Teacher Tips

Assessment Resources
Create free online tests for your students! www.12teach.com
Rubric Sites Tips/rubric_sites.htm
Create free online games, puzzles and quizzes http://www.quia.com/index.html
   
Classroom Resources - Instruction
Brewer Technology and Learning Center http://www.tonybrewer.com/
K through 2--It's Online for You! - Almost TOO Cool for School!  
Classroom Quests - Let your students explore and experience people, places and different cultures of the world! Technology_Staff/CC_classroom_quests.htm
GRAMMAR PowerPoint Presentations http://cctc.commnet.edu/grammar/powerpoint.stm
AWESOME Literacy and Phonics overview - perfect for use on the 27" classroom monitors ~ English and Spanish versions available on the site! http://www.literacycenter.net/
Create motivational certificates and print them from this site! http://www.successcertificates.com/links/pages/
Create online bookmarks that make it easy for students to find the sites you want them to visit! http://www.ikeepbookmarks.com
An on-line interface that helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) into lessons. The list of resources acts like a table of contents and remains visible throughout the lesson allowing the user/student to easily browse through the lesson and stay on track http://trackstar.scrtec.org/
Make interactive web exercises on the fly! http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/larrc/webauthor.html
Create puzzles  http://www.puzzlemaker.com/
Free worksheets (over 8,000) http://freeworksheets.com/fws/default.asp
Free thematic units http://schoolexpress.com/fws/newsltr_subscribe.asp
Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources into learning activities. It helps combine the "filaments" of the Web with a learner's "mentality". Support is built-in through Mentality Tips that guide you along the way to creating a Web-based activity you can share with others even if you don't know anything about HTML, Web servers, or all that www-dot stuff.  http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/
"100 Day" activities http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/100th/index.html
Teacher classroom resources http://www.education-world.com/
Internet Detective
An interactive tutorial on evaluating the quality of Internet resources
www.sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet-detective.html
award_maker.gif (21284 bytes) www.lightspan.com/teacher/pages/awardmaker/default.asp?_prod=LS&_
K-2 Teachers
Free Phonics Software program
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/lettersounds.htm
edhelp1.gif (14298 bytes) http://www.edhelper.com
The Teacher's Website Vault - Places to store your valuable websites!  
   
Professional Development Resources
FREE online courses and software tutorials http://www.actden.com/
SIU-E Engaged Learning Institute http://classroom.siue.edu/eli/techtrng.html
PowerPoint Tips http://www.actden.com/pp/
Barnes & Noble University http://www.barnesandnobleuniversity.com/bnu
   
Professional Resources
Grantwriting - The why, where and how of finding money  
Illinois_School_improve.gif (5657 bytes) http://ilsi.isbe.net
Illinois Learning Standards http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/
Plagiarism and Copyright Law http://www.kalama.com/~zimba/plag&cheat.htm
Plagiarism, Copyright Law and Attribution  
new.gif (1234 bytes)PlagiServe is the most advanced service designed to assist educators in detecting academic dishonesty. It is a powerful tool that verifies the originality of papers by using the latest Internet-based technology http://www.plagiserve.com/
Evaluating Internet Sources - Internet Source Authentication and Plagiarism handout
Madison County ROE http://www.madison.k12.il.us
Madison County Schools Newsletter http://www.madison.k12.il.us/newsletr/wnter2k1/tabofcon.htm
Area 5 Learning Technology Hub http://www.lth5.k12.il.us
North Central Association http://www.nca.asu.edu/
National Study of School Evaluation http://www.nsse.org
Teacher_first.gif (10741 bytes) http://www.teachersfirst.com/matrix.htm

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