Productivity
The following is an alphabetical listing of online tools that can help teachers manage their classrooms more efficiently and design lessons more effectively.
Teacher Tools
- abcTeach
The purpose of this site is to provide educationally sound suggestions that help with learning and teaching and provide easy online materials for immediate use.
- Assessment Tools
The Puget Sound Center's collection of assessment resources.
- Blank and Outline Map
This is a collection of blank and outline maps for educational use.
- Create a Graph
This is a graphing tool for student use.
- Daily Dose of the Web
This site contains ideas for starting each day with a visit to an Internet site. Some of the categories included are Question of the Day, Quotation Sources, Brain Teasers, and Interesting Trivia.
- Discovery Quiz Center
This is a tool for creating quizzes.
- Evalutech
This is a searchable database that contains more than 7,000 reviews of K–12 instructional materials.
- Graphic Organizers
The Puget Sound Center's collection of graphic organizers and other scaffolding tools.
- Icing on the Cake: Online Tools for Teaching and Learning
Kathy Schrock's short list of helpful tools for teachers and students.
- QuizStar
A tool for creating online quizzes for students.
- Sperling's Best Places
This Web site lets you or your students compare demographic information on 3,000 American cities. You can easily compare economics, housing, health, crime, and climate for two cities you choose. The site also helps you decide your favorite place to live, work, or retire.
- Teacher Tools
This is a great resource for form letters and templates for all types of communication and planning. Download the templates in Word and adapt them for your own use.
Presentation Resources
Sounds
Web-Based Tools
- Backflip
This tool allows the user to create a personal search engine and directory that is accessible from any computer connected to the Web.
- Boolean Machine
An interactive image that helps students understand Boolean operators in order to improve their Internet search skills.
- ePals
This is a tool for connecting students to their peers in other parts of the country or the world.
- Filamentality
This is a fill-in-the-blank tool for creating Web-based activities. It walks the user through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into learning activities.
- Internet Hunt Activities
This Cindy O'Hora site contains numerous examples of Internet Scavenger Hunts--an effective way for students to collect factual information on a topic.
- myprojectpages.com
At this site, teachers can design structured online inquiry-based learning activities without any knowledge of Web publishing by using the free Wizard interface. Users' projects are automatically added to the searchable project gallery for sharing with other educators.
- Scholastic's Class Homepage Builder
This easy-to-use site helps teachers provide information to parents and students. Class Web pages are free.
- Schoolnotes.com
This is a free service for teachers to create Web pages for homework and class information.
- Webcopier
A Shareware product that allows the user to download Web pages for later use.
- WebZip
A tool for downloading Web pages for later use.
- Zoomerang
A good tool for creating online surveys and getting feedback from others.
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