Teacher+Links

= Subscription Curriculum Supplements =

**Curriculum Resource Center**
An indispensable tool for teachers and students seeking material to supplement their coursework in core subject areas—including U.S. and world history, science, and geography. Access a broad selection of visual content, including maps, science diagrams, science experiments, historical images, historical timelines, and other handouts, all of which can be saved in a password-protected folder, emailed, or printed and used for worksheets, overheads, and testing.

= Smartboard =

**Gizmos**
Interactive online simulations for math and science concepts. Great for use with the smartboard.

= Video: All Subjects =

**Power Media Plus**
Features all media types—3,300 videos; 23,000 core concept clips; 6,000 audio files, including speeches, audio books, and music; 25,000 educational photos, clip art images, and illustrations; and 5,000 print resources, as well as a databank of 15,000 quiz questions and 1,000 pre-made quizzes.

**Teacher's Domain**
An online library of more than 1,000 free media resources from the best in public television, featuring media from NOVA, Frontline, Design Squad, American Experience, and other public broadcasting and content partners. Teachers’ Domain resources include video and audio segments, Flash interactives, images, documents, lesson plans for teachers, and student-oriented activities. Once you register, you can personalize the site using “My Folders” and “My Groups” to save your favorite resources into a folder and share them with your colleagues or students.


 * TeacherTubeTeacher-created video-sharing site
 * YouTubeLargest video sharing site.
 * SchoolTube
 * __[|Google Video Search]__
 * __[|Blinkx]__Video metasearch engine
 * [|Movie Clips]
 * [|dotSUB] (any video, any language. Enables subtitling of videos).
 * snagfilms Full length documentaries
 * How Stuff Works
 * Big Think Expert commentary on a wide range of issues and ideas

= Video: Social Studies/History =


 * Critical PastIncludes some of history’s most iconic moments from over 4,000 locations worldwide and dating from the 1890s to modern times.
 * FedFlixVideos selected by NTIS (U.S. government agency)
 * The Internet Archive ( Thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concert.
 * [|JohnLocker] (documentaries)
 * [|Top Documentary Films]
 * [|FreeDocumentaries.org]
 * __[|American Memory: Motion Pictures]__
 * __[|Archaelogy Channel]__
 * [|Biography Shorts]
 * __[|C-Span's American Presidents Life Portraits]__
 * __[|CNN Video Almanac]__
 * [|Conversations with History]
 * __[|Digital History]__
 * [|EASE History] Video and photographs from American historical events, campaign ads, core values
 * [|History Animated] (the wars)
 * __[|History Channel Video Clip Archive]__
 * [|March of Time Newsreels] (HBO)
 * __[|National Archives Video Sections]__
 * [|National Geographic WebCasts]
 * [|History.com] (WWII Videos)
 * icue Videos about history and current events
 *  Europa Film Treasures An online archive of classic European films

= Video: Science/Math =
 * [|Best Tech Videos on the Net]
 * __[|Howard Hughes Institute BioInteractive]__
 * __[|NASA TV]__
 * __[|NASA Multimedia Archive]__
 * __[|National Geographic WebCasts]__
 * [|NOVA Online]
 * [|PBS Nature Video Database]
 * [|Science Goes to the Movies]
 * [|UntamedScience]
 * [|Biology Animation Library]
 * [|MathTV]
 * [|NBC Science]
 * [|NBC Science of the Olympic Games]
 * Wired Science
 * Math TV
 *  Brightstorm Online math tutorials
 *  Futures Channel Math & Science videos

= Citation =

**NoodleTools**
An online MLA, APA, and Turbian/Chicago bibliography composer with a fully-integrated note-taking component. Register to create a Teachers account.

= Plagiarism Detection =


 * [|Plagiarism Detect]Free and paid options
 * [|Plagiarism Checker]
 * [|Plagium] (Beta)
 * [|Article Checker]
 * [|Doc Cop]

**Professional Development**


 * [|The Schoolwide Network] - various resources for teachers
 * [|Learning in Hand]  - Educational uses for Ipods, Ipads, Ipod Touch
 * <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|K12 Online Conference] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Educational conferences of all kinds for teachers - mainly free
 * <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|Creating Educational Podcast] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(from Learning in Hand)
 * <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> [|Google Docs in Plain English] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– from [|Common Craft] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> via YouTube
 * <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|Google Docs Interface] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> – a more explicit, still brief, video by Shelley Paul
 * <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|Podcasting in the Classroom] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - does not require an Ipod
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Uses of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__Google for Teachers__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|Grandmother’s Guide to Video Chat]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Free Technology for Teacher
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Earth Across the Curriculum
 * Annenberg Media

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">**Social Networking**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|Independent School Educators Social Network] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - Find out what other independent school teachers are asking about and doing
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|Classroom 2.0] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - Network for those interested in Web 2.0 and Social Media in education
 * <span style="font-family: Times,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|Teachers Connecting] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- A place for K-12 teachers to find other teachers for cross-classroom collaboration **

See also Web 2.0 Tools