All My Faves Web Browser

All My Faves is a visual logo directory that specializes in the top 10 faves of each category. Making the internet an easier place to find teacher resouces. Click on the Education tab and you will find resources for each subject area as well as books, computers and many other educational themed websites.

Media Infusion

Media Infusion
A PBS Teachers blog offering strategies and resources to help you create rich, engaging learning experiences with multimedia. Free Resources for Teaching & Learning grades preK-12. Here you'll find classroom materials suitable for a wide range of subjects and grade levels. 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.

Although Microsoft office (or one or more of the components - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc) may be on many of the computers in the world, there are free alternatives.OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose. It also allows for cross-platform sharing of files.The features are parallel to those available from MS Office and it is FREE!You may download the suite from http://www.openoffice.org/. There are tutorials available for the suite on the website

Type onto a PDF document

Free Site that will allow typing on a PDF file. If you need to modify a PDF file or fill out an online application/form in PDF check out this site to type on the PDF form directly.


** This site recommendation comes from our colleague Donna at the Gelinas JHS computer lab- - Say thanks when you see her!

Teacher's Domain

Teachers’ Domain is an online library of more than 1,000 free media resources from the best in public television. These classroom resources, featuring media from NOVA, Frontline, Design Squad, American Experience, and other public broadcasting and content partners are easy to use and correlate to state and national standards. Teachers’ Domain resources include video and audio segments, Flash interactives, images, documents, lesson plans for teachers, and student-oriented activities. Once you register, you can personalize the site using "My Folders" and "My Groups" to save your favorite resources into a folder and share them with your colleagues or students.

Teachers’ Domain has added a new section called "Inspiring Middle School Literacy: Reading and Writing in Science and History." These self-paced classroom activities are designed to enhance the literacy skills of struggling readers in grades 5-12. Teachers choose a science or history topic, then have students proceed through reading passages, videos, and interactive activities, using a glossary to build vocabulary and a note-taking area to submit writing assignments

Teacher’s Domain also has The Regents Review 2.0 collection which includes 50 videos produced by New York Network, a service of the State University of New York, in collaboration with the Association of Public Broadcasting Stations of New York. This collection will help students prepare for the Regents examinations. The link is below


http://www.teachersdomain.org/special/rr10/

In this Collection:
• Chemistry
• Earth Science
• Living Environment
• Physics
• Integrated Algebra
• Global History and Geography
• U.S. History and Government
• Foreign Language

Podcasting Made Easy!

...an easy-to-use, online voice recording utility; no log-in or password is needed, and you can download the file (in WAV format) email it, or embed it. Students and teachers can link directly from Moodle to the podcast. This is and easier way to podcast if you do not need the special effects, sounds, etc.. that Audacity provides.

Science Web Resources

Science Websites

Some interactive resources are:
Interactive Simulations, University of Colorado at Boulder

The Chem Collective: Online resources for teaching and learning chemistry. Carnegie Mellon

Touchspin Chemistry Two Pan Balance

Touchspin Chemistry Virtual Triple Beam Balance

Interactive Periodic Table of Elements

Periodic Table of Videos

Virtual Scientific Calculator, eCalc

VITAL http://vital.thirteen.org

Visionlearning http://www.visionlearning.com

There is also a listserve for Chem and Physics teachers although I am not sure how active they are. All are through Suny Oneonta. Below is the sign up page.
http://external.oneonta.edu/mentor/listserv.html

AVerMedia Document Camera

From retracing a voyage on a map to viewing squirmy worms, to examining up close on how a light bulb works, or just going over written work your students can have the advantage of a visual learning environment with the AVerMedia Document Camera. From the easy to use software, ink annotations, to the camera's ability to auto focus, once you have used this camera you will be hooked. The students are engaged and motivated, especially when they get to share their work using the document camera. The teacher can demonstrate exactly what they want. Never again do you need to make and use transparencies. Primary grade teachers love them because they can project lessons with manipulatives, so all the students can see the lesson being modeled. Secondary teachers can share math solutions, display text for reading or writing activities, and displaying the steps in a science experiment. Students are excited to share their work, which therefore increases student engagement and makes lessons more lively and exciting. Teachers can easily put a worksheet or paper under the camera and work through a few samples with the students. Then they can see exactly what is expected of them.

Check out their training videos at the link below:


http://www.avermedia-usa.com/presentation/videos_training_300af.asp

Uses for the Document Camera in the Classroom
http://www.umesd.k12.or.us/techlinks_100ideas
http://www.pre-kpages.com/elmo.html
http://www.timbedley.com/articles/article05.htm
http://www.proteacher.org/c/810_Document_Camera_Uses.html
http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00002162.shtml
Thanks to Eric Gustafson, MST Setauket School for the additional links!

All About Explorers - Teaching about the Internet

All About Explorers was developed by a group of teachers as a means of teaching students about the Internet. Although the Internet can be a tremendous resource for gathering information about a topic, we found that students often did not have the skills to discern useful information from worthless data.
So we set out to develop a series of lessons for elementary age students in which we would demonstrate that just because it is out there for the searching does not mean it is worthwhile.