http://www.kenton.k12.ky.us/tr/trsr.html
Digging Into Teacher
Treasures on the Internet
The links below have been selected because they each have the capacity to provide something valuable to you as a teacher. Each one has been annotated to help you get an idea of what you will discover when you link to the site. They may provide some extraordinary timesaving techniques or tools; they might provide your students with a valuable on line resource; or, they may include some of the best and most innovative uses of technology as an integrated element of teacher instruction and student learning. They have been grouped according to the type of treasure they can offer to you and/or to your students. BOOKMARK THIS PAGE. Return often to dig a little deeper into the treasure of resources that the Internet holds for you and your students.
ListservsMedia Resources Student Safe Searching Collaborative Project ResourcesTime Savers Online Tools Online Help &Tutorials
Online Tools
CleverKeys- Download this free tool and never have to wonder about what any word means ever again. Simply strike the appropriate key on the keyboard and the screen automaticaly pops up the the dictionary definition for you. You can also find a synonym in the thesaurus if you so choose. This is a must for intermediate, middle, and high school students. CleverKeys is free software that provides instant access to definitions at Dictionary.com, synonyms at Thesaurus.com, and more—from any Windows or Mac OS program, including Microsoft Word and most e-mail programs and browsers. With CleverKeys, the answers are just a click away. http://www.cleverkeys.com/ck.html?p=home&os=
Maths: Online Tools - Here you will find links to online calculators, equation solvers, plotting function graphs, and many others. http://www.univie.ac.at/future.media/moe/onlinewerkzeuge.html
Zoomerang-Using the free service provided here, you and your students can create an online survey of up to 25 questions to gather data from anywhere in the world. Using the tmeplates provided, you can create questions of any type: multiple choice, short answer, fill in the blanks, etc. Once the survey is complete, it is given a URL and can be linked to from any existing webpage (classroom, individual). The Zoomerang site will collect the data from up to 50 respondents and provide you with a complete breakdown ont he responses for up to ten days. This is a terrific way to broaden the scope of student surveys, introduce students to real data collection, and generate some exciting spreadsheets and grahic ilustrations. It works and it's free! http://www.zoomerang.com/
Online Magnetic Poetry - Online version of refrigerator magnet poetry - click and drag words to create - Must Be Viewed in I.E. http://www.geocities.com/daffydil12/magpoetry.html
Teach-nology - Teachers Online Schedule Maker - This generator can be used to make a schedule for your day-to-day routine. This schedule can be used to help teachers, students, and parents. http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/week_teach/
Filamentality 2.0
At this Pacific Bell web site you will discover one of the biggest goldmines on the Internet! Designed to make your use of Internet resources easier and to provide you with a vehicle to post your Hotlists, Treasure Hunts, Samplers, Scrapbooks, or Webquests, Filamentality provides fill in the blank templates for each of these types of student activities. You simply provide the web sites, guiding questions, tasks, and projects, and Filamentality will assemble it all and post it for one full year for free. Take a look - you won't be sorry! http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/
Lexical Freenet - Hard to describe, but it is called a "connected thesaurus" because it will find your synonym and find connections, show relationships between words, find rhyming similarities,and it will do it phonetically, semantically, or biographically. It is an incredible tool for any writer! http://www.lexfn.com/
Noodletools
You will discover two extremely valuable tools here that will save both you and your students time as they research and prepare to share information. The first is NoodleQuest. With this tool all you need to do is answer a few simple questions about what it is that you are researching, the types of material you want to locate, and whether you are a student, teacher, etc. NoodleQuest will develop a search strategy for you and list the most appropriate search engines on the Internet to facilitate your research! The second tool is NoodleBib. With this tool, all you need to do is fill in the online template form and a bibliography of the sources you have entered is produced. The tool takes care of punctuation, correct bibliographical format, and creates a ready to print bibliography. It can't get much simpler than that! http://www.noodletools.com
Teacher Web Worksheet Wizard
Don't be fooled by the name of this online tool. Here you can create your own customized Hotlist of websites, add specific questions or tasks, create a webquest or treasure hunt on the Internet AND add an eye-catching picture or graphic with a selection of background and font styles and colors. It is TOO simple as you "fill in the blanks" and then simply click on "create it." It is posted on the Internet and you are provided with the URL to distribute to your students and bookmark any computer in your building for the students to access. If you would like to see an example, click on the small mouse below. Use your Back browser button to return to this page. http://wizard.hprtec.org/index.php3
Create A Graph - From the NCES, this site will provide you and your students will all of the tools necessaryt o create a variety of types of graphs, include all of the required elements, and print them for you. It is a great resource and will eliminate the necessity of additional graphing software. http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Graphing/
Notestar - NoteStar is the newest utility to assist Project Based Learning on the World Wide Web.
