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"The objective of this site is to provide teachers with source materials, lesson plans and classroom activities for all grades K-12. This site is designed to help busy teachers use their time efficiently. The indexed websites are not organized by grades as each website listed may have several resources for different ages.guide."

Are you a tired teacher then here's the site for you.

Google for Teachers Books, Docs, Maps and more is a guide for teachers using google.

Those who use google may find this guide very helpful.

"In a digitally focused world, education is getting more and more digitized pushing us, teachers and educators, to re-conceptualize what it really means to be a teacher in the 21st century. Whether you are a technological determinist or instrumentalist, technology has become an essential force shaping much of our teaching and pedagogical practices. It has also placed a number of demands and exigencies on us and to meet these exigencies we need to develop a set of key digital skills. In the chart below, we cited 9 digital skills that we believe are fundamentally important for any teacher. This chart is based on a previous work we published here in the past."

"ter writing about iPad apps for elementary teachers, we are sharing with you today a list designed specifically for our colleagues teaching in high school. Of course there are tons of good educational iPad apps out there but limiting our list to only 10  titles forces us to selectively feature what we believe, based on our long app reviewing experience, are some of the best iPad apps for high school teachers. Have a look and, as always, your feedback is much appreciated. Enjoy"

Terminix has launched an educational website with insect lessons. The website is built around the character Harry, a praying mantis who guides visitors through resources for teachers and students. The educator center provides teachers with curriculum guides and lesson plans, created by entomologists at Audubon Insectarium and Terminix, that correlate with National Science Teacher Association standards.

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Scientists are continually on a mission to learn more about the world around them, and thus the information available is continually changing as the knowledge grows. Good science teachers understand the importance of staying up-to-date with the latest happenings in the world of science. A great way to do so is by following blogs. Not only can teachers stay abreast of what is happening, but many of these blogs serve as an excellent resource for students, as well.

Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is a nonprofit organization supporting the study and love of American history through a wide range of programs and resources for students, teachers, scholars, and history enthusiasts throughout the nation. The Institute creates and works closely with history-focused schools; organizes summer seminars and development programs for teachers; produces print and digital publications and traveling exhibitions; hosts lectures by eminent historians; administers a History Teacher of the Year Award in every state and U.S. territory; and offers national book prizes and fellowships for scholars to work in the Gilder Lehrman Collection as well as other renowned archives.

Cool site! A teacher can set up a site and have students dial in via their cell phones to submit assignments, and voice message responses. The teacher can log into the site and check the work submitted. Students can upload a variety of file types and can submit responses via voicemail.

I tried this out at the Pete and C conference and it was really cool. We phoned in an image to the teacher site and we were able to call in and submit a response to a questions provided by the teacher.

Teacher Resources

A slideshare about web 2.0. It includes the challenges teachers face and how to overcome them to continue to grow professionally.

Spelling City is a fabulous site for practicing spelling, I have written about its uses in the classroom before (here and here). Spelling City has just added a new feature that teachers are going to love, the ability to add your own sentences on Spelling City! Now you can customize your spelling lists to fit your needs. For example, if you are studying fish and one of your spelling words is "scales", the default sentence that Spelling City might offer is "The scales were not giving the weights accurately." Now as you create a list, you can click on "add" and type a new sentence to fit your classroom needs. The feature is also extremely useful for homonyms (our fifth graders are using this feature this week!). For the teacher created sentences, the audio read of the sentence will be done by a sophisticated voice synthesis. \n

In case you haven't seen this site. Love the capability for teachers to set up their own clas spelling lists that kids can access at home.

Mathalicious is really cool site. Users select their math topic and then are given real life situations where the math is used. It appears each situation comes with a complete lesson plan, with essential questions and all informtion that the teacher will need. The lessons are not just for math teachers but go across varied content topics, but relate back to math.

Cool site. Mathalicious connects math to real-life activities by providing complete lessons for teachers.

10 p interest boards covers 10 collections of teacher resources related to technology.

Planboard is a free tool to help teachers schdule and share their class plans. Overviews are then available for weeks, and months.

"Augmented reality is making some huge inroads in the field of education. More and more teachers are incorporating this relatively new technology in their classrooms. Augmented reality is also redefining the notion of learning by adding a layer of interactivity, engagement and vividness to students learning experiences. Teachers have been using augmented reality in many varied ways and across different school subjects, this post from Edutopia provides some good examples in this regard. The success of AR in education is attributed to the increasing availability of mobile apps designed specifically to help learners leverage the power of AR in their learning.  Below are some very good AR apps to try out with your students. This is a work in progress and we will be adding more to the list in the future. Enjoy"

"For those of you asking about Educational Android apps to use with students in class the chart below is a great place to start with. This is a work we have published a few months ago and is meant to provide teachers and educators with a handy resource they can fall back on when they need to try out new educational apps in class.  We have categorized these apps into 17 major categories: note taking apps, portfolio creation apps, presentation apps, reference apps,  video editing apps, concept mapping apps, storytelling apps, apps for teaching kids coding, augmented reality apps, audio recording apps, comics creation apps, reading and literacy apps, apps for learning English grammar, apps for doing virtual trips, apps for learning a new language, apps to unleash students creativity."

"For those of you asking about Educational Android apps to use with students in class the chart below is a great place to start with. This is a work we have published a few months ago and is meant to provide teachers and educators with a handy resource they can fall back on when they need to try out new educational apps in class.  We have categorized these apps into 17 major categories: note taking apps, portfolio creation apps, presentation apps, reference apps,  video editing apps, concept mapping apps, storytelling apps, apps for teaching kids coding, augmented reality apps, audio recording apps, comics creation apps, reading and literacy apps, apps for learning English grammar, apps for doing virtual trips, apps for learning a new language, apps to unleash students creativity."

17 Free YouTube Tools Every Teacher should know about.

If you use Youtube you will definitely want to check out some of the tools that make it more friendly with regard to eliminating the junk around the video.

This site has 100 of the best YouTube videos for Teachers. They are categorized by history, science, language, arts, humor, inspiration, classroom management, how-tos and guides, and technology.

Here are 100 of the best YouTube videos for Teachers. They are organized by categories. See the descriptor for this site. It looks like it would be a good resource to check out.

From A-Z classroom strategies for Teachers

Lots of resources for teachers.

"Welcome to The Teacher Toolkit! Engaging techniques for effective teaching For every tool you'll find: An explanation of how and when to use it A template students can use to implement the tool A place to take notes about how you use each tool We're also adding videos that will show you the strategies in action."