General+Resources

=Best Websites for Teaching and Learning= These Web sites foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover. = =

Organizing and Managing
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 * [|ClassMarker] – Teachers can create professional looking online quizzes on this website. The quizzes can be taken and graded online.
 * [|Diigo] research, share and collaborate. Highlight text and attach sticky notes to specific parts of web pages, go to http://www.diigo.com/education for free education accounts.
 * iGoogle //iGoogle// is your personalized Google page. Add news, photos, weather, and stuff from across the web to your page.
 * [|Google Reader]
 * Notely take notes and organize information to share.
 * Remember the milk manage tasks and get reminders, also available as iPhone/iPod app.
 * Simply Box If you are a visual learner, then this is the tool for you! ...capture, share, and organize... with friends, groups, students, or the world.

**Content Collaboration **

 * Google Docs
 * Edmodo a collaborative space for sharing teaching and learning in a secure environment. Facebook type application for classes.
 * Mindmeister online mindmapping and brainstorming tool
 * Polleverywhereask your audience a question, they answer using SMS text messages, twitter or the web, then see realtime results in a web browser or Powerpoint-student response applications.
 * [|Wetpaint] Utilizing the best features of wikis, blogs, forums and social networks, Wetpaint mixes everything you need so you can create, collect, and organize content on your own social website.
 * Wikispaces normally $50/yr, wikis for education are free! Go to http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers to register but take a look at the page here dedicated to wikis and how-tos first.
 * Zoho has many apps similar to Google Docs but more geared toward the business user; Read about the comparison here http://lifehacker.com/315256/zoho-suite-vs-google-docs.


 * Curriki community of educators, learners and committed education experts who are working together to create quality materials that will benefit teachers and students around the world.
 * [|The Educator’s Reference Desk] – An excellent reference site for teachers, The Educator’s Reference Desk offers lesson plans, links to more than 3,000 education resources, and answers to hundreds of frequently asked questions.
 * Primary Access suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools.
 * [|Shmoop] Smart, fun, plain-spoken study guides and teacher resources. Digital textbooks by Ph.D. and Masters students from Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley
 * SOS for Information Literacy
 * [|PBS Teachers] – offers a lot of useful resources for teachers. One of the best is their subject-specific activity packs, which link to helpful resources and supplemental activities.
 * Teachnology
 * Thinkfinity.org

**Media Sharing **

 * **Animoto** create amazing videos using this fast and easy tool. See examples
 * glogster* Make an interactive poster easily and share it with friends. Mix Images, Text, Music and Video. *regular glogsters may be blocked from within district servers, but anything created through the .edu accounts are open. see example; Powerful!
 * Our Story Save Stories, Photos, and Videos on a Collaborative Timeline.
 * **Prezi** Flash-based app that lets you break away from powerpoint or slide by slide presentation format. Instead, it allows you to create non-linear presentations where you can zoom in and out of a visual map containing words, links, images and videos.
 * [|SlideShare] – Many teachers use SlideShare to upload and share presentations online. SlideShare can also be used to create private webinars.
 * School Tube- SchoolTube provides students and educators a safe, world class, and FREE media sharing website that is nationally endorsed by premier education associations.
 * [|squared5] video converter tool; player, editor for Mac and Windows. Supports many input formats.
 * Teacher Tube
 * VoiceThreada powerful way to share and talk about your images, documents and video.
 * Wordle a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes
 * Zamzar free online file conversion tool
 * SafeShare TV remove distracting and offensive elements around YouTube videos, but it also allows you to **crop videos** before sharing them.
 * atube catcher download and convert videos from YouTube or other popular video sites
 * Podcast: Downloading YouTube videos with a "kick"

Social Networking and Communication

 * Classroom 2.0
 * Edublogs
 * Graniteschools blog account- request a blog application[[file:blogapplication.doc]]
 * Good Reads
 * Ning
 * Skype
 * Twitter


 * [|4Teachers.org]
 * 4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate online resources such as ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use. Discover valuable professional development resources addressing issues such as equity, ELL, technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students.
 * [|Inspiration]
 * Taylorsville High School has Inspiration software licenses for the computer labs. [|Inspiration®] applies [|visual learning]that engage students' learning in language arts, science and social studies and support planning and thinking.
 * [|ClassMarker]
 * Teachers can create professional looking online quizzes on this website. The quizzes can be taken and graded online.
 * Comic Life
 * (Installed on Lab computers and teacher stations by request). Graphically depict stories, retell events and present concepts using a comic strip structure allowing students to express learning in creative and innovative ways.
 * One Note 2007 >
 * Office OneNote 2007 is a digital notebook that provides people one place to gather their notes and information, powerful search to find what they are looking for quickly, and easy-to-use shared notebooks so that they can manage information overload and work together more effectively
 * [|Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office 2.0]
 * Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office provides students and educators with new education-specific tools for their familiar Office applications.
 * [|iTunes U]
 * iTunes U is a powerful distribution system for everything from lectures to language lessons, films to labs, audiobooks to tours —it is an innovative way to get educational content into the hands of students.
 * [|//iSchool Initiative//] using iPods in education for 21st century learners.
 * Thinkfinity.org
 * Thinkfinity is the cornerstone of Verizon Foundation's literacy, education and technology initiatives. Their goal is to improve student achievement in traditional classroom settings and beyond by providing high-quality content and extensive professional development training. It is a free, comprehensive digital learning platform built upon the merger of two acclaimed programs Verizon MarcoPolo and the Thinkfinity Literacy Network.
 * UTIPS
 * Utah test item pool server; houses test templates on core curriculum areas and UBSCT. Teachers register and can create their own online tests.

Curriculum Specific

 * =====English Resources=====
 * =====Social Studies Resources=====
 * =====Mathematics Resources=====