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ForceDo is an easy free online ToDo Task List for everyone. Get things Done using the preassure of running countdown. Use the Timing Controls to meassure your tasks! Get things done!

ForceDo is an easy free online ToDo Task List for everyone. Get things Done using the preassure of running countdown. Use the Timing Controls to meassure your tasks! Get things done!

ForceDo is an easy free online ToDo Task List for everyone. Get things Done using the preassure of running countdown. Use the Timing Controls to meassure your tasks! Get things done!

A clearing house for a large selection of blogs, especially math related topics. There is a large variety of topics that seem to be updated continually.

This site gives us access to several different teaching and math blogs (obviously) It is useful to us for getting into the heads and thought processes of people that are successful in the job that we aspire to be in. These people have access and know of many resources open to us that we may not know of, and we can learn a lot from them.

Use to find current weather conditions in different parts of the US. Information useful for compiling data used in scatter plots.

SimpleWeather.com is an easy-to-use, no nonsense weather site. The site gives you exactly what you're looking for: the weather.SimpleWeather.com is an easy-to-use, no nonsense weather site. The site gives you exactly what you're looking for: the weather. Use with graphing/ line of best fit comparing weather data

Texas Instruments site has lots of free things that can be used in class along with this free course on how to use a TI83 graphing calculator.

Create useful diagrams online. This could be very useful for graphical organizers as a teacher when assisting in note taking and linking events in Social Studies, Literature and Science. Also could be very useful with graphical representations of Math

Over 1000 lesson plans and units for math teachers! This website also includes what part of the standard course of study the lesson pertains too, as well as teacher feedback from the use of the lesson. I think this would be very useful if a teacher is struggling with a particular topic. They can come on this website and find a new way to explain a topic. This website also gives you questions that you can ask (sometimes higher level questions are difficult to come up with).

Over 1000 lesson plans and units for math teachers! This website also includes what part of the standard course of study the lesson pertains too, as well as teacher feedback from the use of the lesson. I think this would be very useful if a teacher is struggling with a particular topic. They can come on this website and find a new way to explain a topic. This website also gives you questions that you can ask (sometimes higher level questions are difficult to come up with).

I thought I would choose an interesting non-teaching site today. This site is a tracker of sleep over time. This site would be cool to use in a classroom for tracking the sleep of students for health reasons, but also for math. The ideas that could be used with graphing and the use of points, averages, etc. are promising. Otherwise, this site seems kinda pointless?

This website can be used to figure out conversions with the online calculator. There are some interesting calculators that could be used with different types of problems involving science. This page also has math tricks for age and days of the year. It could be used in something as simple as a last minute note to keep the students guessing until the next day!

This site is the website for a television program TV411. It is focused on adult education in the practical basics of reading, writing, vocabulary and math skills. I found the math lessons tie the use of math in every day problem situations like buying something over time, Mortgage Basics, Using Credit Cards wisely. These are good sources for teachers to show relevency and the practical use of the math they are learning in real life problem situations.

Use as an online discussion group for questioning students. Not the main use for this website, but it could be used for this novel approach.

This Annenberg Foundation site uses media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in American schools. This is carried out chiefly by the use of educational video programs with coordinated Web and print materials for the professional development of K-12 teachers. There are also programs for use in the classroom. There is a wide variety of topics for differednt content areas.

TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons, units, and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format.

This website offers help for teachers as well as lesson plans and supplies.

TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons, units, and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format. We offer our own professional and classroom-ready content along with thousands of reviewed web resources, including practical ideas for classroom use and safe classroom use of Web 2.0. Busy teachers, parents, and students can find resources using our subject/grade level search, keyword search, or extensive menus.

This website allows you to enter words and then make some larger and different colors. This would be a neat tool to make posters for the classroom.

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. This would be a good way of working with vocabulary words, word walls, or having students recognize prominent words in a text.

Since most administrators require us to have a word wall in the classroom. Wordle will allow us to play with the words by creating word clouds.

This site allows for personalizing and updating charts and graphs for either the teacher or the student. In can be used to create more formal illustrations of data or used as a lesson when addressing either geometric shapes or data representation. It includes instructions. For total use you need to sign in.

You have to sign up but there is a trial version to look at. This is a graph drawing application for the Web with a focus on usability.

Graph drawing application used to access graph projects from anywhere.

This is a great resource web site for math teachers. It provides an extensive list of useful links to many, many topics useful for math teachers: lesson plans, math history, content, activities.

99Polls offers a simple approach to making Web Polls, which you can post nearly anywhere on the Web. 99Polls.com poll-creation tool requires no knowledge of HTML or coding, and once made, the poll can be posted on blogs, Web sites, and social-networking profiles such as: MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Xanga and more...

Online free web polls generator, let your visitors vote. Easy to setup, customize and use. Great to use for students outside of the classroom since its accessible to anyone on the web.

This site won several awards for its usefulness and design as a 2.0 website. Useful tool to immerse students, parents, and teachers into real, everyday conversations in 12 different languages. Good tool for students to explore math concepts in different languages.

Subscription based utility for teachers to use in creating rubrics for classrrom acitivties. Potentially a big time saver for teachers in place of using Excell.

RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch. RubiStar provides generic rubrics that can simply be printed and used for many typical projects and research assignments. The unique thing about RubiStar, however, is that it provides these generic rubrics in a format that can be customized. The teacher can change almost all suggested text in the rubric to make it fit their own project.

Create rubrics for problem based learning activities.

Throughout this website there are various articles, videos, slide shows, expert interviews, blog entries, and other resources to highlight success stories in K-12 education. Core concepts include integrated studies, project learning, technology integration, teacher development, social and emotional learning, and assessment. Teachers can use this site in order to understand the concepts used in teaching.