Web site offers free online math lessons

Although this item deals with math, the link itself has other disciplines as well:

This web site offers free online math lessons. The California-based Web site Brightstorm offers online math help for students with video lessons created by teachers. Most of the site's math lessons are free, but the company also offers fee-based lessons in preparation for standardized tests. "Anybody who is confused with their homework can come to our site, search for the concept, find it really quickly, and then they can get an explanation that is concise and to the point from a really talented presenter who is also a great teacher," http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/drive_to_discover&id=7196389 or http://www.brightstorm.com/

(this from Alan Baum, Principal WMHS)

SMART EXCHANGE

Find resources for your classroom and connect with other teachers who use SMART boards. On this website you can search for lessons, images and web pages that can be used with the SMART interactive white board. You can browse by keyword, subject, grade or NYS core curriculum. Teachers can also upload and share a resource that they have found successful or connect with other teachers on the message board. This website is a great compliment to the SMART Notebook lesson activities on the SmartTech website.

View,Save and interact with SMART Notebook files online.  This website will provide a way for you to access update and edit your SMART notebook files when you are on a machine that may not have SMART notebook software loaded.  This website can also be used by parents/students to view lessons at home that you have created in SMART notebook and posted to Moodle

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/

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• Chemistry
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• Integrated Algebra
• Global History and Geography
• U.S. History and Government
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