3+Helpful+Websites


 * Submit your THREE examples of helpful websites here. Please concentrate on websites that would be helpful to teachers and educators. So, each of you should have THREE total postings on this page. Please be sure that your submission contains your name, website title and address (hyperlinked), and at least a 100 word review of each website (see submission example with questions).**

Katia Petsas – Helpful teacher websites [] This website is available for teachers/schools to use. It allows teachers to make their own page to post assignments, what is being taught in school, and notes/reminders for parents. This allows teachers to stay in with the technology by making their daily planners and it gives them much satisfaction with all the parents feed back. This is because it is easier for parents to hop online to check the status on their child than searching through all the notebooks and papers. I would consider using this website to get me going and organized when I become a teacher. Katia Petsas – Helpful teacher websites [] This is a website geared for only teacher matter. It is google but has just been narrowed down with teacher related subjects. Anything you put in there the search engine will bring back results that deal with teaching only. Which is pretty convenient for teachers who do not want to dig through all of the results that pop up with useless nonsense. Katia Petsas- Helpful teacher websites [] This is a website with 100 websites that are helpful for teachers. I guess it is based off of what websites get used the most because it is refreshed every hour with the list changing. Which is pretty cool, because it shows you what some of the biggest things that teachers were trying to accomplish in the day by just what is included in the lists. It ranges from things like lesson plans, resumes for teaching jobs, general teaching sites and so forth. I think this website would be very helpful for future teachers, maybe for advice on how to do some things in the classroom, students, getting a job as a teacher, and maybe even help future teachers with assignments in the future in college!

Chiquita Richmond- math and reading help [] This is a great page for all ages to learn better reading and math skills. The website has puzzles, worksheets, and test that focus on improving results after each lesson. It also has an ‘how to do’ option for parents and teacher having trouble helping the student with the activity. The page relates to disabled people and homeschooling programs to provide intense teaching methods to help the child special needs. The best activity about the page is the link, learner. org, using many fun and exciting games for people to do while improving their reading and math skills.

= Chiquita Richmond- Educational website for teachers [] = = = The website is one of the best to get a lot of information in any subject field. The free website will give information about cool lesson plans or activities that is effective with learning. The page has games and links to other vital resources. The website will allow you to search the related information to use in your on class that will help the students gain good studying skills and find interest and learn better. The page has projects and technology tip that will help when surfing the web to design a lesson plan. This website can teach a school year worth of assignments.

Chiquita Richmond- KIDS KNOW IT Network [] The is an excellent website for teachers to refer back to when finding activities that interest the kids. The page is designed for kids to interact with and learn in fun ways. It consist of free tutoring program and appropriate educational movies and music. The teacher will then implicate the lesson to fit the classrooms' ability. The website teaches animal and human anatomy and techniques for improving memory and spelling skills. I would recommend that the teachers lets the students explore the page to get extra knowledge that interest them as individuals. Students exploring the page will get fimilar with computers and the helpful information that the a computer already knows on topics.

Katie LaBorence- The Teacher's Corner [|www.theteacherscorner.net] The Teacher's Corner is a helpful website for teachers. There are many different areas on this website that teachers may use as an aide for the classroom. Sample lesson plans for almost every subject are available, as well as links to create worksheets to use for lessons. Also, there are educational activities given for different holidays and times of the year. Along with these, there are links available for ideas of how to create a classroom-friendly environment. For example, there is a link that shows how to create fun bulletin boards. Finally, there are message boards and forums that allow teachers to share ideas between one another.

Leah Close- Teacher Lingo [|www.teacherlingo.com] Teacher Lingo is a great web site for educators. The web site includes blogs, lesson plans, a message board, and a find teachers search. The lesson plan page is especially helpful in that you can search for a lesson by grade, subject, or term. There is also a most used lesson plan, and a featured lesson plan page that you can look at as well. The message board has discussions divided up into categories of subject matter which makes them easier to find. The blogs are also a highlight to view teachers opinions and experiences in education. The find teachers search can be helpful in finding colleagues and other teachers that teach in your subject matter.

Leah Close-Everything Preschool- Early Childhood Made Easy [|www.everythingpreschool.com] Everything Preschool is a great web site for those going into Early Childhood. This site is rich with ideas on literally everything having to do with preschool education. There is lesson plans, alphabet ideas, coloring pages, craft recipes, and bulletin board ideas. Each of these categories are divided into even more categories. Just the coloring page alone has twenty-three different types of coloring pages to choose from. Ideas for books, games, songs, field trips, and science activities are also included when looking at particular themes. There is also an area to look at what has been used and what they thought of it.

