PSU Professional Development

This website shares 100 ideas for using digital cameras in the classroom.

Discovery Education aka United Streaming is a widely used source for videos on just about any topic you might need in your classroom. I really can't imagine teaching without such easy to use resources at my fingertips.

Our school district has this and I love it! I wish there was more for high school and college students, but it is still great! What I don't find in the way of video here, I get from youtube.

This site has premade, lessons that have curriculum standards attached. The lessons can easily be downloaded and used. The search engine allows you to look under topic, subject, age/grade level or standard.

Wow-What a great site!!

Funbrains is a site from Pearson Education. It showcases "Arcades" geared towards Math and Reading.

National Geographic Game site is for students 3rd grade and up. It has various science and history adventures and activities.

This site offers teachers professional development that is standards based. Teachers can earn graduate credit, professional development points or CEU's while gaining strategies and resources to bring directly to the classroom

This is a site by the PBS channel. This site offers standards based graduate-level courses. There are trainings offered from preK-12. There is a wide variety of courses and they are full of amazing information.

There usually are teacher discussion booklets and or teaching materials to go with most things. I have also found that the standards base curriculum is very helpful

This is a site swimming with more than 2000 interactive learning activities and games for preschool students through the 6th grade.

This site is for teachers, parents, and students. It provides a large number of programs and free tools for students in all subject areas. Teachers can join the Discovery Educators Network to collaborate with other teachers around the world. There are also a large number of lesson plan resources for teachers as well.

I use this website atleast once a week in my classroom. If it isn't this it is YouTube! There is usually everything for everyone, except the Chemistry vids are lacking.

Prongo offers fun, interactive and educational games for kids. They offer Quizstation for teachers to create online quizzes for their students.

A wiki about everything from videos to widgets, graphing to collaboration

I like that this site is organised so nicely and is very user friendly.

The ramblings, rants, and thoughts of Gwyneth A. Jones. First runner-up in the 2009 Edublog Awards for Best Librarian/Library Blog, this site is full of ideas, links, and resources for today's teacher-librarian. I really like her straightforward (blunt) style of writing and her passion for today's librarians to stay abreast of emerging technologies.

Links to interactive math activities

Wow! My kids will love this site! It would be a great link to add to your classroom webpage for students to access from home.

Starfall is a public service to motivate young children to read using phonics. They use a systematic phonics approach with their lessons.

Organising platform that would be good for upper grades, college students, teachers or really anyone looking to organize themselves in one online place.

This site allows you to "publish" your writing book style for others to read for free. I think this would be amazing to use in upper grades. Caution would have to be used by the teacher when allowing students to access site.

Self-described as "the online workplace of an international community of education professionals," this is a great site for K-12 teachers, librarians, and administrators to collaborate, share, and support one another. Membership is free. Build your own safe, online learning community for your students and/or your colleagues.

The tutorials on this page are very good and are worth the time. Some of the live tutorials were frustrating because you needed a phone and a computer, but you have a live instructor and that is worth a great deal. The techniques, the fun, the time involved were very different yet the same as making a PowerPoint only with a twist.

This is a website that uploads Powerpoints. It uploads the powerpoint and then will change it to mov and upload to YouTube. You may download video from YouTube and place it in your PowerPoints from this site. The instructions are easy to follow. However, you will need to refresh your page after about 10 minutes after uploading. The site sends you an email when the ppt is uploaded. This site takes a while to perform the task, but the quality is very good. I have been happy with the site. You can also Tweet from this site. Greating cards and setting up your own channel are also options.

The Horn Book magazine features reviews of books for children and young adults. This site includes several Classroom Tips for promoting the love of reading and reading skills. Includes podcasts featuring conversations with authors, illustrators, and editors.

A podcasting resource website by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This is a site for novice and expert. There are tutorials, FAQ, lessons, websites for uploading or downloading podcasts. I have taken a podcasting class but didn't know about this reference. The websites listed at this URL that I checked still work. If I had someone who wanted to learn how to podcast, I believe this would be one of the sites I would suggest.