NEW! FOR STUDENTS, TEACHERS and PARENTS: AllScholar.com A free scholarship search tool that gives students and parents access to an updated list of scholarships. This is new, and a free service, but you have to register to access the site.
EDUCATIONAL LINKS:litthink (my website)
coollessons.com Lots of interesting webquests in many content areas.
poetry180 Cool site from the Poet Laureate of the United States (180 modern poems for 180 school days).
learner.org from the Annenberg Group. Lots of free stuff for professional development.
Blue Web'n A library of Blue Ribbon learning sites on the Web.
Classroom Connect You'll find K-12 lesson plans, grants, and resources here.
wordIQ One of the best encyclopedia's on the web. I defy anyone to stump this search engine; it knows everything about everyone.
From Now On: the Educational Technology Journal A top site for everything education and technology. Besides being able to subscribe to free monthly journal, the site offers articles on assessment, parenting, staff development, web site design, and the "Ten Best Web Sites for Educational Technology." A must visit.
The Global Schoolhouse This site facilitates collaborative projects among other things.
U.S. Department of Education You can find grant opportunities and descriptions of successful programs. Links to great resources and research findings.
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Useful Web Sites for Teachers
PBS Teacher Line:
pbs.orgThis site contains a myriad of information and archives of articles that teachers may find valuable. The Thornburg archive alone makes good reading. "Teaching with Technology: From Teaching to Learning -- A Canadian Perspective" by David Thornburg discusses making a shift from traditional teaching to project-based learning.
NEA (National Education Association) - Teaching
This site offers links to selected articles about teaching in general.
Englishcompanion.com A must on your list of important sites, this site is a wonderland of great stuff for the English teacher. Jim Burke, who wrote English Teacher's Companion and other great books for English teachers, hosts the site, which in spite of the ".com" moniker, is a non-profit site. It will take repeated visits to take advantage of all its resources for teachers of English language arts.
Educator's Toolkit This is a newsletter that contains links to teacher resources, libraries, technology, parents, kids, themes, mini-themes, holidays, projects and lessons.
EDinformatics-Education for the Information Age This is a database of information leading to over 1,000,000 reviewed sites. Go to Literature, and you'll find a link to Chats and Forums.
TEACH THE TEACHERS COLLABORATIVE This site is a fairly new effort by private industry (Vons) and LACOE to provide a one-week workshop for teachers in Ojai, California at the Thatcher School. The site offers lessons that participants have created during their sessions. Although there are few English language arts- only lessons, you will find that it runs as a strand in many subject areas. Their lesson plan archives provides a model lesson which is used as a template for web-based lessons.
Education week on the Net This magazine (print & electronic) features current educational news plus information about teachers and technology.
CUE (Computer Using Educators)
This site has something for everyone.
SCORE Activity Bank This section of the SCORE website contains a sections on graphic organizers, journaling, literature, rubrics, and writing. The rubrics section alone is an invaluable resource for both students and teachers of English language arts.
SCORE: CyberGuides: Teacher Guides & Student ActivitiesThis site contains guides for the teaching of literature, grades K-12. It offers a template for a "new, standards-based, web-delivered concept at SCORE language arts" that would be worth looking as a basis for a lesson.
Pac Bell's Knowledge Network Explorer This site is home base for Blue Web'n, WebQuests, Filamentality, Lessons & More.
Filamentality This site helps you create web-based activities for your students. You can begin with a Hot List, or choose a Sampler, Scrapbook , Hunt, or even a WebQuest. You can leave your activity on their server, edit it anytime, make as many as you need, and even delete it when you want.
Math Forum: Excellent High School level math site.
The Lesson Plans Page: Loads of lesson plans in many disciplines.
In the Mix Again from PBS, this is a site with lesson plans in disciplines from math to physical education.
Book-A-Minute Classics A funny site that sums up a novels plot in 60 seconds or less. Often Hilarious, if not necessarily educational.
SparkNotes Great for students to take practice tests on novels. Done in a way that compliments AR in that the "cheat notes" do not give away the intricasies of the novel. Students can't get a way with not reading. Also useful for other disciplines, especially as a means of drilling and practice, including math, science, chemistry, biology.
dictionary.comessortment An another extraordinary site that has the answers to every question I can think of.
Factopia Yet another wonderful way to waste time. Trivial but interesting.
FCAT ExplorerDOE FCAT SiteFlorida Virtual School An FCAT Preparation Site
WOW: The Words Work Network Haven't explored this yet with the exception of reading a few interesting articles.
salon.com A great website with well written articles on current topics from Katrina to Harry Potter. Regular columns by contributers like Garrison Keillor. You have to pay for this one OR watch an advertisement each time you want to read an article. I watch the ad. I'm cheap.
npr.org National Public Radio site.
Librarians Index to the Internet Well designed resource as an alternative to commercial search engines. An educational approach to research.
http://www.artsjournal.com/ If you appreciate fine arts and commentary
newyorker.com Talk of the Town commentary is always interesting. The New Yorker is one of those magazines of literature that is unfortunately dying a slow death. Literature isn't important anymore, don't you know?
FCAT 10th Grade Reading This program is designed to help teachers prepare students for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. This program includes rubric scoring, sample tests, teaching strategies, and related web sites.
Gutenburg Project Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books. Browse by title or author.
Internet Public Library The Internet Public Library provides links to Subject Collections, Reference Sections, Search Tools, Youth Resources, Special Collections and a Reading Room. In the Reading Room you will finds books, magazines and newspapers from every state and around the world.
Language Art Lesson Plans
Language Arts lesson plans and activities with step-by-step instructions for all grade levels.
Language Arts Mini Lessons for High School Students 9-12
Literature.org Access and read books online. Search for copyright free books by author.
The Jack London Collection
Jack London is best known for his books The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf, and a few short stories, such as "To Build a Fire" and "The White Silence."
The Newbery Classroom
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Frontier Girl A web site devoted to the life and works of Laura Ingalls Wilder, American pioneer and children's author of the famous "Little House" books.
ReadPrint offers free books for students and teachers.
Spelling Ticklers Spelling ticklers are activities for students which will assist them with learning their spelling words.
Writing Centers: I include these sites for our aspiring collegians, but each website offers its own help links section, handouts, etc. to enhance writing.
Florida State University Writing Center
University Writing Center UCF
University of Florida Writing Center
Writing Help
Please email me with links and suggestions.
