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=__GOOD OLE' TEACHER STUFF__= [|www.educationworld.com] - In the spring of 1996, the founders of Education World recognized the need for a Web site that would make the Internet easier for educators to use. They wanted to create a home for educators on the Internet, a place where teachers could gather and share ideas. They wanted to create a complete online resource where educators could start each day to find the lesson plans and research materials they were looking for. This site is very organized and has extensive information for anyone in the education field.

[] - BrainConnection.com is dedicated to providing accessible, high-quality information about how the brain works and how people learn. Many discoveries are being made in areas that relate to the human brain, including language, memory, behavior, and aging, as well as illness and injury. We believe that access to this information can provide practical tools for teaching and learning as well as valuable insights into almost every aspect of our daily lives.

[] - PBS Teachers is PBS' national web destination for high-quality preK-12 educational resources. Here you'll find classroom materials suitable for a wide range of subjects and grade levels. We provide thousands of lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, and interactive games and simulations. These resources are correlated to state and national educational standards and are tied to PBS' award-winning on-air and online programming like NOVA, Nature, Cyberchase, Between the Lions and more.

[|www.zamzar.com] - Free online file conversion without needing to download software!

[|www.instructify.com] - Instructify is where teachers can stock their toolboxes with practical, time-saving classroom ideas and cutting edge methods of instruction. It’s where to find useful, free technology to utilize in the classroom. And it’s a fun place to spend your planning period. Instructify is also a verb. To Instructify means to find new ways to present the same old content. Or MacGyvering anything from software to Post-it notes into something you can teach with. It also works great as a command. As in, “Don’t just teach, Instructify!”

[|www.questia.com] - Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles. You can search each and every word of all of the books and journal articles in the collection. You can read every title cover to cover. This rich, scholarly content -- selected by professional collection development librarians -- is not available elsewhere on the Internet. Undergraduate, high school, graduate students, and Internet users of all ages have found Questia to be an invaluable online resource. Anyone doing research or just interested in topics that touch on the humanities and social sciences will find titles of interest in Questia.

[|www.2.scholastic.com] - Scholastic has a site full of resources for teachers, parents, students, administrators and librarians.

[|www.teachervision.fen.com] - WOW! What a site! Full of tons of information for every age. There are over 20,000 pages of classroom-ready lesson plans, printables, and resources. TeacherVision® is one of the Internet's most popular sites for teachers, featuring tools and resources that save educators time and make learning fun for students in grades K-12. Resources include a vast online library of lesson plans, graphic organizers, printables, email newsletters, quizzes, and printable books to help teachers enhance student learning, meet local and national educational goals, and manage their teaching lives and classrooms with ease.

[] - Sign up now to receive weekday delivery of news you can use in your classroom – today’s headlines, historical events, and accompanying activities. Read about a variety of subjects from the popular DK (Dorling Kindersly) book publisher.

[|www.teachnology.com] - 42,000+ lesson plans, 9,000 free printable worksheets, rubrics, teaching tips, worksheet makers, web quests, math worksheets, plus thousands of of other teacher resources.

[] - HowToDoThings is your leading resource to get to know how to do almost anything! It's simple: We’re a community sharing its expertise to solve people’s problems with more than 50,000 articles in categories like Business, Electronics, Hobbies, Finance and much more...

[] - The Utah Education Network houses hundreds of resources for teachers to use with students K-College. This site has comprehensive lesson plans complete with objectives, activities, projects and handouts. The site is well organized and easy to maneuver. Other useful information may be found on the Utah Education Network home page [|www.utaheducationnetwork.org].

[] - HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge.

=__ENGLISH__= [|www.readwritethink.org]- from International Reading Association and NCTE. This site is full of resources for the classroom, professional developoment, parents and students! The mission of **ReadWriteThink** is to provide educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials.

[|www.webenglishteacher.com] - At Web English Teacher educators can take advantage of online technology to share ideas and to benefit from the work of others. Beginning teachers can find guidance; experienced teachers can find inspiration. Think of it as the faculty library and faculty workroom on a global scale.

[|www.adlit.org] - a national multimedia project offering information and resources to the parents and educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers. **AdLit.org** is an educational initiative of [|WETA], the flagship public television and radio station in the nation's capital, and is funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and by the Ann B. and Thomas L. Friedman Family Foundation.

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[|www.chemtutor.com] - Chemistry help is available here for high school or college students. Chemtutor begins with the fundamentals and gives expert help with the most difficult phases of understanding your first course in chemistry. Chemtutor is not necessarily a complete text for your course or a complete outline, but we are proud to offer some insightful help in the parts of primary chemistry that have been, from our experience, the hardest for students to grasp.

[|www.nautilislive.org] - Nautilis Live lets students follow deep-sea exploration in real time.

=__SOCIAL SCIENCES__= __[]-__ This link takes you to the History Channel website with all of their free resources sorted by topic. Exellent source of short videos to add visual elements to your instruction.

[|http://www.history.org/] - Tells the story of colonial Williamsurg. Has great pictures, recipies, and social history from colonial Virginia.

[] The **Gilder Lehrman** Institute offers seminars and lesson plans for teachers as well as fellowships and forums for U.S. History students and scholars. Good summaries of US History by era. Great source for primary documents.

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[|www.picnik.com]- Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. **It's fast, easy, and fun.**

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[] - A tool to help teachers avoid grading errors when scoring rubrix.

[|www.zoomerang.com] - This is a great resource if you need to collect data. There is a free software tool that allows you to create a survey, analyze and share your data. The site also provides information for ordering if you were to need something on a larger scale.

[] - A FREE bubble test generator. This was developed for teachers/educators, schools and institutions for printing out custom practice Bubble Tests. What started out as a simple one-type test, turned into a more elaborate script ... thanks to the many teachers who offered ideas and suggestions for this extensive project.

[|www.howdoyouassessthat.wikispaces.com] - What a site! This is a wiki that you can join to get a wide range of ideas and information for assessing assignments. There are ideas, links to examples, resources for creating assessments, checklists, ways to reflect on assignments, etc.

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[] - A free tool designed to enhance student/teacher communication through online teacher-managed calendar.

[|www.buffalo.edu] - Listserv is a commercial mailing list management system that allows you to subscribe to or create, manage, and control an electronic mailing list.

[|www.schoolnotes.com] - Schoolnotes was acquired by EducationWorld in 2006. If you are interested in a simple and effective means to communicate school information to your education community, you've come to the right place.

=__GIFTED__= [|www.hoagiesgifted.org] - The [|award winning] "All Things Gifted" resource for parents, teachers, administrators, mental health professionals, and gifted kids and adults. This site provides curriculum alternatives to motivate gifted students. =__INTERNET SAFETY__= __[]__ - MTV's A Thin Line campaign was developed to empower you to identify, respond to, and stop the spread of digital abuse in your life and amongst your peers. The campaign is built on the understanding that there's a "thin line" between what may begin as a harmless joke and something that could end up having a serious impact on you or someone else.

[|www.safetyweb.com] - SafetyWeb is a groundbreaking new service designed to help parents keep their children safe online. While the Internet is constantly changing, your responsibility as parents is not. You would never let your kids go out without knowing where they were going and with whom. The Internet should not be any different.

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[|www.handwritingforkids.com] - This site provides resources for manuscript and cursive handwriting practice as well as includes infomation on English and math with practice problems online.

=__TECHNOLOGY__= [|www.wired.com] - Online news relating to all things technology!

[] - Find lesson plans for your SMART Board and connect with teachers!

[|www.prometheanplanet.com] - The world's largest interactive white board community offers resources for lessons and activites for your classroom.