Great General Sites for Teachers

I have collected what I think are a group of great sites to help teachers work smarter and not harder. Please enjoy and feel free to let me know what you think.

Great Sites for Teacher

• Wikispaces for teachers - This site offers Wikispace to educators and offers options designed just for teachers like member only access. Great site. Every teacher should have one.


• Teacher Lingo - Teacher Lingo is an educational community of teacher blogs, lesson plans, and other teacher resources.
  You can join discussions and share advice and experiences with other educators.


• Sites for Teachers - This site has hundreds of educational websites ranked by popularity.


• 60 Tools in 60 Seconds - Courtesy of Brandon Lutz this presentation takes you through 60 of the most useful sites for the classroom.


• Lutz CFF - A wikispace created by Brandon Lutz helping to help integrate 21st century technology into Philadelphia high school classrooms; working together with teachers and students.


• Teachnology - They provide free resources for teachers. They feature: 30,000+ lesson plans, teaching tips and themes, 8,000 FREE printable worksheets, games and math worksheets, ready-to-use rubrics, 257,000 reviewed sites, printable generators, and webquests.


• Rubistar - A great wesite that is a free resource helping teachers create quality rubrics.


• 4Teachers - 4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering online tools and resources. The site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use. You can find valuable professional development resources addressing issues such as equity, ELL, technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students.


• A to Z Teacher Stuff - A to Z Teacher Stuff is a teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more.


• The Teacher's Corner - Teachers Corner offered 5 Online Collaboration Projects this school year. The collaboration projects are learning activities that provided collaboration between two or more classrooms. The participating classrooms are from various locations around the world, use the Internet to interact with one another and are working on a similar topic for a specific length of time. Using the Internet students and teachers will share their activities, findings and reflections. This site has great FREE resources.


• Delicious Social Bookmarking - A social bookmarking sites that allows you to access your bookmarks from any computer, anytime, anywhere. You can also make notes about your bookmarks so you can remember why that bookmark was important to you.


• Engrade - Engrade is a free set of web-based tools for educators allowing them to manage their classes online while providing parents and students with 24/7 real-time online class information.


• Gradebook Portal - Basic package free and premium free for 1 year. Free Online GradeBook for teachers to easily customize. Build customized weighted grading from anywhere at anytime 24/7. You can grade anytime & anywhere with auto calculation term and final grades, generate instant progress reports, track attendance and alert parents on absentees, class calendar keeps students, parents and teachers current on upcoming exams, meetings, events, attach assignments, post homework and attach document, communicate with all of your students and parents and build custom contact lists, and its 100% secure and safe environment with several layers of encryption.


• Plagiarism Detect - A free and upgrade account available. This piece of software is very useful for people, who need to check papers for plagiarism all the time. It is also useful to have students check their own papers before they turn them in.


• Plagiarism Checker for Students - This site allows students to copy and paste text to find plagiarized text in homework and other essays/reports.


• Plagiarism Stoppers: A Teacher's Guide - Although this site is no longer updated, this is a great resource for teachers helping students write papers or do their senior project.


• Dropbox - The days of flash drives and emailing documents are over. You can create a test at home and put it in your dropbox. When you get to work you can go in your drop box and get it. Students can put work in your dropbox and you can access from any computer. You can create folders for personal use and share them with other people.If you have an Ipone there is a Dropbox App.