Weekend Website #110: 89 Resources for Teachers

I know summer just started. You’re relaxing, reading the stack of books that collected on your nightstand, planting the flowers you were supposed to take care of in April, but, well, teaching came first.

Bookmark this page and when you’re ready to look at some teacherly resources, come back. I’ve collected 89 great resources to make your job easier–everything from grading rubrics, online quizzes, audio books, utilities, to puzzle creators and more.

1. 10 Tech Alternatives to Book Reports
2. Academic websites
3. Analyze, read, write literature
4. Animations, assessments, charts, more
5. Animations, assessments, more
6. Audio books—free—Project Gutenberg
7. Audio books—Ms. Noor–free—kid-oriented
8. Biomes/Habitats—for teachers
9. By Kids For Kids
10. Children’s University
11. Classroom floorplan—for architect unit
12. Collection of websites
13. Create a magazine cover
14. Create free activities and diagrams in a Flash!
15. Create free activities. No signup
16. Crossword Puzzle Maker
17. Dabbleboard—online whiteboard
18. Easy Techie Stuff for the Classroom
19. Easy Web 2.0 tools
20. Easy-to-navigate collection
21. Eleven Little-known Facts
22. Environmental footprint
23. FBI Kid-safe games
24. Flashcards or Worksheets
25. Free online tools (Web 2.0)
26. Geography Activities—for teachers
27. Glogster—posters
28. Google Earth in Math Curriculum
29. Google Earth Lesson Plans I
30. Google Earth Lesson Plans II
31. Google Education—lesson plans, more
32. Google Safe Search Preferences
33. Grading automatically w G. Docs–Flubaroo
34. Hollywood Sq/Jeopardy Templates
35. How to Videos for Web 2.0
36. http://www.nsteens.org/
37. Internet Movie Database
38. Jeopardy Games in PowerPoint
39. Jeopardy Labs
40. K-8 school-related videos. Tons of them
41. Learn Zillion—teaching videos
42. Lots of Links for all grade levels
43. Make digital posters
44. Mapping ideas with tag clouds
45. Math/LA Videos by grade level
46. Mind mapping with Bubblus
47. Miscellaneous links
48. Newspapers around the world
49. Online quizzes you create, online grades
50. Online Safety Topics
51. Online tools (Web 2.0)—all free
52. Page Screenshot–take a screenshot of an entire webpage–even below the fold–with this tool
53. Password creator
54. Poetry sites—lots of them
55. Posters—8×10 at a time–simple
56. PowerPoint games for kids
57. PowerPoint stuff
58. PowerPoint Templates
59. Print Large Posters in 8×10 bits
60. Print Posters One Page at a Time
61. Publish the magazines
62. Pupil Tube
63. Puzzle maker
64. QR Codes
65. Rubrics I
66. Rubrics II
67. Rubrics III
68. Shelfari—share books with students
69. Slideshare—upload PowerPoint; share
70. Slideshow upload with Authorstream
71. Slideshows created on line
72. So many Free online tools (Web 2.0)
73. Tag clouds
74. Teach vocab–prefixes/suffixes, word lists, more
75. Teacher Training Videos
76. Teaching Channel
77. Teaching vocab, prefixes/suffixes, more
78. Test creator—online
79. Tests—create fill-in-the-blanks
80. Timelines
81. Timelines II
82. Tools for studying writing
83. Training videos
84. Turn pictures into Videos–Easily
85. Turn short stories into books
86. Tutors–in NYC
87. Vocab, prefix/suffix, word lists and more
88. White Board—no sign in, no reg
89. YouTube Education

What did I miss? What makes your job easier hat I should be using? Please share!

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.