links for teachers
Tools for teachers:
Administrative tools:
Power Teacher.key (presented at staff meeting 12/14/11)
Assessment tools:
Teaching Strategies GOLD
http://www.teachingstrategies.com/page/GOLD.cfm
RubiStar
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
Zoomerang
Survey Tools:
SurveyMonkey
Doodle
Finding Apps and App Review Sites:
iPad Happy Appy (Wonderful resource for finding preschool apps organized by topic) pdf
Finding apps for children with Austism (article in the NYT with many great links)
http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/finding-good-apps-for-children-with-autism/
App Shopper
App Review Sites
Online Tools:
EduBlogs
Google
Discovery Education
http://students.discoveryeducation.com/
Zamazar (File conversion site, can convert any format to another. Hugely helpful if you’re unable to open a file)
Curriculum/Teaching Tools Online:
Smart Tech Educators lesson share site
Boardmaker Tap-It and Smart Tech lessons and ideas
http://www.boardmakershare.com/
Thinkfinity
http://thinkfinity.org/home.aspx
ReadWriteThink
http://www.readwritethink.org/
Learn 360
Discovery
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/
Professional Development
MI LearnPort
Augmentive Text Reading Tools:
vozMe
http://vozme.com/index.php?lang=en
Photo and Slideshow Tools:
Picasa
PhotoShow
http://www.photoshow.com/home/start
Piknik
netvibes
http://www.netvibes.com/#General
ProtoPage
Weebly
Illuminations
http://illuminations.nctm.org/
Interactive Geography:
Google Earth
Educational Social Networking Sites:
TeacherTube
SchoolTube
Podmatic
http://www.podomatic.com/featured
Plurk
Twitter
Bloglines
Edmodo (online social networking site that can be created for small groups)
Bookmark-Social Networking Sites:
Delicious
bubbl.us
Gliffy
