Professional Documents
Culture Documents
7/28/2016
In your groups, create a master list of links in each category with a minimum of 10 links
in each category (hint: you might have duplications, but what you really want to do in
your group is cull through each resource and include only the 10 best in each category).
PD/Teacher Resources
1. https://www.participate.com/
Participate Learning empowers teachers to improve student
outcomes by helping them find and share free vetted educational
resources. (Dawson)
2. http://www.schoolimprovement.com/products/edivate/
Edivate, is an on-demand professional learning resource that
creates a highly personalized learning experience for all of your
educators. (Dawson)(Smith)
3. http://www2.ed.gov/free/index.html
Free federal resources for educators. (Dawson)
4. http://www.edutopia.org/
George Lucas Educational Foundation - articles, blogs,
conversations regarding the change movement in education
(Hopkins)
5. http://www.teachertube.com/ - an online community for sharing
instructional videos and content for teachers and students (Hopkins)
6. https://www.mynea360.org/login
forums for teachers across the nation (Smith)
7. http://www.eschoolnews.com/
digital newspaper with regards to education (Smith)
8. http://www.ascd.org/professional-development/webinars/ascd-webinararchive.aspx
archived webinars for various topics (Smith)
9. www.Linkedin.com
Many teacher networking groups in all areas(McDonald)
10. http://www.teachersfirst.com/professional-resources/
Teachers First -- Free resources for teachers(McDonald)
SAMR/Tech integration
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https://code.org/
teaching children basic coding skills (Hopkins)
https://animoto.com - presentation platform that has limited allowable
characters, music and image options that differ from Power Point and
Google Slides. (Hopkins)
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/
Virtual tours for classrooms(McDonald)
http://www.exchange.smarttech.com/#tab=0
SMART board exchange site for teachers(McDonald)
https://getkahoot.com/-create and play multiplayer quizzes in your class
(Smith)(Dawson)
http://www.globalschoolnet.org/-international cyber fair (Smith)
https://www.skype.com/en/-communicate with classrooms in your
community or abroad (Smith)
http://quizizz.com/-create and play multiplayer quizzes in your class
(Smith)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lightbot.lightbothoc&hl=
en
Lightbot - Code Hour is meant to introduce kids who have no
experience whatsoever programming, and is all-ages friendly! That
means anyone anywhere from K to 12 can play, have fun and
learn real programming logic!(Dawson)
http://meccano.com/meccanoid-about
It is an advanced, yet easy-to-use, Robotics Building platform.
(Dawson)
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http://more.starfall.com/m/welcome/index/load.htm
ELA and Math games for students (Smith)
https://www.spellingcity.com/
students can practice spelling/vocabulary online from lists that are
created by teacher (Smith)(McDonald)
http://www.mathplayground.com/thinkingblocks.html
online unifix blocks to help with math problems (Smith)
http://www.classtools.net/FB/home-page
Fakebook.com is an alternative research project website for active
student learning creating an Facebook-like environment.
(McDonald)
https://Storybird.com
allows students to create storybooks, poems, etc. (Hopkins)
https://www.powtoon.com
create animated videos (Hopkins)(Dawson)
www.zearn.org
digital math lessons and activities based on Engage NY and
Eureka Math (Hopkins)
http://www.funbrain.com
online games for kids of all ages (Hopkins)
https://goanimate4schools.com/public_index
Create videos in a safe online environment. (Dawson)
https://www.getepic.com/app/personalize_educator_welcome
Epic! for Educators provides teachers and librarians with a digital
library containing thousands of picture books, chapter books, early
readers, nonfiction books and graphic novels - more than any other
eBook service designed for children. (Dawson)