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Stories about time: Interactive timeline tools. This is a helpful resource that outlines a variety of timeline tools that could be used educationally.

This is a cool site to checkout and bookmark the tools that you may be able to use at some point. Timelines are great in that they provide a way for students to organize their thinking about a particular topic. Check out some of the timeline tools outlined in this link.

100+ google tricks that will save you time in school provides lots of great tips.

Both of these presentations are excellent. If you have whiteboard or clickers in your school or use promethean software you will learn so much from Deb Pickerings presentation. I recommend that everyone take time to review these archived presentations.

Check out these two keynote presentations. Both would be well worth the time.

"The Best Resources For Learning Research & Citation Skills September 24, 2009 by Larry Ferlazzo | 8 Comments This "The Best…" list is sort of a combination of two lists I had been thinking of making to go along with The Best Online Resources To Teach About Plagiarism (Another list to keep in mind might be The Best Reference Websites For English Language Learners - 2008). The more I thought about it, though, the more I felt that a list of engaging (and even fun) sites to teach research skills and accessible citation resources would make a good combination. Since a graduation requirement in our district is that seniors need to develop a "Senior Project," I've spent some time finding these kinds of helpful sites that might be accessible to English Language Learners.  I have to say, though, that these sites (except for the first one) would probably only be accessible to more advanced ELL's. Here are my choices for The Best Resources For Learning Research And Citation Skills: LEARNING RESEARCH SKILLS:"

Grandpa Tucker's Rhymes and Tales feature a collection of short, silly poems and online humorous stories written in verse for elementary school kids. the site also offers holiday poems and tips and materials for teaching poetry in the rhyme time fun section. Teachers can print out the poetry to use in their own classrooms.

There are numerous videos that are history related. This site would have some materials that would possibly work to introduce science topics as well. There are a number of timeline.tv links about disease, plague, medicine of medieval times, etc. Very interesting material. Covers various periods of England's history and the American West.

Splash allows, for free, users to create an event. Users can track RSVP in real-time. Splash can be connected to the hosts' twitter feed to pull in relevant #conversations to bring your page to life.

Interesting tool. I have bookmarked an example of splash as well as this direct link to spash.

This is a cool Public Domain Review. Users can go on and browse by medium, images, books, film, audio or by time period.

"Jennifer Wagner, creator of ProjectsByJen, has been succesfully encouraging teachers since 1999 to use online projects in their PreK-6 classrooms. Using various ideas, Jennifer will help you understand how online projects will help you make the most of your time in a variety of ways. Winning numerous awards for her creative ways in encouraging teachers to collaborate, her teaching style is very user friendly, creative, and personable."

This site provides project ideas for K-6 classrooms.

This site contains beginner math worksheets, advanced math worksheeets, spanish words, pre-school activities, time activities, geography activities and organization activities.

"The objective of this site is to provide teachers with source materials, lesson plans and classroom activities for all grades K-12. This site is designed to help busy teachers use their time efficiently. The indexed websites are not organized by grades as each website listed may have several resources for different ages. If you want to discover how to become a teacher you can check our career guide."

Are you a tired teacher then here's the site for you.

The purpose of this resource is to provide "Just in Time" training through an online interface for K-12 educators based on the National Eductional Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). These standards are the basic technology skills every educator should prossess. In the process, educators will develop their own skills and discuver what studetns need in order to meet the NETS for Students.

This site is really nice. Many of the things we talked about in the grad class are covered here but the really nice thing about this site is that it take the NETS-T that we used and makes a connection to Marzano's 9 (Classroom Instruction that Works) and 21 things. It is really interesting. On the home page check out the two downloads of 21things and Marzano. On the right if you click on any of those categories, tools that can be used are presented. This is definitely one you will want to save in your own diigo library.

"Anyone can use LeveledLibrary without registering for a free account. However, registered users have access to many features that are not availble to the unregistered users. Most notably, registered users can: Everyone Keep an inventories of the books you own and their levels Specify the leveling system in which you want the book levels displayed. Print labels for your leveled books in popular label sizes View book details, such as binding, dewey decimal number, suggested categories, and cover images Keep books in your shopping cart across multiple computers All Educators Search the inventories of colleagues at your school Vote on book levels for books in the system Manage Courses and Track Student Lending Access reports about your classroom library Administrators Purchase and unlock reports: See what books are in your school Analyze how well a teacher's library matches the students in the class Track student reading growth over time See how well your students are picking books on their reading level"

I have often wondered if there was a tool to organize my own library of books and I think th is may be it.

"The ClassMarker online testing website is a professional, easy to use, online quiz maker that marks your tests and quizzes for you. ClassMarker saves you time normally spent marking test papers."

Online Quiz Maker.

Are you interested in using games in your classroom but just cant find ones that match your curriculum? Have you tried to create video or board games for your classroom only to be overwhelmed by the amount of time and effort required just to produce them? If you answered yes to these questions, this web site is for you. This site contains downloadable games, game templates, and utilities that teachers and trainers can use to enhance any lesson

Neat site. I have never seen this before. Hope it's something new for many of you.

Shape It Up is one of many good educational games and activities on Kinetic City. Shape It Up is an activity that would be good for use in an elementary school Earth Science lesson. The activity presents students with "before" and "after" images of a piece of Earth. Students then have to select the force nature and the span of time it took to create the "after" picture. If students choose incorrectly, Shape It Up will tell the student and they can choose again.

Spelling Match is a spelling game developed by Houghton Mifflin. As the name Spelling Match implies, students have to complete matching activities based on the sounds and or meanings of words. Spelling Match offers different levels of difficulty for students in grades 1 through 8. The games can be played as timed or untimed activities.

Type racer is a global typing race. Looks like a great way to practice and have fun at the same time.

This looks like a fun site to motivate students to work on their keyboarding skills.

"Arcademic Skill Builders are free research-based and standards-aligned educational games! Engage and motivate students with our multiplayer and single-player games."

Sharing this again as there have been some additions to that that I think will be very helpful for teachers grades K-8.

Free online story books for children.