Teacher resources

Online Teacher Resources

• Blurb
  Create your own books
• Bloglines
  A tool for searching, subscribing to and creating your own blog
• Brain Pop
  Animated movies for K-12
• Educational Wikis (Wikispaces)
  Examples of educational wikis from all over the world 
• Howstuffworks
  Easy to understand explanations of how things work
• Microworlds
  Students can explore and test their ideas in this idea exploration and project creation environment
• Moodle
  Open source course management software
• PBS Teachers
  K-12 educational content from the Public Broadcasting Service 
• STELLA
  STELLA provides opportunities to explore by asking "what if," and watching what happens
• Surveymonkey
  Online survey building tool
• Ta-da Lists
  Web-based "To-Do" list maker
• TeacherTube
  Online video sharing for educators
• Think.com
  Connecting schools, teachers and students worlwide
• Turn It In
  Online plagiarism prevention
• Wikispaces
  Create simple webpages that can be edited by others
• Wikispecies
  An open dictionary of species
• Wikiversity
  A community for the creation of learning activities

Articles

• Solutionwatch.com ("Back to School With the Class of Web 2.0")
  A useful article, in three parts, outlining web 2.0 tools for educators
•  Web 2.0 In Education
  Numerous education based applications for web 2.0 tools

• Thriving in Independent Schools: An AISNE Guide for Educators of Color (Michael Brosnan)

• Independent Teacher
  Visit the Independent Teacher website to learn more about their publication and how to subscribe.