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Interactive whiteboard teaching ideas

a website of ideas, resources, and lesson plans especially for homeschooling parents, but it could also be extra resources for parents with kids in public schools.

An interesting site for finding ratings on the appropriate content in popular books

Virtual tours of famous 1906 San Fran earthquake. Interesting idea for history lessons.

Google earth can be a great tool, not just for virtual tours of the past but of the present. For example, when teaching about the ohio river valley, its great to be able to pull it up on google earth and show the contrast between the ORV and say a swamp area near the Potomac. It just helps people become aware of the landscape.

This blog was Edublog's winner for the best teaching blog. In browsing through this blog, I found a variety of information that is useful for teachers across all subject areas!

I think this is a great resource because it goes right along with what we are learning. It gives a little help on using technology in different settings. Just a fun site-check it out.

This website and others like it allow you to keep your French skills strong with daily updates about what's happening in the Francophone world.

I forgot to mention why this is so important to me as an educator, but I figured it was pretty obvious--I'm going into language teaching and if I don't maintain my fluency one way or another, my students will get nothing but repetitive and maybe incorrect phrases...short of moving to France for total immersion this is the best way to stay current with the language.

Here's a tip for using the Wii as a whiteboard in your teaching

Interesting article about the best way to improve teaching, by promoting collaboration among teachers.

I'll never teach economics, but I came across this and thought some of you would find it useful. This website has different clips from Seinfeld episodes that teach various economic topics... Pretty cool!

Have you heard of clickers? Use your cell phones to poll students in your class about assignments, pop quizzes, etc.

I don't think we should have students just playing games all the time, but they can be a good arrow in the quiver of teaching methodologies. This is an interesting article into the use of games to teach core subjects, like science.

audiobook database, pulled from Librivox in a more appealing website.

Store documents online using Google Docs, so you can then link to them in other programs.

Brittany's webquest example on the vietnam war.

A project-based approach to science and math activities is enjoyable for every student and teacher involved. Fun activities, supported by making connections with concepts promote learning. Over the past decade an increasing number of studies have shown the positive impact of project-based learning on student achievement.

english ning recommended by byu profs

This website is an incredible (free!) resource for English teachers. It has ideas, articles, networking for nearly any subject in English you could dream of! It was recommended to me by one of my English Teaching professors.