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This is a great source, I believe. Teachers can use this as a on-going project throughout the semester to catalog the work of their students throughout the year. There are several ideas I can come up with to how this would be useful: 1. In a math classroom, students can catalog the important knowledge they aquire and would like to remember after the year is complete. Throughout the semester, students create pages/files to be uploaded to their e-book, or go in and manually add information that they find important in their lessons. They can use their e-books as a source of reference throughout the year, and in future years. As a teacher, you can also use this source to upload important assignments to the reference, so students can reflect back on them at a later date. 2. Science teachers can use this to create a class-create book covering the information that they have covered in class, as well as to document research students have come across on their own. This could be compiled of student assignments/projects/research/etc that students complete through their unit. And then the teacher can publish the e-book allowing students to have access to their work. This is a great resource because it motivates students to do better, knowing that their work is available for view by not only the teachers, but their peers, and others online.

Sort of a YouTube for presentations. A great place to borrow from others and add on or edit the work they've already done. Also a great place to share important work you've done.

All things Spanish, including a section to download free Spanish works. Some of it would be awesome to teach to a high level class or perhaps use some parts of works to develop in lower level courses...anyways, lots and lots of stuff to explore.

A site for groups to work on projects together. It has IM capability, email notifications, online calendar,checklist, etc. Teachers can manage classrooms and students can manage projects. It looks like a great place for students and teachers to keep track of and work together on projects. (better if all students have a computer at home) Registration is free and easy.

This is a great source for teachers to use whether middle school, high school, or college level. This could be used for group assignments or individual assignments. Teachers can send out assignments via Live Writer to students. And students can submit assigments via Live Writer as well. This takes out the extra step of sending it either as an e-mail, or having to print the assignment all together. A great way to go green, and move away from printing. It is also a great way to integrate technology into the everyday classroom. This tool can also be used by teachers when assigning group assignments. Similar to our 6 facets assignment with Google Docs, student can share a document with the others in their group. Once they have collaboratively worked together to complete the assignment, they may then share it with the teacher to turn it in.

What do you guys think? Should teachers sell their hard working lessons in order to furnish classrooms with books and whatnot and at the same time make a quick buck? Very controversial!

This site could be used as an extra help for students. There are many different types of games such as jeopardy and basketball to help students have fun while still working on math problems. Each section of games deal with certain concepts covered in the classroom.

This is a website made by fellow teachers that has ideas for all kinds of things. (For things to do on the first day of school, for things to do on holidays, for service learning so on) The things I like about it is that it comes from people that already used these ideas in the classroom and tell how it worked. It's a good way for fellow educators to help each other and to be inspired by one another.

The Piaget website. Summaries of his work on knowledge and development. A great site to help understand the process of learning and educational development.

this site offers lots of handwriting work sheets and coloring sheets

This website is a resource for teachers to learn about new methods of teaching, what works best, and there is even a blog. This website is also broken down by topic area.

Tons of online resources to work on reading, phonetics, paragraph structure, persuasion, etc

This article talks about how BofA is providing an Education Grant to CMS Schools to help non-profit organizations who work towards helping at-risk youth and drop-out prevention.

Teaching language arts to english as a secound language learners. Gives steps on how to work with ELL Students.

Idiomatic expressions to work with advanced classes.

This is a website which provides links and resources for new and veteran middle grades teachers. The site provides links and information regarding many topics: teachign strategies, maintaining student-teacher relationships balance, working with students from diverse cultures, newsletter, discussions, publications, etc.

a collection of lessons plans that have worked for other teachers. Notice, Chack for compleatness and content

Working with fractions is quite tricky - and the nasty thing about them is that you really can't use a calculator or a computer to help out.

U.S. department of education created this site to give teachers and parents an idea of how to work together in their students' education.

This is a very well organized site that describes the differences and complexities of the german school system. Students could certainly learn a lot about how things work in Germany, as well as practice their language skills. Could be used as a homework assignment or as a discussion to discover similarities and differences between our two countries.