Resources for Teachers

There are MANY resources for educators online. A lot of them are very good. There are many communities for teacher and sources to share information as well as collaborate on projects with classrooms all over the world. Some of the ones that have bubbled to the surface are:

Microsoft has The Innovative Teachers program http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.microsoft.com/mcoeredir/mcoeredirect.aspx?linkId=11667889&s1=13c05137-b00a-947c-66fb-84d219980c5c

IEarn has projects with other teachers around the globe. I copied a list of some of the projects below;

SEEKING PARTNERS: iEARN PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES
1. iEARN team in Sierra Leone invites participation in Helping Youth Say No to Gun Violence Project.
2. Read and contribute to Kindred, a global family history project.
3. Join schools in Morocco, Oman, Palestine and the USA in the Electronic School Magazine Project.
4. New Connecting Math to Our Lives through Photography activities.
5. Join classes in Qatar and USA creating Solar Cookers.
6. Hello iEARN food lovers - class in Moldova seeking partners for group of adult students - ages 20 years old.
7. Participate in the PEARL Online Journalism Festival.
8. iEARN schools around the world fly kites for peace.


RESOURCES, CONTESTS, WEBSITES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
9. iEARN signs MOU with Elluminate, Inc.
10. iEARN school in USA wins Goldman Sachs Award.
11. English language teacher resource features iEARN classes in Egypt and Thailand.
12. Enter the 2009 SIGtel Online Learning Award Competition.
13. Participate in Xperimania for a chance to win resources for your science classrooms.
14. Call for entries: 2009 My Hero Short Film Festival.
15. Early Childhood Education Online Tools.


UPCOMING EVENTS
16. Annual YouthCaN Conference in NYC, USA, April 4-6, 2009.
17. iEARN-India National Conference in Pune, May 2-4, 2009.
18 iEARN-Morocco (MEARN) to host 16th Annual iEARN Conference and 13th Youth Summit, July 19-25, 2009.
19. World Children's Summit in Yokohama, Japan, August 10-12, 2009.





MIT has a program to teach about computer programming called Scratch. It is very user friendly and fun to work with. It allows for as much or as little creativity as one brings to it. It is a free download which means at school the IT department needs to install it. http://scratch.mit.edu/

Thinkfinity offers lesson plans interactives and more.

http://thinkfinity.org/
Thinkquest.org Think.com is now part of ThinkQuest -- A learning platform where teachers and students create learning projects, participate in a website competition, and browse a library of student projects.
There are tons out there and each has it’s own twist. I don’t want to overwhelm but there are a few to look at. Enjoy and let me know what you think.