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References

• All Newspapers

• Bartleby's Non-fiction online

• Bible Gateway

• Chicago Manual of Style - Q&A

• Cyberlibrarian's Rest stop - search tips

• Directory of KY schools 

• Educational Research

• Educator's Reference Desk

• Faculty Innovation Center

• Grammar Hotline

• How Stuff Works

• The Inquiry Page

• The History of Computing

• Kim Komando

• Journal of Education Statistics

• Kentucky Accessible Materials Database

• KET Resource Books

• Librarian's Index to the Internet

• National Atlas home page

• Research 101 -- Home

• Martindale's Reference Desk

• Middle School Web

• National Center for Education Statistics

• Needs Assessment Resources

• Occupational Outlook Handbook

• Stay Safe Online

• Visual Dictionary

• Webopedia

• Webster's Online

Resources

• Animal video & sound (Cornell)

• Awesome Clipart for Educators

• Beginner's guide to e-mail

• Blogs, Wikis and Podcasts

• Brainpop (some free tonos)

• Bugged - what do those error messages mean?

• Casa Notes

• Certificates

• Convert Files online

• Crossword Puzzle Games - Play Or Create Your Own Puzzles

• Copyright on the Web 

• Create Interactive Quizzes & Games Online

• Create Interactive Flash Cards Online

• Directory of E-Learning Tools

• DocMorph - change documents to PDF

• ED Pubs ordering online

• Edpuppy

• ECS Software Library

• Early Childhood

• Educational Publications (government)

• Elementary Ed Helper

• Extract text from PDF files

• Federal Resources

• Filamentality - use the web to create WQs and assignments

• File Mail - send large files

• Free Audio Books

• Free Audio Clips

• Free Clipart (up to 50)

• Free Graphics Store

• Graph Paper

• Great Schools.net

• Integrating Technology resources

• Interactive Timeline Tool

• Internet Archive (free sound recordings)

• Layered Curriculum Resources

• Busy Teachers Cafe

• Kidspiration Links

  • http://www.globalclassroom.org/2005/mctm/kidspiration2.html

  • http://www.wcboe.org/programs/oit/checklist.htm

  • http://www.globalclassroom.org/2006/march27/index.html

• Library of Congress Teacher Page

• Listen to Songs for Free

• 4teachers.org

  • Quizstar

  • Rubistar

• New Teacher Podcast

• PBS Teachers

• Podcasting Resources

• Public Domain Info

• Royalty Free Music

• Smartboard Templates

• SmartBoard ideas

• Social Networking Site for Teachers

• Special needs children

• Teachers First

• Teachers forms & templates field trip

• Teaching Books site

• Teachnology

• TrackStar

• Universal Design of Instruction

• Web 2.0 Utilities

• Web worksheet wizard

• Worksheets in the classroom

• Write Design Online - graphic organizers

• Free video:

  • NOVA Science Now

  • Internet Archive

  • The History Channel

  • Annenberg Media

  • EncycloMedia

Assistive Technology

• Freeware Games

• Resources

• Tactile Graphics Resources

• Visual Fractions - ppts, software, games

Standards

• Culturally Situated Design Tools (Math)

• Find materials related to standards at Discovery.com

• KERA goals & Academic Expectations

• Kentucky Core Content for Assessment

• Kentucky Program of Studies

• Combined Curriculum Document

• New Teacher Standards

• NETS for Students (Technology Standards)

• NETS for Teachers

• National Standards

• Practice for KCCTS

• Examples of On-demand prompts

• Understanding Standards

• Using data for school improvement

Diversity

• American Sign Language

• Interesting Things for ESL

• The Teddy Stallard Story

Research online

• Brainboost dot com

• The 4 NETS of searching

• Citation Sites (CAVEAT - they are NOT exact - ALWAYS Check the most recent manual)

  • Citing Online Resources APA Style

  • http://www.rapidcite.com/

  • Citation Machine

  • Noodle Tools

• Image Map Search Engine

Searching for people

• Infospace

• Wink

• PeekYou

• Pipl

Lesson Plans

• 6 Lesson Plan Mistakes

• ELL lesson planning

• Finding good ideas for lessons

• Lesson Plans

• Marco Polo (now called Thinkfinity)

• Teaching with Audio Artifacts

• Wisconsin Teacher Ideas

Student-centered Learning

• Accelerated learning

• Activities

  • The Reconstructors (awesome)

