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The Scholastic website @ http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/home.jsp is a wonderful website designed for students, parents, and teachers. This website contains reading lesson plans created for student's prekindergarten through twelfth grade. This website a contains numerous resources including reading pintables that could be used in a classroom. I would highly recommend this website for students, parents and teachers.

Cool math.com @ http://www.coolmath.com/ is a wonderful website for finding lesson plans for any age student. This website is designed for students, parents, and teachers. It has games, lesson plans, teaching strategies, teaching segments, and different types of calculators. This website also provides a large variety of math problems in areas such as: adding, subtracting, dividing, decimals, algebra and geometry.

Pedagogical research on Web-based learning and instruction has not kept pace with the proliferation of Web-based courses offered by colleges and universities. Consequently, we encourage the application of the "Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" (American Association of Higher Education, 1987) to guide the design and implementation of Web-based courses.

There is a great deal of enthusiasm for the use of games in formal educational contexts; however, there is a notable and problematic lack of studies that make use of replicable study designs to empirically link games to learning (Young, et al., 2012). This paper documents the iterative design and development of an educationally focused game, Compareware in Flash and for the iPad. We also report on a corresponding pilot study of 146 Grades 1 and 2 students playing the game, a paper and pencil related activity and completing a pre- and post-test. The paper outlines preliminary findings from the play testing, which included high levels of student engagement, an approaching statistical improvement from pre- to post-test, and a discussion of the improvements that needed to be made to the game following the pilot study.

The Extended Day Program is a before and after school enrichment program designed to enhance children's lives cognitively, socially, culturally, emotionally, and physically in a safe and engaging environment

European Space Agency is taking the Internet to space!

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.

The Broward County School District has a designated website for parents call PARENT INVOLVEMENT. This is great website for parents within the Broward County school district to use as a quick condense reference guide to get and stay info with what's going on in this school district. This website also provides an abundance of valuable resources ranging from ways for parent to get involve in their child's schooling, school policies, academic info, and supportive services to things as Teen Parent Program, health education, and preventive programs from substance abuse, etc.

love this website!!! students always complain that they can't understand why they need to learn algebra because they want to be a rapper, singer, fashion designer, etc. This website give teachers are great lesson plan that includes video and other visuals to show students how algebra is needed in most careers

This site provides many applications for pictures or video such as edit, download, add, and design. The site also offers lessons for students to acquire skills. This is useful when the student is using the site to design and add three-dimensional effects of the classroom that help students visualize the environment and their effects through the image to develop the sensory side of the student. The student can also download images on the site and engage with other students, teachers, and parents.

This is a very well, designed and user friendly classroom blogging tool. I have been using it with my fifth graders and it is working very well. I can review all of the content before allowing it to be posted. I can make comments and mark errors and re-submit it to the student to be corrected. I can even pull up a blog as an example and edit it in front of the class without telling them whose blog it is. Pretty cool :-)

Make your own cloud, design a track for a ball to follow to a bucket. Fun, inventive activities for children.

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Very useful comprehensive list of links to all kinds of tech skills for teachers, from iMovie to Dropbox to designing a technology-rich inquiry activity. Links good for teachers at all levels, from preschool through graduate level.

Universal design for learning (UDL) is a framework that guides curriculum redesign to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all students based on scientific insights into how humans learn. It provides strategies of implementation, as well as examples.

This article is introducing a rubric for assessing interaction in distance learning.

The GTA is a FREE professional development experience designed to help primary and secondary educators from around the globe get the most from innovative technologies.

HOME KidsClick! is a web search site designed for kids by librarians - with kid-friendly results! This site has a variety of resources for teaching social studies through alternative methods.

UCF Website University of Central Florida Libraries - Must use your Library ID to access. These articles focus mainly on Instructional Gaming.