Designed for 4th thru 12th grade students, NoteStar assists in taking notes from online sources.
Using the NoteStar NoteCards tool, students can take notes from online sources as they browse the Internet. Source information (i.e. title, url, etc.) is automatically captured in order to assist in work citation. Once their notes are gathered, students may then organize their notes to suit their project's goals. NoteStar benefits teachers as well. Once a teacher has assigned a NoteStar project to their students, they may return to monitor their student's progress at any time. Based on a student or group's progress, the teacher may provide feedback.
http://notestar.4teachers.org/
Think Tank - Think Tank is a tool geared to help students from grades four through eight with developing research topics for reports and projects. Based on what type of topic they are researching, the student can then choose from a series of possible topics and sub-topics in order to refine their research to more specific areas. Think Tank is linked with another HPR*TEC product, NoteStar. Once a student has developed their topics, they may export their topics to NoteStar. The only requirement is that their instructor has already set up a NoteStar Account for that student. What can students do with the Think Tank: 1. Create an outline of topics and sub-topics to assist research. 2. Narrow their research into more specific aspects of their subject. 3. Export their research topics to NoteStar. http://thinktank.4teachers.org/
Internet Coach - Online puzzle creator allows you to create one of a selected variety of puzzles and provide your students online access it. http://puzzles.apte.com/index.cfm?cn=1999
Backflip
This is a free online tool that allows you to store all of your bookmarks online. They are completely secure and only for you to see. You must register with a user id and password to protect your information. It allows you to bookmark websites that you may encounter while at workshops, at school, or at home to the same location for easy access. It also provides you with a fast and easy saving method right from your browser toolbar. http://www.backflip.com/login.ihtml
I Keep Bookmarks
This is another free tool that allows you to store all of your bookmarks on line and retrieve or save from any remote location.
http://www.ikeepbookmarks.com/home.asp
Quiz Star - With this web-based utility, you will be able to create a custom quiz that others can take online! If you have a lesson plan centered around internet websites, or if you want students to be able to do take-home assignments over the internet, then QuizStar is for you! Teachers can Create quizzes for your students to use for review, Include Multiple Choice, True/False, and Short Answer questions, Group Your students by Class Name (e.g. Ancient Civilization 201), and Activate and deactivate quizzes so they are available to students only on certain dates. http://quiz.4teachers.org/index.php3
Teach-nology Teacher Worksheet Generator
Here you can create puzzles, word searches, word scrambles, webquests, elementary word searches, science lab sheets, and assignment sheets to print out.
http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/work_sheets/
E.L.Easton's English Pages - Online listing of available exercises, quizzes and tes that area vailable at this site. A Very lengthy listing. http://eleaston.com/quizzes.html
Web Quiz Writer - A Free Trial Version for Download - WebQuiz Writer is the most comprehensive internet-based testing package available for the classroom. The Standard Edition is designed for single-use by teachers and instructors who need to harness the Internet for their classrooms. The Enterprise Edition is designed for multi-user access within large instutions and organizations. Thousands of students and instructors can be supported using this edition, featuring shared tests and student report cards. WebQuiz Writer can be used to create both practice tests (no results are saved) and full examinations (results are saved) in a point and click environment. No programming required! Produce WebQuiz practice tests, WebQuiz Exams, individual score reports (with correct answers and explanations) and instructor score reports with ease. Add passive spell-checking, email delivery of test results, and print capabilities and you have a complete test preparation solution for the classroom of the next century.
