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Assessment
Equipment
- Authentic Assessment Toolbox - a how-to hypertext on creating authentic tasks, rubrics and standards for measuring and improving student learning.
- Assessment Rubric for Collaboration Efforts
- factchecked.org - FactCheckEd.org is an educational resource for high school teachers and students. It’s designed to help students learn to cut through the fog of misinformation and deception that surrounds the many messages they’re bombarded with every day. Our site is a sister to the award-winning Annenberg Political Fact Check, which goes by the Internet address FactCheck.org. and monitors the factual accuracy of what is said in the nation’s political arena.
- national assessment of educational progress (naep) reading framework development project - a draft for the 2009 assessment is available at this site
- OELMA Student Learning - Most recent study, conducted in Ohio, of student learning through the library media center.
- applying bloom's taxonomy sites
- Assessment, Maine sites: LAD, ELM, MAP, SEED
- NoodleTools - Research Tools for all - We have a subscription to this for students to create their works cited pages.
Bulletin Board Idea Sites top
- A-Z Teacher Tips
- Boards of a Feather - posts highly creative tips for bulletin boards.
- bulletin board hang-ups - colorful quotation sheets
- Classroom Decor Ideas
- Ideas for Bulletin Boards
- Teacher Helpers Bulletin Board Ideas - well maintained list of links from Kathy Schrock's site.
- mike moore's cartoon archives - Take a break!
- awesome clip-art for teachers
- clip-art from the Teacher's Guide - lot of free stuff here!
- clip-art from Discovery School
- kid's domain clip-art
- celeste's holiday graphic collection
- language arts clip-art from discovery school
- pics for learning
- pictures and clip art - Shambles Network
- original k-12 clip-art royalty free
- teacher's net, teaching clip-art holiday clip-art
- timelines; free timelines and more from OurTimeLines
- world clip art from Canon
- Images --- Try ClipArt Connection | CNN for current events images | Microsoft Clip Art | All Clip Art
Copyright Guidelines top
- Copyright Bay - Learn what the rules and laws are.
- A Printable Chart of Copyright Guidelines for Teachers from MediaFestival.
- Copyright Internet Guidelines - from the U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright Term and Public Domain in the
- Evalutech top
- More than 10,000 recommended reviews of software and print resources
- Web resources in language arts, mathematics, social studies and science
- Links to learning resources provided by SREB states' departments of education
- Information about some major e-learning software companies
- Analysis of literacy skills and links to 21st century skills initiatives
- Accessible technology resources for students with disabilities
- Links to online learning and online professional development resources
Field Trips top
- Electronic Field Trips - Unfortunately, this is now a pay per use site. Still worth exploring the possibilities. E3 (Explore, Experience, Expand) Electronic Field Trips streams electronic video broadcasts from the nation's top museums and historical landmarks to students in their classrooms.
- Virtual Field Trips - This Web page for K-12 educators contains a wide range of subjects: science, social studies, literature, and other educational areas. The trips are arranged by grade levels. This is a free resource for educators and is a great supplemental resource for all levels.
Forms and Templates top
- Custom awards and certificates - choose a theme and create your own!
- Forms and Letters - Look at the Index on the left - Teacher Tools - There's lots to download and print at this site, with homework coupons, grade trackers, daily logs, behavior charts, assignment sheets, IEP reports, hall passes, parent contact logs, project planning guides, thank you notes, teacher memo pads, multiplication tables... This teacher knows the ropes and has it all organized for you.
- Graphs - making them free online - from NCES.
- Graphics - Many, many diagrams to choose from. From atoms to molecules and cells to tissues, a study of structure and function
- Maps - at Mapquest Online Map Creation - Make your own by following directions at this site.
- Games for Science
- Newsword & Holiday Crosswords - many worksheets provided for fun entertainment.
- PuzzleMaker - Easy-to-use puzzle generator lets you create 11 different types of customized puzzles, including letter-tiles, cryptograms, and criss-cross. Clip-art also available here. Another Puzzle Site: Puzzle Choice - Amuse yourself with 20 different types of printable and interactive crosswords, along with word search, trivia tests, and number challenges.
- Quia - Pay-for-use site - but you may decide to buy a subscription for yourself. Quia helps teachers teach better by giving them the tools to create, customize, and share learning activities.
- Scavenger Hunts hunting for treasures on the internet. A listing of sites at Education World.
- WordSearch creator from Genuine Class
- Blooms Taxonomy Sites - Learning Skills Program-Blooms; Taxonomy of Educational Objectives; another chart of Blooms
- exploratree - Exploratree is a free web resource where you can download, use and make your own interactive thinking guides. Thinking guides can support independent and group research projects with frameworks for thinking, planning and enquiry. We’ve provided a set of ready-made guides which you can print out or use online. All of the guides are completely customizable or you can start from scratch and make your own! You can share them and work on them in groups too.
- Gliffy - Create your diagrams and share them on the web for free at this site
- Graphic Organizers Index - A good place to start - from webbing to flow charts. Created by Greg Freeman.
- Graphic Organizers - from Houghton Mifflin's Education Place. 38 writing-related tools.
- s.C.O.R.E. - Teacher Activity Bank - Includes Graphic Organizers, Rubrics, Literature, Journaling.- For Math, Science, Language Arts, Social Studies.
HELP!
- Live Chat - Ask a Librarian! Reference Service options at the Maine State Library.
- Help for New Teachers! New Teachers Link is one of the sites to check at Sabine's Teacher's Lounge.
- marvel - An entire listing of databases which provide thousands of full-text up-to-date articles in the news
- Teacher Magazine - Register Free at EdWeek.org
- the nation classroom program - an educational supplement that gives teachers a way to teach current events based on articles in the news
- podcasting resources
- podcasting 101 with many links
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 - support page includes ideas, tips, tricks, tutorials, lesson ideas, and much more.
