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Free site to create comprehensive multiple modality lessons fom web content

"What do you want to teach today? Create lessons & lessons plans in minutes. Simple, fast, and FREE. Automatic accommodations, scaffolding, and sheltered instruction. Targeted differentiation groups. Higher-order thinking prompts. Graphic organizer selections. "

A list of lesson plans created by educators during past Summer Teacher Institutes. These resources are intended to stimulate student interest and creativity, to develop higher order thinking skills and to promote interdisciplinary learning.

LessonWriter creates lesson plans and instructional materials for teaching English language skills from any reading passage. LessonWriter analyzes text for vocabulary, grammar and usage, pronunciation, and word roots and stems.

Lesson plans, video tutorials and resources for teachers

"This is the US Teachers' Guide for using the Professional Cartoonists Index web site in your classes. We have developed lesson plans for using the editorial cartoons as a teaching tool in Social Sciences, Art, Journalism and English at all levels."

February is Black History Month. Here's a word list to add to your lesson plans! This list can be used to play all of the games and activities on our site. http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=2851114

Includes sections on the benefits of using comics in the classroom, great resources for using comics in the classroom, suggested comics for reading in the classroom, tools for creating comics in the techie classroom, creative ways to use comics in the classroom, lessons plans using comics for elementary/middle/high school classrooms, manga and anime, and free comics for educators

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 Kerpoof is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative. Here are just a few ways that you can use Kerpoof: Make artwork (even if you aren't good at drawing!)Make an animated movie (really! it's easy!)Earn Koins which you can trade for fun things in the Kerpoof StoreMake a printed card, t-shirt, or mugTell a storyMake a drawingVote on the movies, stories, and drawings that other people have madeCheck out our What's New and How-To pages to learn more about what you can do with Kerpoof. Kerpoof doesn't come with a manual or a directory or a map. If we've done our job right, then finding your way to the various nooks and crannies of Kerpoof will be half the fun. In addition to being a lot of fun, Kerpoof has many educational uses. Visit our educator page (with ideas and lesson plans for how to use Kerpoof) or read our flyer for educators if you are in a hurry but want to learn more. If you are a parent, you may also want to read our for parents page.

The purpose of this site is to take an extensive list of websites that are considered high quality, reliable, and valuable and organize them in a way that even "non-techy" teachers can utilize them. It took around 10 years to collect these resources, but new ones are found every day. All of these websites have been recommended by other teachers and educational organizations and qualify as "the best". You'll find support for all core curriculum areas. In addition, you will find lesson plans, multimedia, and primary sources to enhance your students' learning environment.

From the American Association of School Librarians

Ideas on tech available to use.

An article about story boarding and how it relates to a modern presentation such as the TED style talks. Very good embedded video about Walt Disney and the development and use of story boarding in animation.

I already use wikispace at school to upload lesson plans and we also have virtual chats when we are too tied up to meet face to face for planning instruction. I really like widispaces

FRONTLINE takes viewers inside the private worlds that kids are creating online, raising important questions about how the Internet is transforming the experience of adolescence. At school, teachers are trying to figure out how to reach a generation that no longer reads books or newspapers. Fear of online predators has led teachers and parents to focus primarily on keeping kids safe online. But many young people think these fears are misplaced. Online media has also intensified the social dimensions of adolescence as teens create and play with identities on sites like MySpace and Facebook and encounter intense peer pressure in a variety of virtual worlds. Parents are confused about how to respond to the increasingly private worlds inhabited by their children, lacking an understanding of both the creative potential and the genuine risks of this new dimension of our cultural environment.

I was a shy student. It took me until middle school to actually feel comfortable enough around my classmates to speak up in class. Back then, there was no Twitter. Now, shy students are apparently preferring to communicate with their teacher via Twitter instead of raising their hand.