Quia
Here you have the opportunity to create your own quizes, activities, and web pages to use online.
http://www.quia.com/
Hot Potatoes
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for non-profit educational users who make their pages available on the web
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/
Mega Converter
This is an all new version of your favorite educational and research site, giving you a new, easier to use interface, with more converters, more features and quicker access. Metric, area, length, temperature, etc.
http://www.megaconverter.com/mega2/
Teach-nology Online Graphic Organizer Tools
There are so many different online graphic organizers for you to use here, including Concept Web, Timeline, KWL, Venn Diagram, and SQ3R Chart
http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/graphic_org/
Tammy's Technology Tips for Teachers
Create Your Own Hotlist
Here you can create your own hyperlinked hotlist by simply copying and pasting into the blank form. When you are complewte, it is posted on the Internet and ready to use. You can also search a database of pre-existing lists.
http://www.essdack.org/hotlists/
Learning Space - Post a Web Byte Activity
Post a webbyte activity here. These are one time and often one web site mini online learning activities designed to get the most from the Internet in a short time frame and at the same time maximize attention to a specific curriculum standard.
http://www.learningspace.org/webbyte/webbyte_form.htm
First you may want to visit this page for a complete self tutorial on the organizaiton and structure of these one time learning activities.
http://www.learningspace.org/webbyte/default.htm
Artsonia
Post your students' artwork in an online museum worldwide!
http://www.artsonia.com/teachers/default.asp
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Time Savers
High School Hub
A noncommercial gateway to free online academic resources for high school students. It features interactive learning activities, an ongoing poetry contest, a reference collection, college information, subject guides for english, math social studies, science, world languages, arts and technology.
http://highschoolhub.org/hub/hub.cfm
42Explore
This web project provides "four to explore" for each topic. On each page you'll find definitions, activities, 4 good starting points, and many more links and resources for the thematic topic.
http://www.eduscapes.com/42explore/
Pitsco's Ask an Expert
Askanexpert.com connects you with hundreds of real world experts,
ranging from astronauts to zookeepers. These experts have
volunteered to answer your questions for free!
http://www.askanexpert.com/
Cyberbee
Here are links to four of the best known and most reliable puzzle creation sites - make them - play them
http://cyberbee.com/puzzle.html
E - Themes -
Here are hundreds of different thematic units available on line and listed alphabetically
http://emints.more.net/ethemes/resources/by-title.html
Internet Public Library Youth Division
This is an incredible resource of vast numbers of informational and interactive websites designed for use by children up through middle school.
http://www.ipl.org/youth/
Mighty Books - Listen to online storybooks froma library that is age grouped (2-4, 4-6, 6-8, 8-10, and preteen) A very large and well selected library of materials.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
This is a terrific resource that will link you to all of the virtual math manipulatives on line in every grade level and inevery area of mathematics. http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/index.html
MATRIX - Museum - Maths and Technology Interactive Exhibits Incredible! http://www.mathsyear2000.org/museum/outside.html
Online storybooks are available for story hour at the Internet Public Library for Kids
http://www.ipl.org/youth/StoryHour/
Overnight Ontime Planning System
Here are some people who know the immediate and last minute needs of the classroom teacher. You will find valuable links to activities for students who are "early finishers," online games in content areas, virtual field trips, learning centers, themes, and dozens of other just-in-time materials. http://www.oops.bizland.com/
Daily Dose of the Web
Here's a quick way to involve some or all of your students in higher order thinking activities. Organized by the Memphis City Schools, here are links to sites that provide daily tidbits of information, including daily brain teasers, quotes, questions, trivia, and subject area information. http://www.memphis-schools.k12.tn.us/admin/tlapages/daily_dose.htm
Theme Heaven
http://www.theeducatorsnetwork.com/flack/themeheaven.html
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Online Help and Tutorials
Internet for Classrooms
At this site you can find some very easy tutorials on the following software applications and topics. They are great for an introduction or a quick refresher. Applications and topics include: Claris HomePage, AppleWorks, FrontPage, HyperStudio, iMovie, Inspiration, Integration, KidPix, Macintosh, Access, Excel, Word, Works, Netscape, Networking, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Publisher, Digital Cameras, Tutorial Sets, WebQuest, Win95/98/00. http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line2.htm