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100 Blogs Every New Teacher Should Read | Online Schools
An article on relevant teaching blogs
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teachers
A post, by Milton Ramirez, paraphrasing the popular The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey, a business self-help book. Secrets effective teachers put into practice: 1. They build confidence 2. They’re not afraid to make difficult decisions 3. They develop others 4. They’re good communicators 5. They’re non-conformists 6. They thrive in the company of others 7. They see the bigger picture But what makes teachers highly effective? We should start with two basic premises: Teachers are facilitators and not entertainers even though occasionally have to play that role. The second point to have in mind is that learners are not anymore the passive subject who only listens, new technologies put students in charge of the information they access, they are able to save, reformat and share it.
iRubric: Home of free rubric tools: RCampus.com
This online rubric maker has lots of premade rubrics by a variety of content areas and grade levels. While I wouldn't use them as is, they can be a good place to start as you develop rubrics for a specific project.
Fourteen Interesting Ways* to use Voicethread in the Classroom - Google Docs
Educators have shared these ideas for the use of Voicethread in classrooms to engage and inspire students
indispensibletools / FrontPage
A list of ICT tools was crowd sourced from individual educationalists and not companies when the question 'What Indispensible ICT tools do you use in education' was asked and is not meant to be exhaustive in any way.
The seven secrets behind great teaching - Features - TES
This is a reasonably short but thought-provoking article summarizing interviews with “15 award-winning teachers.”
Through the Wild Web Woods - A game by the Council of Europe based on the Internet Literacy Handbook
Education 2.0 - The Edmodo Blog - Free Private Microblogging for Teachers & Students
Edmodo is a free, private micoblogging service for teachers and students. Teachers can share notes, links, and files. Teachers can also send alerts, events, and assignments. Discusses Horizon report and the tools mentioned in the report include Twitter, Skype.
IATEFL Cardiff Online 2009
Online coverage of the 43rd Annual International IATEFL Conference. 31st March to 4th April 2009
UCTV - University of California Television
University of California Television provides informational, educational, and enrichment television programming to the public and draws upon the vast intellectual, scientific, and creative talents of the University of California. Site offers access to The Teacher's P.E.T." (Professional Education for Teachers) is designed to enrich the classroom experience, help teachers stay up to date on research developments in their subject areas.
Free Technology for Teachers: 7 Resources for Creating Cartoons and Comics
This is more than just a comic creator, it is a comprehensive collection of online art activities. On Artisan Cam students can use the Super Action Comic Maker to build a six frame comic. The Super Action Comic Maker has a drag and drop interface which students use to select a background and
character for their comics.
Grazing for Digital Natives » Research2.0
On-line research tools. It provides great information for Web 2.0 in classrooms including making customized search engines
Murphy Laws Site - Teaching Laws
Murphy's laws for teaching. links to other "Murphy's" sites
Yacapaca! - Home
This website is for teachers and students. It allows the teacher to create quizzes, surveys, tests, eportfolios, etc., & modify/share assessments, for free, online. Set work for the whole class with a few mouseclicks. Mark automatically
Idea : Docs for Teachers - Google Docs Help Center
Different ideas for using Google Docs in the classroom
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