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Open Educational Resources page provided by the California Learning Resource Network. Many resources for educators categorized by subject, standard, grade level, etc. Visitors can narrow searches by using the filter feature on the sidebar menu, or use the browse feature under the Open Resources Tab on the menu bar at the top of the screen to specify subject, grade, type of resource, etc.

Great government resource on computer safety. Includes many resources for children and parents.

"Vocabulary Games"

This website offers free, interactive resources online featuring Latin & Greek root-based activities at grade levels. It was listed as an instructional resource on the Florida Department of Education website.

This site provides interactive and fun ways for students to practice and learn new vocabulary words via games, puzzles, and crosswords. It is suitable for students from high elementary grades through college!

This is a great article about hidden features in google docs. I use google docs quite a bit and this was very useful.

Open Source Drawing Software for Children; more digital storytelling tools including sound effects and nice storyline for tutorial.

Using an Excel worksheet -Automatic features Learn to use these automatic features of Microsoft Excel such as the common cursor styles, auto sum, and auto fill. Step 1 - Review cursor styles - There are four common cursor styles used in Excel. This was a great resource for Activity Reflection #2 !

Schoology is an online learning management system. It offers many free features to teachers, such as: Personalized Homepage, Course Profiles, Calendar, Online Homework Dropboxes, Create Assignments and Events, Create Tests and Quizzes, Online Gradebook and Attendance, Track Student Usage and Course Analytics, User Connections (Professional Networks), Messaging, Customizable Notifications, Announcements, Discussions, Group Workspaces (Collaboration), and more...

This lesson plan from Interface Magazine suggests ways to incorporate Twitter in your class. They seem so easy and practical but I never would have thought of some of these methods, and I was even an early Twitter adopter. Make sure to watch the video under "The Twitter Experiment"! I found this in the "Featured Resources" section of The Gateway to Educational Materials, accessed via the publisher's companion site to our textbook.

This is a website for novice and experienced users. they provide the best resources that their researchers have researched. The site helps you save time with credible, high quality and trustworthy sites. The site has news headlines, feature stories, sites for learning and guide to websearching.

For over a decade, TeAchnology has been providing free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students. We feature 46,000+ lesson plans, 9,600 free printable worksheets, rubrics, teaching tips, worksheet makers, web quests, math worksheets, and thousands of other great teacher resources.

Great site for lesson plans and assessment rubrics. Plenty of worksheets and other resources.

This site gives an example of a discipline specific search engine for technology in education

A perpetual question that we face as designers of online instruction, in the era of rapidly evolving communication technologies and learning management systems, is: how do we create a vibrant community of learners online?

A perpetual question that we face as designers of online instruction, in the era of rapidly evolving communication technologies and learning management systems, is: how do we create a vibrant community of learners online?

This is a great resource! I have an interactive whiteboard and the students love listening/viewing the online stories. I think it also shows a positive message from famous actors that reading is important. Thanks for sharing!

Have your students listen to a story being read by a famous person.

This website is provided through the Screen Actors Guild foundation. Stories are read by actors. There are about 25 stories geared more for younger children. They provide options to comment on the stories or buy the books.

Just in case you are interested in the features!!!

"The goal was to discuss what this virtual content might look like, how to manage it all once we have accumulated a large amount of digital resources, and how Common Core standards may impact this process."

The world's largest library of audio textbooks to make it easier for your child to read, comprehend and learn.

YouTube Video by LearningHood explaining Blended Learning.

Tameika, It's funny how we tagged the same Video; but I shared it through Hootcourse though :) Interesting video about blended learning. Hasnaa

Great for creating a class website, hosting wikis, blogs, assessments. Also has message board features.

ZisBoomBah helps educate kids and parents about food in an easy and fun way that all ages can understand. Featuring free food games, tools, recipes and information.

MathActive lessons are Flash animated math modules designed for grades K-12. Each module features content that touches a geometry performance objective from the Arizona Academic Standards for mathematics.

"This official site of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. features links to each of the Smithsonian's museums and their exhibitions, as well as special online resources in art and design, history and culture, and science and technology." I love this site because the student can through this Site Search any branch of the Museum of Smithsonian. Also this site the student can identify and look at the audience and other cultures to recognize it at first hand. The teacher can use this site to explain other cultures and civilizations to be presented to students in an interesting way to increase the knowledge of students.