics in depth and even be provided with their state standards and lesson plans, while students are provided with fun activities.
FunBrain is the #1 site for online educational games for kids of all ages. (math, grammar, science, spelling, history). There are many different games to choose from for children in any grade level.
This site includes online language arts learning games and activities for Pre-School through Grade 6 students. This website would be content specific for language arts classrooms.
Thinkwave is an online gradebook that allows teachers to post assignments and grades online as well as collect homework and create a classroom blog. Thinkwave is accessible for students and parents.
6.6 Candidates use technology to effectively communicate with students, parents and colleagues.
The free, simple way to manage your course and engage your students.
6.7 Candidates use tools such as databases and spreadsheets for sorting, compiling, and analyzing data gathered from a variety of sources.
This site is pretty awesome! It has lessons and activities, quizzes, and resources for every subject in grade levels K-6, including some for ESL students. I caught myself playing on this site for an hour!
BibMe is a fast and easy bibliography maker and emerging tool easily used in Standard 6.8. It will help students more easily create bibliographies, including annotated bibliographies, and use different formats.
This website has an enormous amount of free smart board games and also has the option of purchasing accredited resources. From simply looking through the list, there are resources for every grade level and close to every subject. I can't wait to try them out!
I found this Treehouse TV website while surfing the web and it goes along with the 6.2 standard because it goes hand in hand with the grade levels of pre k- 3rd.It will really draw the children to learn on here because their favorite characters are teaching them like Dora, Little Bear,and The Bubble Guppies. Plus it teaches technology to them by the different games and activites they offer. So i suggest you and your little definitely check it out!
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Professor Garfield is an interactive website that I found surfing the internet. Is a website exploding with creativity, videos, games, comics, books, and music! Teachers even have a Teachers Lounge that they can visit. It meets standard 6.8 because of the different uses of technology through the items listed above, all while making sure that they are things that are interactive and fun for kids to participate in.
Excel for Teachers - Practice Files
Excel book designed for K-12 teachers - files for download.
This website gives teachers a good idea of all the things they can use excel. It gives templates that one can personalize with information for any classroom. If you love excel as much as I do, and you want to be a teacher, this website is really something you should check out!
Teachers Social Network (TSN) has the same concept as the ever popular Facebook. Teachers can create a free account, and begin chatting with other professionals about important issues or ask for help concerning a certain lesson plan. This website meets standard 6.4 because the information one obtains from chatting with other teachers is integrating technology into his/hers own learning process and is very likely to influence their teaching habits or change their current educational practices. Overall, this website is a good tool to get ideas and answers from fellow teachers.
I find the history channel website to be very useful for history teachers. It has videos on most historical events, games for students to play that are relevant to subjects in history and social studies. It could also be used as good source for students when doing research projects and paper. A great icebreaker for teachers to use is "This Day in History."
This website is a free grade tracking application that also allows teachers to share students progress with the parents and students. There is also a phone app that will allow for easy updating. It allows lesson planning with a place to link the state standards.