You can choose your own avatar (virtual person/character) and upload a recording to it, allowing it to tell what you want people to know. Our 6th graders did this and gave a brief teaser about some books they have been reading.
Voki is a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profile, and in email messages. I personally have two of them on my teacher website. Sometimes you have to spell phonetically in order to get the Avatar to pronounce things correctly, but other than that, it is a blast creating them.
A great website for watching webinars and videos,
reading blogs, communicating with other educators. Also, great for staying up to date on technology and what others are doing with it.
PowerPoints that are already created on just about any area you can think of including library skills. This is a link to the library one, but the home page has PowerPoints for every subject area. (Parts of a Book, Dewey Decimal System, More - Free Presentations in PowerPoint format, Free Interactives for Kids)
Great site! I use this at least twice per week. Power Point presentations, web links, games and activities for nearly every topic in every subject being taught. The work has already been done for you!
This site offers so much. The teacher activity packs allow teachers to upload lessons, links, and activities to their own websites. There is a PD section with online courses for teachers. Lesson ideas are connected to standards and are available for many different grades.
A site full of lessons that can be categorized by grade levels and topics. With each category there is a "professional development" tab with great instruction and ideas.
This site is a list of internet resources that help classroom teachers. There are resources on classroom management, curriculum, teacher/parent/student relationships, professional organizations, literacy and much more!
Sites that help classroom teachers. This is a great site with sites that help classroom teachers. The sites are catagrized by best practices, critical thinking and management, discipline and classroom management, free online workshops, parent/teacher relationships, and
and video clips of technology use.
The mag that gives you news, views, ideas and more from the world of ed tech & edublogging. It is an excellent connection to educational issues and topics. It is free! I was amazed at the depth of information it provided. It would benefit all teachers because of the content and the ease in navigation.
This site has a load of resources for every educator. There is an Ed Tech newsletter, clip art, lesson plans, journal articles, web classrooms, templates and Ed Hound schools on the web.
The article on Gen X parents was the most insightful and helpful of anything I have read on this sharing group site. I am sharing the article with MANY others!
Use LetterPop to create eye-popping newsletters, actionable presentations, irresistible invitations, beautiful product features, sizzling event summaries, informative club updates, lovely picture collages, and a whole lot more. You can create items as a class or students can create their own newsletters, collages, etc.
Portaportal is a web based bookmarking utility that lets you store links to your favorite websites online. You will be able to access your bookmarks from any computer and you can organize the bookmarks into categories of your own choosing and you can also alphabetize them.