Online Teachers@Work Symposium

Referenced Resources

Elementary

  1. K12.com: virtual academies in several states that offer standards-based curricula across the grade levels http://www.k12.com
  2. ChildU.com: a PreK-12 curriculum from Compass Learning Odyssey including Pre-K-K, Reading/Language Arts, Writing, Math, Science, Social Studies interactive, standards-based curricula, and Cross-Curricular, Secondary, and English Language Learners http://www.childu.com
  3. NCI Flicker Web Server: a Web site where you can post photographs straight out of your camera or cell phone http://www-lmmb.ncifcrf.gov/flicker
  4. Efieldtrips.org: online field trips offered each week including live chats with park rangers and virtual tours http://www.efieldtrips.org
  5. I-Assessment from Alpha Smart: uses GPS technology to maintain record of the time spent on lessons and proficiency levels http://www.asset.asu.edu/asset_website_2004/pdfs/smartPortal.pdf
  6. Genius Denied: Web site promotes strategies for directing instructional content and pedagogy to children's mental level and not just based on chronological age http://www.geniusdenied.com
  7. Handwriting Without Tears: an inclusive method for teaching pre-printing, printing and cursive to children of all ability levels. http://www.hwtears.com

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Secondary Language Arts

  1. NovaNET: online courseware system designed for grades 6-12 delivers thousands of hours of research and standards-based, interactive curriculum, integrated assessment, and student management http://www.pearsondigital.com
  2. fanfiction.net: An online resource for writing, reviewing and reading stories from anime, book, cartoon, comic, game, movie, and TV sources http://www.fanfiction.net
  3. bartlby.com: online source for public domain quotes, online books, poetry, dictionaries, thesaurus, poems, Oxford Dictionary, free books, online education activities at http://bartlby.com
  4. Project Gutenberg: 16,000 free e-Books on the Internet produced by hundreds of volunteers http://www.gutenberg.org
  5. Electronic Text Center: University of Virginia provides an online archive of standards-based texts and images in the humanities and supports user communities adept in the creation and use of online resources http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/info/mission.html
  6. easybib.com: free, automatic bibliography composer that formats, alphabetizes, and prints bibliographies http://www.easybib.com
  7. Jagular.com: Ben Slade speaks Beowulf in old English while reader sees the two language versions side-by-side http://www.jagular.com/beowulf/benslade.shtml
  8. Poetry.com: sponsored by the International Library of Poetry, this is the largest and most comprehensive poetry site on the Internet http://www.poetry.com
  9. Easy Grade Pro: creates an electronic grade book that stores student information for all classes and subjects for a year and offers timesaving tools to generate professional internet and paper reports to communicate student data http://www.orbissoft.com
  10. Open Practice Scoring: teachers, students and parent/community members in Oregon practice score student state assessment papers and receive feedback on their scoring accuracy http://www.openc.k12.or.us/scoring/index.php
  11. Dragon Talk: a speech to text dictation software application http://www.dragontalk.com
  12. Online Writing Lab: OWL at Purdue University instructs on general writing concerns, research and documentation of sources, spelling and capitalization, punctuation, sentence construction, parts of speech, and English as Second Language http://owl.english.purdue.edu
  13. Grammar Scramble: students are ask to correctly order words in a sentence http://www.quia.com/tq/257266.htm
  14. Plagarism.com: detects plagiarized material in student papers http://www.plagarism.com
  15. Read 180: reading intervention program for elementary through high school that combines teacher-led instruction with adaptive instructional software http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/read180

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Secondary Science

  1. frogguts.com: a virtual dissection CD subscription service for online schools and home schoolers http://www.froguts.com/flash_content/index.html
  2. brainpop: health, science, technology, math, and English animation teaches about the body, space, science and health http://www.brainpop.com
  3. Big6.com: an information literacy model, called a meta-cognitive scaffold or an information problem solving strategy, offering an approach to teaching information and technology skills http://big6.com
  4. Amazing Race: Heat and Temperature Web Quest: a Web Quest for 7th Grade Science http://www.mhcbe.ab.ca/ict/Projects/AmazingRace/amazingRace.htm
  5. Biology Online: source for biological information, ideal for homework, research projects and general interest http://www.biology-online.org
  6. TestWell.org: an online wellness assessment application based on based on a six-dimensional model of wellness that emphasizes the importance of creating a balance in the many different areas which make up your life http://www.testwell.org
  7. The Longevity Game: uses the most current information gathered by the life insurance industry, public health organizations, and scientific studies to encourage examination of life style http://www.nmfn.com/tn/learnctr--lifeevents--longevity
  8. Evergreen Internet Academy: an online public school offering acceleration, enrichment, schedule conflict resolution, and credit retrieval for grades 7-12 http://eia.egreen.wednet.edu
  9. Red Comet: online high school credit retrieval site http://www.redcomet.org/home.html
  10. Community Hazardous Waste Resource: tests knowledge about hazardous waste in the home http://www.learner.org/exhibits/garbage/hazardous
  11. Community Water Treatment Information: commercial water strategist web site http://www.waterchat.com
  12. Microsoft GIF Animator: one of the simplest programs for constructing animated gifs http://www.microsoft.com

