Educational Links

Educational Links

Make sure you checkout our homework help section for students..... you may find this useful for classroom use as well!  We also maintain a list of links relating just to Elementary education. Check out Noel's teacher tools for a variety of online teacher resources. If you are looking for help with web pages...visit Noel's Web Resources.

Some great lists of Web 2 tools:

Go2web20 has a great list of web 2 tools:  http://www.go2web20.net/

Another Great List: http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/ and another great list contain collections of Web 2.0 tools and sites

Ultimate Web 2.0 list.  Large list of web 2.0 tools listed alphabetically

Web 2.0   List Of Web 2.0 Application Links

WebTools4School | The best web 2.0 sites and how to use them in education. http://goo.gl/G4sMM

 A list of the best from Richard Byrne  and Richard Byrne's site

MISCELLANEOUS LINKS

    • Voki - Create your personal avatar to give directions or have your students create them to explain procedures, partake in interviews, and be creative! E-mail registration necessary.

    • Wikispaces offers it's Plus Wiki Features free to educators.

    • Our ESU 6 TIG (Technology Integration Group) has a nice Wiki site. (Done in Wikispaces)

    • PBwiki is also a nice site for hosting wikis. For teachers.  or Home page

    • A nice article on Augmented Reality, and check out GE's  Augmented Reality Demo or How Topps will add 3-D effects to the classic 2-D baseball card.  One of my favorites;  Living Sasquatch- Check it out, and with your web cam and mic make a movie! (The Sasquatch site was created by these guys. Check out their site.)

    • Ted.com has some awesome videos on current and future technologies, science, entertainment, design, and more.

    • The NROC (National Repository of Online Courses) is a growing library of high quality online courses.  Smart.fm is a no cost goal oriented site for learning and a long list of online courses.

    • Fences is a really cool software (free) to assist you with desktop management and clutter. combine this with Slider Dock for windows (Including Windows 7) and you have some awesome additions to Windows.

    • A PDF file of free or inexpensive tools for schools presentation at NETA 2010 and a Web 2.0 tools listing from NETA.

    • logmein.com is a nice site for controlling pc's remotely.  I use teamviewer for this too.

    • For online movie and video editing try Pixorial.  (What photoshop.com is to pictures, pixorial.com is for video.) Gives you 10 gig online and up to 800 meg file uploads.

    • http://teachers.net/ is a nice site with a variety of tools.  Includes professional articles as well as classroom tolls and lesson plans.

    • A great lesson on the Dreamweaver program.

    • Make some great games for your website:  Teacher Invaders, Fling the Teacher, etc http://www.contentgenerator.net/invaders/default.shtml

    • nourishinteractive.com  is a nice site on nutrition.

    • Wix.com has an easy tool for building a free flash website.  Check out an example page that one of our Norris Staff members created.

    • Learn how to use Adobe products on Adobe TV

    • Vocabulary Games: http://www.vocabulary.co.il/ Vocabulary games has four levels: primary, intermediate, 
      middle school and high school (located at the top of the site). There are simple drill and practice games at each level that include work with analogies, antonyms, homophones, idioms, synonyms, etc.

    • TodaysMeet http://www.todaysmeet.com/ Create a meeting room that will delete after a selected amount of time. Great for meetings, conferences and more!

    • Pixton Cartoon Creator http://www.pixton.com/   Description: Pixton is a FREE cartoon creator that can be used in the classroom. There are others such as Bit Strips, Comiqs, etc. Pixton seems to appeal to the middle school and high school set and Bit Strips & Comiqs seems to appeal to the younger set. Take your pick on this fun and engaging tools. Here is a comic book example for Science: http://www.pixton.com/schools/gallery/n3bxfa4u

       

Bean Counter's 

      Free Accounting & Bookkeeping Tutorial Site Good accounting tutorials and games

 

A few Misc educational topics and links:

Recording PowerPoint Narration

Web publish with PowerPoint

 

Lightspan Partnership Inc. for Lightspan.com www.lightspan.com
Lightspan offers outstanding resources for students, teachers and parents, and has made strong partnerships to strengthen and expand its offerings. It now includes the superior project-centered multimedia education resources of the Global Schoolhouse—one of last year’s Platinum Award winners—that has probably done more to “link kids, teachers and parents around the world” through the Internet, than has any other organization. Lightspan also provides links to curriculum materials in every K-12 content area that can be searched by keywords and grade level. “Lightspan PageOne” allows teachers to create their own free Web resource pages and the comprehensive StudyWeb is a learning portal for students.

National Geographic Society for National Geographic.com www.nationalgeographic.com
This site is packed with quality content, and is an education supersite with printable maps, searchable lesson plans, online adventures, a teachers’ forum for exchanging ideas, and outstanding resources to support its television programs and magazines. Similarly, its special section for students offers geography challenges, learning activities, online family expeditions and a pen-pal network. The entire site is educationally valuable and it offers some of the best interactive multimedia experiences, live events and exhibits on the Web. One example is the amazing Virtual Solar System, where visitors can take a spectacular 3D fly-by close-up tour of the sun and planets in their orbits, and observe extraterrestrial weather patterns.