Connie Bernert- Free Printables for Teachers [] This site has just what it says free printables for teachers in every subject. It also has a newsletter you can sign up for so you are notified when new items become available. There are also links to lesson plans and teachers resources. and teachers ideas. This site seems very user friendly and easy to understand. Currently there is a video for Womens history month on the main page. In all you can find over 5000 various materials here and I would venture to guess each and every one is as creative and helpful as the next. This is also a must have bookmark site for educators in today’s day and age.

= = Katie LaBorence- We the Teachers [|www.wetheteachers.com] We the Teachers is a website useful for current teachers. There are sample lesson plans that teachers can base their own lesson plans off of. Also, there are other classroom resources that are offered. For example, there are different ideas, like homework passes and different ideas to assign for homework, that teachers can use. Another useful tool on this website is a forum. This allows teachers to give other teachers their ideas about how they run their classrooms. There is also a tool for creating worksheets for assignments. Teachers can also join groups for their similar interests to gain more ideas for the classroom.

Katie LaBorence- Knowitall.org- Smart is Fun! __[|www.knowitall.org]__ This website is a web portal for students from Kindergarten to seniors in high school, teachers, and parents. It includes models of different projects that can be used in the classroom. There are also many different places to go on virtual field trips. As well as the virtual field trips, there are streaming videos available to watch to get a look at different places around the world. For each subject, there are different websites available that give further information and ideas for the teachers to use in the classrooms. There are different activities available that are split up based on the levels of education.

Leah Close- Activity Village [|www.activityvillage.co.uk] This site is loaded with fun activities to be used in a child’s early years. It contains over 3,000 pages of activities to do in an Early Childhood classroom. The site has activities including coloring pages, crafts, puzzles, recipes, games, and jokes. There are a wide variety of crafts that the students can do, but also lots of crafts for the teacher to create to follow along with the lessons. Ideas for themes are also available throughout the page. This site is rich with activities to use on the holidays and for the seasons. I definitely recommend this site for I hope to use this someday myself.



Lauren Crossett-art history [] This website would be a great tool for any art teacher. All art teachers have to teach art history at one time or another. I feel this website has great resources for any art teacher to take advantage of. It has lesson plans and activities, resources and maps. It also has about any time during history that you would want to teach about. I also like how it has discussions from teachers letting other teachers how they liked a certain lesson plan or activity. I think this website is a very helpful and resourceful tool for teachers.

Lauren Crossett-Teaching Ideas [] This website is mixture of good and bad. I believe it had very useful tools for any teacher to have when deciding on different activities and ideas you want your students to explore and do. Although some of the ideas are cheesy I think it also has many good ideas relating to any subject you want to teach your students. I like how it shows you the end project of something done by other classes so you can see how well you like it. I also like how the ideas are very general and just give a small idea and then you can create the rest on how you want to teach your students. It’s a fun, helpful website that any teacher could use.

Lauren Crossett- Art junction [] This website is a very helpful tool for art teachers of all ages. It has art galleries, blogs, activities, articles, and discussions on art. It gives you advice on how to teach drawing and painting to younger students while letting you explore new ideas for older ones. What I like about it the most is that it has so many different things that could help an art teacher at any grade level during any time during the year. I also enjoy it because it allows students to explore on it as well. I like the idea that it is a art space for teachers and students, and can be helpful to both.

Ashlee Preston - How A Teacher Can Help The Child With ADD - Teaching Math [] I love this website because in goes in detail of how to help students with math that has ADD. This website explains what you should have the student do before coming to school the next day and it explain what teacher should do while helping the student(s). On the left side of the website there are some questions and answers that teacher might want to know about if that teacher has a student or students with ADD. I would recommend to all teachers to go to this web page and read about “how you can help a student with ADD”

Ashlee Preston - Teacher's Tips How Parents Can Help[] This website is an excellent source of finding how parents can get involved with their kids life outside and inside of school. This website contains related links to other questions to what parents might want to know about in school. There are useful articles and blogs that parents might enjoy reading to get more information that they might need. And also you can post your comment on the website if you like. I just love this website because it will give me good ideas when I want to get involve with my children’s schooling.

Aaron Porselius edHelper.com [] “Mixed Review” I really liked this website. I chose to a page form it that is of a 3rd grade mixed math review. I really liked it because this website allows you to print worksheets of for free which can be a great thing for teachers who really don’t like the worksheets that come with the workbook or are just looking for something different. This website allows them to find different worksheets that may be better suited for their class or a student. I think that any teacher who likes to assign worksheets will really come to find this website useful.