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Secondary Math

  1. Casio Class Pad 300: hand-held, software-driven calculator is next-generation math education tool with applications like 3D Graph, Geometry, and eActivity that support self-study. Has 160 x 240-dot LCD touch screen enabled by stylus http://world.casio.com/edu/classpad
  2. Tegrity: classroom capture and streaming video technologies, application/server software development, lesson recorder, and digital student notes synchronization http://www.tegrity.com
  3. Hot Potatoes: an instant quizzing program includes six applications to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. It is free of charge for publicly funded, non-profit, educational users who make their pages available on the web http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com
  4. Personal Math Lab: a website offered free with new copies of math text that organizes interactive tutorials, videos, quizzes, e-book reading, and other resources into learning units for each chapter of the text. www.mymathlab.com
  5. Math Whiteboard: an interactive, multi-user, shared communication tool that includes a drawing space and a chat box to be used to discuss math, tutor, or teach a math concept over the internet http://www.math2.org/math/whiteboard
  6. Camtasia Studio: inexpensive screen video and audio capture that only works with some browsers http://www.techsmith.com
  7. Geometer's Sketchpad: mathematics visualization environment features enhanced support for algebra, calculus, and geometry including a full set of formatting tools for mathematical notation and styled text http://www.keypress.com/sketchpad
  8. Leelou: freeware tool that is used to produce visual help files, FAQs and demos. Files produced are movies ("Viewlets") that play in any Java browser, on any OS, without a plug-in. Viewlets are very small http://www.ezgoal.com/scripts/scripts/f.asp?fid=87249
  9. TI 89 Calculator: graphic calculator with pre-loaded applications, advanced functionality, 3D graphing, USB interface http://education.ti.com/us/product/tech/89/features/features.html
  10. Glencoe Publishing Online Textbooks: good guide for home grown units and homework material http://www.glencoe.com
  11. Larson Math: short on problem solving http://www.larsonmath.com
  12. Boxer Math: lacking probability and statistics units http://www.boxermath.com
  13. Skills Tutor: special education remediation program http://www.skillstutor.com
  14. Math Stars: primarily worksheets delivered online for credit recovery http://www.classonesoftware.com/C_htmls/MathStars.html
  15. Academic Systems: relies on CDs that must be shipped to students http://www.academic.com

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Secondary Social Studies

  1. epals.com: world's largest online classroom community providing student safe email across 103,829 classrooms in 191 countries http://www.epals.com
  2. geocaching.com: the official GPS global cache hunt Web site http://www.geocaching.com
  3. Floating Time: a method for establishing timelines to compare and/or track the events of history so that students understand the correct order of events as they actually occurred http://www.tomsnyder.com/products/product.asp?SKU=TIMV50
  4. ILEARN.com: uses graphics, animations, and clear explanations to illustrate math concepts http://www.ilearn.com/iLearn-03.htm
  5. Tapped In: K-12 teachers, librarians, administrators, and professional development staff, as well as university faculty, students, and researchers gather here to learn, collaborate, share, and support one another http://tappedin.org/tappedin
  6. Teach From The Beach Weblog: Online teacher, Tom Layton's conversation on the art of teaching online at http://teachfromthebeach.org/blog
  7. Moodle.org: A free, open-source course management system for online education courses. It is a PHP web application for producing modular internet-based
  8. courses that supports modern social constructionist pedagogy. http://moodle.org
  9. Blackboard: Commercial platform for the management of online courses that enables educational institutions to host their classes on the World Wide Web. http://www.blackboard.com/k12/index.htm

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Secondary Electives

  1. Stocksquest.com: a realistic stock market simulation, where "investors" from around the world can learn the stock market at no cost http://investsmart.coe.uga.edu/C001759/stocksquest/mystocks.htm
  2. Digital Postcards: a web page that is created by filling out and submitting a postcard form to a service provider that then sends an email to recipients to inform them that a digital postcard is waiting at the post office, for example Koala Net in Australia http://www.koalanet.com.au/cardfaq.html#i2 . An example of educational uses at http://www.cleardesignuk.com/network-13-review.html
  3. Digital Trading Cards: interactive, digital trading cards are published on baseball card size CD-ROM and DVD video/ROM and feature exclusive interviews, athlete annotated step-by-step tricks and tips, biographies, stats, new music, photos, games, screensavers, Web links, and other entertainment http://www.digitaltradingcards.com
  4. GIMP.org: the GNU Image Manipulation Program is a freely distributed software application for photo retouching, image composition and image authoring http://www.GIMP.org
  5. OpenOffice.org: OpenOffice.org is both a multi-platform and multi-lingual office suite that is free to download http://www.openoffice.org
  6. XNView: a free multimedia viewer, browser and converter http://www.xnview.com
  7. ViewLetBuilder: allows users to quickly develop online presentations, tutorials, and quizzes using a wide variety of platforms http://www.Qarbon.com
  8. Economics graphing tools: like those from My Econ Lab http://www.myeconlab.com/learnabout/student_features.html
  9. "The Learner's Dimension" by Kathleen Butler: designing lessons according to the viewpoints approach to learning style differences, a scheme that engages all the modalities

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