ThinkQuest Inc. for ThinkQuest Internet Challenge and “ThinkQuest Junior” www.thinkquest.org
The annual ThinkQuest awards programs—for students aged 12-19 and students in Grades 4 to 6 respectively—has made unparalleled contributions to advancing the quality of online education by providing opportunities for teams of students and coaches to compete in developing Web-based educational projects. Curriculum areas include arts & literature, science & mathematics, social sciences and sports & health. The teams pay no entry fee, but winners receive generous cash awards and the programs have challenged students throughout the world. The site also offers project-development materials including tutorials on technical and design issues, a library of projects from previous years, and teacher resources. Examples of entries include: Electricity Online; War & Conflict: Past, Present, Future; and Learning About Leonardo.

Binney & Smith for Crayola Art Education education.crayola.com
Crayola offers a searchable directory of lesson plans to give students experience with the role of art in every content area, at levels from pre-K through high school, and using whatever types of art materials that are specified. The site also offers instruction on art techniques using a variety of media, examples of completed projects at various grade levels, classroom teaching tips, links to related art sites, and forums for exchanging ideas on topics including class activities, technology and art education, and art advocacy. Crayola showcases selected student art portfolios and offers a free art education e-mail list.

Harcourt School Publishers for The Learning Site http://www.harcourtschool.com/index.html
This is an outstanding example of a company site that offers online materials and activities to support its curriculum products in every content area. Most are appropriate for any elementary school. The resources are organized by grade level and can be searched by keywords and content areas. Many of the activities make excellent use of interactive online multimedia technologies and the site also offers links to the Smithsonian Institution for content in science and social studies.

Houghton Mifflin for Education Place www.eduplace.com
Education Place is a well-designed K-8 curriculum site with extensive collections of valuable resources for students, teachers and parents. These include separate reading, math, science and social studies centers, an activity database that can be searched by content area and grade level, a directory of collaborative projects, recommended Web “field trips,” educational games and challenges and online discussion groups for teachers and students. A strong focus of Education Place is providing activities to support and extend company products, but all site materials are usable by any elementary school students and teachers.

PBS for PBS TeacherSource www.pbs.org/teachersource
TeacherSource offers daily updates to educational programming features on PBS, television listings grouped by subject, and links to local station Web sites that are accessed by entering zip codes. The site also offers tips on teaching with technology and television, a teacher programming preview newsletter and links to related PBS sites for adults and children. The site offers more than 1,300 standards-matched lesson plans and activities in every content area that can be searched by age levels ranging from preschool through high school. The PBS video database is also a nice resource. 

Scholastic Inc. for Scholastic.com www.scholastic.com
This comprehensive and well-organized site offers an outstanding selection of content targeted for students, teachers and parents. For example, the children’s section offers interactive activities, reading circles, discussion guides and author profiles for Scholastic books. Similarly, the teacher section includes lesson plans, research tools, online activities by grade level and professional resources, while the parent section includes tips and advice on raising children and selecting appropriate books and other products. The Web pages are packed with information, and a site map makes it easy to find specific resources.
The site also includes information about home-to-school connections.

Disney Educational Productions for Edu-Station Disney.go.com/educational
Edu-Station offers a variety of multimedia education features, including CyberLesson Plans on themes such as Native American story telling, stargazing, and food traditions; teacher-tested sites and ideas in various content areas; a book nook; and an educator events calendar. The site also links to a great number of related activity sites such as games, fun for families and stories, as well as education resources including Homework Helper and Computer Corner.

Education World for Education World www.education-world.com
Education World is an excellent guide to educational resources on the Web, and offers search word access to a database of more than 120,000 sites that can also be browsed by content area. In addition, the site delivers weekly feature articles with related links in various sections that highlight lesson planning, curriculum, site reviews, school news, professional books and a section for school administrators.

Knowledge Adventure, Inc. for Educast www.educast.com
Educast is a free education-oriented screen-saver that displays curriculum and professional information that can be updated daily. The new Educast 3.0 can also be operated as a standalone product, and it offers separate content channels including news, lesson plans, current events, interest groups, science and mathematics galleries, and access to USA Today. It is easy to move within any given channel to read specific reports and articles in depth—either online or offline—and also link to related Web sites for additional information.

Enchanted Learning's Picture Dictionary is nice for K-5 kids.  (Some items on Enchanted learning are for subscribers only, and some are free.) (At Norris we are a subscriber.)www.enchantedlearning.com

If your students ask you about how certain devices work, the following sites will probably help you. It's also just fun to read through them.

How stuff works - This site has answers to the more general questions like "How does a CD-Player work?" It also has quite a few pictures.

How things work - This site, Hosted by the University of Virginia, this page answers lots of specific questions about all kinds of devices in an easy understandable way. 

BrainPop-- Has small flash-like movies explaining many topics. (Great for Younger kids.) (Small fee to see all movies....but some free ones are still available.)

Sprocketworks has a variety of nice visual movies pictures and information in a flash-like movie environment.

Tech Topics....  What causes Earthquakes? Why does my heart beat? What is an electron? Ever wonder about this stuff? Well, TechTopics is here is bring it all together for you. We started with a bunch of cool exhibits from TheTech, found links to other places, and created activities and projects to help explain things. Now you can explore science right at your desk!