*Teacher+Resources

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS

** Discovery Education: ** This website offers programs and free tools to utilize in the classroom and at home. It integrates thousands of video clips, virtual labs, interactive, audio files, and lesson plans, assessments, professional development training, and use of digital media in the classroom. These products and services offer a great number of resources to all teachers and learners. Video clips can be used as an introduction to new material or a brief overview of content that was just learned.

** Ohio Resource Center: ** The ORC for Mathematics, Science and Reading: The ORC promotes standards-based test practices in math, science, and reading for Ohio schools and universities. It provides lesson plans and units that have been peer-reviewed based on best and promising practices. The ORC includes assessment and general education resources that support the preK-12 classroom teachers and higher education teachers. The resources are aligned with the Ohio Academic Content Standards as well as the National Content Standards.

**4Teachers:** This site offers to help integrate technology into your classroom by providing numerous online tools and resources. The site offers links to Youtube and TeacherTube, where you can find usefully tutorials and educational videos. There is a link for writing grants, which I thought was really interesting as a place to get started or using these links to begin the process. There are web lessons for teachers to use, quizzes, rubrics, etc. I do a few different group projects in math throughout the year and the link to RubiStar would be very beneficial for allowing me to assess them based on certain criteria developed in a rubric from this site. Other educational values include the Educator’s Resources available. Assessment, Assistive Technology, Professional Journals are all different ways to help us research and practice what works to become better teachers.  ** PBS sponsored website: ** Provides classroom materials including lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, and interactive games and simulations that relate to a wide range of subjects and grade levels. All of these resources are intertwined with state and national educational standards.  **iTunes:** This link takes you to a podcast found on itunes. The content is mainly geared towards educators and provides a description of blogs, wikis, and podcasts and examples of how each can be used in the classroom. It also gives the web address to several different links for listeners to use as resources such as edublogs.org, chalkspace.com, wikispaces.com, learnerblog.org, etc. This episode is a great introduction for first time blog, wiki, and podcast users/creators.

** Teacher Tube: ** A great site for educators as well as parents and students to use as a resource. This site offers help with specific grade level content and can be used in the classroom to enhance teaching and learning.

** Ohio Department of Education: ** The ODE website offers resources available to families, educators, administrators, and general members/citizens of our country. The website is the local site to find local and state standards for all subjects and grade levels. It provides Learning Support, Data, Finance, Improvement, School Options, Teaching resources, Career-Tech, and Testing Resources.

** INFOHIO: ** The Information Network for Ohio Schools, is a virtual k-12 library that transforms teaching and learning by connecting educational resources with technology. The site provides resources divided into grade levels for teachers, students and parents to access. It also gives access to hundreds of educational artices for teachers and administrators to view and research. These resources promote information literacy and media literacy through the use of technology.  ** Thinkfinity: ** Verizon Foundation's site for literacy, education and technology initiatives. Their goal is to improve student achievement in traditional classroom settings and beyond by providing lesson plans, interactives, and professional development training. It also provides several educational and literacy resources for students and parents as well as after school program.  ** School Notes: ** The leading school-to-home communications site in the country. It offers a free community service in which educators can create Web pages to post homework assignments and other messages to their students and their parents. Students and parents can sign up to be notified automatically for updates or changes.  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** International Society for Technology in Education: ** ISTE is the world's leading organization of ed tech professionals. It serves as a resource for educators, students, and career seekers. The ISTE site also provides a specific link to the updated NETS, National Educational Technology Standards. The resources for educators include listing of current Web sites, books, or periodicals that relate to educational technology and provide lesson plans, assessments, funding, tech integration, and tech integration.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** ABC Teach: ** A user-friendly educational website that provides teachers, education majors, and parents with resources to enhance teaching and learning. The site offers free materials for preschool through 8th grade including images of teacher-oriented clip art, personalized and pre-created worksheets to fit the specific needs and interests of students, crossword puzzles, shapebooks, word walls, word unscrambles, word searches, math worksheets, and sudoku.