General+Resources

General Resources for MYP Teachers
 * **Astronomy**
 * Discover the Solar System: Grades 6 - 12


 * **Blogs**
 * [|Mrs. Cassidy's Classroom Blog]: Hands-on Activities
 * [|Cathy Nelson's Professional Thoughts]: Tips for integrating library technology into lessons
 * [|Classroom Solutions]: How to implement solutions in your classroom
 * [|Digital Anthology]: Special Education issues
 * [|Docere Est Discere]: Student-Teacher Blog
 * [|Hooda Math Blog]: Sneaking in some math learning with arcade style games
 * [|Integrating Tech]: One teacher's journey in transforming his classroom into a 21st Century Classroom
 * [|It's Not All Flowers and Sausages]: A teacher shares her daily joys and frustration
 * [|The Jose Vilson]: Artist, poet, and math educator Jose Vilson gives the inner city a human face by blogging about sometimes touchy topics.
 * [|Just A Substitute Teacher]: The blog adventures of a substitute teacher
 * [|Learning is Messy]: Using blogging and other technologies in the classroom
 * [|Mark Pentleton]: Integrating technology to improve learning in the classroom
 * [|Needleworks Pictures]: Creating Life-Long Learners
 * [|The Principal's Page]: A daily chronicle of an Administrator
 * [|Regurgitated AlphaBits]: Stories from a teacher who loves her students, wrestles with her job, and mourns the fact that they used to be the same thing.
 * [|ScienceFix]: Middle School Science Demos
 * [|Sugata Mitra's] Blog: Check out the [|Hole in the Wall Experiments]!
 * [|Tales from a Bus Driver]: A school bus driver fills us in on the insanity that goes on before students enter the classroom every morning and after they leave.
 * [|The Teaching Palette]: For all things art
 * [|A Year of Reading]: Book reviews for all ages
 * [|YouthVoices]: Discussions between students and teachers using a variety of technologies


 * **Classroom Management**
 * [[image:new.gif link="http://www.filedropper.com/"]][|File Dropper]: Upload and share big files, up to 5 GB, with colleagues and students.
 * [[image:new.gif link="http://lessonopoly.org/"]][|Lessonopoly]: Helps to organize activities inside and outside the classroom, create and share lesson plans
 * **Classroom Libraries**
 * [|Build and Use a Classroom Library]
 * [|A Field Guide to Classroom Libraries]
 * [|International Reading Association] (search for articles related to classroom libraries)


 * **Educational Games**
 * [[image:new.gif link="http://www.sploder.com/free-game-creator.php"]][|Sploder]: Create custom puzzles and games.


 * **General Portals and Gateways for Professional and Instructional Help**


 * **Graphic Organizers:**
 * [|Mind Maps/Concept Maps]


 * **Interactive Presentation Tools**
 * [|Free Music Archives]


 * **Lesson Plan Goldmines**


 * **Online References for Students and Teachers**
 * **References for Teachers**
 * [|iTools]


 * **References for Teachers and Students**
 * **Dictionaries / Thesauruses**
 * [|Enchanted Learning Picture Dictionary]
 * [|The Internet Picture Dictionary]
 * [|Merriam-Webster Online]
 * [|RhymeZone]


 * **Encyclopedias and Almanacs**
 * [|Encyclopedia]
 * [|Fact Monster]
 * [|How Stuff Works]
 * [|The Old Farmer's Almanac]


 * **Maps and Atlases**
 * [|ABC Teach] - some free resources available but the best resources can only be reached through a paid membership :(
 * [|Info Please Atlas: Map Index]
 * [|MapMaker]
 * [|World Atlas]


 * **Podcasting**
 * [|Radio Lingua]
 * [|Crunched Productions]: Podcasting tutorials for educators


 * **Project Based Learning**
 * [|Experiential Learning Theories]
 * [|Galaxy Bazaar]
 * [|More About Project Based Learning]
 * [|Multi-Cultural and Multi-Classroom Projects]


 * **Publishing**
 * [|Toondoo] - Create your own comic strip.


 * **Research-Friendly Web Browsers**
 * [|Goofram]: Compares the results of Google and WolframAlpha searches.
 * [|Twurdy]: Search engine for differentiation of reading ability.
 * [|YoLink]
 * [|WolframAlpha]


 * **Social Media**
 * [|Togetherville]: A fun and safe online neighborhood for kids under 10. They can play games, create art and interact with friends and family under your supervision.


 * **Task Management Tools**
 * [|Pegby]: Is set up like a corkboard with index cards stuck to it. The corkboard has three columns to place your index cards on. A column for things to do, a column for things in progress, and a column for things that are done. Each of index card can be assigned to a person, can have files attached to it, and can have due dates assigned to it. You can use Pegby as an individual or you can share your corkboard with others. Watch the video below to learn about Pegby.

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 * **Time - Keepers**
 * [|Online StopWatch]: Free website that gives you the choice of a stopwatch function or a countdown function. You can set the countdown timer for any length of time and an alarm sounds when time is up.
 * [|Online Egg Timer]: A simple website offering three countdown timers on one screen. You can set just one timer or run all three at the same time with different settings. No registration is required in order to use it. Just go to the site, set the countdown timer(s) using the up and down arrows, then click "start timers."
 * [|Timer Tab]: Free application offered through the Chrome Web Store and as a stand-alone website at [|timer-tab.com] . As a Chrome app Timer Tab can be used online or offline. The website version of Timer Tab can only be used online. Both versions of Timer Tab offer a count-down timer, an alarm clock, and a stopwatch. For the count-down timer and the alarm clock you can select a video to play when time expires or when you've reached your specified alarm time. You do this by pasting the url of a YouTube video into the "alarm" field below the timer. Also in both versions of Timer Tab you can customize the background by specifying an image url.
 * [|Timmerrrr.com]: You will find two free countdown versions. The regular Timerrr displays a dial like my grandmother used to have on top of her stove. The "egg timer" version displays an egg timer as the countdown device. Both can be used to set a countdown of up to sixty minutes.

Thanks to Nate for sharing this information: If you want to post a video from the school camera (or possibly your personal camera) on the Wiki you need to convert the file from a .MOD to a .AVI.
 * **Uploading Videos to the Wiki from your personal video camera or the school camera**
 * Here's how you do this:
 * Make sure that your video is saved in a folder (not on the desktop)
 * Open the folder and click on "Tools", which is located at the top
 * Now click on "Folder Options" and a new window will pop up
 * Click on the "View" tab
 * Scroll down and find where it says: "Hide extensions for known file types"
 * Most likely the box next to these words is checked, so now you need to un-check the box
 * After you un-check the box click "Apply" and then close it
 * Right hand click on the video you want to convert and click on "Properties" and a new window will pop up
 * At the top will be the name of the file in a box, you need to delete the .MOD ending and change it to .AVI
 * Click "OK" and when it asks you if you are sure if you want to change it click "YES"
 * Now you should be able to upload your video onto Teacher Tube and after they approve it add it to your Wiki

I hope that helps and if you have any problems let me know and I can go through the process with you. -Nate
 * **Video Learning**
 * [|Snag Learning]: Educational Videos for all subjects.


 * **Websites**
 * [|Digital Dialects]: This website features free to use online games for learning more than 55 languages. Language resources include games for learning phrases, numbers, useful words, spelling, verb conjugation and alphabets.
 * [|How Stuff Works]: Learn how everything works.
 * **Wikis**
 * Sugata Mitra

**Page last updated: May 19, 2012**