SJHS Bears Bookmarks

Free online proofreading.

Share the contest with your friends by Mark C. Eshleman featuring Tyler Joseph When it comes to being a good online citizen, which side of the line are you on? Last year's grand prize winning video, "Where Are You?" is on the right side. Do you have a great idea for a video?Get started!

collect, organize, and share research

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work-in the web browser itself.

EconEdLink is the leading source of online economic & personal finance lessons & resources for educators, students and afterschool providers.

Linda Darling-Hammond and others uncover the inconsistencies of Value-added models designed to rate teachers on effectiveness.  A must-read!  

"BioInteractive is a site from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) that provides free resources for science teachers and students. The site has videos, lectures, animations, links, downloads, lesson ideas, virtual labs and much more. You can even order DVD's of many of their programs for free. The virtual labs include: Transgenic Fly, Cardiology, Bacteria, Neurophysiology, and Immunology. The materials were developed by educators and scientists and are excellent."

Explore, create, and share Infographics and Data visualizations.

Teacher Planet is a site that has a huge collection of links, resources, lesson plans, templates, rubrics, worksheets and more. The resources are sorted by subject and type and there are some really good resources available. Many of the resources are links to external sites.

Gapminder is a great tool for creating data visualizations. Gapminder gives users the ability to create graphs of hundreds of demographic and economic indicators. It provides a good way for visual learners to see data sets in a context that is significantly different from standard data sets. Gapminder has a page for educators on which they can find thematic animations, graphs, quizzes, model lessons, and a PDF guide to using Gapminder.

Search for images in Google using a sketch or picture.

" 'Impossible!' you say? Look, we can't grade the essays for you, but we can reduce the repetitive, inefficient manual labor involved - and in doing so we open up a new world of invaluable student data." This is in Beta version so it is being offered for free at the moment. It sounds like it will eventually become a paid service - but maybe it's worth the price for those of you that grade a lot of rubric-based essays.

Create poll, share link, done. No registration needed to create a poll - a very quick and easy way to gather feedback.

"Announcify is a free text to speech application that is available as a Chrome browser extension and as an Android app. With Announcify installed in your browser any time you're viewing a webpage you can simply click on the Announcify icon in your browser and have that page read to you. "

Gooru is a new service that aims to provide teachers and students with an extensive collection of videos, interactive displays, documents, diagrams, and quizzes for learning about topics in math and science. As a Gooru member you have access to hundreds of resources according to subject areas such as chemistry, biology, ecology, algebra, calculus, and more. Within each subject area you can look for resources according to media type such as video, interactive display, slides, text, and lesson plans. When you find resources that you want to use, drag them to the resources folder within your account. Gooru also offers you the option to add resources to your folders even if you did not find them within Gooru"

"Watch free documentaries online! Full videos are available! Educate yourself with thousands of good documentaries about diverse subjects." 

math visualizations

Solving a linear equation system of up to 20 unknowns.

This is a nice collection of math and logic puzzles.  Some familiar classics as well as some not so well-known.

"The National Science Foundation's International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge annually recognizes individuals and organizations who produce educational graphics. There are five award categories; videos, interactive games, informational posters and graphics, illustrations, and photography. The awards recognize outstanding visualizations that can help educate students about complex topics in science. "

"This archive is designed as a resource for enriching your math courses and nurturing your interest and talent in mathematics! Each Math Fun Fact is a math puzzle or short article that contains a cool mathematics idea. You'll can learn about the mathematics of things like card shuffling to poker to computer vision to fractals to music, just to name a few. This makes great enrichment material for gifted math students or problem-solving groups."