The worldwide OER movement is rooted in the idea that equitable access to high-quality education is a global imperative.
Open Educational Resources are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse, without charge. OER often have a Creative Commons or GNU license that state specifically how the material may be used, reused, adapted, and shared.
As a network for teaching and learning materials, the web site offers engagement with resources in the form of social bookmarking, tagging, rating, and reviewing. OER Commons has forged alliances with over 120 major content partners to provide a single point of access through which educators and learners can search across collections to access over 24,000 items, find and provide descriptive information about each resource, and retrieve the ones they need. By being "open," these resources are publicly available for all to use, and principally through Creative Commons licensing, many thousands are legally available for repurposing, modifying and improving.
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Glogster.com/edu has tools, services and security to make Glogster even more useful to classroom teachers.
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Mrs. Critchell is a retired Kindergarten teacher sharing lesson plans and resources to help other Kindergarten teachers.
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A reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. Focuses on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Watch the engaging 15-minute videos and try the online interactive activities.
"Behind the Lesson" provides teachers with information and teaching resources for each strategy. Watch the 10-minute professional development videos, and explore the Web site for lesson plans, video and audio clips, downloads, and more.
more fromreading.ecb.org
Online directory of educators interested in collaborating via Skype instant messaging and video conferencing. Good way to organize collaboration with classrooms around the world, invite in guest presenters, receive/provide assistance, support and professional development.
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Interactive animations, simulations and truly interactive resources for learning math and science.
more fromwww.edumedia-sciences.com
Take pieces of your favorite web sites and put them on your desktop? Things like that auction you've got your eye on, your web mail's inbox, or even that search box you're always using.
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Free online plagiarism detection
more fromwww.plagiarismdetect.com
Online simulations that power inquiry and understanding.
more fromwww.explorelearning.com
The forum for parents, teens, experts and more to discuss safe socializing on the fixed and mobile Web.
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more fromwww.connectsafely.org
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Practice English and math skills with factsheets, worksheets, quizes, games (some can be played on a Wii).\n\nNOTE: These activities alone will not encourage higher order thinking.
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Flash games and tools for teachers. The random name-picker alone makes this site a winner. Graphic organizers and custom quizzes put it over the top. [via Vicki Davis]\n\nNOTE: These activities alone will not encourage higher order thinking
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"What we believe in: Clean, quality, easily accessible, educational software for every school and child regardless of geographic location or economic class. What we don't believe in: Games, advertising, fees, spam or gimmicks."
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These are web applications that let you create private (or public, though for educational uses I’m primarily interested in ones that allow you to create “walled gardens”) networks to share blog posts, images, videos, websites, and chatboard conversations.
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Literary podcasts are a great way to hear about new stories and explore all of your old favorites. This list details where you can find some of the most popular literary podcasts, including podcasts based around classic literature, poetry and contemporary works.
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Collection of movie clips in which mathematics appears. Good resources for all math teachers.
more fromwww.math.harvard.edu
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These games were created in PowerPoint. Download the templates and modify the games to fit your curriculum needs.
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Education programs on TV and Online
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