Resources for teachers in Elizabethtown's middle and high schools. Please join and share what you have collected with colleagues, and don't forget to invite others to join as well.
Check which famous writer you write like with this statistical analysis tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style and compares them with those of the famous writers.
Any text in English will do: your latest blog post, journal entry, comment, chapter of your unfinished book, etc. For reliable results paste at least a few paragraphs (not tweets).
The English Companion Ning is a networking website purely for English teachers. This is an excellent resource for sharing ideas for unit planning, text adoption, classroom management, and managing paperwork. This has saved my life/stress level on more than one occasion.
Focus:
Connecting the world online
World Wide Web
Workflow software
The Changing Shape of Information
Web 2.0 tools for sharing information
Globalization and outsourcing
Google takes over the world
Personal Learning Environments and Social Networking
Mobile and Ubiquitous
Virtual Communication
Wireless Connectivity
Classroom posters
Want to help out students and colleagues with handy tips on improving search results and using popular Google products like Google Earth? Just print out these posters and hang them where everyone can see them.
Uses Google Docs form and grades assignments.
More than just a grading tool, Flubaroo also:
* Computes average assignment score.
* Computes average score per question, and flags low-scoring questions.
* Shows you a grade distribution graph.
* Gives you the option to email each student their grade, and an answer key.
The Redistricting Game is designed to educate, engage, and empower citizens around the issue of political redistricting. Currently, the political system in most states allows the state legislators themselves to draw the lines. This system is subject to a wide range of abuses and manipulations that encourage incumbents to draw districts which protect their seats rather than risk an open contest.
WeatherSpark is a new type of weather website, with interactive weather graphs that allow you to pan and zoom through the entire history of any weather station on earth.
Get multiple forecasts for the current location, overlaid on records and averages to put it all in context.
What is Netspeak?
Netspeak helps you to improve your writing.
When searching for words, Netspeak can give you directions. Our dictionary contains billions of phrases and how commonly they are used.
Welcome to Math Playground, an action-packed site for elementary and middle school students. Play a math game, solve a logic puzzle, and have some fun!
Uses Google earth plugin to show tours and info.
Google earth tours for climate change, Great Lakes tour, heritage tour, gulf of Mexico tour, Land, Water, Climate and biodiversity