Smart Board: Teacher Technology Resources

Great Teacher Resources for Technology

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats

http://www.prometheanplanet.com/en-us/ - Activ Inspire resources

http://learninginhand.com/ - Tony Vincent’s site full of teacher tips for technology use.

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/ - great online technology resource

http://www.teach-nology.com/ - printable rubrics and much more

http://edu.glogster.com/ - online interactive poster maker

http://www.pixton.com/ - online comic maker

http://www.toondoo.com/ - online comic maker

http://speechable.com/ - take any photo and add speech bubbles

http://www.xtranormal.com/ - turn any text into an animated movie

http://blabberize.com/ - take any photo/image into a talking picture

http://voki.com/ - create your own avatar with recording features

http://pbworks.com – a great place to create a wiki

http://www.edmodo.com/ - secure social network site for teachers and students.

http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/Home - a place to search for great web 2.0 tools.

http://brainpop.com/ - for a small fee you can have access to videos that teach on a variety of different topics.

http://unitedstreaming.com – for a small fee you can have access to a database of videos. 

http://www.googlelittrips.org/ - virtual field trips for various stories and novels.

http://www.kerpoof.com – write a story, draw pictures, and make it into a movie.  Has ready to go lesson plans and ideas. 

http://storybird.com/teachers/- share short visual stories of your own creation.  Great artwork from artists.  Students choose artwork and write poetry/stories.

http://tweentribune.com/– read articles and write comments, write your own articles/stories.  Writing contests.  Age appropriate content. 

http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm– wide variety of poetry forms to fill out.  Quick and easy to use. 

http://littlebirdtales.com/- great site for being creative with reading and writing!

Apps – There are thousands of great apps for ipads out there!  Here is a site that has a few fun educational apps. 

http://www.funeducationalapps.com/

For an electronic version of this document with clickable links email ahilt@up140.org or check out the IRC Ning. 

Thank you!

If you have any further questions or comments don’t hesitate to email Shae or Amanda!

Shae Gugle – sgugle@up140.org

Amanda Hilt – ahilt@up140.org

“Tell me and I forget.  Teach me and I remember.  Involve me and I learn.”

– Benjamin Franklin