- PowerPoint Ideas - Ideas for how PP can be used in school.
- PowerPoint in the Classroom - A wonderful online tutorial to review the basics. Easy to follow directions.
- PowerPoint - Free slides to use!! free presentations
- Creating Rubrics - explanations and template. |
Rubistar - Create rubrics for your project-based learning activities. It provides generic rubrics in a format that can be customized. The teacher can change almost all suggested text in the rubric to make it fit their own project.
- S.C.O.R.E. - Teacher Activity Bank - Includes Graphic Organizers, Rubrics, Literature, Journaling.- For Math, Science, Language Arts, Social Studies.
- research beyond google from the online education database
- NoodleTools Search Tools for all - We have a subscription to this for students to create their works cited pages.
- Try ZapMeta Meta-Search - Offers tremendous results for educators with Boolean searches. Set up your preferences and note the search engine options you get. Turn on the Show Webpage Image if you have a high-speed connection.
- Infomine Multiple Database Search - Has a multiple database search option that allows users to search for subject-specific databases and full-text journals in academic disciplines, k12, Internet, and other useful categories. Do more "Deep Web" searches by going to the search engine page on our site and looking at "Searching for Search Engines."
- Internet Archive - The Internet Archive is working to prevent the Internet — a new medium with major historical significance — and other "born-digital" materials from disappearing into the past.
- Internet Guides from UC Berkeley, Learn the Net for Beginners
- Search.edu - SearchEdu.com, a new Internet search engine devoted to university and education related web sites. SearchEdu.com applies powerful new search engine technology, including better results ranking and page caching, to an extensive index of over 20 million pages of academic materials from universities, schools, and libraries. A Search Engine for education!
- community Learning Network a site designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into the classroom. Here you’ll find over 5,800 annotated links to educational sites with free resources, all organized by theme pages and keyword search.
- computer lab 508 - An incredible site where students learn computer skills. Worth looking through!
- Instructions - General directions for computer activities. Note - directions are generic to allow for use of a variety of software programs.
- edCompass - for educators using SmartBoard technology
- educational resources - see what is being used
- laptopical - an online blog to keep up with the newest innovations in using the laptop in the classroom.
- technology integration - The mission of the Instructional Technology Team is to prepare instructional staff to integrate technology into the curriculum and promote a student-learning environment that assists and encourages technological skills.
- bill and melinda gates foundation
- center for education policy, applied research, and evaluation
- freedom to learn
- maine learning technology initiative
- maine's impact study of technology in mathematics
- national education association foundation
- national science foundation
- one-to-one institute
- technology immersion project
- doug johnson information literacy presentations
- beginning teacher's toolbox - Inspiring Teacher's web site.
- Global SchoolNet Conversion Tools
- power tools from teachnet.com
- teachers@work - Mark Treadwell's site - tools for educators.
- teacher Tools - various examples of all of the important tools - use RUBRIC as an example and you will find excellent examples, rubric sites and explanations.
- works 4 me - NEA's site for tips and tools in the classroom.
- teacher training videos.com Created for teachers to help them to incorporate technology into their teaching by Russell Standard
- wwwtools for Teachers - "wwwtools is designed to keep you informed and to save valuable time in tracking down information and resources on the World Wide Web. Each article is on a particular topic or issue related to Web-based teaching and learning."
- Babelfish from Altavista.
- foreign language videos - ideas from Bates College, Living and Learning
- maine State Library Learning and Technology Services - Video Services - Maine State Library has over 1,700 instructional programs on videotape that are available for duplication. Programs are duplicated on a first come - first served basis. It can take up to 2 weeks to complete orders but most requests are completed within a few days. Programs can be duplicated in VHS format only (SP Mode Only). Please be aware that this is not a searchable site. The page does include the entire catalog, a list of new programs, programs to be removed and order forms that can be viewed and/or printed.
- movies in the Classroom - suggestions in all curriculums.
- moving image archives - one of the sites on the internet archive site - featuring Universal Newsreel films produced from 1929-1967
- research channel - Consortium of research universities and corporate research divisions offers live Webcasts and a video library of nearly 3,000 scholarly programs, with new releases added each week.
- windows on maine
news videos - up-to-date:
- abc news videos
- c-span classroom images
- channel one
- cnn video
- msnbc video on demand (also MSNBC slide show archives)
- pbs news hour video
- Yahoo - breaking stories plus links to video content from CNN, AP, CBS, ABC, and Reuters
science videos:
- Teachers’ Domain: Multimedia Resources for the Classroom and Professional Development
- The PBS Nature site
- The Howard Hughes Medical Institute Biointeractive
- NOVA conveniently segmented into chapters and include films on anthropology, disasters, Nova teachers’ archive
- NASA Video Gallery
- NASA TV
social studies videos:
Google Tools:
- Google Scholar
- Google Calendar
- Picasa 2
- Google Video (blocked)
- Google Spreadsheets
- TrackStar - Collect websites, add annotations, create your page and have your students access your assignment.
- HPR TEC - Education Page Builder - This web-based utility will allow you to create a lesson, worksheet or class page on the World Wide Web. All you need to use this utility is your browser and some time.
- Web Site Evaluation - Superior resources offer objectivity, timeliness, accuracy, and authority. More importantly, readers can verify information provided by trustworthy sources. Web Site Evaluation Handout
- webquests - Celebrating the best in webquests.
School Express - Free Worksheets - Over 9,000 free worksheets to copy and print or download. Make as many copies as you want! Seems to be geared to elementary, but there are quite a few for the high school also.
Worksheet Factory - Free "Lite" versions of worksheets.
