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David Kapuler's blog post 9/11/2010 about the use of vokis in education

Edupic is a site with free photographs and grapics for education.

Neat site! Lots of free pictures and graphics.

"Welcome to Soundzabound™ - the ONLY royalty free music library which meets all the licensing and technology requirements needed for education! Soundzabound Music Library offers a wide variety of music, audio themes and sound effects for grades K -12 and universities that ensures your copyright safety. Perfect for podcasts, PowerPoint™, videos, news shows, video yearbooks, digital storytelling, presentations, TV broadcasts, web design and more!"

With the advent of the World Wide Web and the huge amount of information that is contained there, students need to be able to critically evaluate a Web page for authenticity, applicability, authorship, bias, and usability. The ability to critically evaluate information is an important skill in this information age.

Here is a link to Kathy Schrocks page Guide for Educators.

Smithsonian American Art Museum Picturing the 1930's.

Picturing the 1930's. This is through the Smithsonian. Learn about the 1930's through art, music , newsreels, memoriabilia, historic documents, photographs, etc.

The UK-based nonprofit Peace One Day (POD) is offering a free online curriculum focusijng on conflict resolution and nonviolence for grades 6-12. The curriculum aims to foster discussion among young people about peace and nonviolence in their schools, local communities, and the world at large. It is designed to be used in conjunction with the documentary The Day After Peace. POD will distribute free copies of the film to schools using the curriculum.

Free and created for grades 6-12.

With a view of travel as an educational experience like no other, the project makes use of digital media to promote an understanding of different culture and customs to students worldwide. The site hosts virtual field trips to England, Jordan, and South Africa that include more than 160 fort films that correspond to the destinations. Each video explains more about the region's food, music, culture, and language. Since 2003, project explorer has counted more than a million visitors to the site from more than 40 different countries. Recently, it won a Parents' Choice Award for "Outstanding Web Programming." The site's developers qre not working to add a fourth field trip--this one to Malaysia--the Project Explorer has lesson for upper elementary, middle and high school. They plan to offer lesson specifically designed for the early grades.

History matters is a database of coursework, guides, and primary-source documetns on topics in American history, History Matters was produced by two academic programs at the City Unviersity of New York and George Mason University. The site is most useful for high school history teachers and studetns, and educators can use it as a professional-development resource. The Digital Blackboard page offersr curriculum guides with links to third-party reference sites. Another page hosts a series of Q & A interviews with history teachers, who reveal the secrets behind teaching a successful history course. The Students as Historians page links to web-based projects created by high school and college students. And don't forget to check out the primary-source search engine, located on the Many Pasts page. The search enging links to more than a thousand images, audio, and text-based documenets from American history sites across the Internet.

FREE federal resources for Educational Excellence. This site has it all--lessons, videos, documents and more. All content areas are included.

site that provides lesson plans and other resources for teachers. I signed up and found some interesting lessons. There seems to be a lot to go through. On the home page you will see a quick video tutorial about the site that I recommend you check out.

this is a social network site for educators where lots of ideas and lessons can be found.

This is a livebinder all about wordle. Very helpful for anyone who wants to know more about wordle and see an cool example of how a livebinder can be used to provide professional information for educators.

Great example of a livebinder organized to teach about wordle. The tutorial tab is a great place to start to see how useful Wordle can be in the classroom.

This site provides a variety of ready to use lesson plans on a variety of topics. The lessons have an essential question as well as an outline of strategies and activities that can be used to teach them. In addition, if appropriate, graphic organizers will be provided for use with the lessons. When you get to the site use the Find a Lesson Plan search feature to easily see if there is a lesson that aligns to your curriculum.

Ready to use lesson plans from the Smithsonian. Nice Site. Great resource for students and kids.

Online professional development, TV programming and multimedia web content, lesson plan ideas, and ways to connect with other educators are all things featured on the PBS teachers page. The website also features news and webinars for teachers to view.

I have used this before and found very straightforward. Lots of opportunities to pull fast resources without having to dive too deep to find meaningful content.

Teacher's Domain offers free digital media from public TV broadcasters for educational use. Users can search for materials via individual state standards, Common c ore State Standards, or national standards from different organizations. Website users can create onlin eprofiles in order to share the resources they have learned for a particular lesson with others.

Sheppard Software has a fantastic collection of free web-based educational games. Sheppard Software's free games cover Science, Math, Social Studies, and Language Arts. Most of the games are appropriate for elementary and middle school students, but some games are appropriate for high school students. The geography games are particularly good.

"Everybody learns better when they are having fun! Here at Quiz-Tree.com you will find educational games and quizzes on many subjects, including Math, Reading, Spanish, Geography, SAT, Spelling, Music and more. All"

When a teacher is looking for a new way to teach a student, a concept, or a lesson, the chances are the best resource is another teacher. On LessonCast, teachers share ideas and resources through screencast videos called lessoncasts. The LessonCast community connects educators with classroom-proven experience and great ideas.

The Ad Decoder is produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The game appears on the B.A.M. (body and mind) section of their website. BAM is full of great resources for health and physical education teachers. The Ad Decoder provides students with two virtual magazines which they flip through to see examples and explanations of advertising tactics used to grab the attention of tweens and teens. After flipping through the magazines students can test their new knowledge

Toporopa is a provider of educational and entertaining quiz games about Europe. In all Toporopa offers eighteen games in six languages. The games are primarily interactive identification games. For example, in the Capitals of Europe game players earn points by clicking on a country then entering the name of that country's capital. In Battles of Europe players earn points by dragging the name of a battle to its proper location on the map.