Aaron Porzelius Using English.com [] “Adjective or Adverb” This is another website that allows teachers to print of worksheets for free. Once again I really liked this website because worksheets are something teachers all use and sometimes we don’t like the worksheets that come with the workbooks and we don’t have the time to make up our own. So to have a website that we can just go to and find a work sheet we like and print it off saves us time and from getting a headache. This example is of an English worksheet that is asking students to place the word that best fits into the given sentences. The missing word is either an adjective or an adverb and students are to choose with works better.

Aaron Porzelius Free Pintables for Teachers [] This website is very similar to the other two but offers a lot more. This website not only offers free printable worksheets it also offers coloring pages, short stories, and lessons. This website to me seem very useful; a teacher could get a lot of resources form this website that may not have came with the workbook or that they simply don’t have enough options form to begin with. Elementary teachers might get more out of this website along with the other two than a Jr. High or High School teacher would just because elementary teachers use a lot more handouts and worksheets that higher education teachers do.

Ashlee Preston - Helping a new teacher [] I think this website is the most helpful page that anyone that wants to become a teacher to read and learn the specific clues on the first day or year for a new teacher. There are a lot of question that a new teacher want to know and can be answered. You will find out what you need to do if you prepared for a bad lesson and there are other websites that you can go to like how to discipline in the class room. I think this is like one of the most important website that a teacher would recommend to a new teacher.

Jennifer hess- Teaching Tips [|Teaching Tips] This website has many different helpful tips for teachers, especially new teachers. It is very organized and easy access to any of the answers on this site. They have first day tips, icebreaker tips; I thought that was cool because it’s hard for new teachers on their first day of teaching and school. It was very helpful to me. They have how to prepare Syllabus, and lesson plans. They also have teaching ethics, and how to work with students that would get in a way of your teaching. They have tips on how to organize your time and skills efficiently, and even the questions for students. They have something on critical thinking. This site is very helpful and cool, I would recommend to anyone hands down.

Jennifer Hess- PE teachers [|PE central] PE central is a great place for Physical Education teachers to go and get new ideas for their P.E. class. As I was looking on this site, they have new games they have today, and popular games. They are also very organized; they really sorted out ideas by grades. They also have forums for teachers, parents; even students can go and talk about physical fitness. They have job posts from all over the United States. I thought that was very helpful, a new P.E. Teachers can go on this site get more ideas and job openings. I really would use this site when I become a Physical Ed. Teacher.

Jennifer Hess- Special Education Tips [|Tips for Special Ed.] On this site, they have articles on how to handle students with a certain disabilities for special education teacher. Teachers post the article on this site, it is very helpful. They have many of different disabilities on this site, like as ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia, Gifted and Exceptional students, and more. They even have tips on how to do IEP, 504, and planning on it. They even have just special education teaching tips. It is very amazing because they have most topics and it’s very legit. On this site, you publish an article on what you’ve found. It’s free to use this, and very helpful.

Bobby Gasca- Hippo Campus [] Hippo Campus is your “Free one stop educational resource”. Hippo campus offers lessons and course materials to help teachers with lesson plans. They offer help with plans for many subjects including math, government, biology, physics, psychology, religion, and history. Under each subject, there is a link to get help with teaching anything under that subject. They even have a list of textbooks that you can choose form which will customize your lesson plan a little better. Teachers can create a custom My Hippo Page that their students can view and use by registering with Hippo Campus. This website is directed more towards students aged fourteen to twenty one.

Connie Bernert- About.Com []

This site is very easy to use and informative, it has tabs labeled Secondary Education, Teaching 101, Lesson Plans and Educational Issues. I liked the teaching 101 tab, it helps you understand all the basics of teaching. Here you will be provided with information to help with classroom discipline, lesson planning, teaching techniques, and much more. Topics include; grading, discipline, classroom policies, and many more must read topics. Lesson Plan topics include; Lesson Plan Basics, Curriculum, and Assessments to name just a few. There was even some information on bullying and school violence. This site was very informative and would definitely be a helpful resource for new and seasoned teachers.

Bobby Gasca- Google for Educators [] Google for Educators is a very helpful website for teachers. There are many different links you can click on in Google for Educators. Three of them are, Tools for your classroom, Classroom activities, and Classroom posters. The Tools for your classroom link gives you a list of helpful things to use in the class such as a book search, blogger, and Geo Education. The Classroom activities link gives you a list of classroom activities for all ages and grade levels. The classroom posters link gives you different posters for your classroom that you can print out for free. This was a very helpful website that I will be using in the future.

