Excellent Google Drive Resources for Teachers - GAFE

This is a  list of excellent resources to help teachers make the best of Google Drive in their classrooms. I firmly believe that Google Drive is one of the elemental web tools with huge educational potential that every teacher should be able to tap into.The resources in this link cover many of the "hidden" features of the Google Drive.

For more GAFE help go to  https://support.google.com/ and click on the item you would like more information on.

Share My Lesson -- Free K-12 Lessons by Teachers for Teachers

Share My Lesson,  the space for educators to share free K-12 learning materials, including activities, worksheets and lesson plans. Discover how you can upload or download resources on a number of subjects for students at any grade. Share my Lesson has over 300,797 free teaching resources for you to use in your classroom and school today.

There is also a Teacher Common Core  Care Package of supplies to support you through the end of the school year. In each package, you'll find direct links to the Common Core State Standards for both math and ELA by grade. Additionally, they have a collection of favorite classroom resources and categorized them by grade as well. This Care Package makes it simple and easy to find what you need most.

Microsoft Educator Network - Updated

Re)Introducing the Microsoft Educator Network

The Partners in Learning Network has given itself a facelift and changed its name to Microsoft Educator Network. The site remains the Microsoft hub for discussions among teachers, sharing of best practices and teacher resources. A new page for professional development courses and seminars makes it easy for teachers to identify which courses they want to explore in depth.

How to Make Flipped Learning Work in Education

Check out this article from Educator's Resource Center.

How to Make Flipped Learning Work

• Don’t make these mistakes with flipped learning

• 10 must-watch videos for flipped learning

• With flipped learning, how to make sure students are doing the work

• Try these free resources for the flipped classroom

• Teachers: Involve parents in the flipped classroom, too

• The truth about flipped learning

• How to implement the ‘flipped classroom’

Additional Resources

Seven Registration-Free Drawing Tools for Students

Drawing tools that do not require students to register in order to create and download drawings.

1. Sketch Toy. Students do not have to register to use Sketch Toy and they can download all of their drawings to use in other projects.  
2. Aww App is a super simple browser-based application for creating drawings. To get started just go to AwwApp.com and click on "start drawing."
3. ABCya Animate is a fun tool from ABCya (disclosure, an advertiser here). ABCya Animate allows students to create animated GIFs containing up to 100 frames
4. Sketchpad is a free, feature-rich, online drawing tablet that offers users the ability to quickly create drawings.
5. Art Pad and Sketch Pad (different from the Sketch Pad above) are both blank slate drawing utilities. Art Pad and Sketch Pad allow users to select from a variety of drawing tools and painting tools.
6. Crayola's online drawing canvas provides students with a blank canvas on which they can draw using virtual markers, crayons, pencils, and paints. Drawings cannot be saved online, but they can be printed. 
7. Bomomo Users select a drawing utility then the Bomomo program begins randomly drawing. Users can determine where the drawing starts with their computer's mouse. Users can also select general shapes and patterns to be drawn.

 reblogged from http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/03/ by Richard Byrne

Search for free, standards-aligned STEM teaching resources.

CK-12 provides open-source content and technology tools to help teachers provide learning opportunities for students globally.  Free access to high-quality, customizable educational content in multiple modalities suited to multiple student learning styles and levels will allow teachers, students and others to innovate and experiment with new models of learning. CK-12 helps students and teachers alike by enabling rapid customization and experimentation of teaching and learning styles.

Websites and apps that offer quick and easy homework help

Re-post of part of an article by Laura Devaney, Managing Editor, @eSchool News see the full artilce at http://www.eschoolnews.com/2013/09/26/homework-help-resources-134/3/
Below are a number of homework help resources. We’ve included apps and websites in order to offer a wide variety of help for students who may have access to different devices at home. 
Apps
BuzzMath Middle School (Free)
Using this app, middle school students can personalize their math learning in an engaging, challenging manner. The app features more than 270 Common Core-aligned practice activities, instant feedback to help students master skills, detailed reporting tools, and more.
iFormulas (Free)
iFormulas is a quick and easy way to access often-used mathematical formulas. This app will help students list and categorize hundreds of math formulas. Students also can designate their favorite formulas for quick access
Word Wonderland (Free)
iTunes
Android
Students can lead a frog through an adventure as they receive game-based help developing word sorting. The app, from McGraw-Hill School Education Group, is geared toward students in kindergarten through second grade. Upgrades are available for a fee.

Websites
Math Forum at Drexel University
This site offers help for math students in elementary school through high school, and also offers college-level resources. Archives are organized by grade level and math topic, and the site also offers a frequently asked questions section.

Fact Monster
A number of academic topics are covered on this help site, including a homework center, an almanac, a collection of cool facts, and games and quizzes. The site also features polls, daily history facts, birthday, and analogies, and more.

BJ Pinchbeck’s Homework Helper
This homework help site connects students with online resources for many school subjects, including foreign languages, current events, science, math, and computer science and programming.

24/7 Tutor
This app offers free language learning help for Spanish, French, Russian, German, and Italian. It provides a set of the most common and useful words and phrases, organized by topic and category. An audio recording by a native speaker is available for each element.

HippoCampus
Looking for help on a variety of subjects? This free site organizes homework help by subject, and then breaks those subjects into narrower fields. Students in middle school and up can create free accounts to access help and resources.

Shmoop
Seeking help on literature, civics, economics, digital literacy, math, poetry, or more? Shmoop gives teenage students help and explanations, as well as a dose of humor. Access to some materials is fee-based, but much of the site is free. It also offers a section for teachers.