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" What amazed me most about Classtools.net was not the valuable tools provided, but the ability for teachers to easily customize these tools and use them in any subject area. If that is not enough, how about the ability to embed your newly made instructional resource on your own classroom website, wiki, or blog? Any educator will also like the fact that students have no need to log in or sign up for an account… and neither do teachers! Need tutorials… they are provided! Do samples help you understand better… you will find plenty! Is budget a problem… then free should be affordable! Classtools.net is the work of educator, Russel Tarr, Head of History at the International School of Toulouse, France. Upon entering the site, educators will see the listing of tools. Clicking on a tool allows teachers to individualize that specific tool for their own classroom needs. Teachers then have the option of copying a generated link to place on their own web site or of copying a generated code to embed as a tool (widget) on their classroom site. Also, on the front page, are some video links that will provide further information. Two videos that provide excellent information are the 1 Minute Overview and How to Create Games. The Listing Of Over 20 Digital Tools For Your Classroom The tools that you can even customize are included below. Along with this tool listing you will find descriptions of each tool, an overview of and samples of specific tools (if provided), and any related video (if provided). * Arcade Game Generator - Allows teachers to create concept builders, practice exercises, and reviews. Best of all, one set up feeds into five different game possibilities at the same time The teacher can choose which game, or allow students a choice. Make sure you check out all the examples and pre-made games in (overview and samples). Also watch the How to Create Games . * Random Name Picker - Can be used as an activity management tool or skip the names.

"Nine Neat NASA Resources for Teachers and Students Almost every time I visit NASA's website I find something new and interesting to me. I just did a quick look through my archives and over the last few year I've written about NASA-related topics more than sixty times. Here are nine of those better NASA resources for teachers and students."

"Open Educational Resources (OER) offer opportunities for increasing equity and access to high-quality K-12 education. Many state education agencies now have offices devoted to identifying and using OERs and other digital resources in their states. To help states, districts, teachers, and other users determine the degree of alignment of OERs to the Common Core State Standards, and to determine aspects of quality of OERs, Achieve has developed eight rubrics in collaboration with leaders from the OER community (download link for rubrics below). To allow users to apply these rubrics and evaluate the quality of instructional resources, Achieve partnered with OER Commons to develop an online evaluation tool. OER Commons, an online repository for open education resources, is now hosting the tool and its resulting evaluation data. Every resource available on OER Commons contains an "Evaluate Resource" button that will direct users to the evaluation tool. The coding for the tool is freely available online here. Resources rated on OER Commons will create a pool of metadata, and this metadata will be shared through the Learning Registry with other interested repositories."

Common Core lessons from teachers by teachers. has a cost

The purpose of this site is to share information about free resources that teachers can use in their classrooms. In 2008 Free Technology for Teachers was awarded the Edublogger Award for "Best Resource Sharing Blog."

This vast educational resource for parents, teachers, and students offers several online Teaching Tools including a Puzzlemaker, Quiz Center, Worksheet Generator, Lesson Planner, and Clip Art Gallery. Free registration allows you to save the work you create in your own "Custom Classroom."

"The web's leading FREE school-to-home communications tool! SchoolNotes provides teachers with a virtual environment, giving the ability to post classroom or school oriented information. This information is accessible anywhere there is an internet connection giving both parents and students the opportunity to keep in touch with what is happening in the classroom. With SchoolNotes Teachers, Parents and Students are all on the same page! If you are not a current SchoolNotes user, you can either register for a FREE account here, or visit the Teacher, Student or Parent tabs above. "

"A Catalog of iPad Apps for Teachers and Students by Vicki Windman Fourteen of us-special education teachers, school psychologists, speech therapists, and other educators-recently spent six hours brainstorming with the goal of producing a starter iPad app catalog for teachers and students in our district, and beyond. Thanks to my colleagues for helping the district pioneer through new territory! "

This e-book is intended for use by teachers from primary, elementary, secondary and post-secondary schools. The contents of the book are made available under an attribution, non-commercial, share-alike Creative Commons license. Any and all contributions to this resource are deemed to be done on a voluntary basis. Edits to this resource may be edited, deleted or otherwise modified by the moderators of the site.

" The Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program provides primary source-based staff development to teachers across the country."

"What is it? In this video elementary school teachers in Toronto, Canada talk about how they use Google apps in education, especially Docs, and PBL to engage students and improve project work. Why do we like it? This video features the authentic voices of teachers on the benefits of having students use technology in PBL, with clear examples and snapshots of various projects in grades 2-3 and 5. How can you use it? You and your colleagues can get tips from these teachers on how to use Google Docs and other apps for education in your own projects."

"Name: School Fuel What is it? School Fuel is a Mobile Learning Platform that allows teachers and school leaders to connect with students in class and on the go. School Fuel provides customized app and resource libraries aligned to Common Core Standards helping schools deliver the right apps to the right students at the right time - on any device. Best for: Administrators and teachers"

"Social media offers some great opportunities for learning in the classroom, bringing together the ability to collaborate, access worldwide resources, and find new and interesting ways to communicate in one easily accessible place. Teachers around the world have found innovative ways to use Twitter as a teaching tool, and we've shared many of these great ideas here with you. Read on, and we'll explore 60 inspiring ways that teachers and students can put Twitter to work in the classroom."

A wiki that offers a vast variety of web 2.0 tools for students and teachers, including mapping, quiz and poll, graphing, video, music, and writing. Easy to use and provides descriptions of each tool. Site is easy to navigate and includes a teacher resource section organized by subject and topic.

"Free Tools For Teachers"

This Scholastic site provides a number of articles on establishing and maintaining good relationships with parents throughout the year -- which, of course, is the number one way to make parent-teacher conferences productive and stress-free -- as well as articles that deal specifically with parent-conference preparation. Also included are sample conference-preparation forms, and audio of a Teacher Radio discussion about parent-conferences.

A guide to standards- aligned electronic learning resources and assessment for teachers, administrator and parents

"Visions In Education- FREE Training Materials for educators! Welcome to the Google Docs for Education training site! This resource is designed to help educators and staff learn how to effectively use Google Docs in the classroom and district office. Here you will find information on the six chapters we will cover as well as schedules, resources and the latest announcements. Don't hesitate to contact on of the Google Certified Teachers on our training team should you have any questions. "

"netTrekker delivers the industry-leading digital learning resource library with more than 360,000 educator-curated resources - each one tagged, organized, and aligned to state and Common Core standards so that teachers, students, and parents can find just what they need, quickly and safely."

"To ensure App Ed Review is the highest quality educational app resource, its essential features have been vetted by scholarly journals, such as the Journal of Information Technology Education and the journal of Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education. Using research as its guide has resulted in App Ed Review developing: An organizational system that supports teachers finding the apps they want quickly and efficiently Two research-vetted app evaluation rubrics A system for classifying educational apps based on their purpose and function 3-5 instructional ideas or classroom applications for each app reviewed"