Monday, April 5, 2010

worthy websites for teachers

Keep, share, and discover the best of the Web using Delicious, the world's leading social bookmarking service. You never have to leave a “favorite” behind. You can keep all of your favorite websites bookmarked on the website.
www.delicious.com

Wordle is 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. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
http://www.wordle.net/
The goal at TeacherTube.com is to provide an online community for sharing instructional teacher videos. Upload your lesson plan videos or watch student videos that you can upload after you have signed up for an account.
www.teachertube.com










Thinkfinity.org is the cornerstone of Verizon Foundation's literacy, education and technology initiatives. Our goal is to improve student achievement in traditional classroom settings and beyond by providing high-quality content and extensive professional development training. This free, comprehensive digital learning platform is built upon the merger of two acclaimed programs Verizon MarcoPolo and the Thinkfinity Literacy Network.

www.thinkfinity.org


Glogster-A fun, imaginative, and powerful learning experience which fosters independent creative self-expression, positive learner-teacher relationships, and teamwork on collaborative class projects.
A vibrant, multi-sensory learning experience, which integrates learner’s knowledge and skills into traditionally text-oriented subjects and motivates learner’s desire to explore topics in which they may previously have been less interested.
www.edu.glogster.com