The home page for the Discovery channel. It is a wonderful resource for science and tech interactives, videos, and images. A great place to find recent issues and topics in conservation and environmentalism.
CNN en español! Click on Programas, periodistas and programación to get articles for higher level Spanish classes. Great way to have serious informacion in the classroom!
This is a really great way for teachers (particularly within CMS) to stay connected with one another. It keeps them up to date on thier curriculum and new ways to teach it. I think if each school district had something like this, the educations system in our country would be excellent.
This article was posted earlier today on MSNBC's website. The author completely disagrees with teachers being involved with students on facebook at all. He states that Facebook is "a minefield for school districts".
this is an article from NY Times talking about how you must need patience to be a middle school teacher. I think this is a good site because we need someone or something to tell us and remind us about teaching middle schooolers
Tinychat provides dead simple, free to use, video chat rooms that just work! Enjoy chatting with your friends or making new ones. Share up to twelve broadcasts simultaneously! With text, video, and audio chat, you and your friends can connect and talk from anywhere in the world.
Cramberry is a unique site that makes it easy for students to learn and study new material through online flashcards. Students or teachers can make customized sets of cards that can be printed or studied online.
This site is similar to prezi. It is a new/better version of a PowerPoint. Teachers can use Eduslide to deliver elearning modules to students inside and outside the classroom. Modules can include multiple lessons with text, slides, flashcards, links to other sites, audio, and video.