Bobby Gasca- 180 Technology Tips [] 180 Tech Tips is a great website for teachers who don’t know much about computers and computer programs. 180 Tech Tips provides fifteen hours of free computer training in 180- five minute lessons. All you have to do is sign up on the website, and 180 Tech Tips e-mails you five minute lessons every day. This continues from September to June. These tips consist of help with Microsoft Windows, the Internet, Computer Hardware, MS Outlook, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, and MS Word. I really thought that this website could be very helpful to me in the future with any computer questions that should I have.

Sarah Tipton- About Learning [] The About Learning website offers many different subject materials for teachers and the up to date materials in education today. It includes algebra, business, literature, the constitution, biology, geometry and so much more. It allows you to read award winning titles and reading lists for districts. This website would be based around teachers who teach junior high and up. Middle school and elementary school materials are not included in this site. The site is more complex to understand but offers a wide variety of useful information to teachers and teacher's aids. The website also offers books and resources for teachers only which would be very convenient.

Christiana M. Strebe – Weekly Reader [] I think the site Weekly reader to be a horrible site to use. The site was a pain to navigate through the color scheme clashed. The site was not that user friendly and you really could not see what the site was all about. The site wanted you to pay in order to join it. It’s my opinion that since teachers don’t get paid a lot of teachers and other people in the educational community should try to help each other out not try to make money off of each other. Any way I found this to be a poor site and it just really made me angry.

Christiana M. Strebe – Teach Ade [] Teach ade is an online community for teachers. I found this site to be extremely helpful. The site seems to have a friendly atmosphere. It’s really user friendly and I found it easy to navigate and find what you are looking for. It has a list of resources you can use as well as blogs and news. You do have to join the site to get the full benefits of it but it’s easy to do as well as free. The site has an easy to use search engine and once you join you can get your own workspace or page. As well as create your own profile.

Christiana M. Strebe – Teacher planet [] Teacher Planet is another site where you have to join it to get the full benefits. The site is very user friendly. Teacher Planet has a wide variety of sub categories and various forums listed where you can go and easily get information, helpful ideas, news, or just chat with other professionals in your area. The site has lesson plans, theme units, the latest teacher tools, free software, worksheets, as well as a forum on jokes, and fundraising. Teacher planet was also an easy site to navigate. It also has a newsletter where you can get the latest news. Overall I found this site to be extremely helpful and a good site for future teachers to use.

Joshua Faretta- School World [] This is a great website/program offered for teachers. It does cost money but I believe it is well worth it. It comes with an annual fee of $59, but is a great program. It is a way for teachers to keep in touch with students and parents outside of the classroom. It provides a way to post assignments and grades as well as blogs to talk to your teachers. I like this a lot, its also great for elementary teachers too. It provides a lot of puzzle work and word searches. It's packed with all sorts of extremely useful ways and features to keep in touch with your students. Definitely something worth investing in.

Joshua Faretta- Lesson Corner [] This website is great for teachers of all subjects. It provides all kinds of lesson plans for every subject. I find that the sub topics for every subject is awesome. If your teaching a lesson on math, every lesson has a cross curriculum. It will provide you with a side lesson on health or history. Very neat if you ask me. It also has cool things for important days in history. Say if it is Memorial day, well it will provide a way to incorporate this into your lesson. I like this site its packed with cool lessons and will probably be visiting it in the future.

Joshua Faretta- Teacher Magazine [] I think as teacher it is very important to know what is going on in Education. Teacher Magazine provides us with the latest news in teaching. Also, with very controversial issues about teaching. They have a cool feature called the Community Corner. This is were all the top discussions in the school are being posted. The site is also filled with many teachers posting blogs on issues and common fears in education. I find this site to be extremely useful. As educators I believe it is our job to stay in tune with what is happening in our field.

Tiffany Wrinkle-Google for Educators [] Google never ceases to amaze me. They have so many innovative tools for people of all ages, stages, and occupations, including teachers. Their Google for Educators site includes a toolbar on the left with links to: Tools for Your Classroom, Classroom Activities, Classroom Posters, Google Teacher Academy, and Teacher Community. The Tools for Your Classroom link leads you to a page with links to different websites you can use in your classroom, including Blogger, Google Calendar, Picasa, and more. The links do not actually take you to the websites, but another page within Google that explain the purposes of the various websites and how they can be used in the classroom. Each page also has a blurb from an actual teacher explaining how the websites have aided them.

