Sites for Connecting with Other Teachers
CoLearners - http://davidwarlick.com/wordpress/?page_id=2
Other Resources
- Hot Chalk : http://www.hotchalk.com/index_new.html
- Nortel LearnI: http://www.nortellearnit.org/
- Teachnology: http://www.teach-nology.com/
- Teachers Domain: http://www.teachersdomain.org/ (You can view all the resources without signing in)
- Teachers Corner: http://www.theteacherscorner.net/
- Edutopia: http://www.edutopia.org/
- Teachers First: http://www.teachersfirst.com/index.cfm
- Teachers Network: http://www.teachersnetwork.org/index.htm
- Teaching Heart: http://www.teachingheart.net/newteacher.html
- New Teacher University: http://www.newteacheruniversity.com/
- Pro-Teacher - http://www.proteacher.net/ - A site that has the majority of its content submitted by teachers. It has a variety of forums where teachers offer content arranged by subjects.
- Teachers Helping Teachers - http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/. This is a site where teachers share ideas, lesson plans, book reviews, and classroom management tips. There is also a chat room and stress reduction tips.
- Free Federal Resources for Educational Excellence -http://www.free.ed.gov/ - Teaching and learning resources from federal agencies – organized by subjects
- Gateway to Educational Materials - http://www.thegateway.org.The Gateway to Educational Materials is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit and commercial Internet sites. The Gateway contains a variety of educational resource types from activities and lesson plans to online projects to assessment items. Materials that are purposed for use in the classroom are appropriate for inclusion in The Gateway.
- Internet 4 Classrooms - http://www.internet4classrooms.com/ This site has an organized list of content sites for teachers in use in the classroom. One section of the site provides online practice modules for popular software such as Word, Inspiration, Excel, and HyperStduio and even operating system modules for Macintosh and Windows. It also contains links to educational news and grant opportunities. Susan Brooks and Bill Byles, two teachers, began a collaborative effort to extend assistance to fellow teacher in 1997. In November of 2000 that project expanded to a web presence known as Internet4Classrooms (i4c).
- Kathy Schrock's Guide for Teachers - http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/. This is one of the first and foremost sites for teachers. It is updated daily and is organized in the following categories: subjects, teacher helps, tools, and featured sites. It is now sponsored by The Discovery Network
- RubiStar - http://rubistar.4teachers.org/. RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch. RubiStar provides generic rubrics that can be customized, printed, and used for many typical projects and research assignments.
- From Now On - The Educational Technology Journal - http://www.fno.org/ - contains the work of Dr. Jamie McKenzie. There are many resources for teaching a variety of subjects on this page.
- The Learning Network - http://www.nytimes.com/learning/ sponsored by the New York times. This site takes current news stories and links them to lesson plans and other resources for students, teachers, and parents.
CoLearners - http://davidwarlick.com/wordpress/?page_id=2
- This is David Warlick's site about using technology in teaching. There are links to other resources that he has created on this site.
- This article in Educational Leadership describing ways to develop digital literacy of all kinds. It describes some things that teachers need to do.
- Description copied from web site "Funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), the IRIS Center develops modules and other instructional resources to be used by faculty and professional development providers for the preparation of current and future school personnel. The Center works with experts from across the nation to create challenge-based interactive modules, case study units, and a variety of activities, the purpose of which is to provide research-validated information about working with students with disabilities in inclusive settings. All IRIS materials are available free of charge through the IRIS Web site. "
Other Resources
- Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education - http://www.podnetwork.org/index.htm