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Blogger
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The Educator's Reference Desk
2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses from the Information Institue of Syracuse.
Filamentality
Create your own online bibliography of websites using a fill-in-the-blank interactive website.
HPR Tec
"The HPR*TEC mission is to help teachers and other educators create, share, or find solutions to problems they encounter when integrating technology into education." Tools include TrackStar, NoteStar, RubiStar, QuizStar, Notable Pics, and the Web Worksheet Wizard.
NiceNet's Internet Classroom Assistant
Web based conferencing, personal messaging, document sharing, scheduling and link/resource sharing for secondary and post-secondary classes.
SchoolNotes
"Create notes for homework and class information and post them on the web in seconds using this free service."
Agreement on Guidelines for Classroom Copying in Not-For-Profit Educational Institutions
The official fair use guidelines for creating photocopies for classroom use.
Circular 21
Published by the U.S. Copyright Office, this pdf file outlines the "basic information on some of the
most important legislative provisions and other documents dealing with reproduction by librarians and educators." Lengthy but authoritative, this covers print material and music. The guidelines begin on page eight.
Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia
The full text version of the Fair Use Guidelines for multimedia, with a list of the contributing agencies.
Guidelines for Off-Air Taping for Educational Purposes
The Kastenmeier Guidelines, approved in 1984, outlines the accepted procedures for taping programs to be shown in the classroom.
Multimedia Fair Use Guidelines
An easy to understand outline of the guidelines for using copyright protected material in multimedia projects.
A Teacher's Guide to Fair Use and Copyright
An overview of the copyright fair use guidelines for educators.
When Works Pass Into the Public Domain
A simplified chart defines when works pass from copyright to public domain, based on the Sonny Bono copyright extension act of 1998.
Apple Learning Interchange
Lesson plans and ideas on using technology in the classroom; includes "Resources", "Units of Practice", and "Projects".
Blue Web'n
A library of blue ribbon learning sites on the web including lesson plans, web based projects and activities by subject area.
A product of T.H.E. Journal, this directory of educational weblinks includes tutorials, lesson plans, a hotlist host, clipart, and lists of schools and classrooms on the web.
The Global Schoolhouse
Registry of internet projects by grade and subject.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
A categorized list of sites on the internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth. Also includes Kathy's Power Point presentations on subjects of interest.
Marco Polo: Internet Content for the Classroom
A commercial site, The MarcoPolo program provides no-cost, standards-based Internet content for the K-12 teacher and classroom, developed by the nation's content experts. Online resources include panel-reviewed links to top sites in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson plans, classroom activitiesThursday, December 13, 2007 7:50 AMpan>
Michigan Teacher Network
Sponsored by Merit, with cooperation by the Calhoun County ISD and Eastern Michigan University, this offers links to activities, lesson plans, teaching resources, and professional development sites.
ReadWriteThink
Lesson plans, assessments, handouts, websites and research behind the teaching strategy, all peer-reviewed and approved.
Center for Media Literacy
Resources, information, teaching materials, and links to other sites.
Media Awareness Network
This Canadian site "offers practical support for media education in the home, school and community and provides information and "food for thought" on our fast-evolving media culture."
Media Literacy Review
Includes links to media education sites around the world, extensive article databases and a directory of international organizations. In addition, each volume offers a special features section focused around a specific topic. This site replaces the Media Literacy Online Project.
The Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication
When the U.S. Department of Education closed the ERIC Clearinghouse website, the University of Indiana created this site to provide access to those documents. Includes News About Reading, Lesson Plans, Web Resources, and more.
ERIC
Journal articles and reports on issues in education. To access full articles only, choose "Limit to full text" when you begin your search, and click on "full text" in the resulting citation, rather than on the title.
Gale K-12 Professional Collection
Journal articles on topics in education from Gale Infotrac Onefile.
Internet Scout Project
"The Scout Report is one of the Internet's longest-running weekly publications, offering a selection of new and newly discovered online resources of interest to researchers, educators, and anyone else with an interest in high-quality online material."
MERLOT - Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
MERLOT is an international cooperative for high quality online resources to improve learning and teaching within higher education, but is also useful for high school. The resources in MERLOT include links to thousands of learning materials, sample assignments which show how the materials could be used in the classroom, and evaluations of the learning materials by other individual users and panels of faculty.
National Archives and Records Administration: The Digital Classroom
Good for history teachers, this site contains reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States, teaching activities correlated to the National History Standards and National Standards for Civics and Government, and cross-curricular connections.
NCTE: National Council of Teachers of English
Includes teacher resource collections on literacy, grammar and spelling.
National Research Center on English Learning and Achievement
Links to research on the teaching of reading and writing
Oakland Schools
Book a video, check the catalogs or job postings, or see what workshops are being offered.
Online Teacher Rubric Resources
Links to rubrics and rubric generation programs on a wide variety of topics.
Picture Collection Online
Comprised of public domain illustrations from books, newspapers and magazines as well as photographs, prints and postcards, the New York Public Library's Picture Collection is a visual resource, encyclopedic in scope and arranged by subject.
Plagiarized.com: The Instructor's Guide to Internet Plagiarism
Ideas and tips to help determine whether students have plagiarized a paper from the internet.
The Question Mark
An educational magazine devoted to questions, questioning, sound intelligence, strategic reading and quality teaching.
Using the Big6
An information literacy curriculum using a problem solving process and set of skills which provide a strategy for meeting information needs.
Links to sites on reading and writing, including information on the 6 +1 Writing Traits and Reading Research.
The WebQuest Page
How to create an interactive online learning activity using WebQuest.