The Holy Grail of...OK, OK, just Websites
AASLBestWebsites: The 2014 Best Websites for Teaching & Learning foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.
AASLBackMap: While the 2014 Best Websites are the newest and coolest, there are still great ones in this list of archives. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.
BookWizard: Find and level books with Book Wizard. Plus, get booktalks, lesson plans, author studies, videos, and discussion guides. This is part of the Scholastic Website and is one of it's free services.
CreativeCommons: is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.
DRoster: Kappix's DRoster employee scheduling software is designed to relieve you of the daily pressures of creating shifts, coverage for absences, rosters and scheduling duties, allow you to easily manage staff scheduling, enable you to respond instantly to your employee's scheduling requests and business staff scheduling requirements on the fly.
GlogsterEDU: is an online platform for digital learning enabling more than 14 million students and 1.5 million teachers worldwide to adopt modern principles and methods of learning by using the interface of Glog® and K-12 qualified content from Glogpedia.
Kahoot!: Create and play quizzes, discussions or even surveys (which we call Kahoots) using any device with a web browser… including a laptop, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Android, Chromebook, Windows Phone or PC and more.
LucidChart: create any type of diagram (Venn Diagrams, flow charts, pie graphs - you name it this site's got it) for free and share with others!
Moodle: Welcome to the Moodle community and discover the value of an open, collaborative effort by one of the largest open-source teams in the world.
NobelPrize: This is the official website of the Nobel Prize. It has everything from interesting news, new candidates and educational items of focus. There are podcasts and quizzes, overall just a neat site to peruse at your leisure.
Sailor: Maryland’s public libraries make a shared collection of Internet-based databases available through Sailor to ensure equal access to online research databases for all Maryland residents across the state. After you select a database a message will prompt you to choose your library system. Once you highlight The Ruth Enlow option you are done signing in and have access.
Trails: is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th grade standards. This Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for school librarians and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students. There is no charge for using TRAILS.
TeachingCore: A link into the world of teaching the Common Core. Check out these tutorials and lessons in action, sign-up should be free. Also in conjunction with this site - Achieve the Core: is another resource that provides an instructional practice guide for multiple contents and grade levels.
VocabularyQuiz: As students play The Challenge, the website keeps track the words that are missed, and adds them to a list of words that are being learned.
Wordle: create your own word art! Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.
TheWhyFiles: check out the real stories behind the news!
Zamzar: converts files between common formats. If you have a file that is not compatible with school computers, you can use Zamzar to convert it. You must have an e-mail address. Here is how to use it.
Zoomerang: is a website where you can create your own surveys and polls.
AASLBackMap: While the 2014 Best Websites are the newest and coolest, there are still great ones in this list of archives. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.
BookWizard: Find and level books with Book Wizard. Plus, get booktalks, lesson plans, author studies, videos, and discussion guides. This is part of the Scholastic Website and is one of it's free services.
CreativeCommons: is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.
DRoster: Kappix's DRoster employee scheduling software is designed to relieve you of the daily pressures of creating shifts, coverage for absences, rosters and scheduling duties, allow you to easily manage staff scheduling, enable you to respond instantly to your employee's scheduling requests and business staff scheduling requirements on the fly.
GlogsterEDU: is an online platform for digital learning enabling more than 14 million students and 1.5 million teachers worldwide to adopt modern principles and methods of learning by using the interface of Glog® and K-12 qualified content from Glogpedia.
Kahoot!: Create and play quizzes, discussions or even surveys (which we call Kahoots) using any device with a web browser… including a laptop, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Android, Chromebook, Windows Phone or PC and more.
LucidChart: create any type of diagram (Venn Diagrams, flow charts, pie graphs - you name it this site's got it) for free and share with others!
Moodle: Welcome to the Moodle community and discover the value of an open, collaborative effort by one of the largest open-source teams in the world.
NobelPrize: This is the official website of the Nobel Prize. It has everything from interesting news, new candidates and educational items of focus. There are podcasts and quizzes, overall just a neat site to peruse at your leisure.
Sailor: Maryland’s public libraries make a shared collection of Internet-based databases available through Sailor to ensure equal access to online research databases for all Maryland residents across the state. After you select a database a message will prompt you to choose your library system. Once you highlight The Ruth Enlow option you are done signing in and have access.
Trails: is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th grade standards. This Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for school librarians and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students. There is no charge for using TRAILS.
TeachingCore: A link into the world of teaching the Common Core. Check out these tutorials and lessons in action, sign-up should be free. Also in conjunction with this site - Achieve the Core: is another resource that provides an instructional practice guide for multiple contents and grade levels.
VocabularyQuiz: As students play The Challenge, the website keeps track the words that are missed, and adds them to a list of words that are being learned.
Wordle: create your own word art! Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.
TheWhyFiles: check out the real stories behind the news!
Zamzar: converts files between common formats. If you have a file that is not compatible with school computers, you can use Zamzar to convert it. You must have an e-mail address. Here is how to use it.
- Click the logo to go to Zamzar.com
- Follow the steps on the page:
- Select the file you want to convert. (It probably ends in .docx, .odt, .wps, etc.)
- Choose the format to convert to. (Choose .doc for Word, or .ppt for PowerPoint)
Zoomerang: is a website where you can create your own surveys and polls.
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