• Differentiated Instruction Links

• E-Pals

• Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling

• Interactive Site

• More PBL

• Notestar

• PBL WebQuest

• Problem-based learning

• Project-based learning checklists

• Sources for Telecollaboration

• Starfall - Learn to Read

• Think Tank

• WebQuest Site

• WebQuest for Bullying

PowerPoints

• Jefferson Co. Teachers

• Hardin Co. Teachers

• Fayette Co. Teachers

• PowerPoint Games

• More PowerPoint Games

• Pete's PowerPoint Station

• PowerPoint tips

• 2007 PowerPoint tips

• Free Template of the week

AUPs & Internet Safety

• Internet Safety Quiz

• Yahooligans Teacher Guide

• Critiquing AUPs

• Collection of AUPs

• Cyber-Smart

• FAQs

• Kim Komando

• KimKomando MySpace Quiz

• Onguard Online

Professional Development

• Annenberg Media

• Atomic Learning

• AWESOME

• Center for Integrating Technology

• Educational Videos

• EduHound Newsletter

• Free-Ed Net

• Government offerings

• Inquiry Workshop

• Internet Safety from i-SAFE

• K-12 Online Learning Conference 2006

• KERA listservs

• Looking at Learning

• Merlot PD Opportunities

• National Board Certification

• Online Practice Modules

• PBS Teachers

• Scout Report

• Teacher Tap (technology integration)

• Teaching High School Science

• Works4me

Reviews

• Audio media

• Wikipedia Assassination

Free or Nearly Free

• Audio/Video

• Classroom Materials Maker

• Classroom Templates

• Create worksheets, etc.

• FreeAfterRebate.info - The best things in life are free

• The Road to Know Where: Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft

• Photo Effects Online

• Photo Really Cool Stuff

For Copyright Lesson

• Copyright/Fair Use

• Copyright Kids

• Finding Public Domain Items

• Myths about Copyright

• Copyright Term & Public Domain Chart

Information Literacy

http://library.uncg.edu/game/

Website Development Resources

• Barry's Clip Art

• Back to School Clipart

• Backgrounds

• Backgrounds

• Bobby - web page validator

• Bookmarklets

• CGI scripting

• Classical Archives

• Classroom Clipart

• Clipart Resources

• Cooltext.com

• Edit photos online

• Find Sounds

• Flamingtext (create your own graphics)

• Free Backgrounds

• Freeplay Music

• Great Sounds

• HTML Goodies Archive

• Lockergnome Newsletter

• Modem Information

• Music images

• Programmer's Heaven

• School ClipArt

• Spam Proof Email Generator

• The Javascript Source

• Webopedia

• WebSeek

• Web Page Validation

• Visibone HTML helper

• WS_FTP TUTORIAL

• TUCOWS World Wide Internet Software

Fun

• A Game a Day

• Animated Knots

• Avatars

• Brain Food

• Do you have an FBI file?

• Email Forwarding Video

• Fun Digital Photo Site

• Google Online Pedometer

• Hulu - short video clips from TV

• I Know That (Fun Games K-6)

• Make an Online Movie

• Teacher Tube

• Teddy Stallard Movie

• Scratch - free software to create interactive fun

• Second Life (virtual world)

• Shift Happens

• Simple Truths Motivational Videos

• Storylife

Classroom webs

• Hotlist of classroom websites

• Christie Paxton (Adair Co.)

• Kelly Robertson (Adair Co.)

Accessibility & Copyright

• ABC - accessible text

• Accessibility

• A-Prompt - download validator

• Audiobooks

• Could Helen Keller Read your Page?

• Kentucky Accessible Materials Database

• LD Online

• National Library Services for the Blind and Physically Handicapped

• W3C Accessibility Guidelines

• Seven Habits of Successful Websites

• The Scoop

Evaluation

• Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie

• DHMO Page

• California's Velcro

• Phishy Quiz 2

• Civil War Facts

• Facts About Titles

• Feline Reactions to Bearded Men

• From Now On - Online Technology

• Mountain Walrus

• Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

• UCLA Evaluation Info

• Author Credibilty

• Research 101

• America's Finest News Sources

• Fishkill 2004

• Mankato, MN

• Checklist

Design

• Browser design issues

• Nielson on frames

• Web Design

• Web Pages that Suck

• W3C Validation

• Website Validation

Programs

• The Complete Teacher

• English Maze (for non-native English speakers)

• Quiz Tree - free quizzes!

• Study Dog

• Software Reviews

Integrating Technology

• Blogging Rules

• Teaching with Templates

• SmartBoard Templates

Touch Typing Help

• Free Type Faster Program (Accessible, Spanish)

• Free Touch Typing Program

• Online free typing lessons for Qwerty -US standard keyboard

• Peter's Online Typing Course - Online Typing Lessons for Everyone!

