brainhoney is another onlince community specifically for teachers and their students and the parents of their students. It's a way for everyone to communicate and a wa for teachers to organize things, get tips and so on.
online learning community for teachers, students, and parents. Offers resources for teachers to incorporate technology into the class also offers advise to parents abd students about using technology.
This is one of the biggest and most respected newspapers in Germany and always has the most uptodate information. I could use this as a way to practice reading and have an activity on the side for effective communication. Students would learn new vocab, use the language and catch up on what is important in Germany.
This is a neat website because it allows students and teachers to communicate and build and develope ideas virtually. It is fun because students and teachers can build games that apply to their curriculum and students can help in that process without wasting classroom time.
NCTM is a website that is very helpful to teachers to meet others and constantly learn new ways of teaching. This is a resource that takes care of the big picture of education.
Council in which math teachers and students planning to teach math can join. This is the national council but there is a local one and that is the North Carolina Council of Math Teachers.
Flickr is really a site of photography, and not only that, but professionaly photography. A teacher could use this site for presentations as the pictures found in the site touch on practically every subject imaginable, but also impact the viewer because of the power behind the photographs. It would be great to utilize in powerpoint and it's better than googlepics because you know that the quality will be great and that you'll find exactly what you need.
The National Network for Early Language Learning (NNELL) is an educational community providing leadership in support of successful early language learning and teaching.
This is a great website and it's free. You can store and share files, create a class calendar, assignments and grading, and involves social learning for classrooms.
This popular online classroom community provides a free set of web-based tools for teachers who want to integrate web 2.0 into the classroom. Tools include an online assignment calendar, an online gradebook, an online attendance book, secure online messaging, and instant progress reports. Engrade is a great way for teachers to constantly stay in touch with students, parents, and administrators.
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.
I love Skype! It is the best invention in telecommunication ever! I keep in touch with my family in Brazil for free! In the classroom, you can have students exchange information with one another and telecommunicate with people around the world!