Renee's Favorite Web Sites |
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http://www.school.discovery.com—This web site is sponsored by the Discovery Channel. Teachers can easily access a variety of tools to help them in the classroom. If teachers click on the lesson plan link, they can then access a large range of activities for all subjects and grade levels. Most of the activities can be adapted to all grade levels. The lesson plan link is easy to navigate. All subjects are represented in the lesson plan link. In the teacher section, there is also a variety of web sites that give teachers quality information on topics they are teaching. This web site also has a student zone that helps with homework. This link seems to be designed for younger children, but can be helpful to all. The parent zone gives helpful to tips to parents regarding homework, when to see teachers, how to get involved in their child’s life as well as other important topics that parents may be interested in. This web site is very good because it offers everyone who is involved in a child’s education some where to get help and quality help. http://www.google.com—This is an excellent search engine. I have found this to be the most helpful when researching any topic. Our librarians at school recommend that students go here first for research. It is also very good when teachers are looking for background information on any topic. When the web page appears, type in your topic in the search bar and within in second you will have a variety of valuable web sites that met your topics needs. This web site is very easy to manage and seems to be more on target than other search engines like yahoo and alta vista. http://www.ncwiseowl.org—This is an wonderful web site for everyone involved in a student’s education. It offers a variety of places to find help. It has a teacher zone for lesson plans and classroom activities. It also has a reference zone for students and teachers to look up information on any topic. With the reference zone, you must have a password and user name that you can get from your school. It also has a student and parent zone to help with homework and other issues. Easy to access as long as you have the passwords and user names for the reference zone. You do not need a password and user name for the student, parent, or teacher zones. http://owl.english.purdue.edu—This web is sponsored by Purdue University’s English department. It offers handouts, worksheets, explanations, and tutorials for grammar and English language issues. This web site can be helpful to teachers as well as students. User friendly as long as you know what you are looking for and the correct terminology. http://www.sparknotes.com/index2.html—Sparknotes are Cliff notes for the Internet. Over 100 Harvard students and graduates have contributed to Sparknotes. All the writers specialize in the subjects they cover.. This web site provides help on all subjects. Type in a topic and click search. You will then be taken to a list of possible matches. You can research subjects from authors to microeconomics, Hitler to evolution, and algebra 1 to molecular cell division. This web site is easy to move around. It has links that take you quickly to your area of interest and then you can do a more specific search. http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/—Lesson plan and activity based web site. Teachers can type in their topic and get a wide range of lesson plans and activities for the classroom. Can be difficult to find information because it gives you everything that your topic could deal with. When typing in a subject, you need to be as specific as possible. This is good web site because it offers links to a variety of information teachers are interested in. For instance, there are links on how to see if a web site is reliable, web based activities, and current issues being discussed about education. http://educeth.ethz.ch/english—The English Page offers web sites, lesson plans, and resources for teachers and students. Click on Lesson Plans and it will take you first to web-sites designed to help with current events. If you scroll down you will see links for literature. Click on EducETH Reading List. Click on any author’s name and a picture of that author will appear as well as a variety of links to criticism, lesson plans, biographies, and background information. Most of the author pages have chat rooms and discussions you can join to discuss an author and his or her work. http://core.ecu.edu/engl/finleyt/eehmpage.htm—This page is sponsored by East Carolina Universities English Education department. This web offers a wide variety of links to anything associated with teaching English. It gives you links to biography pages, lesson plan pages, and search engine pages. You can also find out what the state requires as well as information on continuing education and conferences. This is an excellent resource for English and Humanity teachers. Easy to use if you are looking for literature, language, grammar based web sites. This site would not really help math or science teachers. |
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Advanced Technology
Competencies for Teachers:
10.3 Access resources for planning instruction available via telecommunications (e.g., experts, lesson plans, authentic data, curriculum materials)--This goal is met because these web sites are designed to put teachers in contact with experts, lesson plans, authentic data, and curriculum materials 10.6 Locate, evaluate, and select appropriate teaching/learning resources and curriculum materials for the content area and target audience, including computer-based products, videotapes and discs, local experts, primary documents and artifacts, texts, reference books, literature, and other print sources--This goal is met because surfing through these web sites I will locate only those web sites that will help me meet the objective of my class. |