Tiffany Wrinkle-Teacher Tube [] TeacherTube is a spin off from YouTube (although, I do not think they are related) and has hundreds of videos that teachers of all grades and subjects can find useful. There are videos ranging from methods on teaching adding and subtracting fractions, to how to administer social science projects, to the college process, to piano lessons, and etc. I think this website would be especially useful for teachers that are visual learners and instead of reading about different projects and lessons or hearing a colleague talk about projects and lessons, they can see how other teachers administered their own ideas. As a teacher you can also sign up and add your own videos that you think would be helpful to the educational community.

Tiffany Wrinkle-Sites For Teachers [] This is an interesting website that leads you to a lot of other links that teachers may find helpful. All the links lead you to sites that provide educational games, worksheets, activities, lesson plans, clip, and so on. The website seems to contain hundreds of other websites within it and you can search for you grade and/or subject to narrow the links that are shown so that you can easily find a website that has exactly what you are looking for. It is not the most dazzling website and since it has an incredible amount of links it may be hard to navigate, but I think it can definitely be a useful tools. I also think you can trust most, if not all, the websites because they have a large set of rules you must follow in order to link your own websites onto their site.

Connie Bernert - Math-drills.com [] This site contains 6000 free math worksheets with answer keys, some are holiday related. It also has interactive math videos and other educational websites and resources. This site would be excellent for printing additional math worksheets or even extra credit sheets. Anything and everything math related has a link to a free worksheet here. It is also in a very easy to use and navigate format. There are also links to interactive math such as flash cards and suduko. This would be both fun and challenging to students and could save teachers valuable time. Students could also be directed to the site to choose their own lesson and do a worksheet from that lesson.

Casey Sandoval- National Geographic []

National Geographic website is my favorite web site. It is limited in the subject matter it covers but is in detail about the information they do have. It would be great for a History or Geography and science classes.

Casey Sandoval- Tesol []

This is a great website for teachers it is good website to gather information from other teachers. It talks about job openings in other states and other questions that teacher ask. This is an excellent website for teachers to get other teachers teaching strategies

Casey Sandoval- Google Earth []

This is a really fun website, not the most educational website but very fun , it is a way to change the day up and get the class involved. You can go any where in the world on this website from a moon view down to the street.This is a great website to have a few Ooo's and Ahh's.

Chelsea Gill- Education World [] This website is very helpful for teachers because it has many great features teachers could use for the class. There are different links to help with lesson planning or to find current and interesting lesson plans relating to whatever a teacher may be teaching. There is also a section for school issues and this includes a “chat” area where teachers can go to discuss current issues in education.

Chelsea Gill- TeacherNet [] This is a very helpful site for teachers because it has different features and professional resources for teachers to refer to in helping them create a lesson plan on a specific topic for their class. This website also includes a lot of information and links to Highlights for children. Highlights provides a lot of fun activities that teachers could work into their class to make things more interesting for the students and keep them more involved. Overall, this looks like a very professional and helpful website.

Jake Kelley-1st helpful website []

I feel that this site would be considered very beneficial by most teachers. It has a wide variety of different teaching strategies along with ways to present information. Throughout the site I came across many of the 7 previous forms of online education. There was also some psychology incorporated into the web page along with human development. It did not just show a teacher how to teach, but it provides them with a huge list of things to consider while teaching. Many of which I feel are extremely important and are not represented as much as they should be. This site includes much about what we have discussed in our education 101 course so far.

Jake Kelley-2nd helpful website

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I feel that this web site can be used as a helpful source. It has a variety of lesson plans that are available to be printed off. The site is directed for use by elementary and junior high teachers. There is an accessible comment board where anyone who uses a lesson plan can leave feedback as to how beneficial they found it. This feature helps teachers to distinguish how a lesson plan might play out in their own classroom based on the experience of others. I was impressed to see that there were even lesson plans for music and art courses. These are two subjects that are seemingly becoming more and more scarcer as time goes on, at least as a mandatory requirement. All in all this site is a helpful tool in finding a fun engaging lesson plan.

Jake Kelley-3rd helpful website

http://www.funbrain.com/

This website would be most helpful to those teaching grades K-8. It is an educational gaming site. It uses computer games that require students to thing on the appropriate level for their age. Just like any game, as the games on this site progress towards the end, the more knowledge that is required. However, as the students progress throughout each level they are taught the necessary skills to complete the next one. Some of the games focus on areas such as typing skills, while others allow students to practice things like their multiplication tables. This site is not ment to substitute for classroom learning, but it can be a helpful tool in drawing students to become interested and motivated to learn.