10.+Personal+Professional+Development+Resources

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Classroom Material/Activity Generators & Resources


 * Teacher Vision**: http://www.teachervision.fen.com/

This site has hundreds of resources broken down by grade level and content area. Lesson plans, month themes, quizzes, calendars, classroom managment ideas, and much more!


 * School Express**: http://www.schoolexpress.com/

Great free site that lets you create worksheets and flashcards. Also has a lot of rainy day/ free time worksheets as well as reference worksheets.


 * ABC Teach**: http://abcteach.com/

Images, activities and worksheets for several types of lessons and themes.


 * Enchanted Learning**: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html

A site with several pre-made worksheets, calendar printouts, themed activities, and much more!


 * Kids Click:** http://www.kidsclick.org/

A search engine created by librarians for students!


 * Google for Educators**: http://www.google.com/educators/index.html

Different tools, activities, and templates for the classroom.


 * Make Belief Comix:** http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

Create your own comics in English and use several other languages


 * TikaTok**: http://tikatok.com/

Students are able to create their own book and can purchase it to be published. Another great aspect is their book is posted online and other students from all over the world can purcahse it as well!


 * Pics For Learning**: http://pics4learning.com/

Free photos for education that are in very easy to find catagories.


 * Wikimedia:** http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Several free images that educators can use.

Graphs & Organization/Storage Tools


 * Kids Zone**: http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/

Create, save, and print graphs along with great explanations for each part of a graph. The home page of this website also offers a word of the day, this day in history, and several other daily fun facts.


 * Our Media:** http://ourmedia.org/

Free storage & free bandwith for videos, flies, and audio


 * Kick YouTube:** http://kickyoutube.com/

save videos from youtube onto your computer or flashdrive so you can show them in schools that has youtube blocked


 * Google Forms:** www.google.com

Complete surveys and calculate data online. You can also collaborate with other Google users!


 * Bubble.us**: http://www.bubbl.us/

Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online. You are able to create and design your own concept web.

Social Networking & Collaboration


 * Voice Thread**: http://voicethread.com/#home

This is a tool where you import a photo, image, or video and add a voiceover about what you have uploaded. Students may add comments through video, text, voice, or document upload.


 * Poll Everywhere:** http://www.polleverywhere.com/

Ask a group a question and have them respond via text!


 * Classroom 2.0:** http://www.classroom20.com/

A online social networking site for educators to incorporate technology into their classroom. Also, several links to free, online webinars and thousands of resources!


 * Second Life:** http://secondlife.com/?v=1.1

This is a new site that teachers have been testing with students who have autisim. The general idea is that students take the real life skills that they have learned int he classroom and apply them to this online social interaction game that is almost like the sims, but free! This is a great way for students to practice everyday skills that are not ready for face to face interaction.


 * E-Pals:** http://www.epals.com/

Free Site that allsos students to blog and e-mail students all over the world


 * Thinkquest:** http://www.thinkquest.org/en/

Integrate learning projects into your classroom curriculum. Choose a topic, assign students, invite teachers, and collaborate with members around the world

Games & Lesson Enhancers


 * Time for Kids:** http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/

Online source for the children magazine about current events and special topics grouped by grade level.


 * AAA Math:** http://www.aaamath.com/

A source for several math lessons provided with unlimited practice on each topic.


 * Gamequarium:** http://www.gamequarium.org/dir/Gamequarium/Math/

Hundred of math games on numerous topics.


 * Power Point Games:** http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/PPT-games/

Several links to Power Point games such as, Jeopardy and Are You Smarter then a 5th Grader?


 * Discovery Education:** http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/

Video clips that can be used in your lessons. Also, video tutorials on how to teach certain topics, for example elapsed time.