PBS Teachers,
PBS' portal for pre-K-12 educators, offers a one-stop resource for educators
searching for wide-ranging curriculum resources, video products (Shop for
Teachers), online professional development opportunities (PBS TeacherLine)
and more. You will find thousands of free standards-based lesson
plans, classroom activities, and interactive resources as well as hundreds
of curriculum resources from local PBS stations — forming a local-national
search, combining the best educational resources from around the country.
LearnOutLoud.com,
an online portal for audio and video learning
material, has launched what it calls the internet's
largest directory of free educational audio and video content.
This directory contains more than 500 free titles,
including audio books, historical speeches, and university
lectures. In addition to extensive links to free audio and video
content -
including collections of dozens of video lectures
from MIT -
LearnOutLoud.com says it has produced dozens
of its own free audio titles for the directory. Examples of free
audio books that can be downloaded from the site include
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self Reliance and James Allen's As a
Man Thinketh. LearnOutLoud.com's catalog offers an
extensive collection of nonfiction and classic fiction titles
organized into categories such as business, language learning,
and self-development. Audio guides to foreign-language
courses and other subjects also are available.
Mediasite.com
offers free, searchable presentations on thousands of topics
Sonic Foundry has created a web site that enables users to watch expert
presentations on literally thousands of topics at no charge. Called
Mediasite.com, the site is intended as a resource for journalists, educators,
researchers, students, and just about anyone else looking for information on a
variety of topics-everything from the treatment of contagious diseases, to
Italian design, to virtual operating rooms. Users can search for information
by keyword, and the clips all include audio, video, and rich presentation
graphics. Users also can skip ahead to anywhere in the presentation with the
click of a button. "Mediasite.com offers a glimpse into the future of web
communications, where thousands of recorded presentations by experts of all
kinds are captured, archived, and made publicly available, all from one
centralized location," Sonic Foundry said. "The content is easily
accessible through any web browser, without the need for downloads or
plug-ins." At press time, the site included nearly 7,000 presentations
created and submitted by universities, businesses, and government agencies. A
search for the term "teaching" revealed 60 results, including
presentations on formative assessment, teaching with online mentors, and best
teaching practices for technology enhanced learning.
The Gateway to
Education Materials (GEM) is a tool for teachers to access more
than 40,000 educational materials such as lesson plans, instructional units,
books and other relevant resources. Resources can be browsed by subject,
keyword, title and grade level. Teachers can also access the ERIC
database from here.
The Federal
Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) web site makes it easy to
find teaching resources on federal government Web sites. The site was
developed with the cooperation of more than 35 federal agencies and is updated
each week with new materials and highlights. FREE offers quick
access to more than 1,500 resources in the arts, sciences, history and other
subjects from the Library of Congress, National Archives, Smithsonian, NASA,
the National Science Foundation and other federal agencies.
Lessonplanspage.com contains
more than 2,500 free lesson plans that are available by grade level and
subject.
Discovery
School contains hundreds of free lesson plans as well as other
resources that may be purchased.
Other sites...
4Teachers.org
A to Z Teacher
Stuff
Bubble Test
Form Generator
Busy
Teacher's Website K-12
Choosing
a Classroom Digital Camera
Education World
Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators
Learning Through
Collaborative Visualization
LessonPlanz
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
Online Educator
Pac-Bell Wired Learning
Research for Better Schools
Schools of California Online
Resources for Educators (SCORE)
TeachNet
WebQuest
