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Teacher Resources

Listed below are resources that are helpful to teachers, as well as students.

Websites:

Learning Electric -- Contains video tutorials for computer software applications
Survey Monkey - Free site for creating short surveys
4Teachers - Contains multiple links to valuable sites for teachers
SchoolNotes - Free teacher web pages
Podomatic - Free site for hosting audio and video podcasts
Audacity - Free audio recording software
Florida Educator Accomplished Practices - Outlines the EAP's adopted by the Florida Department of Education
Marco Polo - Lesson plan site
United Streaming - Downloadable videos and video clips
Discovery School Kathy Schrock's Guide - Categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth
KidzOnline - Tech training and lesson plansS
March2Success--Standardized Test Preparation Course
PC Webopedia--Glossary and articles on the Internet, Hardware, and Software; Term of the Day

Free web design sites - W3 Schools.

It has very straight forward introductory tutorials to HTML, XHTML, and CSS. They also have more advanced tutorials for things like Java Script, ASP, PHP and lots of other acronyms. Along with the tutorials they offer try-it-yourself examples that let you play with the code and see the effects of your changes immediately. The site is kept up-to-date and the tutorials deal with the most recent web standards. It's an all round great resource for learning about web publishing.
Internet Use Tutorials - They have tutorials on most everything on the web including Flash and HTML.  It's free.  
Macromedia Product Tutorials - Flash, Freehand, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, CSS ASP, and PHP tutorials

 

Reading:  Listed below are links to PDF files useful in improving reading skills.
 
Strategic Reading Strategies:  1,     2,     3,     4,     5,     6
Strategies Student/Teacher Teaching Masters:  Affinity,   Anticipation Guides, Cloze,   Concept Definition Map,   Cornell Graphic Organizer, Directed Reading-Thinking,   Fishbone, K-W-L,   Learning Logs, Minute Paper,   Pairs-Read,   Paraphrasing    QAR,    RAFT,    Reciprocal Teaching,    Rock Around the Clock,    SQ3R,    Structured Note-taking, Summarizing,    Venn Diagram,    Vocabulary in Context
Student Strategies:     Affinity,  Anticipation Guides,    Cloze,   Concept Definition Map,   Cornell Graphic Organizer,    Directed Reading-Thinking,   Fishbone,   K-W-L,   Learning Logs,   Minute Paper,   Pairs-Read,   Paraphrasing    QAR,    RAFT,    Reciprocal Teaching,    Rock Around the Clock,    SQ3R,    Structured Note-taking,   Summarizing,    Venn Diagram,    Vocabulary in Context
Student Tips:  Brochure,  Classified Ad,   Editorials,   Electronic Mail,   Employee Handbook,   Fiction,   Forms,   Graphs,     Instructions,   Maps,   Math Texts,   News Stories,   Nonfiction,   Operation Manuals,   Photos,   Primary Sources,   Reference Books,   Research Reports,   Science Labs,   Secondary Sources,   Test,   Textbook,   Timetables,   Website
Tips on Reading Specific Text:  Brochures,   Classified Ads,  Editorials,   Electronic Mail,  Employee Handbooks,   Fiction,   Forms and Applications,   Graphs and Charts,   Instructions,   Maps,   Math Textbooks,   Nonfiction,   Operational Manuals,   Photos and Captions,   Primary Sources,   Reference Books,   Research Reports,   Science Labs,  Secondary Sources,   Tests,   Textbooks,   Timetables,   Websites

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Last Updated:  02/12/2008