Helpful Tools to Make your Job Easier
Open the PFTSTA Library Calendar to see if it is available for your students.
Convert Word documents to PDF format. Use for sending recommendations to students.
Pete's PowerPoint Presentations: Free presentations in powerpoint format.
Need ideas for your 21st Century Classroom? Try this wiki.
AASL recommends top 25 websites for teaching and learning.
Open the PFTSTA Library Calendar to see if it is available for your students.
Convert Word documents to PDF format. Use for sending recommendations to students.
Pete's PowerPoint Presentations: Free presentations in powerpoint format.
Need ideas for your 21st Century Classroom? Try this wiki.
AASL recommends top 25 websites for teaching and learning.
Web 2.0 Tools and More Technology Aids for Teachers
The learning event generator from John Davitt.
Create an Animoto education account so you or your students can create videos with music.
Use Diigo to organize all your bookmarks, screenshots, etc.
You can find links to many more web tools in Ms. Kahn's Delicious.
Amazing blog by teacher Richard Byrne with free resources and lessons to help you utilize technology.
Create a screencast to create on-demand mini-lessons for your students. Use Jing or Screencast-O-Matic.
Collaborize is a free site designed for teachers to extend the classroom walls within a private online community.
4Teachers offers online tools and resources to help you integrate technology into lessons.
Catpin will create a test with bubbles for answers, just like the standardized tests.
Teacher Cast is a community of teachers for 21st Century learning with many resources created by teachers for teachers.
Create an Animoto education account so you or your students can create videos with music.
Use Diigo to organize all your bookmarks, screenshots, etc.
You can find links to many more web tools in Ms. Kahn's Delicious.
Amazing blog by teacher Richard Byrne with free resources and lessons to help you utilize technology.
Create a screencast to create on-demand mini-lessons for your students. Use Jing or Screencast-O-Matic.
Collaborize is a free site designed for teachers to extend the classroom walls within a private online community.
4Teachers offers online tools and resources to help you integrate technology into lessons.
Catpin will create a test with bubbles for answers, just like the standardized tests.
Teacher Cast is a community of teachers for 21st Century learning with many resources created by teachers for teachers.
Tutorials and Videos
Learn how to create a multiple choice test in Google Forms.
Learn how to use Flubaroo to grade a test you created in Google Forms.
Here is a user's guide for Flubaroo which is integrated into Google Docs. Need help with
Need help with Turnitin.com? Find videos to explain all you need to know.
Find out about the notebook feature in easybib.Introduction to using easybib.
Need help with ActivInspire? Find videos with easy instructions here.
Instructions for using Delicious.com to organize your bookmarks.
Learn how to use Flubaroo to grade a test you created in Google Forms.
Here is a user's guide for Flubaroo which is integrated into Google Docs. Need help with
Need help with Turnitin.com? Find videos to explain all you need to know.
Find out about the notebook feature in easybib.Introduction to using easybib.
Need help with ActivInspire? Find videos with easy instructions here.
Instructions for using Delicious.com to organize your bookmarks.
Grant Sources
The Foundation Center helps you find grants in all subjects.
School Grants offers tips for grant writing and grant opportunities.Stem Grants offers news, info about STEM and lots of grant opportunities.
Donors Choose, an online charity that connects donors to classrooms in need.
Best Buy has several programs that awards grants to teachers and schools to improve technology.
Use this tool from Perma-Bound to seek out specialized grants for your program.
Digital Wish is a program set up to get classrooms needed technology.
Gale Cengage Learning compiles a list of grants available for schools.
Collection of links to grants from 4teachers.
School Grants offers tips for grant writing and grant opportunities.Stem Grants offers news, info about STEM and lots of grant opportunities.
Donors Choose, an online charity that connects donors to classrooms in need.
Best Buy has several programs that awards grants to teachers and schools to improve technology.
Use this tool from Perma-Bound to seek out specialized grants for your program.
Digital Wish is a program set up to get classrooms needed technology.
Gale Cengage Learning compiles a list of grants available for schools.
Collection of links to grants from 4teachers.
General Resources
Literacy across the curriculum wiki from Angela Maiers.
Help students with the research process here.
Resource from Discovery Education called Curiosity in the Classroom.
The Futures Channel offers videos from the scientists, engineers, explorers and visionaries who are shaping the future for today’s learners who will one day succeed them.
PBS has created a new learning portal for educators.
Easybib has created an educator's portal with lesson plans to help teach about plagiarism and citations.
Help students with the research process here.
Resource from Discovery Education called Curiosity in the Classroom.
The Futures Channel offers videos from the scientists, engineers, explorers and visionaries who are shaping the future for today’s learners who will one day succeed them.
PBS has created a new learning portal for educators.
Easybib has created an educator's portal with lesson plans to help teach about plagiarism and citations.
Need a Rubric?
Here is a link to dozens of sample rubrics from Kathy Schrock.
RESOURCES to help you teach:
English Resources
Shmoop has literature learning guides for you or your students.
Internet4Classrooms offers ideas for teaching English language arts in middle and high school.
A writer's handbook from the Writing Center at the University of Wisconson.
Help with writing thesis statements from the Writing Center at the University of North Carolina.
