Shared+Resources

Please share sites you have discovered and find valuable.

Please list: the site name, brief description of the site, and the URL Great sites from Lisa Colagiovanniis [] This is a great site to make stories. I will use this to make a social story for my students. [] This is a FREE site no log on needed to make these filefolder games K-5 [] This is a great site with many free worksheets [] You need to create a log in for this site but it is great for non-verbal students

Great site for early elementary to practice reading skills: [|www.starfall.com]

Healthy and easy recipes: [] submitted: Cheryl


 * Books and Reading**

Teaching Books Great resource for books and authors; search by subject and grade level; cool audio of authors pronouncing their own names. [] submitted: Donna

SYNC is offering two free audio downloads each week this summer. Weekly there will be one classic and one young reader title (suitable for middle and high school). [] submitted: Nina

GoodReads - a great site for keeping track of what you read, tagging it, discussing it and sharing it with others. Very simple interface. [] submitted: Susan

Library Thing - another great site for keeping track of what you read, tagging it, discussing it and sharing it with others. Not as simple to use and also the free account is limited to 200 books. [] submitted: Susan


 * Weblists**

AASL (American Association of School Librarians) Top 25 Websites for Teaching and Learning Awesome list of free resources, newly announced. The list is posted here in a livebinder. [] submitted: Donna

[|50 Open Source Tools that Replace Popular Education Apps] - I have not tried or evaluated all these links, but in these tight budget times it might be worth a look at some of these free programs and the apps to which the author equates them. [] submitted: Susan

A great site for finding free sounds. There are movie sounds, television sounds, and other weird noises. [] submitted: Baron

[] This is an A-Z list of technology resourses for educators. What's so nice about it is you can read a brief description of the item and then click on it and you'll be brought to the URL to use it. submitted: Nancy K.

http://mrscolagiovanni.wikispaces.com/Welcome+to+my+WIKI http://www.voki.com/ Make a voki in your voice or a computer voice I have one on my page.

Diigo is another free social bookmarking tool. Try the educator account that is designed for classroom teachers to use with students. Submitted: Nina

mixedbooks.com is a great site to create online photo books for class events or content you are teaching Lisa [|The **Political** Compass - **Test**] A typology of **political** opinion which adds a social dimension to the usual economic classification of left and right George


 * Citation generators *free***

Son of Citation Machine []

Noodletools Express (bottom of page, center) [] submitted: Donna

EasyBib [] submitted: Susan


 * Tutorials**

[|Woopid Video Tutorials] - a site where you can look for free online video tutorials on a variety of sites, tools and applications. [] submitted: Susan

Curriki- a social networking site for lesson plans and activities []@http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome submitted: Donna


 * Standards**

National Educational Technology Standards for Students (2007) [] Submitted: Nina

Standards for the 21st-Century Learner (AASL 2007) [] Submitted: Nina

Vintage photos...web 2.0
Interactive maps of selected locations with photos []@http://sepiatown.com/index

Interactive map with photo timeline, global locations []@http://62.253.162.10/keir.clarke/web/thereandthen.htm

Voicethread - share and comment on images, documents, doodles and other types of files. Great for Elementary school students as comments can be made orally or written. [] submitted: Susan