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This resource is from Capella University and their teachers are teaching many different tutorials about math and science. This resources gives tips and tools to better teach  in the classroom . 

What a wonderful and credible resource! After exploring the site I think I would mainly use these as a resource for myself as a teacher. But I do think some of the tutorials may be appropriate for upper elementary grades and on. In a way, this reminds me of the Khan Academy website. If you can't remember how to do something or if you need a new way to teach something then this would be an excellent tool to turn to.

This website gives teachers a strategy for how to teach students spelling. The strategy is effective in teaching students how to break down words to help them understand their spelling.

This blog is strictly about literacy. Teaching literacy, learning about literacy, and learning ways in order to incorporate literacy lessons in your teaching. Check out this blog for more literacy help!

This website lists 101 Web 2.0 tools for teachers. I like the factors used in deciding what sites to include: functionality, ease of use, applications in education, and compatibility w/ popular ed tech and digital teaching materials. I found this to be a comprehensive list and easy to use. Brief descriptions of the Web 2.0 tool are provided. Would pertain to all grade levels including higher education.

This website lists 101 Web 2.0 tools for teachers. I like the factors used in deciding what sites to include: functionality, ease of use, applications in education, and compatibility w/ popular ed tech and digital teaching materials. I found this to be a comprehensive list and easy to use. Brief descriptions of the Web 2.0 tool are provided. Would pertain to all grade levels including higher education.

Great wiki that provides ideas on evaluating a web site. This could be used at any educational level. Includes PowerPoints, worksheets, and videos to choose from. A great starting point for teaching how to effectively evaluate web sites.

Great wiki that provides ideas on evaluating a web site. This could be used at any educational level. Includes PowerPoints, worksheets, and videos to choose from. A great starting point for teaching how to effectively evaluate web sites.

A blog with some GREAT teaching ideas regarding technology.

Resources, guides, ideas, and videos about teaching reading

To The Lesson is a teacher blog that is full of classroom ideas, organizational tips, management tips, etc. that can be helpful to use as ideas for any classroom!

This blog's simplicity is what I liked best about it. It shows great pictures and is organized in a way that easy to understand. Also, it gives great ideas for early education. I plan on teaching k-2 so this could give me great ideas for fun lessons!

I found the first few posts in this blog to be really interesting, although probably not very useful for me as a future teacher. I don't know much about Montessori teaching or schools. Based on my initial impressions, and the fact that I fully plan on being a "messy classroom" teacher (lots of differentiation, lots of AT (I'm a special education minor in addition to being an ed. tech. minor), I'm not sure how much my classroom philosophy and organizational principals could relate to this teacher's. A very different perspective, to be sure! If I ever have free time (maybe over winter break!?) I'd like to read more about what this Montessori stuff is all about; I'm especially interested in the value of the "Practical Life" work this teacher is doing?? Totally different than anything I've seen in my educational training. Thanks for sharing. :)

Thinking of Teaching is a teacher blog that is full of ideas that can be used in the classroom as well as freebies

This website has a great number of resources for Elementary Teachers.  There are teaching materials, free printables, literacy centers, etc.

I really enjoyed looking into this due to the fact that their are many resources within this. I am able to use this website to broaden my resources for lessons plans. I too plan to teach in the elementary school so this is something I will most definitely use this for my future classroom.

This website seems to have great tips for management and lessons. I love the laundry basket idea for reading books. Sometimes you just need a lesson plan reference and this site had lots!

This is an interesting free game to help young children to read. I am going to try this with my son who just turned 6 and is starting to learn to read. Claims to be the only site like this available but I haven't verified that. Great for teachers or parents. Adults sign up and add kids; kids are issued on password and parent/teacher can view progress.

I have signed up for this site but have not had a chance to use it with my 5 year old yet. Looks like it has some great possibilities. I love the Free Technology for Teachers Blog as well, I have found many great things on there such as the StoryKit App for the iPad.

This site has a lot of resources...including the Teach Your Monsters to read. Great resource for ways to include technology in your curriculum.

This is a great FREE resource that discusses the idea of safe internet behavior. There are plenty of resources for the teacher to teach lessons that go along with an online game/component.

A Wiki to share lesson plans and look for curriculum ideas. A quick search generates many options, downloadable and ready to go!

Great resource! Although it states K-12, I think many of the ideas can be re-tooled for higher education also. It is so great to have the tools so readily available. Why try to reinvent the wheel? This resource shares great, tested ideas, and as you said, downloadable and ready to go!

What a great resource! Thanks for sharing it with us. I will be able to use this resource as I create and plan my themed units for the year. I really like that I can search by theme and grade and then tie that directly to the core. This resource is primarily for teachers as it pertains to planning for instruction.

A ning (kind of like a wiki) that is all about iPads in education.  Have a cool idea?  Join the ning and submit your own.

I thought this resource was great and thought provoking for the educator that has access to i pads in the classroom. Not only could educators use this source but parents as well. I also agree with Randon that it has student uses as well. I agree with Randon as well that many other resources and social media pages such as facebook and twitter are available, however the creation of this site gives a different navigational system to explore.

This is a great resource for teachers and students in the classroom. The more resources that we have the greater the level of learning can be. Teachers and students will benefit for this resource. Thanks for sharing

A great list of resources to get your kids and you in the back to school mindset.

"As much as we all love online learning and utilizing technology in the classroom for the benefit of our students, there comes a time when the best way to teach a subject is to get your hands dirty and just make something." The first paragraph says it all. Three sites that have great ideas for hands on activities for kids. Appropriate for an age level. My kids love "How Stuff Works."

Awesome compilation of K-6 blogs for teachers!  There are many links to blogs, printables, ideas, and news!  The name says it all!

Materials, eBooks, videos, and games for teachers or students.

This site was really cool to look at. It had a ton of things to buy for the classroom! Just looking around I was already getting inspired to incorporate them into daily activities and lessons. This would be site I would recommend to administration so they can purchase things for the school to have available (if they are nice like that).

Reading and writing tips, ideas, and lessons for teachers.

Thanks for sharing this site, Haley! I love the free "student interactives" given under the resources tab; I just had a lot of fun exploring some of those -- especially the "printing press" which I am actually adding to my own bookmarks....it looks like a cool way to get students interested in writing, and incorporating an "app" to make their publications look more professional. Definitely something I'd like to use in my upcoming student teaching, or my own classroom! :)

This is an excellent wiki to help teachers use blogging with students in the classroom or extend what is already happening with blogging in the classroom. Guides, examples, videos, lesson plans, tools, and rubrics are a few of the resources provided.