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PBS Teacher Resources:
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These sites contain a myriad of
information and archives of articles that teachers may find valuable.
The Thornburg archive alone makes good reading. "Teaching with
Technology: From Teaching to Learning -- A Canadian Perspective" by
David Thornburg discusses making a shift from traditional teaching to
project-based learning.
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/whats_new/techknow/archives.shtm
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More archives of articles related to
teaching with technology
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- Links to the "latest and greatest" in educational
technology research studies available online.
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- 4teachers.com:
- Teaching creative writing across the Net: three teachers started a
Young Authors Forum with the help of a grant. "connections are
born out of honest communication. Both Hoatson and English believe the
geographic distance between authors and reviewers provides anonymity
for both parties. The forum encourages students to produce more text
and their reviewers to comment more honestly. Each piece of writing is
considered for its own merit with no regard to author status:
economic, social, or academic."
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- NEA (National Education Association) - Teaching
- This site offers links to selected articles about teaching in
general.
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- Englishcompanion.com
- A must on your list of important sites, this site is a wonderland of
great stuff for the English teacher. Jim Burke, who wrote English
Teacher's Companion and other great books for English teachers, hosts
the site, which in spite of the ".com" moniker, is a
non-profit site. It will take repeated visits to take advantage of all
its resources for teachers of English language arts.
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- Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning - (McREL) K-12
Services & Products
- This site contains links to other educational resources and services
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- ArtsEdNet
- Sponsored by the Getty Museum, this site has a multitude of great
resources for teachers of all grade levels.
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- Educator's Toolkit
- This is a newsletter that contains links to teacher resources,
libraries, technology, parents, kids, themes, mini-themes, holidays,
projects and lessons.
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- PuzzleMaker
- This site is a game generator for teachers. Games included are word
search, crossword puzzles, math puzzles, and hand drawn mazes.
Teachers can create print-ready puzzles for their students using their
own word or number lists.
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- EDinformatics-Education for the Information Age
- This is a database of information leading to over 1,000,000 reviewed
sites. Go to Literature, and you'll find a link to Chats and Forums.
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- TEACH THE TEACHERS COLLABORATIVE
- This site is a fairly new effort by private industry (Vons) and
LACOE to provide a one-week workshop for teachers in Ojai, California
at the Thatcher School. The site offers lessons that participants have
created during their sessions. Although there are few English language
arts- only lessons, you will find that it runs as a strand in many
subject areas. Their lesson plan archives provides a model lesson
which is used as a template for web-based lessons.
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- Education week on the Net
- This magazine (print & electronic) features current educational
news plus information about teachers and technology.
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- CUE (Computer Using Educators)
- Every teacher needs to attend at least one CUE conference in his or
her professional lifetime. This site has something for everyone.
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- AskEric
- This is a must on every educator's list of resources. This page is
ACCESS ERIC which leads to other storehouses of information.
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- SCORE Activity Bank
- This section of the SCORE website contains a sections on graphic
organizers, journaling, literature, rubrics, and writing. The rubrics
section alone is an invaluable resource for both students and teachers
of English language arts.
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- Education World "Where Educators go to Learn"
- This site contains a storehouse of information, from "Subject
Centers" to "Feature Areas." A must visit.
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- SCORE: CyberGuides: Teacher Guides & Student Activities
- This site contains guides for the teaching of literature, grades
K-12. It offers a template for a "new, standards-based,
web-delivered concept at SCORE language arts" that would be worth
looking as a basis for a lesson.
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- Pac Bell's Knowledge Network Explorer
- This site is home base for Blue Web'n, WebQuests, Filamentality,
Lessons & More.
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- Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educator
- This site is "a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing
curriculum and professional growth. It is updated daily to include the
best sites for teaching and learning."
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- Exworthy Educational Links
- This site has a multitude of resources for educators in every
subject area. For the English language arts teacher there are links to
research, resources, lessons, and other educational categories. For
example, the Inspiration trial download is linked along with other
"goodies."
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- NEA Works4Me Tips Library
- This site is an archive for NEA's Weekly Classroom Tips E-mail.
Become a subscriber here to receive an E-mail message with practical
classroom tips submitted by teachers. You can also join the Works4Me
Threaded Discussion and meet other subscribers online.
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- Armadillo's K-12 WWW Resources
- This is a directory of resources for K-12 teachers and students.
Besides CORE subject area, the site includes Gifted and Talented
Education, Special Education, Libraries, & FieldTrips/Museums.
There are also links to Educational Resources
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- Classroom Connect
- Offers lots of goodies for teachers, including a newsletter, and
teacher tips for the classroom.
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- Comparing and Evaluating Web Information Resources
- This article from FNO Educational Technology Journal (Vol 6|No
9|June|1997) offers a list of useful terms w/glossary to evaluate
information obtained from the Internet. There is a rubric to follow
and a list of links to other sites on this subject.
- Learn the Net
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- Online Writing Center Consortium Home Page (OWL)
- This site offers good resources for getting started in teaching
writing.
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- Teacher Helpers: Assessment & Rubric Information
- This is a section of Kathy Schrock's Guide dedicated to writing
rubrics of all kinds.
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- This is a website "dedicated to helping you save time and money
when roaming through cyberspace." This site is useful for English
teachers just getting started with the World Wide Web.
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- Filamentality
- This site helps you create web-based activities for your students.
You can begin with a Hot List, or choose a Sampler, Scrapbook , Hunt,
or even a WebQuest. You can leave your activity on their server, edit
it anytime, make as many as you need, and even delete it when you
want.
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- Culture of India Sampler
- This is a web activity I created for students called a
"Sampler." Use it as a model to create your own
Filamentality pages.
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- SEETC (Southeast Educational Technology Consortium
- This site, made possible by a Technology Literacy Challenge Grant,
was developed to "provide teachers the opportunity to share 'best
practices' in the area of Reading/Language Arts." There are 16
schools in the consortium, and there are many resources for teachers
of English language arts, including a template to help teachers get
started.
