A digital library containing Java applets and activities for K-12 mathematics. This would be very beneficial to teachers with not a lot of money to still be able to teach their students with visuals.
Math League Help Facility. A reference guide for math topics for grades 4-8, complete with examples, definitions, and explanations. This website would definitely be beneficial if a teacher gets stuck coming up with examples.
Curriki, the online education community, is building the first website to offer free, open-source instructional materials for K-12. We have thousands of free worksheets, lesson plans, exams, project ideas and activities for English language arts, math, science, social studies, technology integration and other subjects. All of our educational material is contributed by teachers and partners and is free and open source.
This page suggests some topics for students in grades 6, 7 and 8 who are planning to do a math project. This website would be a great jumping off point to figure out projects. There is not however enough information for a complete project, but worth taking a look at.
This website allows students to keep up with their work. The create documents to hold all types of school information. It could be a great way to make sure parents know what their children need to complete before school the next day.
Live Documents offers a suite of web-enabled Office productivity applications (equivalents of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint) that can be used as software on your desktop or as services within your browser. Live Documents gives you unprecedented choice and flexibility and increases personal productivity and group collaboration. Live Documents office tools include feature-rich applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mail, database and lists. This website could be a great help if you need to share presentations that are too big to send through email.
BookJetty is a social utility that connects you with your friends' bookshelves and checks books' availability in the libraries. As a teacher this would be beneficial to share knowledge with other teachers. Also, being able to check availability of a book at one site would save time.
busuu.com is a free online community for learning languages. You can connect yourself with native speakers around the world and improve your language skills together. This website would be beneficial for a teacher that wants to connect with a student and/or parent that speak a different language.
This website allows you to bring everything together and checks webistes for things that might interest you. It allows you to have everything at your fingertips on one site. Also, you can find other people with your same interests at this website.
A great browser tool that lets you comment on any web page without needing the permission of the website. This allows you to get feedback from other kutano users. This allows you to express your opinion to others as well.
Simplify your life and get things done with Doris! This website allows you to organize your life and get more off your mind. It is a portable to do list. This would allow you to check your list wherever you have internet access.
This website looks at more than just youtube so that you can find more video choices and songs. If you wanted to show something to your class you might have a better chance searching this site.
Fliggo lets you create your own customizable video sharing site in seconds. Build a video blog, the next YouTube or just a private place to share videos. No downloads, no installation, do it all securely within your browser. If you ever need to leave something for your students they say this is a private video site.
This is a tool that is similar to diigo. It lists websites that other people found fun and/or funny. I think that it would be a great way to find funny websites. Make sure you watch them or look at them first before sharing!
This website allows you to create a chatroom whenever you need to talk with others. Students can use it to work on group projects. Teachers can use it to talk about lesson plans or any other tasks they need to complete.
This website allows students to play math games and look at puzzles. There is also a section that allows them to be taught how to do problems. They are neat because they allow the students to visually see a problem worked out without having it physically in front of them.
This website lists word problems for children by grade level. Even if students understand the concepts you teach sometimes they do not understand it when it is written in a word problem. This website would be a great way to get a few extra word problems if you are stumped.
Brain Boosters offers online activities for your kids including educational games and brain teasers. This website would be beneficial if you wanted to put one of these up on the board with your warm-up problems. You could also use some of these as bonus questions on a test or just a fun filler to pull out of your bag of tricks.
