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Latest update 4th June 2013 - These are some of the best free internet resources for education. This page is constantly updated; every time I come across a new piece of software or an exciting website, I list it here. This list is not exhaustive in any way.

Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 - November 8, 1978) was an American illustrator and painter of the 20th-century. His works are famous. Great to discuss his paintings but to discuss details and historical moment. Then, can you tell the story just from the picture

Simple, positive classroom management, and parent engagement. Loved by over 35 million teachers, parents, and students. As a "special" teacher and seeing all the students in the building this was a great way for me to monitor kids behavior and they love it! I can't award individual students when I have 450 students so we set goals as a class and when they reach it they are rewarded.

If you are considering teaching an online course and using some or all Open Educational Resources, you need to consider the points in this article.

Discover an endless library of free books, picture books, & poetry or use simple tools to create books in minutes. Storybird is a creative community where readers & writers celebrate storytelling. You can set up classrooms and manage what your students are doing by creating assignments. You can make a classroom library where they make their own stories and can be read by other students. On checkout days my students have a hard time sitting there and reading, I don't mind because I know they have to do things like this in class all day long! I let them go on their storybird account if they would like, they can read what their classmates have wrote or they can make a new story.

Here is a new critique of the Khan Academy, read about the hype and reality of the academy, and read a post from the founder of the Khan Academy, Sal Khan. I guess there are always two sides to the coin. I'll have to test it out myself to decide my opinion.

Today's student generation is mobile, online and Internet-savvy. They are all computer gurus, and they often engage better with their electronics than they do with paper and pencil. As the saying goes, when you can't beat 'em, join 'em: charge into the information age as a 21 st century teacher.

Zaption provides free interactive video tools and ready-to-use video lessons to engage learners. Our video platform is perfect for K-12, higher ed & training. This is a great tool to use for students who are visual learners and those who need to watch videos more than once. It also works great for those who need to stop and take notes while listening. AB

You are able to create a cube to go with many projects and topics. Already created ones include: Bio, Mystery, Story cubes where you can have the question and users type in the answer. Print and fold to create a cube. The last and most useful is the create-your-own cube where everything goes. Great for a get to know you activity or even a self created game.

This is a podcast series that would be appropriate for our 8th graders doing NHD research. Each of these podcasts could be assigned as homework a couple of nights before these topics are covered in class so that students come into class with a basic understanding of the content to be covered that day. I guess it would be a little bit like "flipping" the class for that day. The teacher could have a quick discussion about detecting bias in primary sources based on the information from the podcast and then the rest of the class could be freed up for students to actually rotate through primary sources and practice detecting bias.

A set of lessons that I could use with my K-1 students in the library as we do certain library lessons. I know it seems rather basic but I always need ideas to show my paraprofessional as well because there are times I just cannot be in the library.

TED Talks are awesome resources that can be used in the classroom and beyond. I found this playlist on the autism spectrum and think it would be great for a professional development session in conjunction with a course from someone at pupil services. I see this as very helpful for teachers who want to know more about autism and connect with their students who fall on the spectrum.

This is a great lesson to use with elementary students to analyze text and meet Common Core standards. I liked that this lesson also uses Amelia Bedelia because you can then also discuss language and meaning and how her chores are always funny since she is literally doing what she hears.

Newsela offers teachers and students alike access to a ton of current event and news articles. All the articles are offered in three different reading levels and Common-core aligned.

"The Wisconsin Digital Learning Plan, aligned with Agenda 2017, outlines a vision of digital education in Wisconsin including the integration of Open Education Resources (OER) to increase equity and access to high-quality K-12 instructional resources." Since Educator Effectiveness has hit Wisconsin head on, here are some OER that will help us all. These resources will be especially helpful when planning the staff development which will be required for EE.

This resource is going to continue to grow. DPI is seeking good OER to include.

Over 750 free online college courses and lectures are available from MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Berkeley and more. A world of learning is just a click away!

This is on the higher end of education. I was asked to review the history offerings just a few months ago. It is, I guess, a landing place for a whole lot of open education classes from across the web.

Common Sense Media offers a free Digital Citizen curriculum. It is but together in an iBook that includes quizzes and other interactive pieces.

I have used Common Sense Media! There are some great ideas to be found here. Awesome find!