Assessment

• Open Response

  • Jefferson County

• Online Tests

Software and Reviews

• Awesome Freeware Wiki

• Link to some other reviews

• ECS Software Library

• The Road to Know Where: Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft

• TUCOWS World Wide Internet Software

• Software Reviews

Training

• DVD Shrink interactive tutorials

• Create an interactive story with PowerPoint

• Creating graphics for the web

• CSS Style tutorial

• Guide to color for the web

• Dr. Dobb's Newsletter

• How to get a Domain Name

• Learn About Computers

• Using Excel in the Classroom

Content Area Resources

Art

• Arts Toolkit KET

• DaVinci

• Drawspace.com

• Mr. Picasso Head

• Art Education 2.0

Math

• Algebra Tutor

• Classroom Resource Bank

• Excel Simulations

• Exploring Data

• Fun Math Lessons

• Fractal Maker

• Function Grapher

• InterMath

• Journal of Online Mathematics

• Making Math Accessible to disabled students

• Math/Science Resource Center

• Math Worksheet Generator Site

• Napier's Bones

• Pi song

• Simpsons Math

• Teach mathematical thinking through origami

• We All Use Math Everyday (based on NUMB3RS)

Physical Education / Health

• Free Middle School Supplements

Science

• American Field Guide to Animals

• Biology Teacher Resource

• Encyclopedia of the Earth

• Excel Simulations

• NOAA All Hazard Weather Monitor

• Free science DVDs

• Interactive experiments and quizzes

• Interactive Honeybee

• Interactive Neuron and More!

• Math/Science Resource Center

• Microscope Imaging Stations

• Mineral Deposit Teaching Guide

• Optical Illusions

• Physics Interactions

• Science Content Brush-up

• Visible Body

• Your Amazing Brain

• Yikes - More Brain Stuff

Social Studies

• Best of History Web Sites

• Churchill Interactive Speech

• Digital History

• Do-It-Yourself State Maps

• EyeWitness to History - Index

• Explore the Middle Ages

• Gettysburg Address - supported e-text

• Historical Sounds

• History - It's Happening!

• History Resources - refdesk.com

• National Archives Docs

• Native American

  • Circle of Stories

  • Thinkquest

  • Traditions and History

• Notable Kentucky African Americans Database

• Outline maps of the world countries continents islands states and map tests

• Prehistoric Timeline

• Presidential Timeline

• Primary Source Materials & Document Based Questions

• Smithsonian Interactive Activities

• States & Capitals matching quiz

• Stossel in the Classroom - video and discussion guides

• Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust

• Webcam Siteseeing over the World

Classroom Management

• Article from NEA

• Behavior Advisor

• Journey of Man

• One computer classroom

• PowerPoints about Bullying

• Public School Review

• School Demographics

• Strategies for Empowering Students

• Teachers share classroom management strategies

• Weekly Tips

Learning Centers & Bulletin Boards

• Bulletin Board Links

• Bulletin Board Pro

• Bulletin Board tips from NEA

• Classroom Displays & Bulletin Board Links

• HomeworkOpoly

• Secondary Math Learning Centers

Children's Literature

• 2001 Volume III Reading and Writing Poetry

• 2003 Volume III Teaching Poetry in the Primary and Secondary Schools

• Authors and Illustrators

• Awesome Stories

• Cyberguides

• Encyclopedia Mythica

• Fairy Tales

• Haunted Stories - Kentucky!

• Heroes

• Historical Fiction (children & Youth)

• Historical Resources

• International Children's Digital Library

• Literary Elements Map

• Literary Lessons

• The Moonlit Road

• Native American Lore

• Online Book Clubs

• Recommended Youth Reading

• Series site

• Series Fiction Search

• Storynory - free audio stories

• Teaching guides

• Themes & Literature Circles Theory to Practice - Thematic Learning Environments

Language Arts

• 60 Years of reading research - but who's listening?

• Adolescent Reluctant Readers

• Adolescent Literacy

• The Big "R" - Reading

• Book Builder (for teachers to create books for students)

• Book Report ideas

• Clearinghouse

• Children's Literature & Language Arts Resources

• The English Server

• ESL Resources

• Example of Supported E-Text

• For Serious High School Writers

• Gifted Readers

• Interventions for Dyslexia

• Learning to Read

• Lesson Plans for teaching reading

• Links for writers and writing

• NCTE

• No Fear Shakespeare

• Overcoming Reading Difficulties

• Reader's Theatre Scripts

• Reading across the curriculum

• The Write Site

• Brain Food (FUN)

• Create your own Shakespearean insults (FUN)

• Stay Afloat (FUN)

• English/Spanish/French Interactive Dictionary (FUN)

• Play 20 Questions

• Words that Trip Students on Tests

• Writing Site (Awesome)

Check out - LB 1576.7.G74 English Language Arts and Reading on the Internet.

Music

Songs for Teaching

Technology

• 1001 Uses for a Digital Camera

• Center for Integrating Technology

• Grammar Girl Podcasts