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This site is a freely available public site that is designed specifically for Music Teachers and pre-service Music Teachers interested in continual professional development in their field of music education (although we do welcome all educators, curriculum developers, and public school administrators!). While this site is free to use, all users must register for an account -for all non-logged users, clicking any of the links will take you back to this page.

Here is where you will find resources and links to resources to help you develop and maintain your classroom web site. 

"Feel like something's missing from your YouTube viewing experience -- like some good 'ol multiple-choice questions? The chronic learners among us will be happy to hear that the site is testing an interactive -- and potentially educational -- feature that lets users add quizzes to their clips. A new page on the YouTube site describes a "Video Questions Editor Beta," which lets channel owners display multiple-choice questions on top of their videos as they play. The page is pretty blank at the moment, but the beta is up and running for those who opt in. "

Great example of what you can do with a Google Site. 

Reading and Math Interactive Sites

Need help with Math Facts in a Flash? Here a site to help, with screencasts to walk you through various steps

TED-Ed's mission is to capture and amplify the voices of great educators around the world. We do this by pairing extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a new library of curiosity-igniting videos. A new site, which will launch in early April 2012, will feature these new TED-Ed Originals as well as some powerful new learning tools.

Hello World!  We are a 5th grade class from the San Francisco Bay area in California. We have been studying how people get their water around the world and want to hear from you! Please take just a moment to fill out each of our surveys, we would appreciate it.

Flipped Classroom website example

Multiple Keyboarding Links

Web site creation tool!

I have started to think about how to help students understand the importance of critically evaluating the information on-line. I have found a few sites over the years and after the year 8 immersion days I believe that it is time to come up with some lessons that teachers can use. There have been some very good posts about this topic already. Langwitches post "Don't Believe Everything You See Online" being one.

299,536 people have decided to learn to code in 2012. Why not you? Make your New Year's resolution learning to code. Sign up on Code Year to get a new interactive programming lesson sent to you each week and you'll be building apps and web sites before you know it.

This site is a list of 10 different IWB resources. Enjoy

Great site for creating stories with kids!!! 

This is a great site for creating movies and video/ picture slideshows. One of the best! Free for educators. 

The BBC has excellent educational games, activities, and resources.  The BBC Science Clips are a collection of science related activities and games for students who are 5 to 11 years old.  Students can grow virtual plants, experiment with pushes and pulls, hearing and sound, forces and movement, electricity, rocks and soils, simple machines, light, solids and liquids, friction, habitats, life cycles, changing states of matter, reversible and irreversible changes, forces, and much more. 

Not sure about the above comment, but this is a GREAT site with lots of USEFUL ideas for incorporating digital storytelling into a classroom.