Ad Lit is a resource for teachers and parents dealing with reading and writing. Sponsored by WETA and funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Grammar Girl: Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing.
Scholastic created this site for authors to teach the art of writing for middle school.
Internet4Classrooms offers ideas for teaching English language arts in middle and high school.
A writer's handbook from the Writing Center at the University of Wisconson.
Help with writing thesis statements from the Writing Center at the University of North Carolina.
Ad Lit is a resource for teachers and parents dealing with reading and writing. Sponsored by WETA and funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Grammar Girl: Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing.
Scholastic created this site for authors to teach the art of writing for middle school.
Math Resources
Watch, practice and learn almost anything math related and more at Khan Academy.
Calculation Nation is a collection of math games for various grade levels from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
The Math Forum is an online community of educators, students and parents who have an interest in math and math education.
Follow this link to 20 Google Doc templates that you can use in science or math.
This is a link to the Common Core Standards for math in PDFformat.
The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives allows you to engage in hands on math online.
Mathway is a tool teachers and students can use to set up and solve problems.
Calculation Nation is a collection of math games for various grade levels from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
The Math Forum is an online community of educators, students and parents who have an interest in math and math education.
Follow this link to 20 Google Doc templates that you can use in science or math.
This is a link to the Common Core Standards for math in PDFformat.
The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives allows you to engage in hands on math online.
Mathway is a tool teachers and students can use to set up and solve problems.
Social Studies Resources
Teaching history with technology from EdTechTeacher.org.
Do you need maps? Try the National Atlas.
World history at your fingertips from HyperHistory Online.
Learn all about the countries of the world in Lerner's visual geogrpahy series.
Everything you want to know about the US government here through C-SPAN.
Are you teaching the 1st amendment? Try this site for lesson ideas.
TeachingHistory is a National History Education Clearinghouse.
Ideas for teaching social studies to gifted students from Laura Compton Circe Bridges.
Do you need maps? Try the National Atlas.
World history at your fingertips from HyperHistory Online.
Learn all about the countries of the world in Lerner's visual geogrpahy series.
Everything you want to know about the US government here through C-SPAN.
Are you teaching the 1st amendment? Try this site for lesson ideas.
TeachingHistory is a National History Education Clearinghouse.
Ideas for teaching social studies to gifted students from Laura Compton Circe Bridges.
Science Resources
Virtual frog dissection right here.
Track animal migrations right here.
Find out how rain forests contribute to our collective well-being.
The National Science Digital Library is a national online portal for education and research on learning in STEM.
Project Noah is a tool to explore and document wildlife and a platform to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere.
The Encyclopedia of Life has a resource just for teachers.
The KQED Mindshift Blog has a strand for STEM news and info.
Track animal migrations right here.
Find out how rain forests contribute to our collective well-being.
The National Science Digital Library is a national online portal for education and research on learning in STEM.
Project Noah is a tool to explore and document wildlife and a platform to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere.
The Encyclopedia of Life has a resource just for teachers.
The KQED Mindshift Blog has a strand for STEM news and info.
Project Based Learning Resources
PBL-online is designed as a one stop shop to help you plan your lessons.
The Buck Institute is a non-profit educational organization that focuses on PBL.
Edutopia offers various resources, but this link will help you with PBL.
Try the PBL tools and plan links from the West Virginia Department of Education.
Here is a short video from Common Craft explaining PBL.
The Buck Institute is a non-profit educational organization that focuses on PBL.
Edutopia offers various resources, but this link will help you with PBL.
Try the PBL tools and plan links from the West Virginia Department of Education.
Here is a short video from Common Craft explaining PBL.
Online Professional Development
Simple K12 is a teacher learning community. This site offers free webinars.
CILC or Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration offers PD and opportunities to connect with other classrooms.
November Learning offers many types of resources for teachers.
Connect with other teachers on Classroom 2.0. The social network for teachers.
The Super Teacher Show is the brainchild of Tinashe Blanchet and Vicki "Cool Cat" Davis. Check the website for the Tuesday monthly broadcasts.
Edweb is a professional social network for the education community. Edweb hosts great free webinars.
The Utah Education Network has free online professional development for teachers.
ISTE Learning is a free online community designed as professional development for teachers.
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FYI: You can use twitter to build your Professional Learning Network. Search these hastags for PD: #edchat, #edtech, #engchat, #mathchat, #scichat, #sschat, #gtchat, etc.
CILC or Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration offers PD and opportunities to connect with other classrooms.
November Learning offers many types of resources for teachers.
Connect with other teachers on Classroom 2.0. The social network for teachers.
The Super Teacher Show is the brainchild of Tinashe Blanchet and Vicki "Cool Cat" Davis. Check the website for the Tuesday monthly broadcasts.
Edweb is a professional social network for the education community. Edweb hosts great free webinars.
The Utah Education Network has free online professional development for teachers.
ISTE Learning is a free online community designed as professional development for teachers.
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FYI: You can use twitter to build your Professional Learning Network. Search these hastags for PD: #edchat, #edtech, #engchat, #mathchat, #scichat, #sschat, #gtchat, etc.
