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A great site dedicated to Digital Storytelling.

Contains information on books, articles, research, evaluation tips, tools, and other resources for teaching and creating digital stories.

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.

Great teaching strategies and articles related to technology in schools.

Three educators share their favorite social media sites to use within their classrooms. Diigo, Instagram, VoiceThread, Scoopit.com, Pinterest, and Feedly help these educators stay up-to-date while keeping their students engaged.

Help your students develop 21st century skills while exploring global themes. The Innovative Teacher Toolkit provides whitepapers, customizable lesson plans, and technology tools to reinforce skills such as collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, assessment, and organization.

Using this to teach characterization this week.

Substantive but focused overview of rubric creation and implementation process by the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group. This overview page includes a series of brief examples/non-examples.

This site is designed to support teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) to elementary school students. On this site you will find fun and exciting resources to help keep your students motivated to learn, without sacrificing the learning experience. This site is especially great for classrooms with multimedia capabilities. Introduce new vocabulary with the vocabulary viewer, play fun flash games for the classroom, and print your own customized worksheets and flashcards. You can also download PowerPoint presentations and use fun teaching tools.

American Association of School Librarians website. Links to other useful websites for media sharing, digital storytelling, classroom management & organization, social networking & communication, content resources, and curriculum collaboration! Excellent FREE resources for the clasroom!

Great teacher resources from Scholastic - activities, lesson plans, and more.

WOW! I just discovered this site via the search tools from our text book's website. Everything from themed lesson plans to printables to science experiments.

The A to Z Teacher Stuff website is designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. It comprises lesson plans, thematic units, downloadable teaching materials, and eBooks to name a few.

A to Z Teacher Stuff is a teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily.The website offers thematic worksheets, units, downloadable materials and more!

TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons, units, and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format. Busy teachers, parents, and students can find resources using our robust search tools.

Edublog Awards Winners 2011. Lists winner and several runners up for various student, teacher, class, library, ed tech, and administrator blogs. Also recognizes other categories such as best mobile app, free web tool, most influential blog post, educational wiki, open PD/webinar series, and use of a social network. I would recommend using this page for resources and ideas for creating your own educational blog.

"Create a Rubric"

I love this site. I used this last year for classwork, homework and projects. One of the difficult parts of teaching is assuring that students are graded fairly on assignments. Grading projects is a snap with a good rubric. Not sure what to fill in to make a rubric, no problem. Rubristar has pre-made rubrics you can use. ;)

RubiStar is a free tool to help teachers create and search for quality rubrics.

An innovative and unique practice involving two classes of information technology (IT) major student teachers, who created digital learning resources and assessment rubrics by utilizing a Web 2.0 tool.

Lesson Plans, Free Lesson Plans, Lesson Plans for Teachers, Free Lesson Plans for Teachers, Free Printable Lesson Plans, Lesson Plan Templates, Blank Lesson Plan Templates

Download free lesson plans, blank lesson plan templates.

Make your own lesson plan in seconds and keep them coming. An easy way to do it.

Wikis are an exceptionally useful tool for getting students more involved in curriculum. They're often appealing and fun for students to use, while at the same time ideal for encouraging participation, collaboration, and interaction. Read on to see how you can put wikis to work in your classroom.