Creating a Web Site
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Building a School Web Site gives you simple basic information on building a school web site. |
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Cool Text is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own custom image created on the fly. |
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Site Snagger is a free downloadable software program will allow you to copy a web site to your computer for later viewing. |
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Webmaster Resources offers links to online resources including multimedia, learning, tutorials, and free stuff. |
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Weebly is a web design and hosting system that lets you create a professional site quickly with unlimited pages and no file restrictions. |
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Digital Cameras
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Digital Cameras in the Classroom covers digital cameras in the Classroom with purchase tips, teacher to teacher help, student assessment and digital tours. |
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Electronic Field Trips
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Experience an incredible online field trip without ever leaving your school through Ball State University Electronic Field Trips . |
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E-Newsletters
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Big Deal Book newsletter is free to educators and includes grants and other funding opportunities, free and inexpensive resources and much more. |
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Edtech Review technology magazine is available online for anyone to read. It has many helpful articles. |
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From Now On Educational Technology Journal site is the work of Jamie McKenzie. You will find many articles about technology and education located here. |
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Global Projects
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Global SchoolNet Collaborative Learning Center offers tools, resources for online collaboration, tutorials, and project lists. |
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Students are asked to observe the hummingbird and share information with peers across North and Central America through the Operation Ruby Throat Project. |
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Techno Spud Projects offers lots of projects involving adventure learning, online correspondence, data collection and sharing. |
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Inspiration/Kidspiration
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Inspiration® is the essential visual thinking and learning tool students rely on to plan, research and complete projects successfully. With the integrated Diagram and Outline Views, learners create graphic organizers and expand topics into writing. |
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Created for K-5 learners, Kidspiration® develops thinking, literacy and numerical skills using proven visual learning principles. |
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MS Office Tricks shows you how to use Power Point and Inspiration. |
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Integrating Technology into the Classroom
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At Activities & Lessons you will find great technology activities, lessons and ideas using Power Point, Excel, Word, and Publisher. |
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The lesson plans that you will find at Best Practices of Technology Integration in Michigan have been written by practicing teachers and have been "kid tested" to work in the classroom. They are examples of how technology can be used as a valuable tool in your classroom.
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EBC Surf Report offers classroom web resources. |
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Evaluating Internet Resources helps students sort out what information is good and what isn't on the web. |
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Freeplay Music provides royalty-free downloads of background music of "educational, non-commercial use." |
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Filamentality shows teachers how to create web-based learning activities. |
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Some great ideas are offered to you at Ideas Using MS Paint. |
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ISTE standards for students, teachers, and administrators help to measure proficiency and set aspirational goals for the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to succeed in today’s Digital Age. |
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Tech Learning offers tips on how to integrate technology into the classroom. |
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Teaching with the Internet shows us that new literacy methods are especially important to the effective use of content area information on the Internet. They allow us to identify important questions, navigate complex information networks to locate appropriate information, critically evaluate that information, synthesize it to address those questions, and then communicate the answers to others. These five functions help define the new literacies that your students need to be successful with the Internet and other information and communication technologies. |
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Internet Tutorials
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Excel Viewlet and Guide contains about 125 interactive Web "min-movies" for teaching yourself and others how to create a spreadsheet. Templates are also given. |
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Search the web for sound clips that can be downloaded on Find Sounds. |
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Kathy Schrock's Digital Gadgets page offers information on all kinds of technology and how to use them in the classroom. |
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Microsoft Excel Modules contains modules and links for explaining Microsoft Excel. |
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Sponsored by the Western Australia Department of Education and Training, Pathfinders Online explains what pathfinders are, how to create one, templates, and exemplary pathfinders. |
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From Education World comes Techtorials Archive. It contains links to tutorials for all kinds of technology including Excel, Word, blogs, computer maintenance, email, mail merge, Power Point, web design, professional curriculum and development, and much more. |
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Tech Trekers for teachers includes sites from early elementary to high school, free stuff for teachers, history, math, and science sites, simulation sites, scavenger hunts, thematic units, virtual field trips, web quests, Power Point ideas, rubrics, and web page tools. Check it out! |
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Create an original Web Quest assignment by filling out this simple Web-based form at Web Quest Generator. Print out the finished assignment when you are finished. |
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Keyboarding
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Elementary Keyboarding offers a guide for teachers working with elementary students on keyboarding. |
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Keyboarding Resources offers all kinds of help to teachers for instruction in keyboarding. |
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Power Point
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Power Point for the Classroom has it all. |
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Power Point in the Classroom offers tutorials to get you started in Power Point presentations for your classroom: creating slides, adding sound, adding images, and more. |
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Power Point Tips offers fun tips to use with power point. |
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Power Point Tutorials allows you to create dynamic presentations using its easy-to-use, predefined layouts and templates. Acquiring the skills you need can be done in no time with this free, self-paced tutorial. |
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SMART Boards
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Interactive Whiteboards |
This is a web quest that helps you use whiteboards in the classroom. |
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This site gives you the tools to use a SMART Board in your classroom. |
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This site is the first searchable database of lesson activities for interactive whiteboards. |
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Technology Infusion
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Internet for Classrooms helps teachers use the internet effectively |
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Tammy's Technology Tips for Teachers will help you find fantastic ideas for technology integration. |
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Using the Internet Safely
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Cyber Smart! Curriculum is a free K-8 curriculum empowering students to use the internet safely, responsibly and effectively. |
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The goal of Surfing Safely is to empower children, parents and teachers to prevent cyber crime through knowledge of the law, their rights and how to avoid misuse of the Internet. |
Web 2.0
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Bib Me is a web-based bibliography tool with a streamlined automated interface to create a properly formatted bibliography. |
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Find all kinds of neat tools from Google for Educators to help you in the classroom including tips posters. |
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Pageflakes is a personalized desktop that allows users to set up their favorite Internet applications. |
Webinar
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Vyew is a web-conferencing service that allows users to host live conferences and work collaboratively on content. |
Updated: April 27, 2010
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