This is a non-profit group interested in protecting others through education about safety on the internet. A very professional online manual for parents or students is easy to read and covers a lot of details.
This is an attractive website specifically directed toward girls and how to be wise with the social networking, mobile devices and web safety. Appeals to all ages of girls and informative with friendly graphics.
This website has many different areas to help teacher. It has lots of resources including bulletin board ideas, printable worksheets, and lesson planning ideas. You need to be a member to receive full access.
This website is full of ideas from lesson plans to themes. It gives you belletin board ideas. It has everything from student needs to professional development needs for the teacher. Great website when your creativity is blocked
Virtual Field Trips is a website that takes teachers and students on field trips via the internet. Categories are Career Technical, Fine Arts, Foreign Language, Health and PE, Language Arts, Math, Library media, Professional Development, Science, Social Studies, Technology and Other. As I searched around it looked like several of the field trips use our Sea Monkey as their web site composer of choice. Uen.org is the URL. At the bottom of the page we can click on "contact us" which takes us to a page where we can put in our contact information so they can get back to us. There is an 800 number to call. The website is based in Utah. Uen stands for Utah Education Network partnered with Utah State Office of Education and Higher Ed Utah, which is in Salt Lake City.
Astaweb.com is the American String Teachers Association website. It is run out of Fairfax, VA. Their email address is listed at the bottom of the site. They link to many resources, i.e. how to get great recruitment posters, information about competitions, string teacher jobs or a place to post a job. It looks as if they update it regularly. The most current job posting was July 7
) Paulhami.edublogs.org is a blog site run by Paul Hamilton from the public schools in Vancouver, B.C. He is their assistive(?) technology consultant. He writes about free websites for educators. One that I got stuck on was watch know.org which had something for every discipline. Of course, there were lots of comments from fellow educators who can also add to his list of helpful websites. The latest revision looked like June 20, 2010.
This website has lots of free on-line music theory drills where teachers can make assignments and students sign in to do them. The drills were mostly string player oriented. One was to indicate where on the fingerboard are specific notes. If the computer is off-line teachers can purchase the program for only $12.00.
Lessons and activities page is searchable by grade level and theme. Themes include human rights, conflict resolution, understanding others. Links to brief summary of the lesson. Lessons can be downloaded as PDFs.
Many interactive templates for timelines, Venn diagrams, writing and publishing, etc.
Can easily be sorted by skill, grade level, theme, learning objective.
This site has a bilingual blog and podcast that students can connect to. There are videos that follow-through on material discussed in the podcast. Take a tour of a Spanish-speaking country!
Barrier -free Education is a web site dedicated to the quality education to students with disabilities. It is a work in progress with little information to offer. I like the premise because I am a new teacher that imagines my attempts at differentiation with disabled students end in failure or worse boredom. Because it is funded by an NSF grant, I look forward to returning to the site to see progress on this topic.